He was Universal Oil Products' first chemist and by 1917 became their director, serving in that capacity until death.
He holds the record for one of the longest answers to a question in a courtroom in relation to a lawsuit in St. Louis regarding one of his patents.
[3] This is a means of creating gasoline artificially rather than pumping it out of the ground in a "natural" form, and is a forerunner to fracking.
In 1940 he received the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal and the National Research Council gave him a distinguished service award in 1941.
[4] In 1954, he won the Carl Engler Medal [de] for petroleum research and refinery technology.