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Raymond Matthew Fuoss (September 28, 1905 – December 1, 1987) was an American chemist who researched mainly on electrolytes, polyelectrolytes, and polymers. He held Sterling Professor status at Yale University.
Raymond Fuoss | |
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Born | |
Died | December 1, 1987 82) | (aged
Spouse(s) | Rose Elizabeth Harrington (divorced) Ann Stein Fuoss
(m. 1947–1979) |
Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Education | BA., Harvard University (summa cum laude) PhD., Chemistry, 1932, Brown University |
Thesis | Influence of the solvent medium on the conductance of electrolytes, (1932) |
Doctoral advisor | Lars Onsager |
Academic work | |
Sub-discipline | Electrolytic conductance |
Institutions | Yale University |
Fuoss was born to Jacob Z. Fuoss in 1905 and graduated from Altoona High School.[1]
After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard University, Fuoss accepted a Sheldon Fellowship to study at the University of Munich. He began his graduate studies at Brown University in 1930, after various teaching positions.[2]
From 1932 – 1933, Fuoss was a research instructor at Brown University, before being promoted to assistant professor for research from 1933 until 1936.[3] While at Brown, Fuoss was the recipient of the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry.[4] The award came with a monetary prize of $1000 for his achievement of producing the "first comprehensive theory of electrolytic solutions."[1] Due to limited financial resources for university research during the Great Depression in the mid-1930s, Fuoss was contacted by the General Electric Research Laboratory, where he worked until the end of the Second World War.[5] In 1945 he went to Yale University, where he was appointed a Sterling Professor Chair of Chemistry.[6] In 1951, Fuoss was elected to the National Academy of Sciences[5] and later, in 1954, was elected chairman of the American Chemical society's division of Polymer Chemistry.[2]
Fuoss eventually retired from Yale University in 1974 but continued active research in electrolytes.[5]
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