Elliot Quincy Adams, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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scientist
Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1888
Date of Death: 12-Mar-1971
Profession: chemist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Elliot Quincy Adams
- Elliot Quincy Adams (September 13, 1888 – March 12, 1971) was an American scientist.
- Chemist Gilbert N.
- Lewis remarked that "the two most profound scientific minds, among the people he had known, were those of E[lliot] Q Adams and Albert Einstein."Adams was the son of Edward Perkins and Etta Medora (Elliot) Adams, and a descendant of John Adams, circa 1650 from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- He graduated from Medford High School in Medford, Massachusetts, and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying chemical engineering under Gilbert N.
- Lewis (1875–1946), and in 1909 earned his bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering.
- After graduation, Adams took a position with the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York, where he worked with Irving Langmuir on problems dealing with heat transfer.
- In 1912 Adams supplied the simple mathematical formula that is used to describe the conduction-convection loss from an incandescent filament operated in a gaseous atmosphere, and in the same year moved to Berkeley, California, for doctoral studies at the University of California.
- In 1914 he earned his Ph.D.under the direction of Gilbert N.
- Lewis. In 1917 Adams moved to Washington, D.
- C., to perform research in the Color Laboratory in the U.S.
- Department of Agriculture.
- From 1921-1949, when he retired, he worked for General Electric at Nela Park, East Cleveland, Ohio.
- He made a seminal contribution to color science in his 1942 paper, "X-Z planes in the 1931 I.C.I.
- system of colorimetry." In this paper, he provides two models for perceptually uniform color spaces.
- One, which he termed "chromatic value," was the precursor of the modern CIELAB uniform color space; the other, which he termed "chromatic valence," was the direct ancestor of the Hunter Lab color space, and provided the elements of today's CIELUV.
- This paper showed how relatively simple transformations from XYZ of Munsell colors can have relatively uniform spacing of hue and chroma. Adams was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Mineralogical Society of America, and the Illuminating Engineering Society.
- In 1941 he was presented the Silver Beaver Award by the Boy Scouts of America.
- Perhaps his best recognized effort was the book, coauthored with W.
- E.
- Forsythe, titled Fluorescent and Other Gaseous Discharge Lamps.
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