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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 4
- 2015 (Winter)
… “Forensic Chemistry in Golden-Age Detective Fiction: Dorothy L. Sayers and the CSI Effect … course, we have to make the subject relevant, and as a teacher of chemistry I did what I could along those lines. But basic chemistry is limited … of chemistry at the University of Cincinnati. You can listen to Jensen’s story…
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Oral history interview with Emmett D. Crawford
- 2011-Oct-06 – 2011-Oct-07
…Did you have any hobbies that you were interested in? Did you have a chemistry kit? CRAWFORD: I did not have a chemistry kit. I …maybe a state test, and I did something similar to that when the chemistry state test came. It was sort of funny because chemistry was one … in chemistry at this point? CRAWFORD: No, I think…I mean, there’…
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Oral history interview with James L. Sherley
- 1998-Nov-20
- 1998-Nov-23
- 1998-Nov-24
… things by where you were living. I had the chemistry set at the house on Goff Street, so that had been somewhere between … do very much. And then a year later, I got my chemistry set. Of course, with my chemistry set, I had the instructions. I … next room and then pretty soon you're getting your chemistry set out on your own and you're trying things-- So the other thing…
- Interviewee Sherley, James L., 1958-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Sherley, James L., 1958-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Cancer--Research, Oncology, African American physicians, Physicians, Scientists, Black
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Oral history interview with Chalmer G. Kirkbride
- 1993-Jul-15
…fascination for it, and I still do. BOHNING: Did you ever have a chemistry set at home? KIRKBRIDE: No, I never did. A lot of chemistry …chemical engineers I ever ran into got their degrees completely in chemistry. One of the fields of chemistry that they studied very carefully was physical chemistry. That's the backbone of chemical engineering. BOHNING: Have…
- Interviewee Kirkbride, Chalmer G., (Chalmer Gatlin), 1906-1998
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Standard Oil Company (Indiana), Pan American Petroleum Corporation, Magnolia Petroleum Company, Sun Oil Company, Houdry Process Corporation, Kirkbride, Chalmer G., (Chalmer Gatlin), 1906-1998, Texas A & M University, Catalytic Construction Company, Chemical engineers
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Oral history interview with Raphael Katzen
- 2000-Oct-20 (First session)
- 2001-Feb-02 (Second session)
…, I took an advanced course in chemistry, qualitative and quantitative analysis, taught by a teacher whose …friendly person. It was unusual for the head of the department of chemistry to insist on teaching freshman chemistry, but he did just that and … At that time, I also sold the Chemical Rubber Company Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (3). When Selma told me she was a chemistry student,…
- Interviewee Katzen, Raphael, 1915-2009
- Interviewer Brock, David C., Thackray, Arnold, 1939-
- Subject Chemical engineering, Othmer, Mildred Topp, 1907-1998, Northwood Chemical Company (Phelps, Wis), Raphael Katzen Associates, Katzen, Raphael, 1915-2009, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Othmer, Donald F. (Donald Frederick), 1904-1995, Chemical engineers, Diamond Alkali Company, Vulcan-Cincinnati, Inc., Raphael Katzen Associates International
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Oral history interview with Robert D. Kennedy
- 1997-Feb-04
…In that five-year program, everybody was required to take a general chemistry course. Then we took organic chemistry and physical chem. I think …air separation business, oxygen, nitrogen, argon—which really is all chemistry, but it’s not polymer chemistry. I had been kind of a group … There was a lot of that in the early days. Then it got more into chemistry; chemistry and polymer chemistry—catalysis. Fred [Frederick J.] …
- Interviewee Kennedy, Robert Delmont, 1932-
- Interviewer Traynham, James G.
- Sponsor Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain). American Section
- Subject Kennedy, Robert Delmont, 1932-, Engineering, Union Carbide Corporation, Switzerland--Geneva, Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster (Bhopal, India : 1984), Linde Air Products Company, Chemical industry, Electro Metallurgical Company, Chemical Manufacturers Association (U.S.), Mechanical engineers
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Oral history interview with Frank J. Rauscher, III
- 1996-Oct-07 – 1996-Oct-09
…, to do chemistry. So I ended up dropping that and things like that, and it was not …courses in both of the summers, full-time. Essentially I took organic chemistry--which are full-time things in the summer—and inorganic chemistry …experience, I know what I want to do now. I'm completely inadequate in chemistry, and if I'm going to solve these problems I need to take more chemistry…
- Interviewee Rauscher, F. J., III (Frank Joseph), 1957-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Rauscher, F. J., III (Frank Joseph), 1957-, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Cancer--Research, Oncogenes, Pharmacology
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Oral history interview with Stewart H. Shuman
- 1993-Sep-13
- 1993-Sep-20
- 1993-Sep-27
- 1993-Oct-04
- 1994-Mar-26
- 1994-Jun-25
- 1994-Jun-28
… SHUMAN: The tenth graders. In tenth grade we took biology and chemistry simultaneously, whereas usually you would take biology, and chemistry …differential equations and multivariable calculus. Which, if you were a chemistry major, you had to take, along with a year's worth of physical chemistry and a year's worth of physical chemistry lab. [END OF TAPE 1, SIDE 2] [END OF INTERVIEW] …
- Interviewee Shuman, Stewart H., 1955-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Shuman, Stewart H., 1955-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Cancer--Research, Oncology, Vaccinia--Research, Catalysis
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 1
- 2018
… …leyales ie BIS1 Keyan — Institute . _ Chemistry - Engineering - Life Sciences At this moment in the Institute's history …tourism and antique violins. KEANIUM OS Tummy Trouble Changing the chemistry of cows’ guts to save the planet. COLLECTIONS OS Old Friends The …
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Oral history interview with Kenneth G. Standing
- 2014-Oct-29
…really. As part of this program in honors math and physics I took some chemistry. I took a couple of courses in chemistry, ending up with a course in organic chemistry. I still have the book up there. GRAYSON: That was— STANDING … GRAYSON: And what department was he in? STANDING: He's in chemistry. GRAYSON: Chemistry. STANDING: He was head of chemistry…
- Interviewee Standing, K.G. (Ken G.)
- Interviewer Grayson, Michael A.
- Sponsor American Society for Mass Spectrometry
- Subject Standing, Kenneth G., 1925-, Mass spectrometry, Nuclear physics, Leptons (Nuclear physics)--Decay, Cyclotrons, Time-of-flight mass spectrometry, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Oral history interview with Herman Fialkov
- 2009-Sep-24 (First session)
- 2009-Nov-23 (Second session)
- 2010-Feb-27 (Third session)
- 2010-Jun-28 (Fourth session)
… second semester of chemistry. I did very poorly on the final exam because the exam covered both …the exam either […]. FIALKOV: Yes. I actually got an “A” in chemistry lab and a “D” on the final exam. So, that’s why I say chemistry …from Bell Labs and RCA. […] I think I told you, I went to my college chemistry textbook, Smith’s College Chemistry, and it said, “We won’t cover…
- Interviewee Fialkov, Herman, 1922-2012
- Interviewer Brock, David C., Ulrych, Richard
- Subject Engineers, General Instrument Corporation, Businesspeople--Biography, Businesspeople, Electronic industries, New business enterprises, Entrepreneurship, Fialkov, Herman, 1922-2012, Engineers--Biography, Rock, Arthur, 1926-, Semiconductors
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Oral history interview with Dimitar B. Nikolov
- 2005-Jul-05 – 2005-Jul-07
…s an inorganic chemist, used to work in the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. My father is …more a biology major, you completely lack the education in physics, chemistry, a lot of chemistry. I took several chemistry, several mathematics …you clone genes and things like that. Basically, labs. If you have a chemistry course and a chemistry lab, you go to the lab and do laboratory exercises…
- Interviewee Nikolov, Dimitar B., 1966-
- Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Nikolov, Dimitar B., 1966-, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, X-ray crystallography, Genetic transcription
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Oral history interview with Alfred T. Malouf
- 1997-Sep-08 – 1997-Sep-09
…us, including myself, thought. So they reclaim those. Actually, his chemistry degree was in metallurgic chemistry, so I guess he was one of the …they actually separate the sciences out into physical and life and chemistry-type courses? MALOUF: They did have a chemistry teacher, but …remember, there really wasn't a big issue in my mind. My brother was in chemistry. I didn't really want to go into chemistry. That wasn't really what…
- Interviewee Malouf, Alfred T., 1953-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Malouf, Alfred T., 1953-, Family-owned business enterprises, Catholic Church, Neurosciences, Tissue culture--Technique, Scripps Research Institute, Physiology, Electrophysiology, Case Western Reserve University, Neurons
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Oral history interview with Roderick MacKinnon
- 1997-Apr-01 – 1997-Apr-03
…know what biochemistry was, I thought, “Well, this is nice.” I liked chemistry, and that's the chemistry of life, and this seems like a good thing …ended up being a biochemistry major. The only difference between a chemistry and a biochemistry major was one physical chemistry laboratory. It …research. MAESTREJUAN: Your wife [Alice Lee MacKinnon] is trained in chemistry and was working in chemistry, at the bench, I'm assuming. MACKINNON…
- Interviewee MacKinnon, Roderick, 1956-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject MacKinnon, Roderick, 1956-, Gymnastics, Biochemistry, Harvard Medical School, Potassium channels, Ion channels, Rockefeller University, Neurosciences, Research grants
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Oral history interview with Whitson Sadler
- 2007-Jun-19
… young boy had a chemistry set. It was different than today. I wish they all had them now. …him down to Corpus Christi, and he said to me, "You have inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry. We feel the wave of the future is biochemistry …changing the name of the Chemical Manufacturers Association to American Chemistry Council. You know, "chemistry" is good, but "chemical" is bad. I …
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Oral history interview with Rudolph E. Tanzi
- 1998-Nov-16 – 1998-Nov-18
- 1998-Nov-24
… of Chemistry]--you know, the big chemistry handbook. And we won, and we each got …get into biochemistry--biology because I wanted to be a doctor and chemistry because I liked chemistry. But at the time, I had no … discipline called biochemistry or biological chemistry that was distinct from the chemistry field? TANZI: Yeah, because…
- Interviewee Tanzi, Rudolph E.
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Tanzi, Rudolph E., Neurobiology, Neurobiologists, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Genetic disorders, Genetics--Research, Alzheimer's disease--Research
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Oral history interview with Markus D. Meister
- 1998-Nov-18
- 1998-Nov-20
- 1998-Nov-28
…reluctant to memorize them all. So I never had a great affinity for chemistry, and in fact I had to take chemistry, of course, when I was a physics …there really had been no formal introduction to biophysics, maybe, or chemistry. As I told you earlier, I avoided chemistry, so I really hadn't had …basic principles is very small compared to what it is in physics and chemistry. But ultimately, of course, biology is physics and chemistry and …
- Interviewee Meister, Markus, 1940-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Meister, Markus, 1940-, Science--Study and teaching, Euratom, Education, Bilingual, Biology, Berg, Howard C., 1934-, Neurosciences, Visual perception, Harvard Medical School
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Oral history interview with John J. Ngai
- 2000-Feb-01 – 2000-Feb-03
…play. Did you do anything? NGAI: Oh, yeah. I had a high school chemistry set. My boyhood friend, Jon Lance, who lived behind us and over a … off; I got a B+ in math and I wound up getting, I think, an A- in chemistry. I remember the first exam was tough, and then I kind of figured …exam, that's my fault as an instructor." That was actually in chemistry as well. I remember we would have these organic chemistry tests, …
- Interviewee Ngai, John J., 1958-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Ngai, John J., 1958-, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Smell, Neurosciences, Rhinencephalon
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Oral history interview with Thomas E. Wilson
- 2008-Feb-12 – 2008-Feb-13
…placement, for example. CARUSO: Right. You’re going to be doing chemistry… WILSON: Yeah. Chemistry, calculus, physics, biology. But …classes, which as a freshman coming in is a big decision. There’s chemistry. You can go the standard, if you will, chemistry route, then there …Cell Biology, 51 Cell Cycle, 84, 86 Charlottesville, Virginia, 71 Chemistry, 23, 49 inorganic chemistry, 29 organic chemistry, 24, 29 Chromosomes…
- Interviewee Wilson, Thomas E., 1965-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Wilson, Thomas E., 1965-, DNA--Research, Geneticists, Genetics--Research, Molecular biology--Research, Microbiologists, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research
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Oral history interview with Joseph P. Dougherty
- 1993-May-07
- 1993-May-11
- 1993-May-18
- 1993-May-21
… requirements? DOUGHERTY: At the time, I had to take physical chemistry, which you think a little bit more about-- In physical chemistry, …course. DOUGHERTY: Well, I mean, the guy who taught this organic chemistry is the guy who wrote the famous organic chemistry book, but that's about it. [Robert N.] Boyd is his name. There's an organic chemistry book called [Robert T.] Morrison and Boyd. It was probably used by…
- Interviewee Dougherty, Joseph P., 1952-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Virologists, Virology--Research, Medical scientists, HIV (Viruses), Medicine--Research, Genetic engineering, Dougherty, Joseph P., 1952-
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Oral history interview with Richard Lemons
- 1990-Mar-07
…Probably by the end of third year of college. I very much enjoyed both chemistry and math, and was pushed more towards physical chemistry, which I …graduate school, because it was an area where you could easily combine chemistry and mathematics. Although there was very little physical chemistry …takes place. THACKRAY: How many people started in chemistry at Penn State in your year? LEMONS: In chemistry…
- Interviewee Lemons, Richard
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Sawyer, Richard
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Lemons, Richard, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology, Oncogenic viruses, Leukemia, Genetics
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Oral history interview with Bruce L. Goode
- 2008-Sep-25 – 2008-Sep-26
…failed a class like that, I don’t think, “Oh, my God. I got a D in chemistry. That means I can never study chemistry. That means I can never even grasp chemistry. That means I should never be a scientist because the first classes you have to take are chemistry.” I just don’t think that way. I don’t, like, put roadblocks on myself…
- Interviewee Goode, Bruce L., 1965-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Goode, Bruce L., 1965-, DNA, Biochemistry, Alzheimer's disease, University of California, Berkeley, Genetics, Microfilament proteins, Microtubules, Yeast, Discoveries in science, Protein kinases--Regulation
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Oral history interview with Richard H. Scheller
- 1989-Dec-14
… chemistry class where there was a special set of projects that could be done …that before. I was always interested in that with my microscopes and chemistry sets. With a chemistry set one gets a little book and you go through … method that had been devised. And of course if you can do organic chemistry, you can do a lot. If you have to do water chemistry, enzymes are…
- Interviewee Scheller, Richard H.
- Interviewer Kohler, Robert, Morrissette, Naomi
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Scheller, Richard H., Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Recombinant DNA, Aplysia, Neurosciences, Molecular neurobiology
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Oral history interview with Yuri A. Lazebnik
- 2001-Apr-18 – 2001-Apr-20
…the university. So on one side of our building was the department of chemistry and on the other side was the department of mathematics, astronomy …this case it was a space between our building and the department of chemistry and the department of math. So we would play just regular games, … at chemistry because the teacher in the school was just horrible. She didn’t know…
- Interviewee Lazebnik, Yuri A., 1958-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Lazebnik, Yuri A., 1958-, Cell cycle, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Apoptosis, Johns Hopkins University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Soviet Union, France. Commissariat à l'énergie atomique
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Oral history interview with Dean H. Kedes
- 2007-Oct-25 – 2007-Oct-26
…an interest in all different forms of science? Did you play with a chemistry set? KEDES: Yeah, no. You know, I didn’t play with chemistry sets—was never particularly interested in chemistry. Of course, I took chemistry in high school. I did well in chemistry …you away from biology, or was it just… KEDES: No. I knew that chemistry was not for me when I got to organic chemistry. [laughter] That’…
- Interviewee Kedes, Dean H., 1960-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Kedes, Dean H., 1960-, Molecular biology, Genetic engineering, Messenger RNA, Steitz, Joan A., Clinical medicine, Communicable diseases, University of Virginia, Work-life balance, Medical sciences, Molecular biologists