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Lind was born on June 15, 1879 in McMinnville, Tennessee, United States; the son of Thomas Christian and Ida (Colville) Lind.
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Lind was born on June 15, 1879 in McMinnville, Tennessee, United States; the son of Thomas Christian and Ida (Colville) Lind.
Lind received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Lee University in 1899. He enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1902. Three years later, Samuel earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Leipzig University.
He was awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees by the University of Colorado in 1927, Washington and Lee University in 1939, the University of Michigan in 1940, and the University of Notre Dame in 1963.
Lind began his career as a teaching assistant in chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and held the position from 1902 to 1903. On September 1905 Samuel was appointed as an instructor of chemistry at the University of Michigan.
An important change in his research career came in 1910, when he spent some months in the laboratories of Professor Marie Curie in Paris. There he gained a proficiency in the handling of radioactive substances and carried out measurements of the charge on the alpha particles. Then in the spring of 1911 Lind moved to Vienna to the Institüt für Radiumforschung, which was under the direction of Professor Stefan Meyer. Within three months Samuel had been able to show that the number of ozone molecules formed is equal to the number of ion pairs produced in oxygen by alpha particles. On his return to the University of Michigan, he carried out a detailed analysis of results obtained in England by Sir William Ramsay and associates. In 1912, he published an important paper in which he clearly enunciated many of the basic principles that apply to chemical reactions induced by ionizing radiation.
In 1913, Lind was accepted to Bureau of Mines and worked at the Denver laboratory in Colorado. His work was mainly concerned with the extraction and refinement of radium from carnotite, and he published a series of papers on that subject from 1914 to 1920. Lind was transferred in 1917 to the Bureau of Mines station in Golden, Colorado, where he devoted much of his time to studying the chemical effects of radiation. In 1923, Samuel became chief chemist for the Bureau of Mines.
Then in 1925, he resigned his position at the Bureau of Mines to become assistant director of the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture. At this laboratory Lind worked on the radiation chemistry of a number of reactions, including the oxidations of saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons, the hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbons, and the reaction between carbon monoxide and oxygen.
From 1926 to 1947 he taught at the University of Minnesota, becoming dean of its institute of technology. In July 1948 Lind joined the Union Carbide in Oak Ridge as consultant for research in experimental radiation chemistry of gases, performing most of his work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and serving as acting director of its Chemistry Division from 1951 to 1954.
In 1957, he published a significant paper with Philip S. Rudolph on the polymerization of acetylene under the action of alpha radiation.
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2017Lind served as president of the American Electrochemical Society in 1927 and the American Chemical Society in 1940.
Lind had a lively sense of humor and enjoyed jokes on himself.
On January 24, 1915, Lind married Marie Holladay.