William Merriam Burton

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William Merriam Burton (Cleveland, 17 novembre 1865 – Miami, 29 dicembre 1954) è stato un chimico statunitense.

Biografia

Ha ottenuto il Bachelor of Science nel 1886 presso l'università Western Reserve di Cleveland ed il dottorato presso l'Università Johns Hopkins nel 1889.

Inizialmente aveva lavorato per la raffineria della Standard Oil di Whiting nello stato americano dell'Indiana, diventando poi presidente della Standard Oil dal 1918 fino al suo pensionamento avvenuto nel 1927. Ha vinto la Medaglia Perkin nel 1922

Inoltre è stato inventore, e i suoi numerosi brevetti in particolare riguardarono il primo processo di cracking termico.

Collegamenti esterni

(EN) William Merriam Burton, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
(EN) Opere di William Merriam Burton, su Open Library, Internet Archive.

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Vincitori della medaglia Perkin

William Henry Perkin (1906) • J. B. F. Herreshoff (1908) • Arno Behr (1909) • Edward G. Acheson (1910) • Charles Martin Hall (1911) • Herman Frasch (1912) • James Gayley (1913) • John W. Hyatt (1914) • Edward Weston (1915) • Leo Baekeland (1916) • Ernst Twitchell (1917) • Auguste J. Rossi (1918) • Frederick G. Cottrell (1919) • Charles F. Chandler (1920) • Willis Rodney Whitney (1921) • William Merriam Burton (1922) • Milton C. Whitaker (1923) • Frederick Mark Becket (1924) • Hugh K. Moore (1925) • Richard B. Moore (1926) • John E. Teeple (1927) • Irving Langmuir (1928) • Eugene C. Sullivan (1929) • Herbert H. Dow (1930) • Arthur Dehon Little (1931) • Charles F. Burgess (1932) • George Oenslager (1933) • Colin G. Fink (1934) • George O. Curme, Jr. (1935) • Warren K. Lewis (1936) • Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1937) • Frank J. Tone (1938) • Walter S. Landis (1939) • Charles Stine (1940) • John V. N. Dorr (1941) • Martin Ittner (1942) • Robert E. Wilson (1943) • Gaston F. Dubois (1944) • Elmer Keiser Bolton (1945) • Francis C. Frary (1946) • Robert R. Williams (1947) • Clarence W. Balke (1948) • Carl S. Miner (1949) • Eger V. Murphree (1950) • Henry Howard (1951) • Robert M. Burns (1952) • Charles A. Thomas (1953) • Roger Adams (1954) • Roger Williams (1955) • Edgar C. Britton (1956) • Glenn T. Seaborg (1957) • William Justin Kroll (1958) • Eugène J. Houdry (1959) • Karl August Folkers (1960) • Carl F. Prutton (1961) • Eugene G. Rochow (1962) • William O. Baker (1963) • William J. Sparks (1964) • Carl S. Marvel (1965) • Manson Benedict (1966) • Vladimir Haensel (1967) • Henry B. Hass (1968) • Robert W. Cairns (1969) • Milton Harris (1970) • James F. Hyde (1971) • Robert Burns MacMullin (1972) • Theodore L. Cairns (1973) • Edwin H. Land (1974) • Carl Djerassi (1975) • Lewis H. Sarett (1976) • Paul J. Flory (1977) • Donald Othmer (1978) • James D. Idol Jr. (1979) • Herman F. Mark (1980) • Ralph Landau (1981) • Herbert C. Brown (1982) • Norman Bruce Hannay (1983) • John H. Sinfelt (1984) • Paul B. Weisz (1985) • Peter Regna (1986) • John Paul Hogan, Robert Banks (1987) • James F. Roth (1988) • Frederick J. Karol (1989) • John E. Franz (1990) • Miguel A. Ondetti (1991) • Edith M. Flanigen (1992) • Lubomyr T. Romankiw (1993) • Marinus Los (1994) • Delbert H. Meyer (1995) • Marion D. Francis (1996) • Stephanie Louise Kwolek (1997) • David R. Bryant (1998) • Albert A. Carr (1999) • Norman N. Li (2000) • Elsa Reichmanis (2001) • Paul S. Anderson (2002) • William H. Joyce (2003) • Gordon E. Moore (2004) • Robert W. Gore (2005) • James C. Stevens (2006) • Herbert Boyer (2007) • Ian Shankland (2008) • Richard Bruce Silverman (2009) • Ronald Breslow (2010)

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Vincitori del Premio Willard Gibbs (ACS)

Svante Arrhenius (1911) • Theodore William Richards (1912) • Leo Baekeland (1913) • Ira Remsen (1914) • Arthur Amos Noyes (1915) • Willis R. Whitney (1916) • Edward Morley (1917) • William Merriam Burton (1918) • William A. Noyes (1919) • Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1920) • Marie Curie (1921) • Julius Stieglitz (1923) • Gilbert Lewis (1924) • Moses Gomberg (1925) • James Colquhoun Irvine (1926) • John Jacob Abel (1927) • William Draper Harkins (1928) • Claude Silbert Hudson (1929) • Irving Langmuir (1930) • Phoebus Levene (1931) • Edward Curtis Franklin (1932) • Richard Martin Willstätter (1933) • Harold Urey (1934) • Charles August Kraus (1935) • Roger Adams (1936) • Herbert Newby McCoy (1937) • Robert R. Williams (1938) • Donald Dexter Van Slyke (1939) • Vladimir Ipatieff (1940) • Edward Adelbert Doisy (1941) • Thomas Midgley (1942) • Conrad Arnold Elvehjem (1943) • George O. Curme, Jr. (1944) • Frank C. Whitmore (1945) • Linus Pauling (1946) • Wendell Meredith Stanley (1947) • Carl F. Cori (1948) • Peter Debye (1949) • Carl S. Marvel (1950) William Francis Giauque (1951) William C. Rose (1952) • Joel Henry Hildebrand (1953) • Elmer K. Bolton (1954) • Farrington Daniels (1955) • Vincent du Vigneaud (1956) • W. Albert Noyes, Jr. (1957) • Willard Frank Libby (1958) • Hermann Irving Schlesinger (1959) • George B. Kistiakowsky (1960) • Louis Plack Hammett (1961) • Lars Onsager (1962) • Paul Doughty Bartlett (1963) • Izaak M. Kolthoff (1964) • Robert Mulliken (1965) • Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1966) • Robert Burns Woodward (1967) • Henry Eyring (1968) • Gerhard Herzberg (1969) • Frank H. Westheimer (1970) • Henry Taube (1971) • John T. Edsall (1972) • Paul Flory (1973) • Har Gobind Khorana (1974) • Herman F. Mark (1975) • Kenneth S. Pitzer (1976) • Melvin Calvin (1977) • William O. Baker (1978) • Edgar Bright Wilson (1979) • Frank Albert Cotton (1980) • Bert Lester Vallee (1981) • Gilbert Stork (1982) • John D. Roberts (1983) • Elias James Corey (1984) • Donald James Cram (1985) • Jack Halpern (1986) • Allen Bard (1987) • Rudolph Marcus (1988) • Richard Barry Bernstein (1989) • Richard Zare (1990) • Günther Wilke (1991) • Harry B. Gray (1992) • Peter B. Dervan (1993) • Frederick Hawthorne (1994) • John Meurig Thomas (1995) • Fred Basolo (1996) • Carl Djerassi (1997) • Mario Molina (1998) • Lawrence F. Dahl (1999) • Nicholas Turro (2000) • Tobin J. Marks (2001) • Ralph Hirschmann (2002) • John I. Brauman (2003) • Ronald Breslow (2004) • David A. Evans (2005) • Jacqueline K. Barton (2006) • Sylvia T. Ceyer (2007) • Carolyn R. Bertozzi (2008) • Louis Brus (2009) • Maurice Brookhart (2010) • Robert G. Bergman (2011) • Mark Ratner (2012) • Charles M. Lieber (2013) • John E. Bercaw (2014) • John F. Hartwig (2015) • Laura L. Kiessling (2016) • Judith Klinman (2017) • Cynthia Burrows (2018) • Marcetta Y. Darensbourg (2019)