Walter Frank Rittman
American chemical engineer
About Walter Frank Rittman
Lived 1883 – 1954 (aged 70). Walter Frank Rittman was a chemical engineer.
Walter Frank Rittman (December 2, 1883 – September 26, 1954) was an American chemical engineer with the United States Bureau of Mines.
Biography He was born in Sandusky, Ohio, on December 2, 1883, to Louisa and Christ Rittman. He attended Sandusky High School then Ohio Northern University. He received a master's degree from Swarthmore College in 1909 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. In 1915 he invented a process which increased the amount of gasoline distilled from crude oil. He died on September 26, 1954, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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American chemical engineer (1883-1954)
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