William A. Noyes

William Albert Noyes
BornNovember 6, 1857
near Independence, Iowa, United States
DiedOctober 24, 1941(1941-10-24) (aged 83)
Alma materGrinnell College
Johns Hopkins University
Known forCamphor chemistry
AwardsWillard Gibbs Award (1919)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois
Doctoral advisorIra Remsen
Doctoral studentsCarl Shipp Marvel

William Albert Noyes (November 6, 1857 – October 24, 1941) was an American analytical and organic chemist. He made pioneering determinations of atomic weights, chaired the chemistry department at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign from 1907 to 1926, was the founder and editor of several important chemical journals, and received the American Chemical Society's highest award, the Priestley Medal, in 1935.