Samuel Cox Hooker

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Samuel Cox Hooker (born April 19, 1864 in Brenchley, Kent , † October 12, 1935 in Brooklyn ) was an English chemist in the United States.

His parents were the architect John Marshall Hooker and Ellen, b. Cox. From 1881 he studied at the then reopened Normal School of Science and Royal School of Mines (now the Royal College of Science ) and from 1884 in Munich under Bamberger, where he received his Dr. phil. PhD.

He then went to the United States, intending to continue his organic research at one of the universities. He became chief chemist at the Franklin Sugar Refining Company in Philadelphia . After this was taken over by the American Sugar Refining Company and closed, he switched to Spreckels Refinery . During this time, beet sugar emerged. From 1892 he was a scientific and technological expert at the American sugar refinery and had the task of organizing production in the sugar factories west of the Mississippies.

In 1887 he had married the American Mary Owens, whom he had met in England and who had studied at the University of Cincinnati. With her he had two sons and two daughters.

Around 1889 he researched Lapachol with WH Greene (cf. Lapacho ). In 1916 he retired to continue his research in his private laboratory in Brooklyn. He was closely associated with Louis Frederick Fieser . The Hooker Oxidation is named after him.

Since he was twelve he was enthusiastic about magic and developed the trick Rising Cards .

Publications

  • On the Action of Aldehydes and Ammonia on Benzil ; 1884
  • The constitution and properties of lapachol, lomatiol, and other hydroxynapthoquinone derivatives ;: Memorial volume to Samuel C. Hooker, 1864-1935 ; Mack Printing Company, 1936

literature

  • E. Otho Glover, RC Gale, Isidor Joseph, HH Dale, CEL Livesey, Harold King, RH Hopkins, WAH Naylor, WM Gathorne Young, CA Browne: Obituary notices: Harry Baker, 1859-1935; Kendall Colin Browning, 1875-1936; William Frederic Butcher, 1867-1936; Harold Ward Dudley, 1887-1935; Charles Richmond Featherstone, 1885-1936; George Aleck Crocker Gough, 1902-1935; Max Henius, 1859-1935; Francis Ransom, 1859-1935; William Charles Young, 1849-1935; Samuel Cox Hooker, 1864-1935. In: Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed). 1936, p. 539 doi : 10.1039 / JR9360000539 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sidney J. Osborn: American Contemporaries: Samuel Cox Hooker. In: Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. 25, 1933, pp. 827-828, doi : 10.1021 / ie50283a029 .
  2. ↑ John Andraos: NAMED ORGANIC REACTIONS (EH) (PDF; 101 kB).
  3. ↑ Time Magazine: Science: Merlins ; June 10, 1929.
  4. ↑ Chris Wasshuber: Samuel Cox Hooker and his Rising Cards .
personal data
SURNAME Hooker, Samuel Cox
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chemist in the USA
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Brenchley, Kent
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1935
Place of death Brooklyn