Jerome Alexander (1876–1959) was an American chemist, a leading expert on

colloid A colloid is a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance. Some definitions specify that the particles must be dispersed in a liquid, while others exte ...

al chemistry and among the first American researchers to use an

ultramicroscope An ultramicroscope is a microscope with a system that lights the object in a way that allows viewing of tiny particles via light scattering, and not light reflection or absorption. When the diameter of a particle is below or near the wavelength ...

Life

Alexander was born in

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on 21 December 1876 and studied at the College of the City of New York, graduating Master of Science in 1899. After working for a number of companies, in 1921 he set up independently as a consulting chemist and

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. Alexander died on 18 January 1959. The archive of his correspondence is held by the

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Publications

As author

;Books * ''Colloid Chemistry: An Introduction, with Some Practical Applications'' (1919) * with others, ''Colloid Chemistry, Theoretical and Applied'' (1926) ;Articles * "Glue and Gelatin" and "Colloid Chemistry" in Roger's ''Industrial Chemistry'' (1912) * "Albuminoids or Scleroproteins" in Allen's ''Commercial Organic Analysis'' (1913) * "Colloid Chemistry" in Liddell's ''Handbook for Chemical Engineers'' (1920)

As translator

Richard Zsigmondy Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (; 1 April 1865 – 23 September 1929) was an Austrian-born chemist. He was known for his research in colloids, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925, as well as for co-inventing the slit-ultramicr ...

, ''Colloids and the Ultramicroscope'' (1909)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, Jerome 1876 births 1959 deaths American chemists Scientists from New York City Chemists from New York (state)