Blacet, Francis

He received his B.S. (1945) and Ph.D. (1949) from the University of California, Los Angeles his research advisor was Professor Francis E. Blacet, who first identified the photolysis of N02 as the anthropogenic source of ozone in photochemical air pollution. From 1942 to 1945, he participated in laboratory and field studies in chemical warfare. He was on the faculty at Northwestern University from 1949 to 1954, leaving to join the faculty at the new University of California, Riverside, campus. He was a Guggenheim Fellow at University College, Oxford, in 1961 and a Research Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1965. 

The Informal Conferences on Photochemistry, held every other year in North America, were founded in 1954 by Noyes, along with Francis Blacet and E. W. R. Steacie. These conferences have become the major meeting place for physical photochemists in the Western Hemisphere. Noyes attended them... 

We met your group from Cal Tech and many of the others who later went on to Panama like Bob Brinton and Dave Volman. I am sure Francis Blacet was there too. The Chemical Warfare Corp was in charge of the operation, and I Icnow that the Airforce contributed meteorologists because one of their wives rode back with us to Berkeley. 

I met the sole survivor of the Gorrell party which, as you may recall, under Dr. Gorrell of London, conducted similar experiments in a jungle-covered island near Australia. They were a bimch of enthusiasts who went at it the other way and started carrying out experiments almost immediately upon their arrival with no thought of a sanitary base. Within four months [all but one] were invalided back to England and the United States. [Letter written by General Bullene to Professor Francis Blacet after the war]. 

R.J. Grabenstetter, Dave Volman, Roscoe Dickinson, Francis Blacet,... 

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