Holland, W. W. (Willian West), 1881-1956
W. W. Holland papers, 1903-1956.
Collection includes research data, reports, correspondence, and printed material and deals largely with Holland's work on the Gyro process of cracking petroleum to produce gasoline from 1930-34, but materials span the period 1903 to 1956, and the bulk dates from 1930 to 1934. There are letters (1916-1919) from H.N. Morse concerning the patenting, marketing and further development of the feldspar process. There is a diary (1921-1923) of trips Holland took for Standard Oil to test or visit Burton stills in Germany and the United States. Holland also recorded his impressions of the Soviet Union after his trip in 1933. A copy of a scrapbook kept by Holland has some material on his student days at the Johns Hopkins University.
William West Holland attended the University of Virginia and in 1904 entered the Johns Hopkins University. Holland studied physical chemistry and mineralogy receiving his Ph.D. in 1907. Holland joined the Hopkins faculty where he remained until 1916. His research at Hopkins was concerned with osmotic pressure, and in conjunction with Dr. H.N. Morse Holland wrote 25 papers on the subject. This research won the Avogadro Medal awarded in 1912-14 in Turin, Italy for molecular-physical studies. In 1916 Holland and Morse developed a method of converting feldspar to potash, alumina and silica.
Holland, W. W. (Willian West), 1881-1956
Morse, Harmon Northrop, 1848-
Johns Hopkins University
Standard Oil Company
Chemical engineering.
Chemistry, Physical.
Feldspar
Soviet Union
Morse, Harmon Northrop, 1848-
AIP-ICOS
Johns Hopkins University. Special Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower Library. 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA