Fink, Colin

Colin G. Fink and P. Deren of Columbia University in 1934 perfected a process for electroplating rhenium as a bright, hard deposit which is surprisingly resistant to hydrochloric acid (47). Dr. William F. Meggers of the United States Bureau of Standards has made a thorough study of the arc spectrum of rhenium (41). 

Colin G. Fink and P. Deren perfect a process for electroplating rhenium. 

Colin G. Fink. Ph. D. Consulting Electrometallurgist. Secretary, Amer. Electro-chem. Soc. High Temperature Production. 

Then something went wrong. He found himself overloaded with teaching responsibilities, deprived of time, equipment, or assistance for research, and, finally, at odds about his value to the school with the new chairman of its chemistry department. In 1909, he learned from Columbia classmate Colin G. Fink (co-author of that 1907 paper with Bodenstein on catalysis) about a summer job opportunity with Fink s employer. General Electric. Here was an escape route. On Monday I go to Schenectady and in all probability will do good enough work so that Whitney (the GE laboratory director) will offer me salary anywhere from 1200 to 1400 for the next year, he wrote his mother. 

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