Homer Burton Adkins
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Dr. Homer Burton Adkins, Ph.D. (January 16, 1892 Newport, Ohio - August 10, 1949 Madison, Wisconsin) received his undergraduate degree at Denison University and received his Ph.D. at Ohio State University in 1918. A world authority on the hydrogenation of organic compounds, he developed the Adkins catalyst partly based on interrogation of German chemists after World War II in relation to the Fischer-Tropsch process. He also coined the word hydrogenolysis to describe the chemical reaction in which a molecule is broken into smaller molecules by the reaction of hydrogen. He developed the Adkins-Peterson reaction with Wesley J. Peterson.
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