Marion Eppley (19 June 1883, West Orange, New Jersey – 22 November 1960, Oyster Bay, New York) was an American physical chemist.

Biography

Eppley received from Princeton University his B.S. in 1906, M.A. in 1912, and Ph.D. in 1919. He married his first wife, Ethelberta Pyne ''née'' Russell, on 6 May 1909 in

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. During WW I, Eppley was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy and after the war became a naval reserve officer. In 1941 he was recalled to active duty as a captain. His research dealt with improvements in cadmium storage batteries, as well as thermal radiation instrumentation. He directed the Eppley Research Laboratory until his death in 1960. In 1947 he established the Eppley Foundation for Research, and his will created a charitable trust to support the Foundation and the Marion Eppley Wildlife Refuge. The Eppley Foundation for Research should not be confused with the Eppley Foundation founded in Omaha, Nebraska by

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. Marion Eppley was awarded the Howard N. Potts Medal in 1927. For his service in WW II, he was awarded the

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. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists, the

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, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the

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. He was introduced to Newport society by his first wife, who was a member of the

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and Moses Taylor families of Newport. His first wife died in 1952 and he married his second wife in 1953. Sometime during the 1940s, Eppley purchased from the estate of Samuel Powel, a son of Colonel

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and a member of the Samuel Powel family, a portrait of George Washington painted by Joseph Wright. Eppley and his first wife hung the painting at their house in Newport and later at their residence on Long Island. In 1972, Eppley's widow, Constance Rivington Russell Earle, who married Walter K. Earle after Captain Epley died, donated the portrait to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Legacy

The fish ''

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'' Schaefer &

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, 1993 was named in his honor.

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