Breck, Donald

Donald W. Breck, Zeolite Molecular Sieves, J. Wiley Sons, New York, 1974. 

R. M. Barrer, W. M. Meier, D. H. Olson, V. Schomaker, and H. Stein-fink kindly provided material incorporated into the manuscript. Michael Bennett, Donald W. Breck, E. Dempsey, David Olson, Jules Rabo, and Hugo Steinfink kindly commented on the manuscript. I thank both the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, and Union Carbide Corp. for grants-in-aid. 

Zeolites (molecular sieves) have been known since Cronstedt recognized stilbite in 1756 (75). They found limited application in areas such water softening by ion exchange, but they did not attract widescale attention until synthetic methods were developed, particularly by Professor Richard Barrer beginning in the late 1930s. Eventually, Robert Milton, Donald Breck and others at Union Carbide became interested in these materials for separation of air into nitrogen and oxygen, and they worked out synthesis procedures that... 

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