Eugene G. Rochow
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1909 – 2002
Who was Eugene G. Rochow?
Eugene George Rochow was an American inorganic chemist. Rochow worked on organosilicon chemistry; in the 1940s, he described the direct process, also known as the Rochow process or Müller-Rochow process.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Rochow obtained both B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University in 1931 and 1935 respectively. Upon completion of his Ph.D., he began working for a General Electric subsidiary. In 1948, Rochow resigned from GE due to his Quaker beliefs. He joined the faculty at Harvard University where he remained until his retirement in 1970. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1949. He is known for developing, with A. Louis Allred, the Allred-Rochow electronegativity scale. In 1962, he was awarded the Perkin Medal. Rochow died in Fort Myers, Florida aged 92.
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- Born
- Oct 4, 1909
United States of America - Also known as
- Eugene Rochow
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Cornell University
- Died
- Mar 21, 2002
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on July 23, 2013
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