This article is about the chemist. For his father, the linguist, see George Oliver Curme.
George Oliver Curme Jr. (December 24, 1888 – July 28, 1976) was an American industrial chemist, working with synthesis of various chemicals — including acetylene and ethylene glycol — from petroleum byproducts.[1][2][3][4][5]
Born in Iowa; he received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Chicago (1913), after which he spent some time in Germany, studying with Fritz Haber. He returned to the US in 1914 and worked at the Mellon Institute, funded by the Prest-O-Lite company, which was absorbed into Union Carbide in 1917. He became a Union Carbide VP in charge of chemical research in 1944. He died in 1976 in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.
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^McKetta, John J. (1990). Encyclopeida of chemical processing and design. New York: Marcel Dekker. pp. 434–435. ISBN9780824724849.
^Bowden, Mary Ellen (1997). "George O. Curme". Chemical achievers : the human face of the chemical sciences. Philadelphia, PA: Chemical Heritage Foundation. pp. 119–121. ISBN9780941901123.
^Noble, David F. (1977). America by design science, technology, and the rise of corporate capitalism (1st ed.). New York: Knopf. ISBN9780307828491.
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