NU symposium honors chemist Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff who helped win World War II
By Lakshmi Chandrasekaran Chemists Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff and Herman Pines, both immigrants to America, put their brilliant minds to work creating a special aviation fuel, a closely guarded secret that helped the Allied forces win World War II. Ipatieff developed the field of surface catalysis used extensively in refining petroleum by-products into fuel components. Ipatieff […]
