William H. Nichols
William Henry Nichols (born January 9, 1852 in Brooklyn , New York , † 1930 ) was an American chemist and chemical industrialist. He is considered one of the founders of the fine chemicals industry in the USA and was one of the founders of the American Chemical Society , of which he was president in 1918/19 as the successor to Julius Stieglitz .
William Nichols studied chemistry at New York University with a bachelor's degree in 1870 and a master's degree in 1873. He had his first company for the production of sulfuric acid there in 1870 (on Newtown Creek in Queens , where the legacy of his company is still causing environmental problems he preferred to dump the sulfuric acid instead of selling it too cheaply). Later he also produced ammonia extracted from the air, copper refined by electrolysis, and dyes.
In 1899, he and his son Charles W. Nichols (* 1875) were primarily responsible for the merger of twelve chemical companies to form General Chemical . With Eugene Meyer , he formed five smaller chemical companies Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation through a merger in 1920 , which later became Allied Chemical Corp. and merged with Allied Signal in 1985 , which Honeywell acquired in 1999 .
In 1902 he donated the William H. Nichols Medal of the New York section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) to promote research. He also sponsored chemical research and chemistry students in the United States in a variety of ways, including donating $ 50,000 to the ACS during the Great Depression in 1930. In 1904 he was president of the Society of Chemical Industry .
Nichols held honorary degrees from New York University, Lafayette University , Columbia University , the University of Pittsburgh, and Tufts University . He was in 1917 the chemistry section of the National Defense Council ( Council of National Defense ) and chaired the board of directors of the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn. In 1912 he was President of the Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry .
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| SURNAME | Nichols, William H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nichols, William Henry (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist and chemical industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1930 |