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Edward Goodrich Acheson (March 9, 1856 – July 6, 1931) was an American chemist.〔Chambers Biographical Dictionary, ISBN 0-550-18022-2, page 6〕 Born in Washington, Pennsylvania, he was the inventor of the Acheson process, which is still used to make Silicon carbide (carborundum)〔(Edward Goodrich Acheson – Carborundum )〕 and later a manufacturer of carborundum and graphite. Thomas Edison put him to work on September 12, 1880 at his Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory under John Kruesi. Acheson experimented on making a conducting carbon that Edison could use in his electric light bulbs. ==Biography== Acheson attended the Bellefonte Academy for three years, 1870–72; this being the totality of his formal education.〔(Bellefonte Academy: Notable Alumni )〕 Acheson began his career as a surveying assistant for the Pittsburgh Southern Railroad. In 1884, Acheson left Edison and became supervisor at a plant competing to manufacture electric lamps. He began working on the development of methods to produce artificial diamond in an electric furnace. After heating a mixture of clay and coke in an iron bowl with a carbon arc light he found shiny, hexagonal crystals (silicon carbide) attached to the carbon electrode. He called it carborundum. In 1891 Acheson built an electricity plant in Port Huron at the suggestion of Edison, and used the electricity to experiment with carborundum. On February 28, 1893, he received a patent on this highly effective abrasive although a 1900 decision gave "priority broadly" to the Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company "for reducing ores and other substances by the incandescent method". Acheson received 70 patents relating to abrasives, graphite products, reduction of oxides, and refractories.He was awarded the first Acheson Award, named in his honour, by the Electrochemical Society in 1931. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Edward Goodrich Acheson Award Recipients ) 〕 He died on July 6, 1931, in New York City. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Goodrich Acheson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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