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Oral history interview with Paul B. Rothman
- 1997-Apr-14 – 1997-Apr-16
…I was always good at that, and science was like that from day one. Chemistry was like that. I liked chemistry, when I was there, because it was …about second term at MIT because the first term was really inorganic chemistry. MIT's a weird thing--they do two years of chemistry in one. So MIT's freshman year of chemistry is both inorganic and organic chemistry. So they split into organic…
- Interviewee Rothman, Paul B., 1958-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology, Molecular immunology, Rothman, Paul B., 1958-, Cytology, Lymphocytes, Lungs--Cancer
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 15 Number 1
- 1997 (Fall)
…preview of the first hands-on teaching module combining history and chemistry. …hobbies such as lan- guage study, musical composition, and indeed, chemistry. Witness Lavoisier, who did chemistry only before breakfast and after … Chemistry, Petroleum Chemistry, Science in the Tall Grass, Solid State Ionic…
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Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making
- 1922
…by a gentle- man whose occupation in life was that of professor of chemistry. | An accident presenting considerable interest took place in 1885 … has its own chemistry. Chemistry without pyrotechnic experience is apt to lead to erroneous …are the first essentials. Chertier may have had little knowledge of chemistry, but 147…
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Oral history interview with Michael Farrar
- 2008-Aug-13 – 2008-Aug-14
…made NMR spectrometers and other types of analytical instruments for chemistry. And they had one of their main headquarters in a town called Cranford … on physical chemistry. And actually, before I was born, he was briefly a faculty member …from one building to the next, because if you needed to register for chemistry, which was about a third of a mile away, you ran to the chemistry…
- Interviewee Farrar, Michael A., 1964-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Farrar, Michael A., 1964-, Biology, Astrophysics, Addison's disease, Immunology, B cells, University of Minnesota, Leukemia, Hobbies, Work-life balance
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Oral history interview with Max D. Liston
- 2002-Feb-19
- 2003-Jan-22
…I had obtained using the Escalab chemistries. That omission was frustrating, and sort of sad. He was older, … Lowe and Dr. [Richard J.] Henry, who wrote the bible on clinical chemistries entitled, Clinical Chemistry: Principles and Techniques (2). At …of chemistry because all of the electrolyte instruments employed a capillary flow-through…
- Interviewee Liston, Max D., 1918-
- Interviewer Brock, David C., Gallwas, Gerald E.
- Sponsor Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
- Subject Liston, Max D., 1918-, Chrysler Corporation, Mechanical engineering, General Motors Corporation, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Spectrophotometers, Submarines (Ships), Defense contracts, Capnography, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Oral history interview with Lawrence B. Evans
- 2012-Jan-18
…Darrow Evans] both taught [at Fort Sumner High School]. My dad taught chemistry; my mother taught Spanish. [. . .] My dad had an undergraduate degree …important figure in my life [because he had a strong background in chemistry and he] really set a good example for me. Having two parents who … was an accident in the chemistry lab that injured one of the students. They were trying to measure…
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Oral history interview with J. Roger Hirl
- 1999-Jan-29
… pre-med curriculum. That’s where I spent a lot of hours studying chemistry and the things that led me to, in some sense, the chemical industry … and dyestuffs, agrichemicals, pharmaceuticals, and so forth. The chemistry is different, but we don’t end up with a different molecule. The … lower cost than the other route. So it’s chemical. Its route is chemistry, not necessarily the development of molecules. TRAYNHAM: Chemistry…
- Interviewee Hirl, J. Roger, 1931-
- Interviewer Traynham, James G.
- Subject Chemical industry, Hirl, J. Roger, 1931-, Businesspeople--Biography, Olin Corporation, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, Businesspeople, Executives, Executives--Biography, Occidental Chemical (Firm), New York (State)--Niagara Falls--Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill
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Oral history interview with Michael B. Eisen
- 2009-Feb-06
…departments where the biologists decide you have to take physics and chemistry, the mathematicians wanted you to take math, and math and more math … But for the first two years, all these classes, I was taking chemistry. I tried to get away from it. I took the hard organic chemistry classes …I wasn’t really thinking what to do next. DOMUSH: What about chemistry? I would have thought that… EISEN: I hated chemistry. …
- Interviewee Eisen, Michael B., 1967-
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Eisen, Michael B., 1967-, Biophysics, DNA microarrays, Crystallography, Gene expression, Genomics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Human Genome Project, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Oral history interview with Marilyn C. Pike
- 1991-Jun-06
…time, which was ninth grade, I wanted to get physics, I wanted to get chemistry, and I wanted good biology, none of which did they have in this parochial …person there. His name was Peter Smith. He was a wonderful physical chemistry teacher. I was very, very much into physical chemistry at that time. I followed physical chemistry with a very strong interest in physical biochemistry, and started…
- Interviewee Pike, Marilyn C., 1951-
- Interviewer Kohler, Robert, Kohler, Frances
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Pike, Marilyn C., 1951-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Phospholipids, Chemokines, Women in science, Women in medicine, Women medical scientists
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Oral history interview of the toxic substances control act from the perspective of Charles M. Auer
- 2010-Apr-23
…exposure [assessment experience], maybe a little bit of environmental chemistry. I’m sure there were lawyers and others of that sort. But it was … the chemistry that there was a certain propensity for a particular reaction to …evaluate it and figure out what that means. Then, you’ve got the old chemistry. Some people have sunk a bunch of money in the old chemistry, so…
- Interviewee Auer, Charles M., 1952-
- Interviewer Roberts, Jody A., 1976-, Hardy, Kavita D.
- Subject Auer, Charles M., 1952-, Chemicals--Law and legislation, Environmental policy, Environmental protection, Hazardous substances--Law and legislation, Toxic Substances Control Act (United States), United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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Oral history interview with William W. Mattox
- 2000-Mar-13 – 2000-Mar-14
- 2000-Mar-17
…But I took a lot of biology in high school. COHEN: Did you take chemistry and physics, too? MATTOX: I took chemistry and there was a physics … guy that taught physics and chemistry. I was interested in those classes as well, but I don't think I was … did have some interest in chemistry at the time, and that was the reason I did that. I didn't go for …
- Interviewee Mattox, William W., 1957-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Mattox, William W., 1957-, Genetics, Drosophila, RNA--Data processing, RNA, Polymerase chain reaction, Gene expression, Molecular biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Oral history interview with Paul K. Hansma
- 2006-May-02
- 2006-Aug-07
…junior year of high school I volunteered to work as an assistant to the chemistry teacher, helping him prepare the chemistry lab. I really enjoyed …work very well, but I had a lot of fun building it. And I loved my chemistry set. I loved to experiment with the chemistry set. And I loved …to their conferences or what? HANSMA: In the case of electro-chemistry it was going to an electro-chemistry conference, and learning who…
- Interviewee Hansma, Paul K., 1946-
- Interviewer Mody, Cyrus C. M.
- Sponsor Center for Nanotechnology in Society
- Subject Hansma, Paul K., 1946-, Condensed matter, Scanning tunneling microscopy, Atomic force microscopy, University of California, Santa Barbara, Nanotechnology, Ultrahigh vacuum, Physicists
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Oral history interview with Seth A. Darst
- 2001-Apr-01 (Session 1)
- 2001-May-03 (Session 2)
…semester or quarter or whatever it was, somehow I got into this honors chemistry. So sort of like freshman chemistry, but advanced, so there's maybe …don't know what regular chemistry was like, but when I took it at UCLA, there were three hundred people … up— I don't know, for some reason, I got a lot of interviews from chemistry departments. I would go to the chemistry department, and I didn't…
- Interviewee Darst, Seth A., 1960-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Microbiologists, Electron microscopy, Crystallography, Rockefeller University, Scientists, Microbiology--Research, Darst, Seth A., 1960-
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 15 Number 2
- 1998 (Spring)
…does not have “of America” appended to its title. New Societies Think Chemistry! The International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry is a group … of $45. Send inquiries and submissions for Foundations of Chemistry (preferably by e-mail) to Eric Scerri, Dept. of Chemistry Bradley … organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds. Hunt worked as a chemist for…
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NOBCChE Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 2
- 1980-Mar
… …page 4 nobcche newsletter march, 1980 laser Applications in Chemistry Dr. William A. Guillory, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah … in Acid Perchlorate Media” SESSION NO. 5: PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY/CHEMICAL PHYSICS Moderator: Dr. William DeLauder Department of Chemistry…
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Eleventh annual meeting booklet for the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers
- 1984-Apr
…Industrial Exhibit Symposium I Symposium [I Technical Sessions Analytical Chemistry Chemical Engineering Inorganic Chemistry Organic and Biochemistry … 745 -00 -00 > 00 730 72 730 ae PO PO KH POP © CWO C Environmental Chemistry General Chemistry Physical Chemistry Workshop Reception Awards Banquet …COMPLEX Muriel V. Walker, Ray Butcher and *Ekk Sinn, Department of Chemistry, Howard University, Washington, DC 20052 *Department of Chemistry…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 16 Number 2
- 1998 (Fall)
…autographed portraits and cor- respondence of noted chemists, youth chemistry sets, and chemistry text- books. We are pleased to add these significant … Back- ground of Chemistry (1956), two ver- sions of Sourcebook in Chemistry (1952 and 1963) …at BASE” Technology and Culture 39 (Jan. 1998), 105-115. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY} ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTAL TECHNIQUES Patrick Hendra.…
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Oral history interview with Arthur I. Mendolia
- 1998-Nov-12
…have any science exposure in Youngstown? MENDOLIA: Yes, I took chemistry. I haven’t been back to Youngstown since about 1946, and it’s changed … I liked chemistry, and I still like it. Organic chemistry has always appealed to me … They had a very strong relationship. We learned a lot about Dow chemistry and the brines they had up at Midland, Michigan. The physical chemistry…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 1
- 2006 (Spring)
… …On the Cover Three chemistry sets from the CHF Collections. For many chemists the set represents … in the history of chemistry using one of his texts, A Short History of Chemistry (London: Macmillan…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 20 Number 3
- 2002 (Fall)
… …On the cover Three instruments from among those that transformed chemistry in the 1930s and after: the PerkinElmer Model 12 infrared spectrophotometer …This is sometimes a silly conceit, because many of the historians of chemistry have the “pass- port” of a Ph.D. or have practiced chemistry. Shall…
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Oral history interview with Connie Holm
- 1990-Nov-16
… was a chemistry teacher, my freshman chemistry teacher. It was one of these big lecture …wonderful. [END OF AUDIO, FILE 1.1] HOLM: I remember the chemistry teacher— [David A.] Brant. [laughter]. Mr. Brant. The chemistry teacher …name. I remember that very clearly now. KOHLER: Brant was the chemistry teacher? HOLM: Yes, the chemistry teacher in college, the intro…
- Interviewee Holm, Connie, 1954-
- Interviewer Kohler, Robert, Sawyer, Richard
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Holm, Connie, 1954-, Yeast, Biology, Mitosis, Harvard University, Women in science, Women biologists
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Oral history interview with Paul T. Matsudaira
- 1990-Apr-23
… biochemistry just because you had to have electives outside of chemistry and I thought those were easy courses. THACKRAY: How big was … an accident. I originally was a chemistry major, and then I decided—I had taken some biology courses and then … I going to do for a job?” because I didn’t know organic chemistry that well. It’s not like I can think out a synthesis of some compound…
- Interviewee Matsudaira, Paul T.
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Morrissette, Naomi
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Matsudaira, Paul T., Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology, Microscopy, Cells--Motility, Epithelial cells, Cytology
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Oral history interview with Thomas E. Everhart
- 2007-Mar-28
- 2011-May-03
…Ph.D. chemist, and I’m sure [. . .] their <T: 15 min> background in chemistry played a great deal enabling them to determine what the problem was … been research in chemistry. [It had] been in a different area. [However, at] a meeting where …from] chemistry [to physics. Organic] chemistry [Chem 20] was taught by Louis [F.…
- Interviewee Everhart, Thomas E.
- Interviewer Mody, Cyrus C. M., Brock, David C.
- Sponsor Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Subject Everhart, Thomas E., Scanning electron microscopes, California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Microwave tubes, Integrated circuits, Microfabrication, Cornell University, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Research grants, University of Illinois (System), Consulting engineers
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Oral history interview of the toxic substances control act from the perspective of Mark A. Greenwood
- 2010-Feb-26
…to do is get our folks in the staff who knew more than I did about chemistry—my God, I knew very little about chemistry, and still don’t know …toxic chemicals. Chemical companies can get lost in certain chemistries. Their staff grew up on certain chemistries. If you look at the …And so, you have chemical companies that are completely devoted to a chemistry, and they will fight to the death for that chemistry. At the…
- Interviewee Greenwood, Mark A., 1951-
- Interviewer Roberts, Jody A., 1976-, Hardy, Kavita D.
- Subject Greenwood, Mark A., 1951-, Chemicals--Law and legislation, Environmental policy, Environmental protection, Hazardous substances--Law and legislation, Toxic Substances Control Act (United States), United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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Oral history interview with Frances M. Brodsky
- 1995-Aug-21 – 1995-Aug-23
… She was done before, by the Beckman Institute [for the History of Chemistry]. BRODSKY: Right, she was done before. So then it became the …molecule. And it was about as far as anyone could take the protein chemistry and the morphology. The next step that you'd have to … is my home department. Pharmaceutical chemistry is also a department in which I have a membership because it's our…
- Interviewee Brodsky, Frances M. (Frances Martha), 1955-
- Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Brodsky, Frances M. (Frances Martha), 1955-, Biochemistry, Women in science, Monoclonal antibodies, HLA histocompatibility antigens, Immunology, Cytology, University of California, San Francisco, Becton-Dickinson, Affirmative action programs in education