William Albert Noyes Junior

William Albert Noyes junior , called Albert Noyes, (born April 18, 1898 in Terre Haute , Indiana , † November 25, 1980 in Austin , Texas ) was an American chemist . He was a leading specialist in photochemistry .

Albert Noyes was the son of chemist William A. Noyes and Flora Collier Noyes, who died in 1900. He studied at Grinnell College in the state of Iowa and from 1916 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where his father also taught. The study was interrupted by the First World War, in which he was with the Signal Corps in France . He continued his studies in 1919 at the Sorbonne , where he heard lectures from Marie Curie and Jean-Baptiste Perrin , and from 1920 at the University of California, Berkeley , where he took part in the seminars of Gilbert Newton Lewis . In 1922 he became an instructor at the University of Chicago . In 1929 he went as associate professor at the Brown University , where he became a full professor 1,935th Here he gained a reputation in photochemistry, which also led to the fact that he was able to expand the chemistry faculty ( generously funded by George Eastman of Eastman-Kodak) at the University of Rochester in 1938 as its head . During the Second World War , he was involved in the development of gas masks, among other things . He was then back at the University of Rochester, where he was Dean of the Graduate School in 1952 and the College of Arts and Sciences from 1956 to 1958. In 1963 he retired. After his retirement he went straight to the University of Texas at Austin , where he taught and researched for another 17 years.

He received the Priestley Medal (1954) and the Willard Gibbs Medal (1957), the Patterson Award (1963) and the Parsons Award (1970). He had many honorary doctorates (1964 University of Illinois, University of Rhode Island , Sorbonne, Indiana , Ottawa , Montreal , Rochester, Carleton University , Laval University , Grinnell College). In 1948 he received the Medal for Merit in the USA and the King's Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom in Great Britain.

From 1939 to 1948 he was editor of Chemical Review and 1950 to 1962 of the Journal of the American Chemical Society . From 1952 to 1964 he was editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry and from 1963 to 1969 he was co-editor of Advances in Photochemistry (founded in 1963). In 1947 he was President of the American Chemical Society . Noyes was also president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry from 1959 to 1963 , after being its vice-president from 1947 to 1951.

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1931), the American Philosophical Society (1947) and the Académie des sciences (1975). In 1953 he became an officer of the Legion of Honor . He was an honorary member of the French, Belgian, Spanish, Portuguese and British chemical societies.

Since 1921 he was married to Sabine Onillon, whom he met at the Sorbonne.

Fonts

• with Philip Albert Leighton The Photochemistry of Gases , New York, Reinhold 1941

Web links

• Obituary at the University of Texas by Flawn, Kelley, pdf