Julius arthur nieuwland biography sample
This essay will focus on the founder of The American Midland Naturalist, and the first editor, Reverend Julius A. Nieuwland, C.S.C.....
Julius Nieuwland
Belgian-born Holy Cross priest and professor of chemistry and botany
Julius Aloysius Arthur Nieuwland, CSC, (14 February 1878 – 11 June 1936) was a Belgian-born Holy Crosspriest and professor of chemistry and botany at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
He is known for his contributions to acetylene research and its use as the basis for one type of synthetic rubber, which eventually led to the invention of neoprene by DuPont.
Life and work
Nieuwland's parents emigrated from Hansbeke, Belgium in 1880 to South Bend, Indiana.
On February 14, , in the town of Hansbeke, Belgium, a child named Julius Arthur Nieuwland is born.
As a young man, Nieuwland enrolled at the University of Notre Dame, where he studied Latin and Greek and received his undergraduate degree in 1899. He soon after began studies for the priesthood. Ordained in 1903, Nieuwland attended graduate school at The Catholic University of America, where he studied botany and chemistry.
During his doctoral studies into the chemistry of acetylene, he discovered the chemical compound lewi