1. Moses Gomberg was a chemistry professor at the University of Michigan.
10 Facts About Moses Gomberg
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Moses Gomberg was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and served as president of the American Chemical Society.
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Moses Gomberg was born in Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire to a Jewish merchant family.
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Moses Gomberg's father was Hershko Gomberg and his mother was Maryam-Ethel Reznikova.
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Moses Gomberg's thesis, titled "Trimethylxanthine and Some of its Derivatives", dealt with the derivatization of caffeine.
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Dr Moses Gomberg served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1931.
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Moses Gomberg was a mentor to Werner Emmanuel Bachmann who carried on his work and together they discovered the Moses Gomberg-Bachmann reaction.
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Hypothesizing that had combined with molecular oxygen to form the peroxide, Moses Gomberg found that treatment of with sodium peroxide was another means of synthesizing.
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Moses Gomberg postulated that some non-tetravalent carbon structure existed in solution because of the observed activity towards oxygen and the halogens.
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Moses Gomberg never married, living with his sister Sophia in Ann Arbor for his adult life.