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Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer.He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use due to their harmful impact on human health and the environment.
Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944) was an American engineer and chemist who contracted polio at age 51, leaving him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. He became entangled in the ropes and died of strangulation at the age of 55.
It was the mid-1970s, three decades after Midgley’s death, before the damage from his two inventions became publicly known. CFCs had punched a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica; if left ...
Thomas Midgley may refer to: Thomas Midgley (footballer) (1856–1957), English footballer; Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944), American chemist
Clair Cameron Patterson (June 2, 1922 – December 5, 1995) [1] was an American geochemist.Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College.He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and spent his entire professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Thomas Midgley, 76, of Watson Street, Wilkes-Barre Township, was sentenced by Lupas to four-to-23 months at the county correctional facility on six counts of child pornography. Midgley pled guilty ...
The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the suspect in Saturday's attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally.
Roger Midgley (1924–2019) British field hockey player; Thomas Midgley (footballer) (1856–1957) was a British professional footballer; Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944), American mechanical and chemical engineer; Waldo Midgley (1888–1986) was an American artist, including as a depictor of the Black Rock of the Great Salt Lake