Thomas Midgley, Jr. ( May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944 ) was an American mechanical engineer and chemist.

Over the course of his career, Midgley was granted over a hundred patents.

Midgley was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, to a father who was also an inventor.

Kettering was elected as president, and Midgley was vice president.

Midgley himself was careful to avoid mentioning to the press that he required nearly a year to recover from the lead poisoning brought on by his demonstration at the press conference.

Midgley was relieved of his position as vice president of GMCC in April 1925, reportedly due to his inexperience in organizational matters, but he remained an employee of General Motors.

In 1941, the American Chemical Society gave Midgley its highest award, the Priestley Medal, This was followed by the Willard Gibbs Award in 1942.

In his effort to ensure that lead was removed from gasoline ( petroleum ), Patterson fought against the lobbying power of the Ethyl Corporation ( which employed Kehoe ), against the legacy of Thomas Midgley — which included tetra-ethyl lead and chlorofluorocarbons ) — and against the lead additive industry as a whole.

When Professor Bruce Dickins succeeded as Honorary Director the Society moved to the University of Cambridge and Miss Margaret Midgley ( later Dr Margaret Gelling ) was appointed Research Assistant.

Contrary to previous reports, Midgley also dismissed claims that her will dictated that her fortune was to go to charity.

Thomas Midgley ( who held a PhD and was the inventor of tetraethyl lead and halogenated hydrocarbon refrigerants ) said of trial and error, " the trick is to turn a wild goose chase into a fox hunt " ( quoted in Hughes 2004 ).

It was written by Giles Cooper, directed by Robin Midgley, and starred Douglas Wilmer as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Watson.

Thomas Midgley ( born 1860, date of death unknown ) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward.

He represented the club in many of the early friendly matches, but by the time the Football League was formed in 1888, Midgley was nearing the end of his career as a footballer.

Kilcline was not cautioned by referee Neil Midgley but had to be replaced by substitute Graham Rodger just a minute before then end of normal time due to the injury he himself sustained in the clash.

The cobbled packhorse trail which runs through the village, down Old Lane from Midgley, crossing the river and on up Halifax Lane to Warley, was once the equivalent of the modern day M62, providing a major goods route through the Pennines when the main mode of transport was packhorses.

Kettering, the vice president of General Motors Research Corporation at that time, assembled a team that included Midgley and Albert L. Henne to develop such a compound.

CFCs were invented by Thomas Midgley, Jr. in the 1920s.

Another criticism of the book, made by the philosopher Mary Midgley in her book Evolution as a Religion, is that it discusses philosophical and moral questions that go beyond the biological arguments that Dawkins makes.

Oil companies and automobile manufacturers, especially General Motors which owned the patent jointly filed by Kettering and Midgley, promoted the TEL additive as a superior alternative to ethanol or ethanol-blended fuels, on which they could make very little profit.

Directed for television by Robin Midgley and Michael Hayes, the plays were presented as more than simply filmed theatre.

* A Light in the Darkness: a History of the Minnesota Baptist Association, by John Ballentine & Wellie Midgley

Explained by Midgley, globalization can be found to harm local economies, undermine the sovereignty of governments, and create instances of unemployment and poverty in various parts of the world.

* The Golden Cockerel Press founded by Harold Midgley Taylor in 1920.

rightSomeone Like You is a musical with a book by Robin Midgley and Fay Weldon, lyrics by Dee Shipman, and music by Petula Clark.

Directed by Midgley, the musical premiered on October 25, 1989 at the Cambridge Arts Theatre in Cambridge, and in his review in the Cambridge Evening News, Alan Kersey wrote, " Petula Clark proved last night at the world premiere of Someone Like You that she can still work wonders both on stage and in the tough real world of show business.

Flints, not native to West Yorkshire, have been found on Blackstone and Midgley Moors-implying movement of peoples and long distance trade by this period at the latest.

Among the philosophers mentioned by name are historical figures such as Aristotle, Porphyry, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes and Jeremy Bentham, as well as contemporary figures such as Mary Midgley, Tom Regan and Thomas Nagel.

Part of the debate has focused on similarities between ideas expressed by Coetzee ’ s protagonist and the philosophy of Mary Midgley.

Translated by Nick Midgley, Henry Somers-Hall, Alistair Welchman, and Merten Reglitz, London, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4411-1384-9.

The practice of tsujigiri has been cited in the philosophical debate over moral relativism, notably by Mary Midgley in her 1989 work Can't We Make Moral Judgements ?.

Graham Hobbs & Charles Midgley, Pages from the Life of Dmitri Shostakovich ( New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980 ).

PCs Peter Donald Barrett and David Charles Midgley, along with spectators Michael William Bland and Timothy Peter Leigh received the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct.

However philosophers such as Mary Midgley suggest that the concept of " matter " is elusive and poorly defined.

Philosopher Mary Midgley, among others, argues that materialism is a self-refuting idea, at least in its eliminative form.

* 1889 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American engineer and chemist ( d. 1944 )

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* May 18 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and inventor ( d. 1944 )

Environmental historian J. R. McNeil says that Midgley had a greater impact on the environment than any other single organism in world history.

Midgley began working at General Motors in 1916.

In December 1921, while working under the direction of Kettering at Dayton Research Laboratories, a subsidiary of General Motors, Midgley discovered that the addition of TEL to gasoline prevented " knocking " in internal combustion engines.

In 1923, Midgley took a prolonged vacation to cure himself of lead poisoning.

On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL.

According to Deborah Blum in The Poisoner's Handbook ( p. 123 ), Midgley sought treatment for lead poisoning in Europe a few months after his demonstration at the press conference.