Raymond M. Fuoss papers

Raymond Matthew Fuoss was born in Bellwood, Pennsylvania on September 28, 1905. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1925 and received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Brown University in 1932, in the course of which he did research in Germany and England. His thesis was on the behavior of electrolytes in non-aqueous solvents. Between 1932 and 1945 he worked for various corporations in the field of science and technology. In 1945 Fuoss joined the faculty of the Yale chemistry department. Shortly thereafter he was named Sterling Professor of Chemistry, which he remained until his retirement in 1974. In the course of his career he wrote many articles on a wide range of subjects in journals of chemistry. His main interests were dielectrics, electrolytes, and polymers, and he was the world's leading authority on electrolyte conductance. He was interested in linguistics and fluent in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Russian, and French. Fuoss married twice. He had one daughter, Pat, from his first marriage. Fuoss died in 1986.