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William Albert Noyes was born on April 18, 1898 in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. He was the son of William Albert Noyes, a noted chemist, and Flora Elizabeth Collier.
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William Albert Noyes was born on April 18, 1898 in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. He was the son of William Albert Noyes, a noted chemist, and Flora Elizabeth Collier.
Noyes was first introduced to the French language and culture at the age of ten, when his father arranged for him to live for several months with a French teacher in a small village near Paris. Noyes graduated from Urbana High School in Illinois in 1914, then attended Grinnell College in Iowa for two years. He next enrolled at the University of Illinois, but left to enlist in the United States Army in April 1917. He was granted Bachelor's degree from Grinnell while he was in France and received an American Field Service fellowship, which allowed him to continue his studies at the University of Paris, from which he received the Docteur ès Science degree in 1920, and at the University of Geneva.
Noyes served as an officer in the 308th Signal Corps Battalion while stationed in France from June 1918 until February 1919. His wartime experience in France was part of a lifelong association with that country.
Noyes returned to the United States in 1920 to take up a teaching fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley. He went on to teach chemistry at the University of Chicago (1922 - 1929), Brown University (1929 - 1938) in Providence, Rhode Island, and the University of Rochester (1938 - 1963) in New York. He became chairman of the department of chemistry at Rochester in 1939.
He published several books, including Photochemistry of Gases with P. A. Leighton in 1941. He actively promoted the scholarship of other chemists through his work as editor of the various publications of the American Chemical Society. From 1939 to 1949 he edited Chemical Reviews, a journal his father edited from its inception in 1924 to 1926. From 1950 to 1962 he edited the Journal of the American Chemical Society, as did his father from 1902 to 1917, and from 1952 to 1964 the Journal of Physical Chemistry. Noyes also served on numerous governance committees for the society. In 1947 he was elected president of the society, an office his father held in 1920.
Noyes's distinguished career in the academic world was matched by an equally distinguished career as a spokesman, consultant, and adviser on scientific and technical matters to national and international agencies. From 1940 to 1946 he was employed by the federal government, first as section chairman (1941 - 1942), then as a staff member (1942 - 1946), of the National Defense Research Committee. He also joined the staff of the Technical Division of the army's Chemical Warfare Service (1942 - 1947). In this capacity he was primarily concerned with the development of protective measures in the event of gas warfare. Following the war, Noyes served as chairman of the Chemical Warfare Committee of the Research and Development Board (1948 - 1950). In 1951 he was appointed the chief scientific adviser to the head of the United States Chemical Corps. During this same time period he served as a consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission.
On the international level, Noyes was a delegate to the 1946 London conference that drafted the initial plans for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He was an alternate delegate to a 1948 conference and participated in the educational and technical needs surveys of a number of underdeveloped countries. In September 1951 he was named to the United States National Commission for UNESCO, a commission composed of one hundred prominent leaders in education, science, and the arts that advised the federal government on UNESCO affairs.
He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he was active in the lobbying effort that encouraged Congress to establish the National Science Foundation in 1950.
After Noyes retired from the University of Rochester in 1963, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin on a part-time basis. At the time of his death in Austin he was Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus of Chemistry.
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Noyes married Sabine Onnillon of Paris on June 10, 1921. They had one child.