Background
He was born in Jamestown, New York, the son on John Jay and Agnes (nee Reynolds) Whitney.
He was born in Jamestown, New York, the son on John Jay and Agnes (nee Reynolds) Whitney.
He was born in Jamestown, New York, the son on John Jay and Agnes (nee Reynolds) Whitney. In 1890, he achieved a bachelor of science degree at the, where he then worked as Assistant Instructor of Chemistry until 1892. After that, he studied at the University of Leipzig, Germany, under Wilhelm Ostwald, where in 1896, he achieved a Doctor of Philosophy title.
Until 1908, he advanced his paused career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in electrochemistry and developing an electrochemical theory of corrosion.
Since 1900, Whitney had been working part-time as an advisor at the newly founded research lab of He eventually moved away from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and into a full job at the General Electric laboratories In 1915, he had about 250 staff members, Irving Langmuir and William David Coolidge among them. They worked on vacuumand gas-filled lamps, the wireless telegraph, and X-ray technology.
Whitney stepped down from his position in 1932, to be succeeded by William David Coolidge as director of the Research Laboratory.
He died at Schenectady, New York in 1958. the American Institute of Electrical Engineers the American Electrochemical Society and president (1911–1912) the National Academy of Sciences the Institute of Metals the National Research Council the Advisory Committee to the National Bureau of Standards the Naval Consulting Board the Chemical Society and president (1909) Director of the Albany Medical College the Board of Governors of Union College Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry.
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