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5. Farrington Daniels
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From page 107... ... He was a leader in the development of kinetics and photochemistry, and, at the same time, was involvect in three textbooks that had a major impact on undergraduate instruction in physical chemistry. Farrington was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory at the time of the first testing and use of the atomic bomb, but after the war he turned his attention to solar energy and the promise it offered of pollution-free energy. Read the entire page →
From page 108... ... president of the American Chemical Society. Farrington submitted his cloctoral thesis in May 1914, but it was not until five years later that Richards sent it to the Journal of the American Chemical Society for publication. Read the entire page →
From page 109... ... Olive Miriam Bell en c] Farrington hacT been acquainted since childhood, but they hacl moved in different circles until Farrington met Olive on the street car in Minneapolis while on a trip home from Worcester Poly. Read the entire page →
From page 110... ... In 1922 Perrin still argued that in a unimolecular reaction the energy necessary for decomposition dicI not depend on molecular collisions, but came instead from radiation, probably infrared radiation from the walls of the reaction chamber. Although Farrington's results indicated clearly the fallacy of the radiation hypothesis, he hesitated to denounce it completely because in 1920 he felt there were a number of things about the reaction that he clid not understand. Read the entire page →
From page 111... ... His missionary zeal in this area led him to write several articles for the fournal of Chemical Education and in 1931 to organize an American Chemical Society Symposium on mathematics in physical chemistry involving R Read the entire page →
From page 112... ... My responsibilities in connection with the new edition grew with time, but it was not until we were reading proof that Farrington decided to put my name on the 1955 edition and to shorten the title to Physical Chemistry. ~ have continued with the book through eight editions, and the most recent edition (1992) Read the entire page →
From page 113... ... Even before Farrington arrived at the Met Lab, questions about the use of the bomb were being discussed. Four clays before the Alamogordo test, Arthur Compton asked Farrington, as director of the laboratory, to take an opinion poll of the scientists in the Met Lab as to how any new weapons should be user] Read the entire page →
From page 114... ... He worked with the College of Engineering to establish a Solar Energy Laboratory in 1955. He also developed a research program on thermoluminescence, which lee] Read the entire page →
From page 115... ... Hirschfelder, was renamed the Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory.4 These were busy years for Farrington because he was elected president of the American Chemical Society for 1953 (and gave fifty-seven lectures to local sections) , vice president of the National Academy of Sciences for 1957-61, and president of the Geochemical Society in 1958. Read the entire page →
From page 116... ... SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH After leaving the departmental chairmanship, Farrington moved his research activities to the Solar Energy Laboratory, which he ha(1 helpecl organize and fund, in the Engineering Experiment Station. The laboratory was directed by John A Read the entire page →
From page 117... ... He was dedicated to bettering the lives of individuals and of mankind, and in the latter part of his life he worked tirelessly to educate people to the need to develop solar energy for long-term energy neecis. ~ AM INDEBTED to Olive Bell Daniels for a biography, Farrington Daniels, Chemist and Prophet of the Solar Age, which she published in Read the entire page →
From page 118... ... 3. "Recollections of a Career in Science and Teaching," University Archives Oral History Project, University of Wisconsin, 1972 (interview conducted by Steven Lowe) Read the entire page →
From page 119... ... 47:1490-503. 1926 The photochemical inactivity of infrared radiation with special reference to the decomposition of nitrogen pentoxide. Read the entire page →
From page 120... ... The decomposition of nitrogen pentoxide in chemically active solvents. Read the entire page →
From page 121... ... New Haven: Yale University Press. 1971 Utilization of solar energy progress report. Read the entire page →

From page 107...

... He was a leader in the development of kinetics and photochemistry, and, at the same time, was involvect in three textbooks that had a major impact on undergraduate instruction in physical chemistry. Farrington was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory at the time of the first testing and use of the atomic bomb, but after the war he turned his attention to solar energy and the promise it offered of pollution-free energy.

5. Farrington Daniels Pages 106-121

5. Farrington Daniels
Pages 106-121