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Oral history interview with Marc K. Jenkins
- 1990-Mar-05
…that made it interesting to me. I particularly remember an organic chemistry professor that I had who was just incredibly enthusiastic about what…
- Interviewee Jenkins, Marc K., 1958-
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Morrissette, Naomi
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Jenkins, Marc K., 1958-, Immunology, Immune system, Immune response--Regulation, Immune response--Research, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), University of Minnesota, T cells, Cyclosporine--Physiological effect
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37 items
Reynolds Aluminum Chemicals
- 1960
… in petroleum refining and for a number of applications in organic chemistry includ- ing isomerization, alkylation and poly- merization processes …to many new or more efficient reactions in inorganic and or- ganic chemistry. SODIUM ALUMINATE Hydrated alumina is used in the prep- aration of…
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Oral history interview with Alison A. Weiss
- 1991-Mar-03
…things. KOHLER: Other sciences? WEISS: Well, you know, the chemistry, physics that you have to take. KOHLER: Did they appeal? …the mutants on the protein structure. So it’s animal work, protein chemistry, transcriptional control. It’s a lot. KOHLER: It sounds like…
- Interviewee Weiss, Alison A., 1952-
- Interviewer Morrissette, Naomi, Kohler, Robert
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Weiss, Alison A., 1952-, Molecular biology, Bacteria--Research, Pathogenic bacteria, Molecular biologists, Women in science, Women molecular biologists
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35 items
A Handbook on Modern Explosives
- A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture and use of Dynamite, Gun-Cotton, NitroGlycerine, and other Explosive Compounds, Including Collodion-Cotton, with Chapters on Explosives in Practical Application
- 1897
…Berthelot’s Sur la force de la poudre, etc. etc. ; the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (Lippincott, Philadel- phia); papers by Professor Munroe in the Proceedings…
- Author Eissler, M.
- Publisher Crosby Lockwood and Son
- Subject Explosives, Nitroglycerin, Guncotton, Gunpowder
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Oral history interview with Gordon Chase
- 2014-Jan-17
…say trading, then, was your expertise in logistics, in finance, in chemistry? I’m just trying to get . . . CHASE: No. No. Actually, it’s, funnily enough, not in chemistry at all, but in the trading [of chemical products]. So I was a commodities…
- Interviewee Chase, Gordon, 1955-
- Interviewer Berry, Lee Sullivan
- Sponsor National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
- Subject Chase, Gordon, 1955-, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Pennsylvania--Ambler, Asbestos, Human ecology--Study and teaching, Asbestosis, Asbestosis--Research, Asbestos--Environmental aspects, Asbestos--Health aspects
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Oral history interview with Michael R. Koelle
- 2003-Jan-06 – 2003-Jan-08
… much that I could do this, and I’m willing to give up physics and chemistry and math and all those other things to devote myself to this one …when you study math or physics, you’re spending a lot of your time, chemistry as well, about stuff that was discovered hundreds of years ago, and …as it was, and before the pharmaceutical industry turned away from chemistry and towards biotechnology. So there were not a seriously large number…
- Interviewee Koelle, Michael R., 1964-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Koelle, Michael R., 1964-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Geneticists, G proteins, Proteins--Research, Neural transmission, Embryology
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111 items
Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to Plants Indigenous to and Naturalized in the United States, Volume I
- 1892
… ARE USED IN MEDICINE THEIR DESCRIPTION ORIGIN HISTORY PREPARATION CHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS FULLY DESCRIBED TOGETHER WITH THE PROPERTIES…
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20 items
Plant Life
- Home College Series Number 53
- 1883
…Temperance Movement versus The . The Cary Sisters. . A Few Facts about Chemistry. . Artin Northern Europe. ; The Regicides. . Amos Lawrence. . John…
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10 items
The Hercules Mixer, Volume 27
- 1945-Jan – 1945-Dec
…Enemy (Continued from page 147) Now she can give a sigh of relief, for chemistry has solved her “headachy” problem. Thanite is economical, leaves …
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123 items
The Midland Sun: Portraying the City of Midland, Michigan, Home of America's Greatest Chemical Institution
- 1926-Nov
…of 1888. In the fall of 1888 I accepted a position as professor of chemistry and toxicology in a medical college in Cleveland, where I had a laboratory …had to solve, This was truly a remarkable de- velopment in elec- tro-chemistry and brought much re- nown to Mr. Dow in scientific cir- cles. Late …, but only a thought is required to convince that the principle of chemistry is involved in practically every line of manufacture; that is, chemistry…
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288 items
The Fairy-Land of Science
- 1883
…difficult, you can learn them pleasantly from simple books on physics, chemistry, botany, physiology, and physical geography; and when you understand … 9 Coloured Maps. Half-bound, cloth sides, 21s, BARFF.--ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY. By F. S. Barry, M.A., Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Academy …for the above. By Joan Gipson, M.A. Demy 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d. GILL.—CHEMISTRY for SCHOOLS: an Introduction to the Practical Study of Chemistry.…
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Oral history interview with Rodney Welch
- 1990-Mar-05
…and he took me to a couple of football games and introduced me to a chemistry professor that he had been roommates with. As a high school student…
- Interviewee Welch, Rodney
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Morris, Stephanie
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Welch, Rodney, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Medical scientists, Bacteroides, Bacterial diseases, DNA--Research
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Oral history interview with Arthur Rock
- 2002-Oct-09
…satisfaction. BROCK: Do you have any thoughts about the place of chemistry in this development? ROCK: No, other than that Gordon Moore…
- Interviewee Rock, Arthur, 1926-
- Interviewer Brock, David C.
- Sponsor Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
- Subject Rock, Arthur, 1926-, World War (1939-1945), Businesspeople, Semiconductor industry, Semiconductors, Entrepreneurship, Business enterprises
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Oral history interview with Lee W. Riley
- 1997-Dec-29 – 1997-Dec-31
…Army. She was at Fort Ord for awhile. She was also working as a blood chemistry technician. MAESTREJUAN: Did they go to college as well, then … I guess he started encouraging me. MAESTREJUAN: Did you get chemistry kits? RILEY: I wanted one, but I never got a chemistry set, … very good biology teacher, the textbook was really not very good. Chemistry I think was the standard. MAESTREJUAN: What about this interest…
- Interviewee Riley, Lee W., 1949-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Riley, Lee W., 1949-, Public health, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Escherichia coli--Research, Tuberculosis--Research, Communicable diseases--Transmission, Tuberculosis--Pathogenesis
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Oral history interview with Jonathan M. Horowitz
- 1998-Jan-13 – 1998-Jan-15
…other stuff--and check stuff out. That got old pretty fast. We had chemistry sets that got old really fast and things like that. It was more reading … take two years of calculus--whatever you had to take--and organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry. I just couldn't understand, what do I need … the rest wanted to be M.D.'s. Everyone in the biology classes and chemistry, etc., classes were all going to medical school, and so everything…
- Interviewee Horowitz, Jonathan Michael, 1958-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Horowitz, Jonathan Michael, 1958-, Judaism, Retrovirus infections--Animal models, Oncology, Molecular genetics, Duke University, Cancer--Research, Oncogenes, Molecular biology, North Carolina State University. College of Veterinary Medicine, Medical scientists, Oncologists
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42 items
The Hercules Mixer, Volume 44
- 1962-Jan – 1962-Dec
…by disease, and fertile jungle land cleared of unproductive growth. Chemistry has made this vision pos- sible, but there is much hard work ahead…
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7 items
Oral history interview with Charles M. Rubin
- 1992-Nov-05 (First session)
- 1992-Nov-07 (Second session)
- 1992-Nov-09 (Third session)
…really remember any of them as being really all that exciting--organic chemistry, chemistry. Some of the biology was kind of interesting. I know it … the good grades. I wouldn’t say it was easy. I also did enjoy it. Chemistry certainly wasn’t exciting; mathematics wasn’t exciting to me. I placed … I liked doing the little problems. I think there were problems in chemistry that you had to do, and I liked doing them and figuring out the answer…
- Interviewee Rubin, Charles M., 1953-2015
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Medical scientists--Biography, Rubin, Charles M., 1953-2015, Medicine--Research, Children with disabilities, Medicine, Cancer, Cancer--Research, Medical scientists, Cancer in children, People with disabilities
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31 items
The Hercules Mixer Volume 4, Number 2
- 1922-Feb
…high school he entered the School of Mines of Co- became assistant in chemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, …of New York. A year later he was pro- moted to be tutor in general chemistry at Columbia, where he worked under Pro- fessor Charles F. Chandler…
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Oral history interview with E.N. (Ned) Brandt
- 1992-Jun-17
…psychology, economics, a smattering of science, and two or three years of chemistry. I remember liking chemistry, but not being particularly drawn to …wondered whether I should have gone back to school and gotten a degree in chemistry or chemical engineering so that I could do well in this company. …
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Oral history interview with Nancy M. Hollingsworth
- 2002-Nov-11 – 2002-Nov-13
…games. Is there any sign of science maybe at this point? Do you have a chemistry set, for instance? Are you doing anything along those lines? …really began to get involved in science. I took advanced placement chemistry and there was a teacher, Mr. Wells. Mr. Wells taught to …couldn’t get it. But I was never bored, and I really learned a lot of chemistry. I remember learning how to balance equations, and, see,…
- Interviewee Hollingsworth, Nancy M., 1958-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Hollingsworth, Nancy M., 1958-, Yeast, Mutation (Biology), Biochemistry, Recombinant DNA, Molecular genetics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, MSH (Hormone), Women in science, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Women medical scientists
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Oral history interview of the toxic substances control act from the perspective of Linda J. Fisher
- 2010-Mar-05
… going to make a difference. And if you can start getting greener chemistry on the market through the Design for the Environment program, or …
- Interviewee Fisher, Linda Jane, 1952-
- Interviewer Roberts, Jody A., 1976-, Hardy, Kavita D.
- Subject Fisher, Linda Jane, 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 Robert Adams
- 2013-Nov-22
…ways of correcting environmental problems through engineering and chemistry, so I wasn’t able to get work for a long time, but it finally worked…
- Interviewee Adams, Robert, 1953-
- Interviewer Berry, Lee Sullivan
- Sponsor National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
- Subject Adams, Robert, 1953-, Pennsylvania--Ambler, Asbestos, Asbestosis, Asbestosis--Research, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Asbestos--Environmental aspects, Asbestos--Health aspects, Watersheds, Water quality
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48 items
Atomic fuel
- 1967
… Fuel Synthetic Transuranium Elements The Atom and the Ocean¥” The Chemistry of the Noble Gases Whole Body Counters Your Body and Radiation…
- Author Hogerton, John F.
- Publisher U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Subject Nuclear fuels
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Oral history interview with Luis Proenza
- 2021-Jul-16
- 2021-Aug-06
…what a typical public high school would do, for example, but math, chemistry, physics--the usual gamut of things. EVANS: I see. Well, around …etc. And Purdue had started a research park; it had some faculty in chemistry and engineering and some other disciplines that had it started companies … the board, sort of, saw something in me, and anyway, we . . . the chemistry was right. I said to many people along the way that search committees…
- Interviewee Proenza, Luis M.
- Interviewer Evans, Kenneth M., (Kenneth Mellinger), Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-
- Subject Science and state, Minorities in science, Neurosciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Purdue University, University of Akron, College presidents, Academic-industrial collaboration, Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-, United States. Arctic Research Commission, Emigration and immigration, Proenza, Luis M.
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DDT : Killer of Killers
- 1946
…dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane—DDT to you—by Othmar Zeidler, a young chemistry student at Strasbourg, Germany. After all, Zeidler himself had little interest in what he had done. Like thousands of other chemistry students who have gone through the ordeal known as “working for a … the self-same formula had been worked out by some other ob- scure chemistry student while working on his thesis, The Lost is Found Contrary to…