H. Smith Broadbent
Hyrum Smith Broadbent (1920–2010) was a professor of chemistry at Brigham Young University (BYU).
Broadbent was born and raised in Snowflake, Arizona.
Broadbent received a bachelors degree from BYU in 1942. He worked at Iowa State University during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project. He received his doctorate at Iowa State in 1946 and then did post-doctoral research at Harvard University. He joined the BYU faculty in 1947. He was a professor at BYU for 38 years. Among other things Broadbent has done studies on the destruction of munitions and on Rhenium. His most cited work was "Rhenium and Its Compounds as Hydrogenation Catalysts. III. Rhenium Heptoxide1" published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry in 1959.
Broadbent was a Latter-day Saint.
BYU has named an annual chemistry lecture series after Broadbent.
Sources[edit]
- BYU Magazine, Spring 2002
- article on Rhenium by Broadbent
- BYU Chemistry Department obituary of Broadbent
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