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Oral history interview with Worley H. Clark, Jr.
- 1994-Nov-08
… me, at this point in my life, as something I would want to do. My chemistry in high school was, by today's standards, very primitive. Fortunately, I had a good chemistry teacher in high school. Our laboratory was in the basement of one …Creativity is encouraging people to invent things. I don't mean just chemistry; I'm talking about inventing new marketing programs. Invent new ways…
- Interviewee Clark, Jr., Worley H., 1932-
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Sponsor Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain). American Section
- Subject Clark, Jr., Worley H., 1932-, Nalco Chemical Company, Chemical industry, Chemicals--Law and legislation, Chemical engineering, Standard Oil Company (Ohio), Industrial engineers
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Oral history interview with Craig R. Barrett
- 2005-Dec-14
- 2006-Mar-23
…brother and I were reasonably good in mathematics, and physics, and chemistry, and went on to major in engineering at school. THACKRAY: …mathematics teacher in high school, and a pretty good physics teacher, and a chemistry teacher. I think I had a fairly good foundation in the math and …things, part of your technical orientation? BARRETT: Yes, the chemistry sets, making electric motors, and the little single crystal radios…
- Interviewee Barrett, Craig R., 1939-
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Brock, David C.
- Sponsor Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Subject Moore, Gordon E., 1929-2023, Grove, Andrew S., Noyce, Robert N. (Robert Norton), 1927-1990, Intel Corporation, Fairchild (Firm), Microelectronics industry--Employees, Materials science, Barrett, Craig R., 1939-
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Oral history interview with Peter R. Arvan
- 1993-Jun-29
- 1993-Jul-02
- 1993-Jul-05 – 1993-Jul-06
…Dougherty] who was a mechanical engineering major. He had done some chemistry and some inorganic and it was all easy for him. And so he gets into …question-- I mean, you weren't like all of a sudden going back into chemistry or something. ARVAN: That's right. HATHAWAY: And the med … end up tracing ourselves back to sort of the physical chemistry world. HATHAWAY: Inorganic chemistry. ARVAN: Exactly. …
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The Baker's Book [Volume II]
- A Practical Hand Book of the Baking Industry in all Countries
- 1903
… made in agriculture, Mr. Amie Girard, the celebrated Professor of Chemistry, has grown from 600 to 800 quintals of potatoes on a hectare of land … study of the petroleum: products, turned his attention to organic chemistry | some time ago, devoting ‘himself especially to the products of …of experiments. Dr. Wesener is a deep student of both physiological chemistry and food chemistry. He holds a professor- ship in animal food chemistry…
- Contributor Braun, Emil
- Publisher D. Van Nostrand Company
- Subject Baking, Bread, Cooking (Bread), Bread--Composition, Bread molds (Baking), Baking--Equipment and supplies, Cookbooks
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Oral history interview with Robert N. Naughten
- 2007-Jan-24
… primarily math, physics, and chemistry. A big thing at San Jose State at that time was that they had a … of the chemistry labs and he’d coat it on things. It was so unstable it’d go pop, …he took again the same three classes, basically math, physics, and chemistry. He was a good student with that. He was a quiet kind of guy. …
- Interviewee Naughten, Robert N.
- Interviewer Brock, David C.
- Subject Naughten, Robert N., 1939, Moore, Gordon E., 1929-2023, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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The Effects of Atomic Weapons
- 1950
…Members of this staff were: Dr. Joseph O. Hirschfelder, professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin; Lt. Col. David B. Parker, Office …compilation had been prepared, Dr. Samuel Glas- stone, professor of physical chemistry and the author of well-known scientific treatises, including the …properties; this is true whether the isotopes are stable or unstable. The chemistry of a radioactive species is thus indistinguishable from that of a…
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Adulterated Drugs and Chemicals
- 1906
…U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY—BULLETIN NO. 80. H. W. WILEY, Chief of Bureau. ADULTERATED DRUGS … …U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY—BULLETIN NO. 80. H. W. WILEY, Chief of Bureau. ! ADULTERATED DRUGS…
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Letter from William A. Lester, Jr. to the Black Engineer of the Year Committee, October 8, 1996
- 1996-Oct-08
…RIVERSIDE « SANDIEGO ~* SANTA CRUZ WILLIAM A. LESTER, JR. DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY Professor of Chemistry BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720-1460 TEL 1 (510 …of the Year Award. Dr. May has a distinguished record in analytical chemistry research and_ technical management. As Chief, Analytical Chemistry …Dr. May’s personal research is focused on trace organic analytical chemistry including the development of liquid chromatographic methods for the…
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Letter from Eduard Schär to Georg Bredig, January 1900
- 1900-Jan-12
…for the work that was kindly sent to me from the Journal of Physical Chemistry (about inorganic ferments, etc.), as well as to your colleague, Mr …addressed again using the refined quantitative methods of modern physical chemistry. Moreover, it’s wonderful that so many of his results, even if only …. You will find the same treatise in the “Research Reports on Food Chemistry, Forensic Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Diagnostics,” edited by A.…
- Author Schär, Eduard, 1842-1913
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Schär, Eduard, 1842-1913, Science publishing
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NOBCChE News, Volume 18, Number 2
- 1997
…waterborne or high-solid paints systems is preferred. A 4-year degree in Chemistry is required with an emphasis in Polymer Chemistry pre- ferred. Excellent …and many even got his autograph) one of the most recognized names in chemistry today. His books on stereochemistry are classics in or- ganic chemistry …Laboratory. He received his formal training from Morehouse College (B.S. Chemistry) and the Pennsylvania State University (Ph.D. Organic Chemistry).…
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NOBCChE News, Volume 12, Number 4
- 1991-Dec
… enrolled in graduate school, pursuing an MS. or Ph.D. ; degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering. The Procter and Gamble Award For Ph.D. Chemistry … For M.S. and Ph.D. Chemistry /Chemical Engineering candidates Requirements: 1. Current graduate …Chemist (Position F9246) with strength in area of physical polymer chemistry; 3) Toxicologist (Position F9247) with strong chemistry or biochemistry…
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Distillations, Volume 2 Number 4
- 2017 (Winter)
…sip of his own coffee, the audience smells brandy. The mechanics and chemistry of Smell-O-Vision were kept under wraps, but it was possible to get …by British illustrator S George Cruikshank, from John Scoffern’s S Chemistry No Mystery (1839). … the great discoverers, set against Lavoisier as a systematizer of chemistry. By 1813 Davy was knighted, married to a wealthy widow with an interest…
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Letter from Georg Bredig to Max Bredig, May 25, 1927
- 1927-May-25
…1068. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY: TELEPHONE 4093. INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AND ELECTROCHEMISTRY Dear Max Albert, You can imagine that … of the substrate (see Taylor u. Kistiakowsky, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 125, Page 345 (1927)). …month) (Bohr supposedly only works with quantum mechanics and not chemistry.) 2) Zurich: Victor Henri is a physical chemist at the university…
- Author Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Addressee Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
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Oral history interview with Daniel D. Kalderon
- 1990-Apr-27
…had been studying at that stage sort of hard-core physical sciences—chemistry, physics, and maths, computing science—I was really interested in …what I wanted to study was biochemistry because I liked biology and chemistry and it sort of fit it together. I didn’t have a very good perspective …Yes. I started off doing also some subjects which were biology and chemistry and a little maths in the first year, a lot of chemistry in the second…
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Oral history interview with Nina R. Salama
- 2008-Mar-27 – 2008-Mar-28
…good experience there. So, I managed to qualify into the accelerated chemistry and then, through some friends, found out about this honors biology …required you also as a prerequisite you had to take sort of the advanced chemistry and you also had to take the engineering physics. So, you had to … up the same cohort was taking the same physics sections, the same chemistry sections. And so, it was really quite a close-knit group that I had…
- Interviewee Salama, Nina R.
- Interviewer Nelson, Nicole C.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Salama, Nina R., Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Women in science, Women in medicine, Bacteria--Research, Helicobacter pylori, Bacterial diseases
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Oral history interview with Jeffrey V. Ravetch
- 1989-Aug-23
…English literature, but wanted to have a good grounding in physical chemistry. I think I was seriously and primarily interested in the physical …was a very, very nice time. Took courses mostly in physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, physical mechanics, was strangely surprised that …biology courses, and I thought that I needed to have more background in chemistry and physics before I would start taking biology courses. So it wasn…
- Interviewee Ravetch, Jeffrey V.
- Interviewer Kohler, Robert, Morrissette, Naomi
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Ravetch, Jeffrey V., Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Plasmodium lophurae, Proteins--Research, Fc receptors
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Oral history interview with George M. Shaw
- 1990-Mar-03
… a lab tech, and then went back and got her Ph.D. in physiological chemistry—at the age of forty-two—and now is a research scientist at Ohio State … than average. The way I can tell that is in the hard sciences, in chemistry and in math, I worked hard to get my Bs, and in biology I got A-pluses …throughout. They had citations and so on and so forth. Physics, math and chemistry I worked hard for my A’s and B’s. In the end, I graduated summa cum…
- Interviewee Shaw, George M.
- Interviewer Sawyer, Richard, Thackray, Arnold, 1939-
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Shaw, George M., Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Virology, AIDS (Disease)--Research, HIV (Viruses)--Research, Cytology
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Oral history interview with Hao Wu
- 2008-Jan-30 – 2008-Jan-31
…time [for] doing a lot of math competitions, physics competitions, chemistry competitions. [In fact], I was supposed to go to the Math Olympiad …your exam. The subjects were, if I recall correctly, [ . . . ] math, chemistry, physics, humanities, science, English, and communist history. [ …working. [I] passed a lot of the requirement[s]. For example, organic chemistry [and] physical chemistry. Because, again, they take exam before that…
- Interviewee Wu, Hao, 1964-
- Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Wu, Hao, 1964-, Women in science, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, CD4 antigen, Glycoproteins, Crystallography, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Markus Stoffel
- 2002-Oct-14 – 2002-Oct-16
…medicine in Cologne. He first studied medicine, and then he studied chemistry. He had minimal medical training but then pursued science. Then from …because I could completely concentrate on sciences. I took biology, chemistry, and physics at the time. I was there for ten months completely not …of the Third Reich. To a certain extent, Germany's leading role in chemistry and biochemistry was pretty much destroyed as a result of the Third…
- Interviewee Stoffel, Markus, 1962-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Stoffel, Markus, 1962-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Diabetes--Research, Genetics, Pancreatic beta cells
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Oral history interview with David J. Sullivan, Jr.
- 2007-Nov-28 – 2007-Nov-29
…interesting during high school than another, or was it just: physics, chemistry, biology, I’ll take all of it? SULLIVAN: Yes, our biology and …degree, even if it was really to…even if you were doing biology, and chemistry, and physics, you didn’t think that was going to get you into medical …was a decent physics course. There was this organic [and] inorganic chemistry—kind of dry—and they had their laboratories. I majored in biology…
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Oral history interview with Gregory J. Hannon
- 2002-Dec-16 – 2002-Dec-18
…quite exact in what they chose for you to do, because I had a lot of chemistry and then biochemistry and biology and genetics and cell biology and … not much more. We had biology probably in sophomore year and then chemistry and then physics, and so it wasn’t really something that— I mean, …in structural biology. I think that was sort of too far toward the chemistry end for me. Right. And, quite honestly, I don’t think I had a real…
- Interviewee Hannon, Gregory J., 1964-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Hannon, Gregory J., 1964-, RNA interference, Cell cycle, Proteins, Cyclin-dependent kinases, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Molecular biologists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Eugene J. Flath
- 2007-Feb-28
…organic chemist. And here we were, basically dealing with physical chemistry problems. That’s basically what semiconductor manufacturing is: physical chemistry problems. And you’ve got all these people who have totally orthogonal …knew nothing about. So I said, “Gee, I’d like somebody with physical chemistry experience or metallurgy experience, at least somebody who’s worked…
- Interviewee Flath, Eugene J., 1937-
- Interviewer Brock, David C., Chʻoe, Hyŏng-sŏp
- Sponsor Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Subject Flath, Eugene J., 1937-, FORTRAN (Computer program language), United States. Navy, United States. Navy. Seabees, International Business Machines Corporation, Electrical engineering, Intel Corporation, Microprocessors--Design and construction, Fairchild (Firm), Electrical engineers
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Oral history interview with Edwin L. Ferguson
- 1999-Sep-28 – 1999-Sep-29
- 1999-Oct-01
…was, I think— No, I didn't take biology the first year. It was more chemistry the first year. That I managed to—I'm glad—pass. The second year …remember—I don't know why I would have done this—I took an organic chemistry book along— COHEN: For fun? FERGUSON: —for reading, as well as other things. I managed to read all of this organic chemistry book in three weeks; I had lots of time. And then it was only my …
- Interviewee Ferguson, Edwin L.
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Ferguson, Edwin L., Botstein, David, Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila, Genetics, Anderson, Kathryn, University of Chicago, Horvitz, H. Robert, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Geneticists
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Oral history interview with Trevor Williams
- 1998-Aug-12 – 1998-Aug-14
… WILLIAMS: No, I never did anything like that. I had my kid's chemistry set, but that just sucked. [mutual laughter] I couldn't buy one. …microbiology at that point. So yeah, physics is too mathematical, and chemistry is kind of a little turgid. Chemistry is a science which has come back now with organic chemistry, but biology was in the ascendancy at that period in time as well…
- Interviewee Williams, Trevor, 1959-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Williams, Trevor, 1959-, Virology, Medical scientists, Molecular biology--Research, Genetics--Research, Geneticists, Cancer--Research
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Oral history interview with Patrick J. Dolph
- 2002-Oct-09 – 2002-Oct-11
…there was essentially one biology course, one physics course, and two chemistry courses. You could take an advanced chemistry course. I took all …Oregon State was just unbelievable. You’d have to take biology, organic chemistry, physics and then there was, oh, genetics. That was one year as four …which we don’t have that many, and publish in Journal of Biological Chemistry, your publication rate is higher, right. However, most of us come…
- Interviewee Dolph, Patrick J., 1961-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Drosophila--Genetics, Drosophila--Research, Geneticists, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Genetics--Research, Dolph, Patrick J., 1961-