Elizabeth Pillion


Mary Elizabeth Lynch Pillion was an American chemist with the United States Army from the late 1940s into the 1970s.

Early life

Elizabeth Lynch was from Lawrence, Massachusetts, the daughter of Michael Francis Lynch and Abigail F. Scott Lynch.

Career

Pillion was a chemist at the United States Army's Quartermaster Research and Engineering Command in Natick, Massachusetts. Much of her work involved studying storage and cleaning methods for feeding and hydration systems in extreme environments. In 1962 she received the Research Directors' Award for her work on a spectrophotometric correction technique for identifying ingredients in disinfectants and other solutions.
Pillion's research was published in scholarly journals including Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Chromatographic Science, ''Military Medicine, and Applied Microbiology''.

Selected publications

  • "Military individual and small group water disinfecting systems: an assessment"
  • "Prevention of Food Residue Spoilage in Waste Packaging from Feeding Systems Utilized by Personnel Operating in a Closed Gaseous Environment Requirement Number AF 4-12"
  • "Resistance of Weathered Cotton Cellulose to Cellulase Action"
  • "Long-term Storage Study of Disinfectant, Germicidal, and Fungicidal"
  • "Gas Chromatography of Phenylphenols and Chlorophenylphenols on a Silicone Nitrile Column"
  • "Absorptivity Correction in Multicomponent Spectrophotometric Analysis"
  • "Effects of Local Cooling on Finger Blood Flow in Individuals Exposed to Warm Ambient Temperature"
  • "The Inhibition of Frostbite Wheals by the Iontophoresis of Antihistaminic Agents"
  • "Peripheral vascular effects produced by localized warming of various skin areas"
  • "The Effects of Various Amino Acids on Peripheral Blood Flow and Skin Temperature"
  • "Changes in skin temperature and blood flow of hand following ingestion of certain amino acids"
  • "Control of Peripheral Blood Flow: Responses in the Human Hand when Extremities are Warmed"

Personal life

Elizabeth Lynch was married to John William Pillion, an Army physician. She lived in Andover, Massachusetts. She died in 1990, in Methuen, Massachusetts.