Samuel Smith (chemist)

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Samuel Smith (born September 13, 1927 in New York City , † January 6, 2005 in Apple Valley , California ) was an American chemist and inventor.

Life

Smith studied at City College of New York and graduated from the University of Michigan with a master's degree ( M.Sc. ) in 1949 . From the beginning of the 1950s until his retirement in 1992, he worked in research at the technology group 3M .

At this company, he carried out research on fluorine chemistry and was involved in 30 patents. In 1953, Patsy O'Connell Sherman (1930-2008) and Smith accidentally discovered the cleaning effect of a fluoropolymer based on perfluorooctanesulfonic acid . By 1956 they developed perfluorooctane sulfonate to the point of product maturity. In the period that followed, 3M developed an entire line of impregnation materials under the brand name Scotchgard .

In 1980 Smith received the Henry E. Milson Award for Invention. In 1988 he received the ACS Award for Creative Invention . Together with Patsy Sherman, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2001.

literature

  • Edmund L. Andrews: Patents; New Exhibit Shows History of Women Inventors . In: New York Times . January 20, 1990 ( online [accessed February 14, 2018]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventors: 3M. (No longer available online.) National Inventors Hall of Fame, archived from the original on February 15, 2018 ; accessed on February 14, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.invent.org
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2005
Place of death Apple Valley , California