Charles Benjamin Dudley

Charles Benjamin Dudley (born July 14, 1842, Oxford, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 21, 1909, Altoona, Pa.) was an American chemical engineer who helped found the science of materials testing. Entering Yale College in 1867, Dudley worked his way through school as a night editor on the New Haven Palladium and eventually earned his Ph.D. from the Sheffield Scientific School, as well as election to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1875 he was appointed chemist to the Pennsylvania...