Willis Rodney Whitney (August 22, 1868 - January 9, 1958) - American chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the company General Electric [3] .
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| Scientific field | chemistry |
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| Known as | Founder, General Electric Research Laboratory |
| Awards and prizes | Edison Medal ( 1934 ) John Fritz Medal Willard Gibbs Award Perkin Medal ( 1921 ) Franklin Medal ( 1931 ) [d] ( 1946 ) |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Participation in organizations
- 3 Awards
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Willis Rodney Whitney was born on August 22, 1868 in the city of Jamestown, New York , in the family of John and Agnes Whitney. In 1890, he received a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he worked as an assistant in the department of chemistry until 1892. After that, he studied at the University of Leipzig in Germany , where in 1896 he received a Ph.D.
In 1908, he continued his suspended career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in electrochemistry and the development of the electrochemical theory of corrosion .
Since 1900, Whitney has been working part-time as an adviser in the recently founded General Electric Research Laboratory. He eventually left MIT for the GE lab. In 1915, he had about 250 employees, including Irving Langmuir and William David Coolidge . They worked on the creation of lamps, telegraphs, and x-ray technology.
Whitney resigned from his post in 1932, leaving William Coolidge to be his successor as director of the General Electric Research Laboratory.
Willis Rodney Whitney died in Schenectady, New York, January 9, 1958.
Participation in Organizations
Whitney was a member:
- American Institute of Electrical Engineering
- American Electrochemical Society
- US National Academy of Sciences
- Institute of Metals
- National Research Council
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- American Chemical Society
- Board of Governors Union College
- Editorial Board of the Journal of Industrial and Technical Chemistry
Rewards
- Honorary Doctor of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh (1919)
- Doctor of Science at Union College (1919)
- Willard Gibbs Award (1916)
- Perkin Medal (1921)
- Gold Medal of the National Institute of Social Sciences (1928)
- Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (1931)
- Edison Medal "For Contribution to the Development of Electricity, Invention, and Research" (1934)
- Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, (1937)
- John Fritz Medal (1943)
- IRI Medal from the Industrial Research Institute (1946)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Willis R. Whitney . IEEE Global History Network . IEEE Date of treatment July 25, 2011.