Thomas Sterry Hunt

Thomas Sterry Hunt ( born September 5, 1826 in Norwich ( Connecticut ), † February 12, 1892 in New York City ) was an American chemist and mineralogist.

Life

His parents were Peleg Hunt and Jane Elizabeth, born stunt, a daughter of Consider stunt. After his father had died in 1838, he had to leave school and work for a living, which developed his interest in natural sciences. In 1845 he worked as a correspondent for a New York newspaper at the meeting of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists in New Haven (later the American Association for the Advancement of Science), where he was unanimously elected a member of the Association. He earned the friendship of Benjamin Silliman senior who procured him admission to the Scientific School of Yale University, where he became assistant to Benjamin Silliman Junior. 1845-47 he published 18 articles in Silliman 's Journal.

In February 1847 he became a chemist and mineralogist at the Geological Survey of Canada, founded in 1842 in Montreal under director William Edmond Logan, where he worked for the next 25 years. In 1856 he became professor of chemistry at the University of Laval in Quebec. In 1857 he acquired the Dr. H.C. From 1862 to 1867 he was at McGill University in Montreal. In 1863 he published the first scientific description of rock anorthosite.

In 1872 he became Professor of Geology at MIT. In 1877 he married Anna Rebecca Gale. The following year he was officially retired, returned to Montreal and continued his research. In the early 1880s, he fell ill and spent his last two years of life in New York's Park Avenue Hotel or St. Luke's Hospital.

In 1848, he put forward the theory that ozone would consist of three oxygen atoms. He set up its own system of organic chemistry and defined two geological systems of the Proterozoic, the Laurentian system and the Huronian system. In addition to his books, he has published over 200 publications.

Memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Society of London, 1859
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Officer of the French Legion of Honor, 1867
• President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1870
• President of the Institution of Mining Engineers, 1877
• President of the American Chemical Society, 1879

Works

• Chemical and Geological Essays (1875, ed 2, 1879)
• Mineral Physiology and physiography (1886 )
• A New Basis for Chemistry (1887, ed 3, 1891)
• Systematic Mineralogy (1891 )