Frederick George Keyes
American physical chemist
About Frederick George Keyes
Lived 1885 – 1976 (aged 90). Frederick George Keyes was a physical chemist.
Frederick George Keyes (June 24, 1885 – April 14, 1976) was an American physical chemist.
Keyes was most notable for inventing a method to sterilize milk using ultraviolet rays, and discovering that ultraviolet rays kill germs. According to the National Academies Press, Keyes was also notable for "advances in thermodynamics, equations of state of gases, and thermodynamic properties, in particular liquid water and steam".
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American physical chemist
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Frederick George Keyes was born on 24 June 1885.
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Frederick George Keyes died on 14 April 1976.
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Frederick George Keyes was a physical chemist.
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