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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