Albert Leon Henne (1901–1967) was an American

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known for his work on refrigerants.Goldwhite, Harold (2021) Midgley Introduces Dichlorodifluoromethane as a Refrigerant Gas. ''Salem Press Encyclopedia'' Henne was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1901. He earned his PhD from the

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in 1925 with a dissertation titled "The Stereoisomers of Chloroiodoethylene". He came to the United States in 1925 as a fellow of the Belgian-American Education foundation at

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and became a

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in 1933. Henne's association with the

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Department of Chemistry began in 1931 when he began service as a Special Lecturer and as Director of Research for what was formally called the Midgley Foundation housed in the organic chemistry laboratories at OSU. He served in this capacity until 1938 when he was appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry. He assisted Professor

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in setting up and organizing the

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Project at Ohio State. Henne was appointed Professor of Chemistry in 1942 and served in this capacity as a teacher and research advisor until just before his death in 1967.

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Albert Leon Henne, Chemistry
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Albert L. Henne
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation {{DEFAULTSORT:Henne, Albert 20th-century American chemists 1967 deaths 1901 births Belgian emigrants to the United States Massachusetts Institute of Technology people Ohio State University faculty