William Lash Miller
William Lash Miller (born September 10, 1866 in Galt , Ontario , † September 1, 1940 in Toronto , Ontario) was a Canadian chemist ( physical chemistry ).
Miller studied chemistry at the University of Toronto from 1883 and after completing his bachelor's degree from 1887 to 1889 in Berlin , 1889 in Göttingen and 1890 in Munich , where he received his doctorate under Adolf von Baeyer . He then worked with Wilhelm Ostwald in Leipzig , which was a turning point in his career as a chemist. From then on he often spent the summers in his laboratory in Leipzig. In 1891 he became a demonstrator at the University of Toronto, in 1892 he was again with Wilhelm Ostwald in Leipzig to do his second doctorate there, and in 1894 he became a lecturer, 1900 associate professor and 1908 professor of physical chemistry in Toronto. In 1937 he retired.
Miller was considered one of the most important Canadian chemists at the time of his death. He built up the teaching of physical chemistry in Canada and was also one of the first representatives of physiological chemistry (biochemistry) in Canada, with which he dealt from around 1915. As a student of Ostwald, he taught chemical thermodynamics to Josiah Willard Gibbs , but like him was also hostile to the atomic concept. With Ostwald he devoted a large part of his creative power to implementing Gibbs' very theoretical concepts on a laboratory scale. In particular, he extended Gibbs' treatments of multi-component systems ( ternary mixtures ), but he dealt with many areas of physical chemistry.
He was one of the main organizers of the Canadian Institute of Chemistry and in 1926 its president. In 1926 he became the first Canadian to become an honorary member of the American Chemical Society . He was Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Physical Chemistry . He was CBE .
Fonts
- On the conversion of chemical energy into electrical energy, Zeitschrift fur physical chemistry, 10 (1892), 459-466
- On the Second Differential Coefficients of Gibbs Function ζ. The Vapor Tensions, Freezing and Boiling Points of Ternary Mixtures, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1 (1896-1897), 633-642
- The Theory of the Direct Method of Determining Transport Numbers, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 69 (1910), 436-441
- with TR Rosebrugh: Mathematical Theory of the Changes in Concentration at the Electrode Brought About by Diffusion and by Chemical Reactions, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 14 (1910), 816-885
- The Influence of Diffusion on Electromotive Force Produced in Solutions by Centrifugal Action, Transactions of the Electrochemical Society, 21 (1912). 209-217
- Toxicity and Chemical Potential, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 24 (1920), 562-569
- The Method of Willard Gibbs in Chemical Thermodynamics, Chemical Reviews, 1 (1924-1925), 293-344
- with AR Gordon: Numerical Evaluation of Infinite Series and Integrals Which Arise in Certain Problems of Linear Heat Flow, Electrochemical Diffusion, etc., Journal of Physical Chemistry, 35 (1931), 2785-2884
- Introduction to quantitative analysis, 1896
literature
- Donald J. Le. Roy, Article William Lash Miller in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 304
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| SURNAME | Miller, William Lash |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Galt , Ontario , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1940 |
| Place of death | Toronto , Ontario , Canada |