Joseph Clifton Elgin

Background

Elgin, Joseph Clifton was born on February 11, 1904 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Son of John C. and Elizabeth (Vogely) Elgin.

Education

Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia, 1924; Master of Science, University of Virginia, 1926; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1929.

Career

Assistant professor, University of Virginia, 1926-1927; member of faculty, Princeton University, from 1929; professor chemical engineering, Princeton University, 1939-1972; emeritus, Princeton University, 1972-1988; department chairman, Princeton University, 1936-1954; associate dean engineering, Princeton University, 1951-1954; dean of engineering, Princeton University, 1954-1971; emeritus, Princeton University, from 1972. Consultant and official investigator National Defense Research Committee and Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1940-1944. Chief polymer development branch, Rubber Dirs.

Office, War Production Board, 1942-1944. Division chief SAM laboratories, Manhattan project, Columbia, 1944-1945. Director emeritus United States Rubber Reclaiming Company.

Consultant Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1955. Member grants committee Research Corporation, 1952-1963, then director emeritus. Member special commission on synthetic rubber research National Science Foundation, 1955.

Chairman of the section industrial and engineering chemistry XIIth International Congress Pure and Applied Chemistry, 1951.

Membership

Trustee Princeton University Press, 1952-1956, Princeton Country Day School, 1951-1954, Procter Foundation, 1953-1957, 62-66. Trustee Association Universities, Inc., 1950-1962, 68-71, Chairman of the Board, 1957-1958. Director Textile Research Institute, 1965-1971.

Fellow American Institute Chemical Engineers (director, William H. Walker award 1958). Member American Chemical Society, American Society Engineering Education (Executive Board engineering college administrative county, Lamme award 1969), National Research Council (Executive Committee division chemical and technical 1946-1956), Raven Society, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Alpha Chi Sigma.

Connections

Married Anne Marjorie Wilkins, September 18, 1929 (deceased April 1959). Children: Alice Elgin Bishop, Sarah Elgin Timberlake, Joseph Clifton. Married second, Eleanor Hite Bradley, July 20, 1960.

1 stepson, William Bradley Junior.

Father:

John C. Elgin

Mother:

Elizabeth (Vogely) Elgin

Spouse:

second

Spouse:

Anne Marjorie Wilkins

child:

Sarah Elgin Timberlake Elgin

child:

Joseph Clifton Elgin

child:

Alice Elgin Bishop Elgin