Victor Kuhn LaMer or La Mer (1895 – 1966) was an American chemist and academic who was a professor at Columbia University.
[3] Over the next two years, he did a number of jobs, which include a high school teacher, a student at the University of Chicago, and a research chemist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
[3][7] In 1931, LaMer took a sabbatical and went to Stanford University, to be a visiting professor during the spring quarter directing courses in physical chemistry and catalysis.
[8][9] During World War II, he was a member of the National Defense Research Council, and afterwards, was a consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission.
[7] During the war, he invented an aerosol-generator fog spray machine for the Army and Navy that killed malaria bearing mosquitoes with DDT within a half mile radius.
[7] In June 1959, he went to Australia on a Fulbright lectureship, where he was lecturing in Physical Chemistry at the CSIRO Chemical Research Laboratories in Melbourne.