George T. Felbeck, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeorge T. Felbeck
American chemical engineer
Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1897
Date of Death: 01-Mar-1962
Profession: engineer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About George T. Felbeck
- George Theodore Felbeck (February 1, 1897 - March 1, 1962) was an American businessman who was born in Salina, Kansas, United States to Lewis and Matilda Felbeck.
- He married Helen Mildred née Kniseley on November 5, 1919.He was a graduate of the University of Illinois where he received his B.S.M.E.
- degree in 1919 and his M.S.M.E.
- degree in 1921.
- He left college in 1918 to serve in the infantry of the U.S.
- Army.
- While at Illinois he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.
- He received his Ph.D.
- in physical chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1943.He became a research assistant for Union Carbide in 1923, then headed its plant in Buffalo, New York.
- He then moved to New York City in 1925 to serve as an engineer for Union Carbide.
- He served at Oak Ridge, Tennessee from 1942 to 1946 in the Manhattan Project as a chemical and nuclear engineer, under the command of Kenneth Nichols.
- In 1944 he was appointed president of Union Carbide and served until he retired in February 1962.He and Helen had four children, Dr.
- George T.
- Felbeck, Jr., Dr.
- David K.
- Felbeck, Richard B.
- Felbeck, and Karen H.
- Canaday.Felbeck was one of 95 passengers who died on the American Airlines Flight 1 crash on March 1, 1962.
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