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...American Chemical Society's highest honor, the Priestley Medal, awarded triennially, was given to Thomas Midgley Jr. of Worthington, Ohio. After testing 15,000 compounds, Midgley discovered in 1922 that tetraethyl lead in gasoline permits higher compression, higher speed engines. Now vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp., he is credited with over 100 patents, including many for air-conditioning refrigerants. In wheel chair and stretcher, Midgley attended last week's meeting, for in September he was stricken with infantile paralysis. But like his close friend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he is conquering his handicap, still works hard as ever...
Research of the American Chemical Society, of which President Conant is a leading member, will henceforth be directed largely along lines of national defense, according to a recent announcement by Thomas Midgley, vice president of the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation and chairman of the society's board of directors...
...Fred M. Zeder, Du Font's Research Director Fin Sparre, General Electric's Research Laboratory Director William David Coolidge, Dean Frederick M. Feiker of George Washington University School of Engineering, Manhattan Patent Lawyer (and Theatre Guild director) Lawrence Langner, Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s Vice President Thomas Midgley, Director Watson Davis of Science Service, Engineering Dean Webster N. Jones of Carnegie Tech, U. S. Patent Commissioner Conway Coe. Absent from the first meeting were Industrialist George Baekeland (Bakelite Corp.) and Dr. Orville Wright, once rated a crackpot tried & true...
Chemist Calingaert predicted that U. S. industry would lose little time applying his discovery to a variety of chemical shortcuts. Last week Ethyl Gasoline's alert Vice President, Thomas Midgley Jr., compared the Calingaert discovery to a ferryboat which enabled loving but frustrated lads and lassies on opposite sides of a river to get together. "What a lot of fun we're going to have," said Mr. Midgley, "shoving that ferryboat around...
...gold in the world's seas, according to the Physical Tables of the Smithsonian Institution. If this store were distributed evenly among the earth's 2,000,000,000 inhabitants, every living human would receive the equivalent, at Roosevelt prices, of about $24,500. Last week Thomas Midgley Jr., vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp., predicted that extraction of the ocean's gold on a commercial scale would begin in ten years. Mr. Midgley pointed out that ten years ago no one thought it possible to get bromine from the ocean on a commercial basis. Today...