Not a MyNAP member yet? Register for a free account to start saving and receiving special member only perks. His early professional years coincided with the establishment of physical chemistry as an important division of science.
He established bridges from science to engineering, from both of these fields to industrial research, and from all of these to the creation of an American industry of scientific instruments.
Further, he established early a center for low-temperature research in the United States. Keenan of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, has been used in the design and operation of steam generating power plants worldwide. Keyes was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on June 24, In his early childhood he received private instruction from his parents, and he rejected entering high school; he preferred spending his pre-college years in experimentation in his home.
His formal education was begun in college where he received a B. Keyes's doctoral thesis was in organic chemistry, but he also studied physical chemical research on bacterial metabolism. After leaving Brown University he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a postdoctoral research appointment with Professor L. Gillespie and then, after one year, with Professor A. Noyes, who was then the dean of American physical chemists.
Noyes and Charles A. Kraus developed quartz-glass electric seals for mercury vapor lamps, and Keyes was employed as chief engineer for the Cooper-Yewett Electric Company during the years β Keyes began research on the measurements for equations of state of gases and liquids, that is, pressure-volume-temperature relations.
