Name George Gibson Died August 26, 1959 Doctoral advisor Otto Lummer | Role Chemist Fields Nuclear chemistry | |
Born November 9, 1884
Edinburgh, Scotland ( 1884-11-09 ) Alma mater University of Edinburgh B.Sc.
University of Breslau Ph.D Doctoral students William Giauque
Glenn T. Seaborg
Wendell Mitchell Latimer Education University of Wroclaw (1911), University of Edinburgh Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Similar People Wendell Mitchell Latimer, Otto Lummer, Joseph W Kennedy, Glenn T Seaborg, William Giauque | ||
George Ernest Gibson (November 9, 1884 – August 26, 1959) was a Scottish-born American nuclear chemist.
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Early years
George Ernest Gibson was born Edinburgh, Scotland and educated partly in Germany where attended a gymnasium in Darmstadt, finishing his schooling in Edinburgh. He studied chemistry at the University of Edinburgh receiving his B.Sc. in 1906. He worked with Otto Lummer at the University of Breslau where he received his Ph.D in 1911, and stayed there as lecturer for two additional years before returning to the University of Edinburgh in 1912.
Work
In 1913 he became Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Two of his students were awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, William Giauque and Glenn T. Seaborg. In 1927 he stayed a year with Walter Heitler in Heidelberg. He retired in 1954 and died in 1959.