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Portrait of Theodor Curtius, 1907
- 1907
…Curtius (1857-1928). Throughout his career, Curtius was a professor of chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, the director of the analytical chemistry department at the University of Erlangen, and a chair of chemistry at the University of Kiel. He defined the Curtius rearrangement in…
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Postcard from Walther Nernst to Georg Bredig, January 1913
- 1913-Jan-06
…Walther Nernst is known as one of the founding fathers of physical chemistry. He is most renowned for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry …and solid state physics. In 1920, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing the third law of thermodynamics. …
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Nernst, Walther, 1864-1941
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Nernst, Walther, 1864-1941, Chemists, Nobel Prize winners
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Oral history interview with Dale B. Baker
- 1997-Jun-06
… been operating for over three or four years. WILLIAMS: So, chemistry. Why not biology? Did there seem to be a bigger market in chemistry … grew in 1911 to four people: Dr. Crane and another editor. The chemistry building burned down in 1927 and they built a new chemistry building …Chemical Abstracts only had thirty-two sections, such as in physical chemistry, inorganic, organic, industrial chemistry, et cetera. One of my …
- Interviewee Baker, Dale B.
- Interviewer Slater, Leo B., Williams, Robert V.
- Subject Chemical engineering, American Chemical Society. Chemical Abstracts Service, Chemistry--Nomenclature, American Chemical Society, National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Chemical engineers, Garfield, Eugene, Information storage and retrieval systems--Chemistry, Chemistry--Research, Baker, Dale B., Chemists--Biography, Chemistry--Abstracting and indexing
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Oral history interview with Roald Hoffmann
- 2014-Oct-16 (First interview)
- 2014-Oct-17 (Second interview)
- 2015-Mar-21 (Third interview)
…, one is that it was a nexus--a meeting point of two sub-fields of chemistry: theoretical chemistry and organic chemistry. These nexuses--maybe … …Chemistry, Physical and theoretical; Chemistry--Study and teaching; College…
- Interviewee Hoffmann, Roald
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Reinhardt, Carsten
- Subject Hoffmann, Roald, Hückel molecular orbitals, Chemistry, Organic, Boranes, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Nobel Prize winners, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979, Djerassi, Carl, Emigration and immigration
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Portrait of Theodor Curtius, 1910
- 1910
…photography studio. Throughout his career, Curtius was a professor of chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, the director of the analytical chemistry department at the University of Erlangen, and a chair of chemistry at the University of Kiel. He defined the Curtius rearrangement in…
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Oral history interview with Peter S. Kim
- 1995-May-23 – 1995-May-24
- 1995-May-26
…applied to transfer in the College of Arts and Sciences and major in chemistry, which to me-- I liked chemistry. I was good at chemistry in high …college, I was a teaching assistant for the undergraduate course in chemistry, because I was a senior chemistry major and they liked to use some …when you said there were some figures that-- KIM: Yes. I was a chemistry major, and I was interested in using chemistry, in particular physical…
- Interviewee Kim, Peter S., 1958-
- Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Kim, Peter S., 1958-, Chemistry, Nuclear magnetic resonance, Protein folding, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Leucine zippers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Medical colleges
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Oral history interview with O. David Sparkman
- 2007-Jul-06
…were seniors. I became quite good friends with [them]. We started the Chemistry Club, [and we] were very active in the Chemistry Club. They graduated … chemistry,” and that’s how I got started in chemistry. [laughter] BOHNING …thousand and over five thousand. BOHNING: [. . .] What was the Chemistry Department like? SPARKMAN: The Chemistry Department was a place…
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Oral history interview with Madeleine Jacobs
- 2009-May-28
… in chemistry was something that started when you were a kid? JACOBS: No. … ever discussing chemistry or science with him. If anything, the chemistry set that you see … the corner there was given to me by a friend. I never had my own chemistry set, never did any chemistry experiments, never had any discussions…
- Interviewee Jacobs, Madeleine, 1946-
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary
- Subject Jacobs, Madeleine, 1946-, Chemistry, Women in chemistry, Draft, Sex discrimination, Journalism, Science writers, Smithsonian Institution, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), United States. National Bureau of Standards, American Chemical Society
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Oral history interview with Martin Karplus
- 2015-Dec-09
- 2016-Mar-04
- 2016-May-25
…up in history or whatever, but it was in science in particular, in chemistry even more so, that the chemistry teacher [John Hall]—I did fine. …not really real [good] reasons, but mixed reasons. If you majored in chemistry and physics, you didn’t have to take analytical chemistry, which …like to do [for my future research. If I was going to do theory in chemistry, that I would do something that was of utility in chemistry, not …
- Interviewee Karplus, Martin, 1930-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Eardley-Pryor, Roger
- Subject Karplus, Martin, 1930-, Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory, Quadrupole moments, Harvard University, Biology, Nobel Prize winners, Bird watching, Molecular dynamics, Photography
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Of the Cherrie Tree
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1. Cerasus vulgaris. The common English Cherrie tree.
2. Cerasus Hisplanica. The Spanish Cherrie tree.Illustrations for The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes compiled by John Gerard (1545-1612) from works by…
- Author Gerard, John, 1545-1612, Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585, Theodorus, Iacobus, -1590
- Engraver Payne, John
- Printer Islip, Adam, -1639, Norton, Joice, Whitaker, Richard, -1648
- Publisher Johnson, Thomas, -1644
- Subject Islip, Adam, -1639, Norton, Joice, Gerard, John, 1545-1612, Payne, John, Botany, Medical, Botanical chemistry, Theodorus, Iacobus, -1590, Botany, Whitaker, Richard, -1648, Materia medica, Herbals, Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585, Johnson, Thomas, -1644, Plants--Variation, Cherry
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Various species of Cherry tree : Double-Flowered, Birds and Black Grape, and Red Grape Cherry Trees
- 1633
7. Cerasus multiflor a fructus edens. The double floured Cherry tree bearing fruit.
8. Cerasus multiflor a pavciores fructus edens. The doule floured barren Cherry tree.
9. Cerasus avium nigra racemosa. Birds Cherry,…- Author Gerard, John, 1545-1612, Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585, Theodorus, Iacobus, -1590
- Engraver Payne, John
- Printer Islip, Adam, -1639, Norton, Joice, Whitaker, Richard, -1648
- Publisher Johnson, Thomas, -1644
- Subject Islip, Adam, -1639, Norton, Joice, Gerard, John, 1545-1612, Payne, John, Botany, Medical, Botanical chemistry, Theodorus, Iacobus, -1590, Botany, Whitaker, Richard, -1648, Materia medica, Herbals, Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585, Johnson, Thomas, -1644, Cherry, Plants--Variation
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Oral history interview with Donald S. Noyce
- 1981-Jan-22
… chemistry. He describes briefly his interaction with other faculty, his research …towards the biological sciences, so the structural sciences and organic chemistry looked like a good place. And I guess, in a sense, inorganic chemistry … the assistance of Max Tishler, The Chemistry of Organic Compounds; A Year’s Course in Organic Chemistry (New …
- Interviewee Noyce, Donald S. (Donald Sterling), 1923-2004
- Interviewer Gortler, Leon B.
- Subject Noyce, Donald S. (Donald Sterling), 1923-2004, Chemists, Chemists--Biography
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Portrait of Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
- Undated
…Moritz Kopp (1817–92) was a German physical chemist and historian of chemistry. Kopp is well-known for his four volume work, Geschichte der Chemie (History of Chemistry), which was published between 1843-1847. …
- Subject Kopp, Hermann, 1817-1892, Chemists
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Portrait of Friedrich Wöhler
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…Friedrich Wöhler (1800 -1882) was a German chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Göttingen. He specialized in inorganic chemistry…
- Subject Wöhler, Friedrich, 1800-1882, Chemists
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Spiral Periodic Chart
- 1970
…designed in the style of a spiral by Dr. Theodor Benfey, Professor of Chemistry, Guilford College. The table was originally published on page 27 of the January 1970 edition of CHEMISTRY.…
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Portrait of Svante Arrhenius
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…1927). Svante Arrhenius is known as one of the founders of Physical Chemistry. In 1903, Arrhenius was the third person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his electrolytic theory of dissociation which states that molecules … he was appointed the director of the Nobel Institute for Physical Chemistry.…
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Postcard to Georg Bredig from an unidentified sender, September 1922
- 1922-Sep
…sitting outside. Throughout his career, Curtius was a professor of chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, the director of the analytical chemistry department at the University of Erlangen, and a chair of chemistry at the University of Kiel. He published the Curtius rearrangement…
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Portrait of Theodor Curtius, 1905/1906
- 1905 – 1906
…photography studio. Throughout his career, Curtius was a professor of chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, the director of the analytical chemistry department at the University of Erlangen, and a chair of chemistry at the University of Kiel. He defined the Curtius rearrangement in…
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Oral history interview with Herbert C. Brown
- 1994-Nov-11
…BOHNING: But it was during that time at Crane that you switched to chemistry. BROWN: I took chemistry the first year; all engineers had to go … subject. I decided to forget about the money and concentrate on chemistry for my future career. BOHNING: What was it about chemistry that …reading? BROWN: Various books. As I remember, there was a general chemistry book by Lowry which presented chemistry from the historic viewpoint…
- Interviewee Brown, Herbert C. (Herbert Charles), 1912-2004
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject University of Chicago, World War (1939-1945), United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee, Wayne State University, Purdue University, Emigration and immigration, Nobel Prize winners
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Oral history interview with Elsa Reichmanis
- 2001-Aug-01
…inclination towards math and science. What really got me interested in chemistry was my high school chemistry course and the teacher that I had at …she taught in high school was probably pretty similar to a freshman chemistry course. Thus having completed that course, freshman chemistry was … REICHMANIS: Chemistry. All right, if we’d limit it to the chemistry and designing new …
- Interviewee Reichmanis, Elsa, 1953-
- Interviewer Brock, David C.
- Sponsor Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain). American Section
- Subject Reichmanis, Elsa, Chemists, Women chemists, Women in science, Bell Labs, Syracuse University, Photonics
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Oral history interview with Dorit Hanein
- 2008-Dec-03
… in the one that doesn’t require a lot of language, which is math, chemistry, physics because it doesn’t require a lot of knowledge in language …decision after that, as an undergraduate and a graduate, to practice chemistry was based on my chemistry teacher [Dr. Eisenberg] in the two years …in the chemistry. Now, in the chemistry school, the program that I joined was the…
- Interviewee Hanein, Dorit, 1961-
- Interviewer Nelson, Nicole C.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Hanein, Dorit, 1961-, Chemistry, Israel--Tel Aviv, Soldiers, Biomineralization, Biochemistry, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Women in chemistry, Working mothers
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Oral history interview with Herbert Tabor
- 1993-Apr-03
…years were all relatively general courses. I did not take organic chemistry or physical chemistry there. I remember that in general biology … in biochemistry. There was a non-laboratory biochemistry course, Chemistry 15, in the chemistry department. There were, of course, an extremely … physical chemistry course. Actually, I’m glad you brought that up. The physical chemistry…
- Interviewee Tabor, Herbert, 1918-
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Public health, Medical scientists--Biography, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Biochemistry--Research, Clinical chemistry, Drugs--Research
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Of the Dragon Tree
- 1633
1. Draco arbor. The Dragon tree.
2. Draconis fructus. The Dragon tree fruit.Illustrations for The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes compiled by John Gerard (1545-1612) from works by Turner, Rembert Dodoens,…
- Author Gerard, John, 1545-1612, Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585, Theodorus, Iacobus, -1590
- Engraver Payne, John
- Printer Islip, Adam, -1639, Norton, Joice, Whitaker, Richard, -1648
- Publisher Johnson, Thomas, -1644
- Subject Islip, Adam, -1639, Norton, Joice, Gerard, John, 1545-1612, Payne, John, Botany, Medical, Botanical chemistry, Theodorus, Iacobus, -1590, Botany, Whitaker, Richard, -1648, Materia medica, Herbals, Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585, Johnson, Thomas, -1644, Dracaena, Plants--Variation, Trees
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The Arched Indian Fig Tree
- 1633
Arbor ex Goa, sine Indica. The arched Indian Fig tree.
Illustrations for The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes compiled by John Gerard (1545-1612) from works by Turner, Rembert Dodoens, Iacobus Theodorus, Pena…
- Author Gerard, John, 1545-1612, Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585, Theodorus, Iacobus, -1590
- Engraver Payne, John
- Printer Islip, Adam, -1639, Norton, Joice, Whitaker, Richard, -1648
- Publisher Johnson, Thomas, -1644
- Subject Islip, Adam, -1639, Norton, Joice, Gerard, John, 1545-1612, Payne, John, Botany, Medical, Botanical chemistry, Theodorus, Iacobus, -1590, Botany, Whitaker, Richard, -1648, Materia medica, Herbals, Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585, Johnson, Thomas, -1644, Ficus (Plants), Plants--Variation
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Of the Fig Tree
- 1633
1. Ficus. The Fig tree.
2. Chameficus. The dwarfe Fig tree.Illustrations for The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes compiled by John Gerard (1545-1612) from works by Turner, Rembert Dodoens, Iacobus Theodorus,…
- Author Gerard, John, 1545-1612, Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585, Theodorus, Iacobus, -1590
- Engraver Payne, John
- Printer Islip, Adam, -1639, Norton, Joice, Whitaker, Richard, -1648
- Publisher Johnson, Thomas, -1644
- Subject Islip, Adam, -1639, Norton, Joice, Gerard, John, 1545-1612, Payne, John, Botany, Medical, Botanical chemistry, Theodorus, Iacobus, -1590, Botany, Whitaker, Richard, -1648, Materia medica, Herbals, Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585, Johnson, Thomas, -1644, Ficus (Plants), Plants--Variation