ECS President | 1941-1942 Raymond R. Ridgway was born in Morris, Illinois on August 27, 1897. He was one of the outstanding research men in electrothermics in the 20s and 30s. He was a research engineer with the Norton Company of Chippawa, Ontario, Canada. He contributed a long list of inventions in the design of electric furnaces of the resistor type; improvements in the production of fused alumina, silicon carbide and magnesia; and the production of hard metal carbides. One…
Continue reading
ECS President | 1943-1944 ECS Secretary | 1947-1949 ECS Treasurer | 1931-1943 Robert Martin Burns was born in Longmont, Colorado on January 9, 1890. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1915 and remained for the M.A. degree which he received in 1916. During this period. he was an instructor in chemistry. His studies were interrupted by the first World War in which he served as a Second lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service. After his discharge in 1919,…
Continue reading
Continue reading
ECS President | 1989-1990 Elton James Cairns was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 7, 1932. He received B.S. degrees (Summa Cum Lauda) in chemistry and in chemical engineering from the Michigan Technological University in 1955. He earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1959. Dr. Cairns joined the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York in 1959. He conducted research on ion-exchange membrane fuel cells, electrocatalysis, surface chemistry, the anodic oxidation of…
Continue reading
Continue reading
Continue reading
Continue reading
Continue reading
Continue reading