James Flack Norris

[1][2] After graduating in 1892, Norris remained at the university to work as a fellow until 1895, when he was awarded his Ph.D. and became an academic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

[2][4] During World War I, Norris served as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service and commanded their operations in England.

After the armistice, he led investigation of war gas manufacturing in German chemical plants until his release from active duty in 1919.

[2] Outside of his work as an academic, Norris served as president of the American Chemical Society from 1925 to 1926 and as vice-president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) from 1925 to 1928.

[2][5] Norris died in the Phillips House at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston late in the evening of August 3, 1940.