Chemical Genealogy

W. Albert Noyes Jr. (1)
Paris, 1920
UT: 1963-80†

Henri Le Chatelier
École des Mines, 1873

Henri E. S-C. Deville
Paris, 1843 (MD)

Jean Dumas (2)
Paris, 1832

Augustin LeRoyer
Geneva, date unknown

Pierre Tingry
Paris, 1770

Guillaume F. Rouelle
Paris, 1725

Noyes was mustered out of the U.S. Army in Paris after Armistice in 1918 and studied under Le Chatelier at the Sorbonne; but he left before actually taking his doctorate. His early career included teaching positions at Berkeley (where he studied with Gibson and Lewis), Chicago, and Brown. Then he went to the University of Rochester, where he built the chemistry department into a research powerhouse after 1938. On leave during World War II, Noyes was involved in the Alsos Mission during the liberation of Paris in 1944, and interviewed French scientists to assess the German nuclear program. After retiring from Rochester in 1963 he came to UT and set up a vigorous research program in photochemistry, while teaching freshman chemistry and actively recruiting top talent to Austin. He retired again in 1973 with Emeritus status and died in 1980. A Victorian in the Twentieth Century : Memoirs of W. Albert Noyes Jr. (Austin, Dept. of Chemistry, 1976); UT Austin Memorial Resolution
Dumas also studied with Charles G. De la Rive (Edinburgh, 1797)