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Hugh Stott Taylor

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in 1914 as instructor in Physical Chemistry, and by 1915, was made an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1922 and became chair of the Chemistry Department at Princeton in 1926, where he served until 1951. In 1927, Taylor became the David B. Jones Professor of
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Taylor showed that chemisorption may be an activated process, and occur slowly. Moreover, he conceived the idea that chemically active sites might be sparse on the surface of a catalyst and, hence, could be inhibited with relatively few molecules.
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As Chair of Chemistry from 1926 to 1951, Taylor developed the Chemistry Dept. at Princeton energetically and oversaw the construction of the Frick Chemical Laboratory.
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The Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry at Princeton was funded by an anonymous gift of $ 500K in honour of Taylor's contributions to Princeton.
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who helped to establish the Catholic chaplaincy at Princeton in 1928 and spoke publicly about the reconciliation of science and
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Chemistry at Princeton. Taylor also served as the Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton from 1945 to 1958.
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Taylor and a graduate student developed the first semi-realistic model of the Îą-helix, an element of protein
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on metal surfaces and also discovered the conversion of heptane to toluene over chromium oxide.
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is not catalysed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain '
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Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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Taylor showed that hydrogen atoms are key intermediates of reactions involving H
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He married Elizabeth Agnes Sawyer on 12 June 1919; They had two daughters.
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Kemball, C. (1975). "Hugh Stott Taylor 6 February 1890 -- 17 April 1974".
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Taylor was knighted by both Pope Pius XII and Queen Elizabeth II.
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and another at the Technische Hochschule in Hanover under
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1965 Audio Interview with Hugh Taylor by Stephane Groueff
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Knights Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great
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Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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Hugh S. Taylor
KBE
FRS
St Helens, Merseyside
Princeton, New Jersey
University of Liverpool
Fellow of the Royal Society
Remsen Award
Princeton University Graduate School
Luther P. Eisenhart
KBE
FRS
chemist
catalysis
chemical reaction
active sites
World War II
isotopes
St Helens
Cowley Grammar School
University of Liverpool
Nobel Institute
Svante Arrhenius
Max Bodenstein
secondary structure
Astbury
Hans Neurath
Linus Pauling
Robert Corey
Franklin Medal

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