Edward Curtis Franklin

Edward Curtis Franklin ( * March 1, 1862 in Geary County, Kansas, † February 13, 1937 ) was an American chemist.

Franklin studied from 1884 at Kansas State University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1888 and at the University of Berlin in August Wilhelm von Hofmann from 1890 to 1891 while he was from 1888 to 1893 assistant at Kansas State. Then he went to the Johns Hopkins University, where he received his doctorate in 1894, after which he was an associate professor at Kansas State, except for a year as a chemist and manager of a mine at a mining company in Costa Rica. In 1903 he became a professor at Stanford University. He also headed from 1911 to 1913, the Office of Public Health of the State of Washington.

Franklin was known for elaborate lecture demonstrations modeled after his teacher Hofmann at Stanford. It dealt mainly with nitrogen chemistry (ammonia and its compounds ).

He received the William H. Nichols Medal and Willard Gibbs Medal in 1932, was president of the American Chemical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was an honorary guest of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at its meeting in Johannesburg and Melbourne.

He was a passionate mountaineer and undertook many expeditions to remote areas.