Julius arthur nieuwland biography of william

(b.Hansbeke, Belgium, 14 February 1878; d. Washington, D.C., 11 June 1936)

organic chemistry.

Nieuwland was the son of poor Flemings who in 1880 immigrated to South Bend, Indiana, where they joined a settlement of Flemish speakers from the Ghent region.

Nieuwland was educated in a German school. He graduated from Notre Dame University in 1899, and studied for the priesthood at the Congregation of the Holy Cross in South Bend and then at Holy Cross College of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He was ordained in 1903.

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Meanwhile, he studied botany and chemistry at the Catholic University, gaining a Ph.D. in 1904 with a thesis—which contained the germ of much of his later work—on the reactions of acetylene. His discovery of the reaction between acetylene and arsenic trichloride (which he did not pursue because of the noxious nature of the product) led to the development of the poison gas and vesicant lewisite (named after W.

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