Background
Noyes, Arthur Amos was born on September 13, 1866 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Amos and Anna Page (Andrews) Noyes.
Noyes, Arthur Amos was born on September 13, 1866 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Amos and Anna Page (Andrews) Noyes.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1886, South.M. Entertainment, 1887. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Leipzig, 1890. Doctor of Laws, University of Maine, 1908, Clark University, 1909, University of Pittsburgh, 1915.
Doctor of Science, Harvard, 1909, Yale, 1913.
Unmarried.
He served as the acting president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1907 and 1909. in 1890 at Leipzig under the guidance of Wilhelm Ostwald. Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson was one of his famous students. Noyes served as Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology from 1919 to 1936.
He was a major influence on the educational philosophy and the core curriculum of Caltech.
He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public, between 1921 and 1927. Along with Willis Rodney Whitney, he formulated the in 1897, which relates the rate of dissolution of solids to the properties of the solid and the dissolution medium.
lieutenant is an important equation in pharmaceutical science. The relation is given by:
Where:
is the rate of dissolution.
A is the surface area of the solid.
C is the concentration of the solid in the bulk dissolution medium. is the concentration of the solid in the diffusion layer surrounding the solid. Doctorate is the diffusion coefficient. L is the diffusion layer thickness.
Member National Academy Sciences (editor of its Proceedings, 1915-1916), National Research Council (chairman 1918), American Chemical Society (president 1904).