Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

James M. Crafts (1839 - 1917)

Cornell Faculty 1867 - 1870
Organic Chemistry

Education
SB, Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard University, 1858
LLD (honorary), Harvard University, 1898

Honors
National Academy of Sciences, 1872
Jecker Prize, Paris Academy of Science, 1885
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1897-1900

Biographies
James Mason Crafts, by Charles F. Wilcox, May 2004

Academic Geneaology
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/index.htm (Sept 24, 2004)

James Mason Crafts (1839-1917) ((none), Heidelberg)
Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884) (PhD 1843, Strasbourg)
Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas (1800-1884) ((none) 1823, Geneva)
Louis Jacques Thenard (1777-1857) (MA 1797, Paris)
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829) (MA 1790, Paris)
Antoine Francois de Fourcroy (1755-1809) (MD 1780, Paris)
Jean Baptiste Michel Bucquet (1746-1780) (MD 1770, Paris)
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) (LLB 1758, Paris)
Guillaume Francois Rouelle (1703-1770) (Apothecary 1725, Paris)

Selected Publications (not at Cornell)

Crafts, J. M.. Vapor pressure of water between 40 and 100 Deg Journal de Chimie Physique et de Physico-Chimie Biologique (1915), 13 105-61.

Crafts, J. M.. Comparison of vapor tensions. Compt. rend. (1914), 157 1403-5.

Crafts, J. M.. Fixed Points of the Thermometer between 100 Deg and 400 Deg; Vapor Tensions of Naphthalene, Water and Benzophenone. Journal de Chimie Physique et de Physico-Chimie Biologique (1913), 11 429-77.

Crafts, J. M.. Catalysis of Sulphonic Acids. Bull. soc. chim. (1908), 1(4), 917-29.

Crafts, J. M.. Catalysis in concentrated solutions. Journal of the American Chemical Society (1901), 23(4), 236-49.