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NOBCChE News, Volume 19, Number 1
- 1998
…ethnic minorities in realizing their full potential in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering. African-American and African scientists …depends on existing talent among African- Americans in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering to aid in the accomplishment of its program …separations, applied catalysis, or organic or physical and organic chemistry. Additional desirable expertise includes surface chemistry, reaction…
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 3
- 2018
…history. But if you dig a little deeper, you'll also find a macabre chemistry lesson about the fragility of the human body. The lesson involves … 2,000 years before, that’s because it’s founded on the same basic chemistry: when salt dissolves in water, the water molecules ease apart the ……
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New Methods of Testing Explosives
- 1905
…. In his paper read at the Fifth International Congress of Applied Chemistry in Berlin in the year 1903, Watteyne very appropriately termed this …conditions laid down by the Fifth International Congress of Applied Chemistry, without, however, deducting the volume of the borehole (about 60 …detonation was explained in detail at the Fifth Congress of Applied Chemistry in Berlin by Dr. Mettegang of Schlebusch. ere Sacre…
- Author Bichel, C. E.
- Publisher Charles Griffin & Company
- Contributor Larson, Axel
- Subject Explosives, Blasting, Explosives--Research, Gunpowder, Dynamite, Combustion
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DDT, the Synthetic Insecticide
- 1946
…DEVELOPMENT PART ONE . THe Basie RESEARCHES dy, AAA, LY. MANUFACTURE AND CHEMISTRY PRINCIPLES OF FORMULATION Toxic MANIFESTATIONS . DDT 1n Paints anp …io oe CONTENTS Pago No. Imtroduction . «6 « ice «6 Nomenclature and chemistry Commercial productions « e Pharmacélocy e® @ © © © e@ Be Effect on ……
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Things Chemical
- 1906
… life opened. The other will be a series of articles on elementary chemistry, with a view to help- ing any in your office or factory who would …or in the factory, who would appreciate that course in ele- mentary chemistry, or those ‘articles by Dr. Cohn. va We offer a small amount of space …obtain notable contributions from. eminent authorities on practical chemistry, and to generally better the magazine. The space is only sufficient…
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Letter from Fritz Haber, October 1, 1929
- 1929-Oct-01
…KAISER WILHELM INSTITUE FOR PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AND ELECTROCHEMISTRY TELEPHONE … to the end of the 1926 summer semester. He had previously studied chemistry at the Technical University in Karlsruhe in Baden. He graduated with … praise. Director oft the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Dahlem Dr. Fritz Haber …
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Letter from Max Bredig to Georg Bredig, Marianne Homburger, and Viktor Homburger, December 26, 1938
- 1938-Dec-26
…interested in the Journal of Electrochemistry, the Journal of Applied Chemistry, or the Journal of Physics. The Central Journal, Reports, the Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, and the Journal of Physical Chemistry are more important to me. …
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Letter from Georg Bredig to Max Bredig, December 6, 1937
- 1937-Dec-06
…letter to Marianne. You have enough experience that, especially in chemistry, every beginning is difficult and the competition is fierce. Even …advantageous offer from Dock of 1,800 Reichsmarks for the Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1,500 Reichsmarks for the Journal of Electrochemistry, and 600 Reichsmarks …them to you as Christmas presents. I don't know what you mean by “the chemistry dictionary that you chose from T.” What about the little 50-year-old…
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Letter from Georg Bredig to Max Bredig, March 7, 1936
- 1936-Mar-07
…industry. Also mention that you wrote your Master’s thesis in Organic Chemistry, that you understand Inorganic Chemistry, and that you completed …working at K.W.J with Pohl, with Fajans in Munich, and in Physical Chemistry with Haber. …
- Author Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Addressee Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977, Chemists, Job hunting
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Letter from Georg Bredig to Max Bredig, June 13, 1927
- 1927-Jun-13
…1068. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY: TELEPHONE 4093. INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AND ELECTROCHEMISTRY Dear Max, Many thanks for your letter …find literature by Ambronn or in Doelter’s large “Handbook of Mineral Chemistry.” The main thing in your work on the crystals in question are phosphors … be embarrassed to ask! *Also see Abegg, Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry, II1, page 225. (left margin) ***Nevertheless, Mother says…
- 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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Giants of the New Age
- 1933
…significant wording on this display states: » CHEMICAL PRODUCTS "SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY SERVES ALL INDUSTRY” This statement is borne out by the tremendous … textiles owe a great deal to the recent developments in synthetic chemistry …onstration of the manufacture of photographic film, in which synthetic chemistry plays an im- portant part. Still other fields of industry are represented…
- Author Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
- Publisher Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
- Subject Century of Progress International Exposition, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, Science--Exhibitions, Technology, National Carbon Company, Inc., Chemical engineering, Trade shows, Advertising, Industrial
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Oral history interview with Diane O. Etchison
- 1991-Mar-06
…was more interested in the mathematical side of science: physics and chemistry. My mother, the anti-intellectual, did not encourage …drunk at the time—that as long as he was a member of the biological chemistry department there would never be a woman faculty member. …bureaucratic barrier to manipulate around. The faculty in the biological chemistry department generally believe that women scientists are inferior (…
- Interviewee Etchison, Diane O., 1947-
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Etchison, Diane O., 1947-, Cell interaction, Monoclonal antibodies, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, University of Kansas. Medical Center, Women in science, Sexism in science, Proteins--Synthesis--Regulation
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Oral history interview with Adrienne A. Rogalski-Wilk
- 1991-Mar-03
… high school or…high school, I’ll just say. ROGALSKI: I had a chemistry teacher that impressed me a lot, but I think it really was in college …person. She was collaborating a lot with Tokuyasu. Her background is in chemistry. I think her interest in starting monoclonal antibody production … the membrane of the intact human red cell,” Journal of Biological Chemistry 264 (1989): 6438-6446. 5 A.A. Rogalski, and R. S. Cohen. “Enrichment…
- Interviewee Rogalski-Wilk, Adrienne A.
- Interviewer Kohler, Robert, Morrissette, Naomi
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Rogalski-Wilk, Adrienne A., Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Women in science, Women in medicine, Cells--Motility, Cytology
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Oral history interview with Robert Boswell
- 1991-Jul-15
… and it wasn’t anything in particular. They taught a little bit of chemistry, a little bit of biology, and a little bit of physics. And that’s …know, the typical kinds of things that kids used to do. And [I] had chemistry sets and things like that, but it was never anything really organized …do on my own, basically looking through catalogues and finding out chemistry sets and what kinds of things you could actually build, and trying…
- Interviewee Boswell, Robert, 1951-
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Boswell, Robert, 1951-, Protozoa, Cell determination, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Genetics, Proteins, Drosophila
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Oral history interview with Peter Baumann
- 2009-Sep-09 – 2009-Sep-10
…you’re going to be taught general textbook knowledge in biology and chemistry and genetics and microbiology and so on. Really, you want people …botany and animal behavior and parasitology and lots of sort of around chemistry, <T: 70 min>, math, physics. So, first of all, I arrived there and …essentially laboratory classes. Although some of our—especially the chemistry laboratory classes in Germany, I thought were very good and required…
- Interviewee Baumann, Peter, 1969-
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Baumann, Peter, 1969-, Molecular biology, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Great Britain), DNA repair, Telomerase, University of Colorado Boulder, Proteins, Herpetology
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Research interview with Damali Rhett
- 2017-Jul-13
… RHETT: Because I still love science. I loved biology. I loved chemistry. I loved physics—well, I don’t really love physics. Physics is always interesting, but chemistry and biology? Loved it. <T: 20 min> So I was like, “Well, I don’t …question becomes, “Do you want to sit through and fight through organic chemistry? How much of that really do you want to do? And are you really excited…
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Oral history interview with Andrew Koff
- 2002-Aug-13 – 2002-Aug-15
…sophomore year; I ended with a 1.6. I basically got a D in biology, a D in chemistry, a D in American history, a D everywhere. Then in my junior year, …right into that gap. That paper will be in JBC [Journal of Biological Chemistry] next week probably, because we are on our review thing now. It is …don’t know much about it, but I can almost imagine that physics and chemistry has already gone through this phase, and this is actually why chemical…
- Interviewee Koff, Andrew, 1962-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Koff, Andrew, 1962-, Laboratory technicians, Herpes simplex virus, Molecular genetics, Genetic regulation, Cell cycle, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Philippe M. Soriano
- 1992-Oct-08 – 1992-Oct-11
… I think it’s a little different in different communities. Like in chemistry, for instance. The chemistry community, I think, will always think …organizations-- This thing is nothing new. I mean, in biology or in chemistry-- In English departments, where somebody’s developing a textbook …
- Interviewee Soriano, Philippe M., 1953-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Soriano, Philippe M., 1953-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Molecular cloning, Genetics--Research, Transgenic mice, Bioethics
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Oral history interview with Ann B. Hill
- 2002-Aug-05 – 2002-Aug-07
…, then, for those two years, two American textbooks in physics and chemistry, and they were ones that were really inspiring, not just with the …take various levels, and I ended up taking the top level. Physics, chemistry, and biology or geology were part— But you could choose biology or geology. You had to take physics and chemistry. [Telephone rings. Tape recorder turned off.] If you were…
- Interviewee Hill, Ann Bernice, 1954-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Hill, Ann Bernice, 1954-, Clinical immunology, HIV-positive persons, T cells, Flaviviruses, Women in medicine, Medicine--Research, Oregon Health & Science University, Women in science, Immunologists, Medical scientists, Women medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Michel Streuli
- 1999-Nov-08 – 1999-Nov-09
… conjures up of the scientist is somebody whose parents get them a chemistry kit and they blow things up in the neighborhood and that sort of … STREULI: Yeah, we had the standard dissections. You know, in chemistry class, we did quite a bit of chemistry, and in physics, we did all…
- Interviewee Steuli, Michel, 1958-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Steuli, Michel, 1958-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Molecular cloning, Antigens--Research, HLA histocompatibility antigens, Cancer--Research, Interferon--Research
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Oral history interview with Gary H. Gibbons
- 2001-Feb-20 – 2001-Feb-22
…worked in a laboratory, and then would get course materials—say, in chemistry and something else, I forget now—preparing us for entry into college …diverse in terms of their talent and capabilities. Beyond just organic chemistry. So they weren't really a nerdy group of competitive premeds [mutual …School, 4, 6 Nutrition Experts, 83 O Ofili, Elizabeth, 49 Organic Chemistry, 28 Organs, 19, 71 P Pasteur, Louis, 86, 87 Patents, 73, 74, …
- Interviewee Gibbons, Gary H., 1956-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Gibbons, Gary H., 1956-, Segregation, Cardiovascular system--Diseases, Cardiology, Stanford University, Morehouse School of Medicine, African Americans--Civil rights, Harvard Medical School, Renin-angiotensin system, Medical scientists, Scientists, Black
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Oral history interview with Mark D. Biggin
- 1996-Mar-04
- 1996-Mar-06 – 1996-Mar-07
…even here at Yale [University]--you spent a lot of your time learning chemistry, organic chemistry, doing sort of an old-fashioned biochemistry: …laughs] MELDRUM: What did he teach? BIGGIN: He was in the chemistry department, but he worked on enzymes and enzymology. The only reason…
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Oral history interview with Vincent L. Gregory, Jr.
- 1995-Feb-14
…. That helped. Having said all that though, not being a Ph.D. in chemistry—it was something too, in the chemical industry. You know, when I …Absolutely. Yes. BOHNING: We’ve been talking about innovation in chemistry to some extent here. I don’t know whether there’s anything else … change in the type of, let’s say, CEO—who is no longer a Ph.D. in chemistry or a chemical engineer. In most of the companies now, they’re business-trained…
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Oral history interview with Harold Eugene Thayer
- 1994-Dec-01
…wisp in the sweep of things. [laughter] BOHNING: Well, I taught chemistry for thirty-one years, and I know that when we bought Mallinckrodt …knowledge now. Some guy gets to be an authority on some little piece of chemistry, then another guy over here becomes an expert on something else. …Harold E. Thayer, “Business in an Era of Legislation and Regulation,” Chemistry and Industry, (19 March 1977): 225-227. 4. William Wishnick…
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Oral history interview with Irving S. Shapiro
- 1994-Dec-15
… have been more involved in the internal part of the business, the chemistry that was going on, for instance. I think when companies mature and …going in opposite directions. One was the declining public image of chemistry and the chemical industry, and the other was an increasing government …; p. 588). 4. Irving S. Shapiro, "The Media as a Mirror," Chemistry & Industry, 3 November 1979, pp. 738-739. 5. Mary Rowland…