Thomas Midgley Jr., American chemist and engineer (died 1944)

Thomas Midgley Jr.

American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)

Thomas Midgley Jr. was an American mechanical and chemical engineer. He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use…