Taylor, Hugh

Taylor, Hugh. "Fifty Years of Chemical Kineticists." Ann.Rev.P.Chem. 13 (1962) 118. 

Taylor, Hugh Stott (1890-1974) English chemist worked with Arrhenius and Bodenstein, chair of the Chemistry Department at Princeton (USA) in 1926... 

In 1947 Sir Hugh S. Taylor summarized the state of catalysis in a Science in Progress article as follows ... 

The Heterogeneity of Catalyst Surfaces for Chemisorption Hugh S. Taylor Alkylation of Isoparaffins V. N. Ipatieff and Louis Schmerling Surface Area Measurements. A New Tool for Studying Contact Catalysts P. H. Emmett... 

We are saddened to have lost one of the first and foremost pioneers of catalysis, and a member of our Advisory Board, Sir Hugh S. Taylor. The present volume includes an obituary of Sir Hugh written by one who knew him well, John Turkevich. We are further saddened by the untimely passing on July 27, 1973, of a young pioneer, Richard J. Kokes. 

The catalytic community of the world records with sorrow the death of Sir Hugh Taylor, an active practitioner of the art of catalysis, an imaginative investigator of its scientific basis, an inspiring teacher of many, many catalytic chemists and physicists, and a leader in the field of catalysis for fifty years. 

On his return to Princeton after the war, Hugh Taylor organized catalytic research at the Frick Chemical Laboratory. He applied high vacuum technique, liquid air cryoscopy to the study of adsorptive characteristics of catalysts, correlating rates of catalytic reactions and rates of adsorption. He introduced the concept of activated adsorption and defended it against all comers. ... 

His researches and those of his pupils led to his formulation in the twenties of the concept of active catalytic centers and the heterogeneity of catalytic and adsorptive surfaces. His catalytic studies were supplemented by researches carried out simultaneously on kinetics of homogeneous gas reactions and photochemistry. The thirties saw Hugh Taylor utilizing more and more of the techniques developed by physicists. Thermal conductivity for ortho-para hydrogen analysis resulted in his use of these species for surface characterization. The discovery of deuterium prompted him to set up production of this isotope by electrolysis on a large scale of several cubic centimeters. This gave him and others a supply of this valuable tracer for catalytic studies. For analysis he invoked not only thermal conductivity, but infrared spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. To ex-... 

As early as 1925, Hugh S. Taylor suggested that in heterogeneous catalytic reactions, not the entire catalyst surface is involved but the reaction occurs predominantly at certain special points or segments of the surface that he named active sites. Since that time, the presence of special points or segments with higher catalytic activity has been asserted not only for heterogeneous chemical reactions but also for electrochemical reactions. 

Friedman, I., F. W. Trembour, and R. E. Hughes (1997), Obsidian hydration dating, in Taylor, R. E. and M. J. Aitken (eds.), Chronometric Dating in Archaeology, Advances in Archaeological and Museum Science Series, Vol. 2, Plenum, New York. 

Schultz AA, Ashby-Hughes B, Taylor R, Gillis DE, Willkins M Effects of pectin on diarrhea in critically ill tube-fed patients receiving antibiotics. Am J Crit Care 2000 9 430-411. 

Austin Taylor and Hugh S. Taylor were brothers who took Ph.D. degrees in McC. Lewis s department at Liverpool. Robert Robinson taught in that same department from 1915 to 1919. 

Meador KJ, Loring DW, Lee GP, Taylor HS, Hughes DR, Feldman DS. (1988). In vivo probe of central cholinergic systems. J Gerontol. 43(6) M158-62. 

The Heterogeneity of Catalyst Surfaces for Chemisorption Hugh S. Taylor... 

Anand G.S., Hughes C.A., Jones J.M., Taylor S.S., Komives E.A. Amide H/ 2H exchange reveals communication between the cAMP and catalytic subunit-binding sites in the Rla subunit of protein kinase A. J. Mol. Biol. 2002, 323, 377-386. 

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