Louis Plack Hammett (April 7, 1894 – February 9, 1987) was an American physical chemist. He is known for the Hammett equation, which relates reaction rates to equilibrium constants for certain classes of organic reactions involving substituted aromatic compounds.
Louis Plack Hammett (April 7, 1894 – February 9, 1987) was an American physical chemist. He is famous for the Hammett equation, which links reaction rates to equilibrium constants for certain types of organic reactions involving substituted aromatic compounds.