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Oral history interview with Jeffrey T. Holt
- 1993-Jan-03 – 1993-Jan-05
…was like for premeds. HOLT: It was very science oriented. The chemistry was mostly organic chemistry. We had one biochemistry course which was very good, but most of the chemistry was organic chemistry. The biology was very evolution based. Of course …really biochemistry research, but my roommate who worked in organic chemistry actually worked on pigmented dyes. The chairman of the chemistry …
- Interviewee Holt, Jeffrey T., 1954-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Holt, Jeffrey T., 1954-, Messenger RNA, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Pathology, Molecular biology, Cancer--Research, Antisense RNA, Vanderbilt University. School of Medicine, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Henry I. Smith
- 2005-Oct-25
… interested you? SMITH: It was really physics. More so than chemistry. I had a chemistry set, but I wanted to make bombs but they never …can’t make gunpowder. [laughter] So no, I wasn’t that interested in chemistry, but I was interested in biology and physics. Chemistry was a mystery … understood how some people can get attracted to chemistry without understanding quantum mechanics. I guess they did apparently…
- Interviewee Smith, Henry I., 1937-
- Interviewer Mody, Cyrus C. M.
- Sponsor Center for Nanotechnology in Society
- Subject Smith, Henry I., 1937-, X-rays--Diffraction, X-ray lithography, Physicists, Nanotechnology, Nanostructured materials industry, Nanostructured materials
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Oral history interview with Carol W. Greider
- 1993-Sep-22
- 1993-Sep-24
- 1993-Sep-30
- 1993-Oct-05
…that it was any, you know— HATHAWAY: But the others, physics or chemistry— GREIDER: I mean, I was interested in social sciences and English …basically, you know— HATHAWAY: You're thinking about calculus and chemistry. GREIDER: Chemistry and organic chemistry. Oh, I loved organic chemistry. That was one of my favorite classes. Once I got the hang of those…
- Interviewee Greider, Carol W.
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Greider, Carol W., Circadian rhythms, Blackburn, Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Helen), 1948-, Telomere, Telomerase, Cloning, Ribonucleases, Medical scientists, Molecular biologists, Women in science, Women in medicine, Women medical scientists, Women molecular biologists
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Oral history interview with Charles E. Connor
- 2004-Jul-19 – 2004-Jul-20
…CONNOR: I always had some kind of scientific hobby going, I think. Chemistry sets were a big deal; I had one after another. Those were toys that …, but biology, obviously. How about chemistry in high school? Was chemistry on the radar at all? Was it just something …physics, so it was a bit of a bore. Never that interested in inorganic chemistry. When I got to organic chemistry, I loved it, because it …
- Interviewee Connor, Charles Edward, 1955-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Connor, Charles Edward, 1955-, Johns Hopkins University, Neurosciences, Artificial vision, Neural transmission, Brain--Data processing, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Neuroscientists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with John H. Weiss
- 1996-Oct-02 – 1996-Oct-04
…built some little electronic kits when I was a kid, and I had a little chemistry set and did little stupid chemical reactions and things. I didn’t …courses in my third year. The first two years, I was just taking the chemistry series, the math series, the physics series, and all that kind of …don’t know. Probably got a chuckle or two. MAESTREJUAN: I know chemistry majors who cringe at the thought of taking physical chemistry, and…
- Interviewee Weiss, John H., 1956-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Weiss, John H., 1956-, Glutamic acid, Neurons, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology, Biochemists, Neurology--Research, Neurobiology
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Chemical Warfare
- 1921
…reproduced by permis- sion of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry; those showing the Nelson cell were furnished by the Samuel M. Green …its discoverer, Capt. W. Lee Lewis, of Northwestern University. The chemistry of this compound is discussed in Chapter X. Because of the early …September, 1918, issue of The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry shows the result of this - order. “CHEMISTS IN CAMP “As the result…
- Author Fries, Amos A. (Amos Alfred), 1873-1963, West, Clarence J. (Clarence Jay), 1886-1953
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous -- War use., Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Chemical warfare, Chemical agents (Munitions), World War (1914-1918), Gas masks, Chlorine, Phosgene, Carbon monoxide, Smoke--Toxicology
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Oral history interview with Vincent J. Coates
- 2003-May-05
…We did that for about a year-and-a-half. I studied math, physics, chemistry, metallurgy, and so forth. After about a year of taking courses … It was a compressed version of Yale’s program, with lots of math, chemistry, and physics. Yale was a wonderful place because I couldn’t avoid … organic chemistry were of interest. From 1952 to 1990, I think we sold about seven…
- Interviewee Coates, Vincent J., 1925-2012
- Interviewer Brock, David C.
- Subject Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Field ion microscopes, Coates & Welter Instrument Company
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 3
- 2006 (Fall)
… …Our Readers Write Remembering Chemistry Sets The article on chemistry sets by Rosie DiVernieri in the Spring … than chemistry. Could it have been otherwise? Does chemistry’s domain anywhere—out…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 1
- 2005 (Spring)
…Support for CHF CHF Fellowships and Grants Conferences Public Images of Chemistry Innovation Frontiers in Industrial Chemistry Chemical Dateline 3 …biology all of my life. But at the heart of my research program, it is chemistry.” Biotechnology and much of cell biology grew out of chemistry, and … Chemistry.” Hyle 10 (2004), 5-22.…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 18 Number 3
- 2000 (Fall)
… Abroad Report from Europe ¢ CHMC Symposium in Mexico ¢ History of Chemistry Symposium ¢ History of Chemistry Dinner Chemical Dateline Chemical …Industry. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2000. SRS ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY} ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY} INSTRUMENTAL … Atomic and Molecular Theory 1900-1960 ® Industrial Chemistry 1800-1900 ® Industrial Chemistry 1900-1960 ° Analytical Chemistry…
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National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers newsletter, April 1977
- 1977-Apr
…Jackson, professor of chemistry at Howard University, over a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance instrument … concepts. Experience desirable in research in physical chemistry and organic chemistry of high molecular weight liquids and solids …preference for petroleum and COal. Free radical chemisay, catalytic chemistry, diffusion in solids, etc. A Ph.D. in Chemistry or a Ph.D. in Chemical…
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 2
- 2018
…story at sciencehistory.org/events. 2 | Science | History | Institute Chemistry - Engineering - Rites …engineer. Instead, he earned a PhD from Yale University in agricultural chemistry and spent two years studying agricultural and physiological chemistry ……
- Publisher Science History Institute
- Subject Science History Institute, Opioids, Opioid abuse, Digestion, Gastrointestinal system
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Oral history interview with William S. Talbot
- 2005-Jan-10 – 2005-Jan-12
…bit, and she was a gracious host, even when it would involve—I had a chemistry set—getting burn marks on the wall and things like this. She was …VAN BENSCHOTEN: I’m intrigued. There were only burn marks from the chemistry set. Any explosions? TALBOT: I don’t recall any explosions. …that or what happened. It was not a great moment in the history of chemistry. VAN BENSCHOTEN: To round things out, let’s talk about your …
- Interviewee Talbot, William S., 1966-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Talbot, William S., 1966-, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology, Drosophila, Genetics, Developmental biology
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Oral history interview with William A. Muller
- 1993-May-06
- 1993-May-14
- 1993-May-24
- 1993-May-28
…reject this paper.” HATHAWAY: But also Journal of Bio[logical Chemistry]. No, not JBC, but one of the other larger is also-- MULLER: …if I’m going to do well, I should be doing better than a C on this chemistry test. This is my best subject.” It wasn’t so much the grade as much …So the next test he said, “Oh, listen, I’ll let you take it in the chemistry library by yourself so you won’t see all these other people turning…
- Interviewee Muller, William A., 1953-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Muller, William A., 1953-, DNA, Genetic engineering, Clinical medicine--Research, Baltimore, David, Massachusetts General Hospital, Pathology, Endothelial cells, Biochemistry, Cell adhesion molecules, Rockefeller University, Cornell University. Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College
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Oral history interview with Paul M. MacDonald
- 1995-Feb-21 – 1995-Feb-23
… It was much less radiation biology and it was much more radiation chemistry. But I figured if it was in the same area it might be quite interesting … physical chemistry when I was a master's student there. I really got caught up to speed …a biology department. But I've been told that when he's applied to chemistry departments, they view him as too biological for a chemistry department…
- Interviewee Macdonald, Paul Marshall, 1955-
- Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Macdonald, Paul Marshall, 1955-, Bacteriophages, Molecular genetics, Molecular biology, Recombinant DNA, Drosophila, Gene expression, Stanford University, Nucleotide sequence
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Oral history interview with Charles S. Zuker
- 1992-Dec-20
- 1993-Jan-30
- 1993-Apr-22
- 1994-Jan-29 – 1994-Jan-30
…a child to check things out biologically speaking. HATHAWAY: Chemistry-type things as well? ZUKER: Exactly. And then, for my bar mitzvah …by the high school being well-rounded, you know, you have biology, chemistry, physics. Each one has an individual class. Math, social studies- …? HATHAWAY: Yeah, or do well in? ZUKER: I think physics, chemistry, and biology were my forte. I did extremely well in all of those.…
- Interviewee Zuker, Charles S., 1957-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Geneticists, Medical scientists, Genetics--Research, Medicine--Research, Drosophila, Photoreceptors, Neurobiologists, Zuker, Charles S., 1957-
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Oral history interview with James C. A. Bardwell
- 2004-Apr-05 – 2004-Apr-06
… university in London, Ontario, near where he grew up, and studied chemistry. He’s a physical chemist. Then he won a national research postdoctoral …Absolutely. That was probably what got me into science. He was in the chemistry lab; he had a chemistry lab, and on Sundays we would go in, ostensibly …deal more than we do—a great deal more—probably twice what we teach. Chemistry is also like that. Chemistry does have big labs and the same type…
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NOBCChE News, Volume 10, Number 1
- 1988-Dec
…enrolled in graduate school and pursuing a M.S. or Ph.D. degree in chemistry or chemical engineering. The Procter & Gamble Award (For Ph.D. Chemistry …invited to submit a paper of your work in the areas of: . Analytical Chemistry . Biochemistry/Biology . Chemical Engineering . Environmental Chemistry . Inorganic Chemistry . Organic and Polymer Chemistry . Physical Chemistry, Photochemistry…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 18 Number 2
- 2000 (Summer)
…Mission South High School The ACS Division of History of Chemistry appreciate the history of chemistry. of History of Chemistry of the …, physical chemistry, organic chemistry, coordina- tion chemistry, and chemical engineer … Atomic and Molecular Theory 1900-1960 e Industrial Chemistry 1800-1900 ¢ Industrial Chemistry 1900-1960 e Analytical Chemistry…
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Alchemy in art, Semiconductors, Fiberglass boats, Chemical Heritage Foundation
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 22 Number 2
- 2004 (Summer)
… He also holds two doctorates: he earned the first in ana- lytical chemistry in 1956 and the sec- ond in science in 1965. After teaching chemistry … the causes of phenomena. Klein analyzes a transition from organic chemistry as plant and animal chemistry to organic chemistry as carbon chemistry … of organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon. But Klein is interested not so much in…
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NOBCChE Newsletter, Volume 5, Number 1
- 1983-Dec
…Dr. William. A. LIester, Jr. University of California Department of Chemistry Berkeley, CA 94720 Vol. 5, No. 1 First Class. . U. S. Postage PAID …West Virginia 25112 Seminar Topic: Recent Develop- ments in Cubane Chemistry Dr. William A. Guillory, Professor Chemistry Department University …PROFESSOR tenure track, full time position. Teach undergraduate courses in Chemistry. Ph.D. in Chemistry with laboratory-based thesis; training emphasis…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 17 Number 3
- 1999 (Fall)
…How one teacher learned to bring the excitement of the human face of chemistry to all students. …non-science majors in my classes were terrified. They did not know any chemistry, they did not care about chemistry, and they could not wait to get … in the history of chemistry, to my activity in the ACS Division of the History of Chemistry, …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 20 Number 1
- 2002 (Spring)
…Hargittai A conversation with a pioneer in the interface of organic chemistry and biology. …codiscov- ered helium, helped found synthetic organic and structural chemistry, and was the father of organometallic chemistry. He was also the …the 1927 Nobel Prize in chemistry (q.v.), he also researched the chemistry of nitrogen com- pounds …
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Spectrum Analysis: Six Lectures, Delivered in 1868, Before the Society of Apothecaries of London
- 1873
…HENRY E:-ROSCGEIB Al Pa. DP R'S: @e oe « ° ° ,2e i “o" 9% PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE OWENS COLLEGE, MANCHESTER. e 6@ eo *e e@ e2*%6 68 e 4Cce es …drawing of the two spectra is found on page 175. In solar and stellar chemistry the additions to our knowledge have been numerous and important. …Relating to the Subjectimeneraliy: 459 ii, Dictate to: Verrestrial Chemistry oe et 462 TH. Apelating to Celestial Chemistry). 200+ en ee BS 72…
- Author Roscoe, Henry E. (Henry Enfield), 1833-1915
- Publisher Macmillan & Co.
- Contributor Bunsen, R. (Robert), 1811-1899, Kirchhoff, G. (Gustav), 1824-1887
- Printer R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Electronic excitation, X-ray spectroscopy, Alkalies, Alkaline earth metals, Scientific illustration
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Oral history interview with Alan Aderem
- 1990-Jun-08
- 2009-Apr-08 – 2009-Apr-09
…where my majors in science were biology, biochemistry, and so, and chemistry and physics, and did philosophy in the arts. KOHLER: Was that … when I was in my second year, I got a little small grant from the chemistry department and I started repeating those. I used old [. . .] to generate … forth. The chemistry doesn’t really matter, but that was the . . . Mitchell had this hypothesis…
- Interviewee Aderem, Alan, 1953-
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary, Kohler, Robert, Morrissette, Naomi
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Aderem, Alan, 1953-, South Africa, Clinical biochemistry, Anti-apartheid movements, Immunology, University of Washington, Parasitic diseases, Vaccines