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We Scrub Your Tub. We Work Hard So You Don't Have To
- Advertisement for Dow Bathroom Cleaner
- 1988
Color print advertisement for Dow Bathroom Cleaner featuring a close-up view of the Scrubbing Bubbles mascot.
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Chemical industry, Advertising, Cleaning compounds, Cleaning, Consumer goods
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Ray McIntire posed with Styrofoam Santa Claus
- 1988
General view of Dow Chemical Company engineer Ray McIntire (1918-1996) posed with a Santa Claus figurine carved out of Styrofoam. McIntire invented foam polystyrene in 1941 while working in Dow's Chemical Physics Lab.…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject McIntire, Otis Ray, 1918-1996, Foamed materials, Dow Chemical Company, Foam, Polystyrene
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Interior of Analytical Laboratory at Dow Chemical Company
- 1988
Interior view of the Analytical Laboratory at the Dow Chemical Company facilities in Midland, Michigan. Assorted analytical instruments and computational equipment is visible throughout the laboratory, including a…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Extrusion of saran bubble at Dow Chemical Company
- 1987 – 1988
Two views of an unidentified employee observing the extrusion of a saran bubble from a rolling machine at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film passed through a series of…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics--Extrusion, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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Beckman BUN, Creatinine, and Glucose Analyzers
- 1979 – 1988
BUN stands for Blood Urea Nitrogen.
Creatinine, a byproduct of muscle metabolism, can be measured to determine renal function.
The Glucose Analyzer was developed by James Sternberg in 1969 and was one of several very…
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Aerial view of the Analytical Laboratory at Dow Chemical Company
- 1988
Aerial view of the Analytical Laboratory at the Dow Chemical Company facilities in Midland, Michigan. Three employees are visible on the ground floor of the laboratory, surrounded by assorted analytical instruments and…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Oral history interview with Malcolm E. Pruitt
- 1988-Sep-09
This short interview with Mac Pruitt is concerned with the Council for Chemical Research and starts with an account of the foundation meeting at Midland and its origins in Pruitt's fear that U.S. chemical technology was…
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Beckman's New Hydrophobic Interaction Column Purifies Proteins
- 1988-Aug-19
The press release announces the specifications of the Spherogel CAA-HIC Column.
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Certificate Presenting Vannevar Bush Award to Glenn Seaborg
- 1988-May
"For pioneering with vision, boldness and drive, the discovery, exploration and settlement of new frontiers in science, education, and public service."
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Proposal for Quantum Monte Carlo for Molecular Studies
- 1988-Jan-11 – 1988-Mar-24
Proposal for Quantum Monte Carlo for Molecular Studies by William A. Lester, Jr. (1937-) and Peter J. Reynolds (1949-). The proposal includes a letter from Rachel Chrisman, from the San Diego Supercomputer Center, an…
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Oral history interview with Sidney Edelstein
- 1987-Aug-31 (First session)
- 1988-Feb-24 (Second session)
In this interview Sidney Edelstein begins with his family life in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and includes his early education and experiences at the Baylor School in Chattanooga. He describes his undergraduate career at…
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Oral history interview with Mildred Cohn
- 1987-Dec-15 (First session)
- 1988-Jan-06 (Second session)
Mildred Cohn begins the interview by reflecting on her childhood, education, and family life, describing how she was prepared to enter college by age fourteen. She then discusses her undergraduate experience at Hunter…
- Interviewee Cohn, Mildred, 1913-2009
- Interviewer Gortler, Leon B.
- Subject Women biochemists, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.), Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Du Vigneaud, Vincent, 1901-1978, Biochemistry, Harvard Medical School, Cornell University, Women chemists, Cohn, Mildred, 1913-2009, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Society of Biological Chemists, Women in science, Biochemists, George Washington University