Nationality American Fields Inorganic chemistry | Name Eugene Rochow Alma mater Cornell University | |
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Born October 4, 1909 ( 1909-10-04 ) Died March 21, 2002, Fort Myers, Florida, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada, Perkin Medal Books introduction to the chemistry, Silicon and Silicones, The Chemistry of Silicon, An Introduction to Micros, The Chemistry of Germa | ||
Education Cornell University (1935) Notable awards Perkin Medal (1962) | ||
Eugene George Rochow (October 4, 1909 – March 21, 2002) was an American inorganic chemist. Rochow worked on organosilicon chemistry; in the 1940s, he described the direct process, also known as the Rochow process or Müller-Rochow process.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Rochow obtained both B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University in 1931 and 1935 respectively. Upon completion of his Ph.D., he began working for a General Electric subsidiary. In 1948, Rochow resigned from GE due to his Quaker beliefs. He joined the faculty at Harvard University where he remained until his retirement in 1970. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1949. He is known for developing, with A. Louis Allred, the Allred-Rochow electronegativity scale. In 1962, he was awarded the Perkin Medal. Rochow died in Fort Myers, Florida aged 92.