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    Eugène Jules Houdry (Domont, France, April 18, 1892 – Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1962) was a mechanical engineer who graduated from...
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    process at that time. In 1922, a French mechanical engineer named Eugene Jules Houdry and a French pharmacist named E. A. Prudhomme set up a laboratory...
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    decades later, a catalytic converter was patented by Eugene Houdry, a French mechanical engineer. Houdry was an expert in catalytic oil refining, having invented...
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    been synthesized as early as 1925 by Walter Noddack and others. 1937 Eugene Houdry develops a method of industrial scale catalytic cracking of petroleum...
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  • was development of catalytic cracking, a process he worked on with Eugene Houdry and others that made economically feasible the low-cost, mass production...
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    Légion d'honneur. A much‐decorated French hero of the two world wars. Eugene J. Houdry - Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. Vocal in opposing the government...
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    would be down to $0.042 per liter ($0.16/U.S. gal). In 1937, Eugene Houdry developed the Houdry process of catalytic cracking, which produced a high-octane...
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  • powered by a gasturbine (Alouette II), in 1955 Catalytic converter by Eugene Houdry in 1956. Concorde by Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation...
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  • (d. 1937) 1889 – Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970) 1892 – Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (d. 1962) 1897 – Ardito...
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    techniques for fluid catalytic cracking that would not infringe on Eugene Houdry's patents for fixed-bed cracking. During World War II, M. W. Kellogg...
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  • invent.org/inductees/philippe-horvath https://www.invent.org/inductees/eugene-houdry https://www.invent.org/inductees/godfrey-newbold-hounsfield https://www...
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    French-born American mechanical engineer Eugene Houdry. At a press conference in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Houdry explained that "we have found a way to change...
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  • 15 April – Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre, Cardinal (died 1973) 18 April – Eugene Houdry, mechanical engineer (died 1962) 19 April – Germaine Tailleferre, composer...
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    established in 1992 The Houdry process for catalytic cracking of crude petroleum into gasoline, developed by Eugene Houdry and the Sun Oil Company in...
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  • Committee of the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania, was established "by Mrs. Eugene Houdry, Mrs. Pierre Quilleret, Mr. Jacques de Sieyès, then delegate of General...
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  • at age 28; his name was given to a subway station in Paris in 1946 Eugène Houdry - Châlons, 1908: dedicated his life to the development of oil processing...
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    Abu Sayyaf; as Aldam Tilao in Isabela, Basilan (killed, 2002) Died: Eugene Houdry, 70, French chemical engineer who developed high octane gasoline and...
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  • (born 1895) 8 July – Georges Bataille, writer (born 1897) 18 July – Eugene Houdry, mechanical engineer (born 1892) 25 July – Paul Aymé, tennis player...
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  • helped reduce pollution from car exhaust, following work done earlier by Eugene Houdry. Taylor developed catalytic converters that converted nitric oxide into...
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  • (Engineering) 1947 - Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Engineering) 1948 - Eugene Jules Houdry (Chemistry) 1948 - Clarence A. Lovell (Engineering) 1948 - David...
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    footballer Rémi Maréval, footballer Bertrand Ndzomo, footballer Eugene Jules Houdry, inventor Carole Sinoquet, hammer throwing athlete Communes of the...
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    García Cabrerizo Foundation (2004) Order of Merit Civil of Spain (2002) Eugene J. Houdry Award in Applied Catalysis (2002) F. Gault European Award on “Catalysis”...
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    Glenn T. Seaborg 1958 William J. Kroll 1959 Eugene J. Houdry 1960 Karl Folkers 1961 Carl F. Prutton 1962 Eugene G. Rochow 1963 William O. Baker 1964 William...
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    Elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering 2010 Eugene J. Houdry Award in Applied Catalysis from the North American Catalysis Society...
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    Gowa, 16th Ruler of The Sultanate of Gowa (d. 1670) January 23 – Vincent Houdry, French Jesuit preacher and writer on ascetics (d. 1729) February 6 – Edward...
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  • 1965 Vladimir Haensel 1964 Bruce H. Sage 1963 Manson Benedict 1962 Eugene J. Houdry 1961 Olaf A. Hougen 1960 Neal R. Amundson 1959 Edwin R. Gilliland 1958...
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  • degree in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eugene Wigner, Nobel Prize in Physics for atomic theory, degree in chemical engineering...
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  • (originally the Fritzsche Award) from the American Chemical Society 1981: Eugene J. Houdry Award in Applied Catalysis 1981: George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon...
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  • Gowa, 16th Ruler of The Sultanate of Gowa (d. 1670) January 23 – Vincent Houdry, French Jesuit preacher and writer on ascetics (d. 1729) February 6 – Edward...
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