Marston T. Bogert


Marston Taylor Bogert was an American chemist.

Biography

He was born in Flushing, New York on April 18, 1868 and studied at the Flushing Institute, which was a well known private school, where he was a straight-A student.
He entered Columbia College in New York in 1886 and graduated in 1890 with an A.B. degree. He entered the new Columbia School of Mines and gained a PhD in 1894. He stayed on to teach organic chemistry and in 1904 was appointed a full professor, retiring in 1939 as Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry in Residence.
In 1893 he married Charlotte Hoogland.
He was President of the American Chemical Society 1907-8 and President of the Society of Chemical Industry in 1912.
During the First World War he served as a colonel in the US Chemical Warfare Service, and in the Second World War served on the Chemical Industry Branch of the War Production Board.
He died in New York City on March 21, 1954.

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