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Richard B. Moore was born on May 6, 1871, at Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of William Thomas Moore, a leading minister of the Disciples of Christ, and Mary A. Bishop. At the age of seven he accompanied his parents to England where they resided till 1895.
He attended Argyle College, St. Edmund's College, the Institut Keller in Paris, and University College, London. Here he studied from 1886 to 1890 under William Ramsay and became interested in rare gases and radium.
Returning to the United States, he attended the University of Chicago for a year, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1896, and was retained as an assistant in chemistry one year.
Moore then became instructor in chemistry at the University of Missouri, where in addition to his regular duties he did pioneer work in the investigation of radioactive substances.
In 1905 he resigned, to accept the professorship of chemistry at Butler College, Indianapolis, Indiana. He continued his investigations and during a leave of absence in 1907 worked in Sir William Ramsay's laboratory on the separation and purification of krypton and xenon and the determination of their properties. His work on rare gases became so well known that in 1911 he was called away from teaching by the United States government.
Joining at first the staff of the Bureau of Soils, he was transferred the next year to the newly organized Bureau of Mines and as a physical chemist in charge of the chemistry and metallurgy of rare metals established headquarters in Colorado, where he made a survey of radium deposits, devised methods for concentrating the ore, and supervised the preparation of the first radium salts produced in the United States. In the early years of the World War he and his co-workers devoted much attention to the use of the metals vanadium, tungsten, and molybdenum in making special steels. He was among the first to advocate the use of helium in ballons and airships, and largely through his arguments and insistence steps were taken, first by the Navy Department and later by Congress, to conserve this gas.
In 1918 he was given charge of all helium experiments conducted by the Bureau of Mines.
The following year he became chief chemist of the bureau, and in this capacity, during the next five years, organized the cryogenic laboratory in Washington, served on the helium board of the army and navy, and directed the work by which the cost of producing helium was reduced to a nominal sum and its use was correspondingly increased.
In 1923 he left the government service to enter commercial work with the Dorr Company, New York, of which he was general manager for two years.
The position was not congenial, however, and in 1926 he resigned to become professor of chemistry and dean of the school of science at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, where he remained until his death. During his few years of active service at Purdue his work as a teacher, investigator, and executive resulted in permanent contributions to the progress of the University. While in the employ of the Bureau of Mines he published articles, individually or jointly, on helium, radium, and the rare metals uranium, vanadium, tungsten, cerium, thorium, titanium, and zirconium. Richard Bishop Moore died on January 20, 1931, in Lafayette, Indiana.
Richard Bishop Moore was a well-known scientist, chemistry professor and Dean of Science at Purdue, who proposed the use of helium for airships and supervised experiments during the Great War. For his work on radium, mesothorium, and helium he was awarded in 1926 the Perkin medal of the American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry. He had previously received the Longstreth and Potts medals of the Franklin Institute.
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Richard B. Moore married, first, Callie Pemberton on June 11, 1902; his second wife was Georgie E. Dowell, whom he married on June 18, 1924.
