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Letter from Svante Arrhenius to Georg Bredig, January 1908
- 1908-Jan-01
…them. I believe you are like the obscurantists, who assert that the chemistry of living beings is essentially different from ordinary things. Way …successfully. There is hardly any competition in the field of Physical Chemistry. I do not expect much from Leipzig, which was once the center of …
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Letter from Ernst Terres to Kasimir Fajans, June 27, 1949
- 1949-Jun-27
…Society, I will personally deliver opening remarks on the importance of chemistry at our university over the last century. As a former faculty member … April 1948, I have been a tenured professor of coal and petroleum chemistry at the local university. It would take far too long to go into detail…
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Letter from Percy L. Julian to Bernhard Witkop
- 1949-Jan-05
…January 5, 199 Dr. Bernhard Witkop Harvard University Department of Chemistry 12 Oxford Street Cambridge 38, Massachusetts Dear Dr. Witkop: I was…
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Künst Büch von allerhandt rahren undt schönen inventionen so wohl in der Feuerwerckerey Künst als auch in der Büchsenmeisterey zusammen
- 1671
A manuscript work from Andreas Räbel, a 17th-century pyrotechnician, containing formulas and recipes for the creation of fireworks, explosives, rockets, detonators, flares, bombs, and other armament. The recipes call…
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Constant Humidity Room at the Fertilizer Machinery Laboratory
- Circa 1935
General view of assorted equipment and apparatus in the Constant Humidity Room at the the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fertilizer Machinery Laboratory located at the Arlington Experimental Farm in Rosslyn…
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Fertilizer testing apparatus mounting frame and driving mechanisms
- 1935
Close-up view of the mounting frame and driving mechanisms of the fertilizer distribution testing apparatus used in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fertilizer Machinery Laboratory located at the Arlington…
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Constant Humidity Room at the Fertilizer Machinery Laboratory
- Circa 1935
General view of assorted equipment and apparatus in the Constant Humidity Room at the the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fertilizer Machinery Laboratory located at the Arlington Experimental Farm in Rosslyn…
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Indoor soil track at Fertilizer Machinery Laboratory
- 1935
General view of the indoor soil track used in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fertilizer Machinery Laboratory located at the Arlington Experimental Farm in Rosslyn [Arlington], Virginia. Measuring 9 feet wide by 70…
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Fertilizer distribution testing apparatus
- 1935
General view of the fertilizer distribution testing apparatus used in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fertilizer Machinery Laboratory located at the Arlington Experimental Farm in Rosslyn [Arlington], Virginia. The…
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Apparatus for the production of soft x-radiation
- 1930-Jan-08
Close-up view of an apparatus used to produce soft x-radiation at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C.
The Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory (F.N.R.L.)…
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Apparatus for obtaining x-ray diffraction patterns
- 1930-Jan-08
Close-up view of an apparatus used to obtain x-ray diffraction patterns at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C.
The Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory…
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Travis P. Hignett and Mr. Royster with hot blast stove
- 1930-May-28
General view of the hot blast stove, a component of the phosphoric acid furnace at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C. The individuals visible in the…
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Oral history interview with Nathalie Dusoulier
- 2000-Jun-19
…pharmacology, and biophysics. Another dealt with mathematics, physics, chemistry, et cetera. The chief was a lady named Madame Duval. The other …field with you. Your two deputies are very good at physics as well as chemistry. You take the human sciences.” And I told him, “Human sciences? …the American databases to compete with the research done on chemistry. If you give all the information to the French researchers, they…
- Interviewee Dusoulier, Nathalie, 1927-2010
- Interviewer Rayward, W. Boyd
- Subject Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), Pharmacology, Chemistry--Nomenclature, Women in information science, Pharmacologists, Institut de l'information scientifique et technique (France), United Nations, Chemistry--Abstracting and indexing, Women in science, Information storage and retrieval systems--Chemistry, Dusoulier, Nathalie, 1927-2010, Information science
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Oral history interview with Rudolph A. Marcus
- 1991-Jun-20
…time there, I suppose, when I wondered about mathematics, physics, or chemistry, and I don’t know what made me choose chemistry. Probably I felt … chemistry, totally different from inorganic chemistry today. We went from …very, very gentle, very much beloved teacher. He made his organic chemistry course interesting. It was the second-year organic chemistry …
- Interviewee Marcus, Rudolph A. (Rudolph Arthur), 1923-
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Marcus, Rudolph A. (Rudolph Arthur), 1923-, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, World War (1939-1945), National Research Council Canada, University of North Carolina (1793-1962), United States. Office of Naval Research, Unimolecular reactions, Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.), Polymers, Oxford University, California Institute of Technology, Charge exchange
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Oral history interview with Fred Basolo
- 1991-Mar-01
… in chemistry. At University of Illinois, he studied inorganic chemistry with John … chemistry, the kind of chemistry that I was doing. One in particular was Professor …chemistry each year. We were on a quarter system, and the general chemistry…
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Employee conducting X-ray studies of catalysts for nitrogen fixation
- 1930-May-28
General view of an unidentified employee operating an apparatus used to produce x-radiation in order to study nitrogen fixation catalysts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory…
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Oral history interview with Keith J. Laidler
- 1983-Oct-13 (First session)
- 1983-Oct-14 (Second session)
- 1983-Oct-18 (Third session)
…Laidler received training and undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemistry and physical chemistry, and as a graduate student in physical chemistry …teaching professions for graduates in physics and chemistry. But then, certainly, the teaching of physics and chemistry was …; one was called Recent Advances in Physical Chemistry**and the other was Recent Advances in General Chemistry.*** They…
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Scientific Notes from Johannes Diderik van der Waals sent to Georg Bredig
- 1895-Feb-04
An invitation to the meeting of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Amsterdam and calculations using the Van der Waals equation of state written by its creator, Johannes Diderik van der Waals…
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Oral history interview with David M. Hercules
- 2002-Mar-20
…was going to go to graduate school. I had three real interests in chemistry: analytical chemistry, biochemistry, and spectroscopy. I had a really … chemistry within it? HERCULES: The place of analytical chemistry within … chemistry? HERCULES: By the time I arrived, the chemistry department…
- Interviewee Hercules, David M.
- Interviewer Daemmrich, Arthur, Brock, David C.
- Subject Hercules, David M., Lehigh University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electron spectroscopy, University of Georgia, Business consultants, Catalysis, University of Pittsburgh, Mass spectrometry, Spectrum analysis, Chemical apparatus, Chemists
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Georg Bredig and fellow chemists in Amsterdam
- 1894
…1870-1927). In 1894, Bredig traveled to Amsterdam to study physical chemistry under van’t Hoff. …
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Oral history interview with William S. Knowles
- 2008-Jan-30
…clown and he gave very good lectures and he was very interested in chemistry -- organic chemistry as opposed to physical chemistry. GRAYSON …Chemical Engineering, 41, 47, 88 Electrochemistry, 92 Industrial Chemistry, 41, 42 Natural Product Chemistry, 86 Organic Chemistry, 31, 32, 33, 50, 71, 96 Paper Chemistry, 89 Physical Chemistry, 17, 31, 32, 33, 35, 44, 64 Steroid Chemistry …Company, where he moved from studies of vanillin to research on steroid chemistry and L-Dopa, among other topics. Knowles discusses the many projects he worked on while at Monsanto, his 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the challenges of being an industrial scientist.…
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Letter from Max Bredig to Georg Bredig and Marianne Homburger, April 15, 1937
- 1937-Apr-15
…measurements in his laboratory since the establishment of physical chemistry. Now, with their help, I have determined the conversion points. …
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Homburger, Marianne, 1903-1986
- Author Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
- Subject Bavarian Nitrogen Works, Chemists, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977, Science--Experiments, X-rays, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Homburger, Marianne, 1903-1986, Franck, Hans Heinrich, 1888-1961
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First Day Cover commemorating Svante Arrhenius
- 1959
Cachet and stamp depict the Swedish chemist and physicist Svante Arrhenius.
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Oral history interview with Izaak M. Kolthoff
- 1984-Mar-15
…about how I got interested in science in general and in physics and chemistry in particular. I don't know why I got interested in chemistry. It's … became interested in chemistry. I had enough interest during the first year that I took chemistry …mentioned to him that the table of contents always contained organic chemistry, physical chemistry, and inorganic chemistry, but no analytical chemistry…
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Letter from Edward F. Hayes to Andrew M. Sessler, January 1978
- 1978-Jan-27
…, Jr., as the Director of the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry. I nave discussed Dr. Lester's distinguished research record jin theoretical chemistry and his Management experience with the appropriate staff at the Foundation …Science Foundation. | Sincerely yours, Edward F. Hayes Head, Physical Chemistry and Dynamics Section \ cc: Dr. Ear) Hyde Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory …(1937-) as the Director of the National Resource for Computational Chemistry (NRCC). …
- Author Hayes, Edward F., 1941-
- Addressee Sessler, A. M. (Andrew Marienhoff)
- Subject Sessler, A. M. (Andrew Marienhoff), Hayes, Edward F., 1941-, Lester, William A., Jr., 1937-, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. National Resource for Computation in Chemistry, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Chemists, African American chemists