| LC control no. | no2002112228 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Midgley, Thomas, Jr., 1889-1944 |
| Variant(s) | Midgley, Thomas, 1889-1944 |
| Birth date | 1889-05-18 |
| Death date | 1944-11-01 |
| Found in | The future of industrial research, 1944: t.p. (Thomas Midgley, Jr.) Amer. nat'l bio, 1999: v. 15, p. 434 (Midgley, Thomas, Jr.; b. 1889, Beaver Falls, Penn.; d. 1944; industrial chemist) Stone, Daniel. American poison, 2025: CIP galley (Thomas Midgley, Jr., 1889-1944; worked with Charles F. Kettering in Dayton, Ohio on automobile engines; Thomas Midgley killed himself the night of November 1,1944) Wikipedia, viewed 2025-01-02: Thomas Midgley Jr. (Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889- November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer. He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use due to their harmful impact on human health and the environment. He was granted more than 100 patents over the course of his career. Midgley contracted polio in 1940 and was left disabled; in 1944, he was found strangled to death by a device he devised to allow him to get out of bed unassisted) |
| Associated language | eng |
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