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Eugène Jules Houdry (Domont, April 18, 1892 - Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1962) was a French, later naturalised American, mechanical engineer (graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers in 1911) who invented catalytic cracking of petroleum feed stocks.〔Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries Page 336 Rodney P. Carlisle - 2004 "Eugène Houdry, a French engineer, examined a process developed by E.A. Proudhomme, a pharmacist from Nice, to make gasoline from coal. Houdry established a laboratory and worked with Proudhomme to perfect the method and to study catalysts ..."〕 ==Life== Born near Paris, France, on April 18, 1892, Eugene Houdry was the son of a wealthy steel manufacturer. He studied mechanical engineering at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Chalons-sur-Marne. He graduated in 1911, earning the French government's gold medal for the highest scholastic achievement in his class. He was captain of his school's soccer team, which won the championship of France that same year. Houdry joined his father's business, but left for military training right before the outbreak of World War I. He served in the French army as a lieutenant in the tank corps and in 1917 was seriously wounded in the battle of Juvincourt, winning the Croix de Guerre for his actions and later becoming a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Houdry had served as a lieutenant in a tank company in the French Army during World War One. He was awarded the Howard N. Potts Medal in 1948 and the French Legion of Honour. After the war, Houdry rejoined his father at Houdry et Fils, but by 1922 was making his way in the field of catalytic processes for the conversion of coal and lignite to gasoline. His interest in high-octane gasoline was fueled by his avid interest in automobile engines and in road racing, where he competed in a Bugatti racing car. 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「Eugene Houdry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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