Frederick George Keyes (June 24, 1885 – April 14, 1976) was an American physical chemist. National Academies Press:Biographical Memoirs:V.73:Frederick George Keyes, BY JOHN ROSS
/ref> Keyes was most notable for inventing a method to sterilize milk using ultraviolet rays, and discovering that ultraviolet rays kill germs. According to the

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, Keyes was also notable for "advances in thermodynamics, equations of state of gases, and thermodynamic properties, in particular liquid water and steam". Keyes received a B.Sc. degree from the

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and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from

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. Keyes was head of the department of chemistry at MIT, and was a member of the

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, the

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, and the

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