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Chemist at work in Dow Agricultural Research and Development Laboratory
- Circa 1952
General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory, with view of assorted laboratory equipment and apparatus. Per an article in the…
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Gene Kenaga examining stored grain insect cultures at Dow Agricultural Chemical Research Laboratory
- 1953-Mar
General view of entomologist E.E. ("Gene") Kenaga at work in the storage room for grain insect cultures at the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Chemical Research and Development Laboratory. Per notations accompanying…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Agricultural chemicals, Employees, Chemical industry, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Agricultural chemistry, Insect pests, Kenaga, E.E.
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Employee at work in Dow Agricultural Research Laboratory
- 1952
General view of an unidentified employee using an apparatus to conduct an analysis at the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Research Laboratory facilities in Seal Beach, California. The laboratory was commonly used to…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Agricultural chemicals, Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dow Chemical Company, Soil fumigation, Agricultural chemistry, Glassware, Laboratories
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James Wilson (Secretary of Agriculture 1897-1913)
- 1910s
Photograph of James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture from 1897 to 1913, seated in a horse-drawn carriage with an unidentified African American driver. Wilson's tenure as Secretary is regarded as a period distinguished…
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Personnel at experimental blast furnace plant
- 1934-Apr-05
Group photograph of personnel at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory's experimental blast furnace plant, taken at the conclusion of a Tennessee Valley Authority (T.V.A.) operation. Per notations accompanying the…
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Machine shop at the Fertilizer Machinery Laboratory
- 1935
General view of the machine shop at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fertilizer Machinery Laboratory located at the Arlington Experimental Farm in Rosslyn [Arlington], Virginia. Established by an act of Congress in…
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J.J. Connor at work in Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory
- Circa 1928
General view of acetylene welding at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C. The man visible in the photograph is identified as J.J. Connor. This photograph is…
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Employees at work in Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory electrical shop
- Circa 1928
General view of the electrical shop at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory showing assorted machinery and apparatus. The man visible on the left-hand side of the photograph is…
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F.F. Robey at work in carpenter shop at Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory
- Circa 1928
General view of F.F. Robey at work in the carpenter shop at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory showing assorted machinery and apparatus.
The Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory…
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Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, 1964
- 1964-Oct-06
Letter between Robert S. Mulliken and Harrison Shull, American quantum chemists, concerning reprints and the Cosmos Club.
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Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, 1962
- 1962-Apr-05
Letter between Robert S. Mulliken and Harrison Shull, American quantum chemists, concerning assistance to Japan and European nations to attend a Gordon Research Conference on the topic of non-empirical calculations.
- Addressee Shull, Harrison
- Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
- Subject Shull, Harrison, Biochemists, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Pullman, Bernard, Gordon Research Conferences, Lefebvre-Brion, Hélène, Japan, Quantum chemistry, Coulson, C. A. (Charles Alfred), 1910-1974, Daudel, Raymond, Nobel Prize winners, Physicists, Valence (Theoretical chemistry), Mathematicians, Chemists, Great Britain, Boys, Samuel F.
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Oral history interview with Saul Herner
- 1997-Jul-16
…veterinarian. I switched to the biochemistry department—agricultural chemistry department, technically—and ended up there. Then, it’s sort of a …or try to answer, chemical reference questions. They just gave me chemistry. They also had the New York Public Library Reference. That big … Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. That’s how it happened to be published. WILLIAMS: Now, what…
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Oil wells in Baku, Azerbaijan
- Part of The Romance of Modern Chemistry
- 1909
…throughout the landscape. This plate is found within The Romance of Modern Chemistry, which is a layman's introduction to topics in chemistry. Includes a history of chemistry along with alchemy and the philosopher's stone; elements including …as discoveries in chemistry.…
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Luray Caverns Ballroom of stalactites
- Part of The Romance of Modern Chemistry
- 1909
…roof of the cavern. This plate is found within The Romance of Modern Chemistry, which is a layman's introduction to topics in chemistry. Includes a history of chemistry along with alchemy and the philosopher's stone; elements including …as discoveries in chemistry.…
- Author Philip, James Charles
- Creator Of Work James, C. H.
- Subject Science--Study and teaching, Chemistry, Stalactites and stalagmites, Chalk, Carbon dioxide, Caves, Water, Virginia--Luray Caverns, Textbooks
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Microscope photography of adulterated food
- Part of The Romance of Modern Chemistry
- 1909
…rice and arrowroot. This plate is found within The Romance of Modern Chemistry, which is a layman's introduction to topics in chemistry. Includes a history of chemistry along with alchemy and the philosopher's stone; elements including …as discoveries in chemistry.…
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Portrait of Ira Remsen (1846-1927)
- 1904
…College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1867. He subsequently studied chemistry in Germany under the tutelage of Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig and earned …Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen in 1870. After studying pure chemistry at the University of Tubingen, Remsen returned to the United States … university, among them: professor of chemistry (1876-1913); director of the chemical laboratory (1876-1908); secretary…
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Letter from George Hevesy to Georg Bredig
- 1927-May-02
…University Institute for Physical Chemistry Freiburg im Breslau, 2 May, 1927 …Hevesy was a Hungarian chemist. He worked in inorganic and nuclear chemistry at Stockholm University. In 1923, he co-discovered the element hafnium. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943 for his contribution to the development of radioactive tracers …the time this letter was written, Hevesy was a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Freiburg. …
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Figure 90. Machinery for Filling Bottles with Artificial Mineral Waters
- 1884
…mineral waters. This plate is from John Howard Appleton's (1844-1930) Chemistry, Developed by Facts and Principles Drawn Chiefly from the Non-Metals, published in 1884. Intended as an introduction to the study of chemistry, this volume contains illustrations throughout the text including…
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Fritz Haber attending a preparatory meeting at the Universidad Internacional de Verano de Santander
- 1933-Aug
… of the Santander Summer School. This 11-day meeting, dedicated to chemistry, was held August 9th through 20th, 1933 by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officials to prepare for the XI General Assembly and the …
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Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri
- 1987
…annual Christmas lectures given by Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, a Lebanese chemistry educator who spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison …demonstrates physics principles using soap bubbles and sound waves. And UW Chemistry professor Fred Juergens repeats his musical salute to chemistry and…
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Letter from Richard Adolf Zsigmondy to Georg Bredig, January 1900
- 1900-Jan-29
…1865-1929), an Austrian colloidal chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1925, tells Georg Bredig (1868-1944) that he would like to cite…
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Letter from Max Bredig to Georg Bredig, November 24, 1939
- 1939-Nov-24
…curriculum vitae on hand, i.e., an autobiography of your career in chemistry.) Professor Cohen will probably advise you much better on these issues …recently offered Georg a pro-forma research position in Department of Chemistry for two years. …
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Oral history interview with Michael J.S. Dewar
- 1991-Jan-22
… my first term I was there buying books I needed when I saw one on chemistry. I had always wondered what chemistry was about, so I bought it and … of the chemistry? DEWAR: Oxford was unique in the sense that the undergraduate chemistry …they did have, yes. BOHNING: What types? Did you have both organic chemistry and physical chemistry? DEWAR: Yes, indeed, and also inorganic chemistry…
- Interviewee Dewar, Michael J.S., 1918-1997
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Dewar, Michael J.S., 1918-1997, Molecular orbitals, Courtaulds (Firm), Emigration and immigration
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Raphael Meldola
- 1916
… …HON. D.SC. OXON., HON. LL.D. ST. AND., . RS. -PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THECITY AND. GUILDS OF LONDON TECHNICAL COLLEGE. ~HON.MEM.SOC.CHIM.DEFRANCE …. Chapters include information on when he was Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of London from 1912-15 as well a sections on his…
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Makers of Modernity: Members of the Pittcon Hall of Fame
- 2005
…This award is co-sponsored by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy and the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now…