Williams Haynes

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Nathan Gallup Williams Haynes (born July 29, 1886 in Detroit , Michigan , † November 16, 1970 in Stonington , Connecticut ) was an American journalist and chemical historian.

Life

Haynes was initially a reporter for the New York Sun before he studied economics, biology and chemistry at Johns Hopkins University from 1908 to 1911 (without a degree). He then made a successful career as an author and publisher for topics in the chemical industry. Initially, he was Canada and Europe Correspondent for Herald Field in Northampton , Massachusetts. From 1916 he was secretary and editor of Drug and Chemical Markets , a magazine that appeared in his father's publishing house (DO Haynes & Co.). In 1920 he became the publisher of the magazine and in 1926 he split it into two magazines (Drugs and Cosmetic Industries and Chemical Industries, which later became Chemical Week). Also in 1920 he founded Plastic Products magazine (later Modern Plastics ). In 1939 he sold his magazines and moved to an old farmhouse in Stonington to become a writer in the chemical industry.

Haynes published mainly on the history of industrial chemistry in the USA, but also reference works such as a Chemical Who's Who from 1928, which he was in charge of until 1951. His main work is the six-volume American Chemical Industry: a history . He also published on dog breeding (his hobby) and a collection of poetry, Collections of Americana . His extensive collection of photographs of chemists came to the Chemical Heritage Foundation through the Chemist's Club of New York .

In 1957 he received the Dexter Award .

Fonts

  • American chemical industry: a history, 6 volumes, Van Nostrand, 1945 to 1954.
  • Brimstone: the stone that burns; the story of the Frasch sulfur industry, Van Nostrand, 1959 (based on his earlier book The stone that burns 1942).
  • Cellulose, the chemical that grows, Doubleday, 1953.
  • Chemical economics, Van Nostrand, 1933.
  • The chemical front, AA Knopf, 1st edition 1943
  • Edited with Edward L. Gordy: Chemical industry's contribution to the nation: 1635-1935; A record of chemical accomplishment, with an index of the chemicals made in America, 1935
  • Chemical pioneers; the founders of the American chemical industry, Van Nostrand, 1939.
  • Chemical trade names and commercial synonyms; a dictionary of American usage, Van Nostrand, 1951 2nd edition 1955.
  • The Chemical who's who, Hynes & George Co., 1937.
  • Chemical who's who: biography in dictionary form of the leaders in chemical industry, research, and education, 4th edition, Lewis Historical Publ. 1956
  • Chemicals in the industrial revolution, Princeton University Press, 1938.
  • Dyes made in America, 1915-1940. American Cyanamid Company, 1941.
  • Men, money and molecules, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1936.
  • This chemical age; the miracle of man-made materials, Knopf, 1942.
  • Who's who in the chemical and drug industries, Haynes Publications Inc., 1928.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution , p. 56 His father was David Oliphant Haynes and his mother was Helen Dunham Williams Haynes.
personal data
SURNAME Haynes, Williams
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haynes, Williams Nathan Gallup (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemical historian, publisher, and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1970
Place of death Stonington , Connecticut