Frederick G. Keyes

Frederick George Keyes was an American physical chemist.
Keyes was most notable for inventing a method to sterilize milk using ultraviolet rays, and discovering that ultraviolet rays kill germs. According to the National [Academies Press], Keyes was also notable for "advances in thermodynamics, equations of state of gases, and thermodynamic properties, in particular liquid water and steam".
Keyes received a B.Sc. degree from the University of Rhode Island and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Brown University.
Keyes was head of the department of chemistry at MIT, and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American [Academy of Arts and Sciences], and the American Philosophical Society.