William Hultz Walker

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William Hultz Walker (born 1869, date of death unknown) was an American chemist. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and graduated in 1890 at Penn State College and took his Ph.D. at Göttingen (1892). In 1894 he accepted the chair of industrial chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where from 1908 he was also director of the research laboratory of applied chemistry. Walker was vice president of the International Congress of Applied Chemistry in 1893 and president of the American Electrochemical Society in 1910. The New York Section of the American Chemical Society conferred on him its Nichols medal in 1908. As an authority on industrial chemistry he takes high rank; indeed, he contributed largely to the development of that science in the United States.