Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer. He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline...

Thomas Midgley may refer to: Thomas Midgley (footballer) (1856–1957), English footballer Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944), American chemist This disambiguation...

General Motors research laboratories in Dayton, Ohio. GM researcher Thomas Midgley, Jr. still maintains: "The most direct route which we now know for converting...

was resistant to tuberculosis, would treat the student's disease. Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944) was an American engineer and chemist who contracted polio...

increase what later would be called the octane rating of gasoline. Thomas Midgley Jr. and Kettering identified tetraethyllead (TEL) in December 1921 as...

(TEL) as an antiknock, based on the work of Thomas Midgley Jr., Charles Kettering, and later Charles Allen Thomas,: 340–41  and Esso had the patent for the...

German chemist Carl Jacob Löwig in 1853. American chemical engineer Thomas Midgley Jr., who was working for General Motors, was the first to discover its...

from least expensive to most, respectively.[page needed] In 1921, Thomas Midgley Jr., an engineer for GM, discovered tetraethyllead (leaded gasoline)...

refrigerants then in use, such as ammonia. The team was headed by Thomas Midgley, Jr. In 1928, they improved the synthesis of CFCs and demonstrated their...

British professional footballer Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944), American mechanical and chemical engineer Waldo Midgley (1888–1986) was an American artist...

tasteless, nontoxic, and nonflammable. He assembled a team that included Thomas Midgley, Jr., Albert Leon Henne, and Robert McNary. From 1930 to 1935, they developed...

Vic Theatre, 2005. as Yakunin in The House of Special Purpose by Heidi Thomas, directed by Howard Davies, at the Minerva Theatre Chichester, 2009. as...

the Ethyl Corporation (which employed Kehoe), against the legacy of Thomas Midgley, Jr. (which included tetraethyllead and chlorofluorocarbons), and against...

research was led by A.H. Gibson and Harry Ricardo in England and Thomas Midgley, Jr. and Thomas Boyd in the United States. The discovery that lead additives...

1874) 1935 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905) 1944 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889) 1945 – Hélène de Pourtalès...

stratospheric chlorine (EESC). CFCs as refrigerants were invented by Thomas Midgley, Jr. in the 1930s. They were used in air conditioning and cooling units...

General Motors, and DuPont to develop a safer, non-toxic alternative. Thomas Midgley Jr. of General Motors is credited for synthesizing the first chlorofluorocarbons...

inventor of the electronic cigarette Charles Keene, racing driver Thomas Midgley Jr., chemist and engineer, known for his role in the development of leaded...

one of the earliest campaigners against lead in petrol in the UK Thomas Midgley Jr. – discovered that the addition of tetraethyllead to gasoline prevented...

propane, that could result in fatal accidents when they leaked. In 1928 Thomas Midgley Jr. created the first non-flammable, non-toxic chlorofluorocarbon gas...

are organofluorine compounds. Aside from the synthesis of Freon (Thomas Midgley, Jr. and Charles F. Kettering, 1928) and the discovery of Teflon (Roy...

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late 1910s, researchers such as A.H. Gibson, Harry Ricardo, Thomas Midgley Jr., and Thomas Boyd began to investigate abnormal combustion. Beginning in...

Thomas Midgley Jr. found tellurium prevented engine knocking when added to fuel, but ruled it out due to the difficult-to-eradicate smell. Midgley went...

German/British engineer and inventor of impact extrusion of containers Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889–1944) – developed tetraethyllead (TEL) and chlorofluorocarbons...

(PDF). National Academy of Sciences (U.S.).; Biographical memoirs. p. 206. Thomas, Robert E. (1955). Salt & Water, Power & People: A Short History of Hooker...

pandemic. A number of Cornellians have been prominent innovators: Thomas Midgley, Jr. ('11) invented Freon, Jon Rubinstein ('78) is credited with the development...

K. Frolich (1943) Thomas Midgley Jr. (1944) Carl S. Marvel (1945) Bradley Dewey (1946) W. Albert Noyes Jr. (1947) Charles A. Thomas (1948) Linus Pauling...

Parsons 1935 William A. Noyes 1938 Marston T. Bogert 1940s 1941 Thomas Midgley, Jr. 1944 James Bryant Conant 1945 Ian Heilbron 1946 Roger Adams 1947...

refrigerant, was invented in 1928 by a team of scientists put together by Thomas Midgley, Jr. The team of scientists set out to create refrigerants which led to...