Claude Hudson

Claude Silbert Hudson ( born January 26, 1881 in Atlanta, Georgia, † December 27, 1952 in Los Angeles ) was an American chemist (organic chemistry).

Hudson grew up in Mobile ( Alabama). He only wanted to be Presbyterian minister and studied at Princeton University, where he then turned to the natural sciences and especially chemistry. In 1901, he received his bachelor 's degree in 1902 and his master's degree, continued his studies in Europe Walther Nernst in Göttingen and in Gustav Tammann and Jacobus Henricus van ' t Hoff in Berlin and was continued after returning from MIT, 1904/5 Instructor at Princeton and 1906/7 at the University of Illinois. In 1907 he received his doctorate at Princeton, magna cum laude. Then he went to Washington DC, where he worked as a food chemist and from 1923 at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC worked. 1928 to 1951 he was with the later National Institutes of Health in Washington (then the state hygiene lab) as a professor of chemistry worked.

In 1911/12 he taught physical chemistry at Princeton.

It dealt, among other things since his student days with optical rotation of lactose and chemistry of hydrocarbons (such as various sugars ).

In 1929 he received the Willard Gibbs Medal, the William H. Nichols Medal, the Richards Medal, the Hillebrand Prize, the Borden Medal and in 1942 the Elliott Cresson Medal. In 1927 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1932 the Leopoldina. In 1949 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Society in London. He was an honorary doctorate from Princeton University.

The Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry has been awarded since 1946 by the American Chemical Society. He was co-editor of Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry. His Collected Papers published in two volumes in 1946 and 1948 by Academic Press.