Samuel C. Lind

Samuel Colville Lind ( born June 15, 1879 in McMinnville (Tennessee), Tennessee, † February 12, 1965 ) was an American chemist, known as a pioneer of radiochemistry in the USA.

His father had Swedish ancestors. He studied at Washington and Lee University in Lexington (Virginia) and from 1902 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Arthur Amos Noyes, which led to a first publication. Since at that time there was not a doctorate, he went to the University of Leipzig, where he heard of Wilhelm Ostwald. There he studied under Max Bodenstein the hydrogen-bromine reaction, and their joint work (Journal of Physical Chemistry 1907) was influential in the early research in chemical kinetics ( an example of a chain reaction). With this work he received his doctorate in 1905 in Leipzig cum laude. He returned to the U.S. in 1905 and Instructor at the University of Michigan. In 1910 he spent several months at Marie Curie in Paris and 1911 in Stefan Meyer in Vienna, where he worked on ozone formation by alpha radiation. So that his employment began with radiochemistry. 1913 to 1925 he was with the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Denver and from 1917 in Golden, where he was given access to larger amounts of radium and uranium in his work. In 1925/26 he was at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington DC from 1926 to 1947 he was professor at the University of Minnesota. After his retirement he worked for Union Carbide at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

He dealt with chemical kinetics, especially with the induced by radioactive radiation reactions.

In 1947 he received the Remsen Award, 1926, the William H. Nichols Medal, 1952, the Priestley Medal. In 1940 he was president of the American Chemical Society and in 1927 the American Electrochemical Society. In 1930 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was more honorary doctorates ( University of Michigan, University of Notre Dame, Washington and Lee University, University of Colorado ).

Writings

  • Chemical Effects of alpha particles and electrons, New York 1921, 1928
  • Radiation Chemistry of Gases, New York, 1961 ( with Clarence J. Hochanadel, John A. Ghormley )
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