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Thomas Midgley
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American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
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Thomas Midgley was an American chemist, inventor and engineer, born in Beaver Falls on 18 May 1889. He was educated at Cornell University and worked in mechanical engineering for General Motors, NCR Corporation, Ethyl Corporation and Delco Electronics, holding positions as vice president and president.
Midgley was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and received the Willard Gibbs Award, the Perkin Medal, the Priestley Medal and the William H. Nichols Medal. He died in Worthington on 2 November 1944 from strangling, recorded as both an accidental death and a suicide.
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Thomas Midgley is indexed among the 610 entries in Vinony's National Inventors Hall of Fame collection.
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It sits within the topics 1889 births, 1944 deaths and 20th-century American chemists.
Its subject is documented across 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Beaver Falls
- Place of death
- Worthington
- Occupation
- engineer
- Position held
- president
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Field of work
- mechanical engineering
- Image
- Portrait of Thomas Midgley Jr..jpg
Show 7 more facts
- date of birth
- 1889-05-18
- date of death
- 1944-11-02
- Commons category
- Thomas Midgley
- member of
- SAE International
- manner of death
- Suicide
- Commons Creator page
- Thomas Midgley
- cause of death
- strangling
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