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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wells, Horace Lemuel

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Edition of 1920. See also Horace Lemuel Wells on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.

1785693The Encyclopedia Americana — Wells, Horace Lemuel

WELLS, Horace Lemuel, American chemist: b. New Britain, Conn., 5 Oct. 1855. He was graduated at the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, in 1877. He became a member of the faculty at Yale in 1884, and since 1894 he has been professor of analytical chemistry and metallurgy there. He has made numerous original investigations in inorganic chemistry, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1903. Author of ‘Studies from the Chemical Laboratory of the Sheffield Scientific School’ (1901); ‘Chemical Calculation,’ (1903); ‘Textbook of Chemical Arithmetic’ (1905), etc.