Infrared radiation from explosions in a spark-ignition engine

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1934
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 109 KB
• Volume: 217
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(34)90584-6

✦ Synopsis

cil, and in 1926 was chosen by a special committee as the man best fitted for appointment as chief chemist of the Bureau of Standards.

In spite of poor health, Doctor Washburn was extremely active in Bureau affairs. He built up a section of physical chemistry which has carried on many important researches, including fundamental work on the composition of petroleum, a co6perative project with the American Petroleum Institute. As before mentioned, he was the first to produce heavy water in quantity following the discovery of the hydrogen isotope by Urey, Brickwedde, and Murphy in I932.