Morris Cohen (chemist)
Morris Cohen was a Canadian chemist working for the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. He contributed to the sciences of corrosion and of oxidation of metals.
Life and work[edit]
Morris Cohen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1915.[1] He attended Brandon University in Manitoba and graduated with a B.A. degree in 1934.[1] He received his PhD on the topic of "Absorption Measurements by Direct Weighing" from the University of Toronto in 1939. After working as a chemist at a battery manufacturing plant, he became an employee of the National Research Council of Canada in 1943.[2][1] Beginning in 1946, he was head of the corrosion section.[2][3] Cohen also worked as visiting researcher the corrosion laboratory of Ulick R. Evans in Cambridge.[4]
During the long period as active researcher from the mid 1940s[5] to 1980,[6] Cohen published more than 100 papers.[7] 57 of them are presently indexed in the Scopus database; his present Scopus h-index is 30.[8]
His research covers corrosion, e.g. of iron or steel, high temperature oxidation, e.g. of iron or nickel, and corrosion inhibition.[9][10][8]
Cohen received the Willis Rodney Whitney Award, the Western's world's top award for outstanding scientific achievement in the field of corrosion, in 1960.[3][11] In 1973, Cohen received the Outstanding Achievement Award (the later H. H. Uhlig Award[12]) of the Corrosion Division of The Electrochemical Society.[13] 1983, he was awarded the Olin Palladium Award of the Electrochemical Society. In 1991, the Corrosion Division of the Electrochemical Society established the “Corrosion Division Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award” in honor of his scientific contributions.[7]
Prof. Norio Sato, who became a corrosion scientist in Japan, worked with Cohen from 1961 to 1962.[14]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Willis Rodney Whiting Award: Dr. Morris Cohen" (PDF). Nature (4709): 285. January 30, 1960. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ^ a b Caplan, Donald; Cohen, Morris (1959). "High Temperature Oxidation of Chromium-Nickel Steels". Corrosion. 15 (3): 57–62. doi:10.5006/0010-9312-15.3.57. ISSN 0010-9312.
- ^ a b "Study Wins Top Award". The Windsor Star. 5 January 1960. p. 10.
- ^ Cohen, M. (April 1952). "An Electron Diffraction Study of Films Formed by Sodium Nitrite Solution on Iron". The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 56 (4): 451–453. doi:10.1021/j150496a009. ISSN 0022-3654.
- ^ Cohen, Morris (1945). "An Apparatus for Measuring Corrosion". Transactions of the Electrochemical Society. 87 (1): 255. doi:10.1149/1.3071642.
- ^ Friend, W. Z.; Cohen, Morris (1980-08-01). "Corrosion of Nickel and Nickel‐Base Alloys". Journal of the Electrochemical Society. 127 (8): 421C. Bibcode:1980JElS..127..421F. doi:10.1149/1.2130025. ISSN 0013-4651.
- ^ a b "Corrosion Division Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award". The Electrochemical Society ECS. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ^ a b "Scopus preview – Scopus – Author details (Cohen, Morris)". www.scopus.com. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ^ Cohen, Morris (1946). "Sodium Hexametaphosphate as a Corrosion Inhibitor for Ottawa Tap Water". Transactions of the Electrochemical Society. 89 (1): 105. doi:10.1149/1.3071701.
- ^ Pryor, M. J.; Cohen, Morri (1953). "The Inhibition of the Corrosion of Iron by Some Anodic Inhibitors". Journal of the Electrochemical Society. 100 (5): 203. doi:10.1149/1.2781106.
- ^ "Willis Rodney Whitney Award – NACE". www.nace.org. NACE International. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ^ "Corrosion Division H. H. Uhlig Award". The Electrochemical Society ECS. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
- ^ Robert Martin Burns, Ernest G. Enck, A History of the Electrochemical Society 1902-1976, The Electrochemical Society, Princeton 1977, p. 146
- ^ Seo, Masahiro (2018-02-23). "Special issue on Recent advances in corrosion science: celebrating the 90th birthday of Professor Norio Sato". Corrosion Reviews. 36 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1515/corrrev-2017-0125. ISSN 2191-0316. S2CID 139351841.