Frederick George Keyes (June 24, 1885 – April 14, 1976) was an American physical chemist. Keyes was most notable for inventing a method to sterilize milk using ultraviolet rays, and discovering that ultraviolet rays kill germs. According to the National Academies Press, Keyes was also notable for "advances in thermodynamics, equations of state of gases, and thermodynamic properties, in particular liquid water and steam". Keyes was Head of the Department of Chemistry at MIT, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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24 June 1919
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14 April 1985 (aged 65)
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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