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...
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Thomas Midgley may refer to: Thomas Midgley (footballer) (1856–1957), English footballer Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944), American chemist This disambiguation...
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Thomas Midgley (1856 - 1957) was an English professional footballer who played in League football, as an inside forward, for Burnley. Born in Leeds, West...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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Robin Midgley (1934–2007), British theatre, television and radio director Roger Midgley (1924–2019) British field hockey player Thomas Midgley (footballer)...
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increase what later would be called the octane rating of gasoline. Thomas Midgley Jr. and Kettering identified tetraethyllead (TEL) in December 1921 as...
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General Motors research laboratories in Dayton, Ohio. GM researcher Thomas Midgley Jr. still maintains: "The most direct route which we now know for converting...
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Cadillac priced from least expensive to most, respectively. In 1921, Thomas Midgley Jr., an engineer for GM, discovered tetraethyllead (leaded gasoline)...
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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...
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believed was resistant to tuberculosis, would treat the student's disease. Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944) was an American engineer and chemist who contracted...
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Mary Beatrice Midgley (née Scrutton; 13 September 1919 – 10 October 2018) was a British philosopher. A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University...
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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...
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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...
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General Motors, and DuPont to develop a safer, non-toxic alternative. Thomas Midgley Jr. of General Motors is credited for synthesizing the first chlorofluorocarbons...
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stratospheric chlorine (EESC). CFCs as refrigerants were invented by Thomas Midgley Jr. in the 1930s. They were used in air conditioning and cooling units...
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K. Frolich (1943) Thomas Midgley Jr. (1944) Carl S. Marvel (1945) Bradley Dewey (1946) W. Albert Noyes Jr. (1947) Charles A. Thomas (1948) Linus Pauling...
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1920s, resulting in the invention of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by Thomas Midgley in 1928. CFCs are ozone-depleting chemicals that were used primarily...
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German/British engineer and inventor of impact extrusion of containers Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944) – developed tetraethyllead (TEL) and chlorofluorocarbons...
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1889) 1935 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905) 1944 – Thomas Midgley Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889) 1945 – Hélène de Pourtalès...
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Ethyl Corporation (which employed Kehoe), and the legacy of the late Thomas Midgley Jr. (who invented tetraethyllead (TEL) and chlorofluorocarbons), as...
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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...
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Karrer (died 1971), Swiss winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry. May 18 – Thomas Midgley Jr. (died 1944), American chemist and inventor. June 4 – Beno Gutenberg...
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propane, that could result in fatal accidents when they leaked. In 1928 Thomas Midgley Jr. created the first non-flammable, non-toxic chlorofluorocarbon gas...
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(PDF). National Academy of Sciences (U.S.).; Biographical memoirs. p. 206. Thomas, Robert E. (1955). Salt & Water, Power & People: A Short History of Hooker...
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during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among inventors, Cornellians include Thomas Midgley Jr. ('11), who invented Freon, Jon Rubinstein ('78), who is credited...
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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...
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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...
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K. Frolich (1943) Thomas Midgley Jr. (1944) Carl S. Marvel (1945) Bradley Dewey (1946) W. Albert Noyes Jr. (1947) Charles A. Thomas (1948) Linus Pauling...
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