William B. Wiegand (February 17, 1889 – August 18, 1976)[1][2] was a Canadian-born research chemist and later a chemicals industry executive. He was vice president of Columbian Carbon Co., known for his pioneering work on carbon black technology. Wiegand developed a type of heat engine, the rubber pendulum, based on the Gough-Joule effect.[3] Later in his career, he studied carbon black's reinforcing effect on rubber, and proposed that the effect arises due to forces acting at the interface between the carbon black and the surrounding elastomer matrix. He was a pioneer in developing the furnace method for producing carbon black.[4] Wiegand was the 1923 ACS Rubber Division chair.[5] He received the Colwyn medal in 1956[6] and the Charles Goodyear Medal in 1960.[7]

Wiegand was born in Conestogo, Ontario, Canada on February 17, 1889. He died in Bernardston, Massachusetts on August 18, 1976, at the age of 87.[8]


References

  1. ^ "Wiegand Featured In Science Article". The Recorder. 22 April 1971. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ "U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014". Ancestry. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ^ Wiegand, W. B.; Snyder, J. W. (1935). "The rubber pendulum, the Joule effect, and the dynamic stress-strain curve". Rubber Chemistry and Technology. 8 (2): 151–173. doi:10.5254/1.3539424.
  4. ^ "Goodyear Award to William B. Wiegand". Chem. Eng. News. 38 (20): 91–97. 1960. doi:10.1021/cen-v038n020.p091.
  5. ^ "Past Rubber Division Chairs". Rubber.Org. Retrieved 6 Sep 2014.
  6. ^ "Colwyn Medal award winners". iom3. IOM3. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Interview with William B. Weigand". summitmemory.org. Akron-Summit County Public Library. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  8. ^ "Dr. Wiegand, philanthropist, dies at 87". The Recorder. 19 August 1976. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
Categories