Frederick gardner cottrell biography of alberta

(b. Oakland, California, 10 Jaunary 1877; d. Berkeley, California, 16 November 1948)

engineering, chemistry.

Cottrell was the son of the Henry and Cynthia Cotrell.

He received a B. S. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1896 and a Ph.D from the University of Leipzip in 1902.

Cottrell was the inventor of electrostatic precipitators for removal of suspended particle from gases.

These devices are widely used for abatement of pollution by smoke from power plants and dust from cement kinds and other industrial sources. In 1912 he founded the Research Corporation, a nonprofit foundation for the advancement of science.

Frederick gardner cottrell biography of alberta

Patents for the precipitators were assigned to the corporation as an endowment. Cottrell also arranged for the Research Corporation to secure and develop patents for inventors. About 750 patents have been obtained under this arrangement, with assignment of all or a part of the royalties to the corporation.

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