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Elliot Quincy Adams was an American scientist born on September 13, 1888. He was the son of Edward Perkins and Etta Medora (Elliot) Adams from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He married Jane J. Pidgeon, and they had a daughter, Dora. According to Gilbert N. Lewis (1875–1946), known for the discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs, Lewis dot structures and other contributions to valence bond theory, “the two most profound scientific minds, among the people he had known, were those of E[lliot] Q Adams and Albert Einstein. He also mentioned he would not think Adams would do much publishing.” [1] Adams passed away in Cleveland on March 11, 1971, at the age of 82.
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Shamey, R., Kuehni, R.G. (2020). Adams, Elliot Quincy 1888–1971. In: Pioneers of Color Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30811-1_62
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