J. L. Bray papers
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 14, Placement: 09
Identifier: MSF 15
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one folder with 5 articles written by J. L. Bray.
Dates
- 1936 - 1951
Language of Materials
Content material is in English.
Access Information
This collection is open for research.
Copyright and Use Information
Copyright held by Purdue University.
Biographical Information
John Leighton Bray was the second faculty member and second Head of the
School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Bray was born in Milbridge, Maine on August 11, 1890, and died on December 6, 1952.
He was educated at MIT where he received his B.S. in 1912 and his Sc.D. in 1930 working with Prof. R.C. Williams in the Metallurgical Engineering (now Materials Science) Department.
Upon graduation with the B.S. degree he spent five years as a mining engineer in
British Columbia, Canada and in Oregon and New York. From 1917 to 1918 he
was a major of ordnance in the Army Corps of Engineers. In 1918 he went to
Tegucigalpa, Honduras where he was superintendent of construction and
operations for Rosario Mining Co., and then served a year as professor of
metallurgy at the Nova Scotia Technical College in Halifax, Canada. From 1921 to
1923 he was metallurgist for the U.S. Tariff Commission at Washington and in 1923
he joined Purdue. He took a leave of absence in 1929 to complete his Ph.D.,
and returned to Purdue in 1930. He became Head in 1935 and stayed in
this position for twelve years.
Bray was active in various societies including AIChE, AIME, Society for
Metals, ACS, Electrochemical Society, Institute of Metals and ASEE. He was
also a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi and Omega Chi Epsilon. An active
researcher and prolific writer he wrote more than 90 publications and
several books. Early in his career he contributed the Textbook of Ore
Dressing (1925), Principles of Metallurgy (1929) and German Grammar for
Chemists (1938). His most impressive textbook output came in the 1940's
when he wrote the classic Non-Ferrous Production Metallurgy (1941) and
Ferrous Production Metallurgy (1948). These two books were used for many
years as standard textbooks.
Source:
Peppas, Nicholas, and Ronald Harland. "History of the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University." West Lafayette, Indiana: School of Chemical Engineering, 1986.
Extent
0.025 Cubic Feet (One folder)
Arrangement
The materials are arranged chronologically.Chronological
Processing Information
Material has been placed into acid-free folder and box.
- Title
- J. L. Bray papers
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Amanda Rumba and Archives Staff
- Date
- 2020-04-01
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Edition statement
- Second edition. Collection description first completed 2009-01-07 by Archives Staff.
Revision Statements
- 2020-04-01: Collection description updated by Amanda Rumba to more fully meet standards.
Repository Details
Part of the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Repository
Contact:
504 W. State Street
West Lafayette Indiana 47907 United States
765-494-2839
archives@purdue.edu
504 W. State Street
West Lafayette Indiana 47907 United States
765-494-2839
archives@purdue.edu