The North American Catalysis Society (NACS)

Historical Accounts

50 Years of Catalysis
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
The beginnings of the catalysis society in USA & the world

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
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

Haldor Topsøe

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