Warren K. Lewis

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(1882 - 1975)
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https://chemistry.library.nd.edu/resources/genealogy/chemistry/documents/LewisWK.pdf
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.83.2142.51
Warren K. Lewis was born in 1882, in Sussex County, Delaware, and graduated in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1905. He served one year in that institute as laboratory assistant in industrial chemistry, after which he studied for two years in Germany, taking his doctor's degree under Abegg and Ladenburg at the University of Breslau. In 1909 he became chemist for a tannery and leatherboard mill. A year and a half later he returned to the Institute of Technology as assistant professor of industrial chemistry and has been on its faculty continuously since that time. During the war, first in the Bureau of Mines and later in the Chemical Warfare Service, he had charge of research on gas defense.
Throughout his career as a teacher of engineering Professor Lewis has maintained close contact with the vital problems of industry, largely through consulting activities, and has endeavored not only to develop solutions of these problems in the laboratory, but even more to train in the classroom men with the power to solve them. His work has focussed mainly on filtration, distillation and absorption, the thermal properties of materials and the chemistry of colloids and amorphous materials.
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