About Louis Olney
Lived 1875 – 1949 (aged 73–74). Louis Olney was a chemist and university teacher.
Louis Atwell Olney (1875, Providence, Rhode Island, United States – 1949) was a pioneering textile chemist and educator.
He was the founder and first president of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists which in 1944 established the Olney Medal, in his honor, to recognize outstanding achievements in textile or polymer chemistry or other fields of chemistry of major importance to textile science.
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American chemist
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Louis Olney was born in 1875.
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Louis Olney died in 1949.
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Louis Olney was a chemist and university teacher.
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