Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer. He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline...

Thomas Midgley may refer to: Thomas Midgley (footballer) (1856–1957), English footballer Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944), American chemist This disambiguation...

Thomas Midgley (1856 - 1957) was an English professional footballer who played in League football, as an inside forward, for Burnley. Born in Leeds, West...

German chemist Carl Jacob Löwig in 1853. American chemical engineer Thomas Midgley Jr., who was working for the U.S. corporation General Motors, was the...

Robin Midgley (1934–2007), British theatre, television and radio director Roger Midgley (1924–2019) British field hockey player Thomas Midgley (footballer)...

(TEL) as an antiknock, based on the work of Thomas Midgley Jr., Charles Kettering, and later Charles Allen Thomas,: 340–41  and Esso had the patent for the...

increase what later would be called the octane rating of gasoline. Thomas Midgley Jr. and Kettering identified tetraethyllead (TEL) in December 1921 as...

Cadillac priced from least expensive to most, respectively. In 1921, Thomas Midgley Jr., an engineer for GM, discovered tetraethyllead (leaded gasoline)...

Mary Beatrice Midgley (née Scrutton; 13 September 1919 – 10 October 2018) was a British philosopher. A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University...

dangerous refrigerants then in use, such as ammonia. The team was headed by Thomas Midgley Jr. In 1928, they improved the synthesis of CFCs and demonstrated their...

General Motors research laboratories in Dayton, Ohio. GM researcher Thomas Midgley Jr. still maintains: "The most direct route which we now know for converting...

Earth with lead. In his capacity as an engineer with General Motors, Thomas Midgley Jr. experimented with a myriad of different compounds, which he added...

believed was resistant to tuberculosis, would treat the student's disease. Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944) was an American engineer and chemist who contracted...

Vic Theatre, 2005. as Yakunin in The House of Special Purpose by Heidi Thomas, directed by Howard Davies, at the Minerva Theatre Chichester, 2009. as...

General Motors, and DuPont to develop a safer, non-toxic alternative. Thomas Midgley Jr. of General Motors is credited for synthesizing the first chlorofluorocarbons...

stratospheric chlorine (EESC). CFCs as refrigerants were invented by Thomas Midgley Jr. in the 1930s. They were used in air conditioning and cooling units...

cigarette Charles Keene, racing driver Nate Lewis, artist Tony Lip, actor Thomas Midgley Jr., chemist and engineer, known for his role in the development of...

1920s, resulting in the invention of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by Thomas Midgley in 1928. CFCs are ozone-depleting chemicals that were used primarily...

tasteless, nontoxic, and nonflammable. He assembled a team that included Thomas Midgley Jr., Albert Leon Henne, and Robert McNary. From 1930 to 1935, they developed...

propane, that could result in fatal accidents when they leaked. In 1928 Thomas Midgley Jr. created the first non-flammable, non-toxic chlorofluorocarbon gas...

Swan paperback ed.). Transworld Publishers. p. 152. ISBN 0-552-99704-8. [Midgley]'s death was itself memorably unusual. Dykstra, Peter (1 March 2021). "Science's...

during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among inventors, Cornellians include Thomas Midgley Jr. ('11), who invented Freon, Jon Rubinstein ('78), who is credited...

Bryce-Smith – one of the earliest campaigners against lead in petrol in the UK Thomas Midgley Jr. – discovered that the addition of tetraethyllead to gasoline prevented...

1889) 1935 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905) 1944 – Thomas Midgley Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889) 1945 – Hélène de Pourtalès...

Ethyl Corporation (which employed Kehoe), and the legacy of the late Thomas Midgley Jr. (who invented tetraethyllead (TEL) and chlorofluorocarbons), as...

agents are organofluorine compounds. Aside from the synthesis of Freon (Thomas Midgley Jr. and Charles F. Kettering, 1928) and the discovery of Teflon (Roy...

after death and/or 'the apocalypse'/extinction in the west. 1921 — Thomas Midgley Jr. discovers lead components to be an efficient antiknock agent in...

Thomas Midgley Jr. found tellurium prevented engine knocking when added to fuel, but ruled it out due to the difficult-to-eradicate smell. Midgley went...

late 1910s, researchers such as A.H. Gibson, Harry Ricardo, Thomas Midgley Jr., and Thomas Boyd began to investigate abnormal combustion. Beginning in...

(PDF). National Academy of Sciences (U.S.).; Biographical memoirs. p. 206. Thomas, Robert E. (1955). Salt & Water, Power & People: A Short History of Hooker...