Wendell E. Dunn, JR. (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wendell Earl Dunn, Jr. (born August 30, 1922, Baltimore, Maryland, died December 24, 2007 (aged 85), Tucson, Arizona) was a chemical engineer, metallurgist, and inventor. His technologies for high temperature chlorination, gold extraction, tantalum and titanium extraction are still widely used.Dunn was the first son of educator Wendell E. Dunn, for many years principal of Forest Park High School in Baltimore, and brother of conductor Thomas Dunn. A graduate of Baltimore City College and Johns Hopkins University, Dunn was also awarded a doctorate in chemical engineering from Johns Hopkins. After completing the Harvard/MIT V12 program in 1944, he was engaged in aircraft terrain avoidance radar research in both the U.S. and Occupied Germany. Dunn served as captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps until 1946.