American chemist born in Champaign, Illinois, noted researcher in molecular diffusion. The son of William Albert Noyes and Katharine Haworth (Macy) Noyes, he entered Harvard University (1935) where he received a B.S./M.S. (1939) and obtained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (1942). He remained at CalTech (1942-1945) working in explosives chemistry, making his contribution to the war effort.
He began his academic career (1946) at Columbia University, where he taught chemistry and expanded his international reputation as a researcher in reaction kinetics and its mechanisms, especially diffusion molecular. He moved to the University of Oregon (1959) to develop the Department of Chemistry, where he became head (1960-1961 / 1963-1964 / 1966-1968 / 1975-1978). He published his first important work: Progress in Reaction Kinetics (1961).
He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (1955), the Fulbright Fellowship (1964), the National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship (1965) and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior American Scientist Award (1978-1979). He also became a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry, and an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1977) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1989).
He has published over 190 scientific articles in professional journals and was Associate Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry (1980-1982). He retired (1984), but continued researching for the UO Department of Chemistry and as an associate member of the Chemical Physics Institute for the next 12 years. Married (1973) to Oregon State University biologist Patricia Harris, retired (1984) and continued to travel with his wife and consulting around the world, but his health began to decline when he had his first stroke (1992) and died five years later.
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