The North American Catalysis Society (NACS)

Historical Accounts

50 Years of Catalysis
Cracking of crude petroleum to gasoline
Early Automotive Exhaust Catalysts
Eger Murphree and the Four Horsemen: FCC, Fluid Catalytic Cracking
Engelhard Scientists Honored For Auto-Emission Technology Breakthrough
Hydrogenation of Fats and Oils
Mobil Research Team Inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame
Sohio Acrylonitrile Process
The beginnings of the catalysis society in USA & the world
The Fluid bed reactor for cracking petroleum

Advances in Catalysis: A Historical Perspective- Burtron H. Davis, AIChE Mtg, Philadelphia, PA USA , November 2008 - View as PDF - View Web Powerpoint

Biographies

Alex Mills: the catalyst chemist
Eric Derouane- a visonary with high intellectual mobility
Eugene Houdry: Catalytic Cracking of low-grade fuel into gasoline
Heinz Heinemann: One of the accomplished founders of the Catalysis Society
Herman Pines: he revolutionized the general understanding of catalysis
John Sinfelt: Removal of lead from gasoline with bimetallics
Pioneer of Catalytic Cracking: Almer McAfee at Gulf Oil
Robert L. Burwell, Jr., - helped established catalysis concepts
Sir Eric Rideal
Vladimir Nikolaevich Ipatieff
W. Keith Hall: One of the giants in catalysis

Events in Time

1956- Photo First ICC meeting in Philadelphia in 1956
2nd ICC- Paris: Photos of Emmett/Oblad
2nd ICC- Photo of Officers
2nd ICC- Photos Selwood, Farkas and Heinemann
2nd ICC: Photos of H. Taylor, J. Turkevich, G. Mills, and H. Pines
Boudart Award Celebration Dinner - June 2007
Organization Chart of 1st ICC Meeting

Historical Video Clips

20th NAM Meeting, Houston: videos of Alexis Bell, Robert Davis, Robert Grubbs, Stacey Zones, Theo Fleisch, Kerry Dooley, and Yun-Feng Chang

John Bailor
Robert Burwell
John Butt
Adalbert Farkas
Robert Garten
Ricardo Levy
Donald Nace
Edward Teller
Haldor Topsøe
John Turkevich

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