1. Murray Raney was an American mechanical engineer born in Carrollton, Kentucky.
11 Facts About Murray Raney
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Murray Raney was the developer of a nickel catalyst that became known as Raney nickel, which is often used in industrial processes and scientific research for the hydrogenation of multiple covalent bonds present in molecules.
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Murray Raney was assigned to work as an assistant manager in the production of hydrogen used in the hydrogenation of vegetable oils.
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Murray Raney left Lookout Oil in 1925 to take a sales manager position at Gilman Paint and Varnish Co.
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Murray Raney then started to dedicate full-time to the production of his catalysts.
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Murray Raney was twice married, first on June 12,1920, to Katherine Elizabeth Macrae, with whom he had one daughter.
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Murray Raney was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1951.
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Murray Raney was member of the American Chemical Society and the American Oil Chemists' Society.
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Murray Raney was granted a total of six American and five European patents for the development of his catalysts and metallurgical processes needed for their preparation.
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Murray Raney was granted a US patent for this discovery in 1925.
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In 1926 Murray Raney produced a nickel-aluminium alloy, in a 1:1 ratio, following a procedure similar to the one used for the nickel-silicon alloy, and he found that the resulting catalyst was even more active than the previous one.