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Oral history interview with Max Tishler
- 1983-Nov-14
…you do much reading? TISHLER: Yes. I was very much impressed with chemistry. I already had an interest in chemistry as a result of my working …when I first came. But I went to Kohler because I took his course, Chemistry 5, which today is called Chemistry 50. Chemistry 5 was advanced organic …do think though. I try to teach the students here the importance of chemistry--the usefulness of chemistry. Chemistry is not just an intellectual…
- Interviewee Tishler, Max
- Interviewer Gortler, Leon B., Heitmann, John A.
- Subject Kohler, Elmer Peter, 1865-1938, Merck & Co., Chemists, Harvard University, Chemists--Biography, Tishler, Max
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Letter from Jacobus H. van 't Hoff to Georg Bredig, June 1900
- 1900-Jun-30
…undertake this endeavor successfully if we make other facets of physical chemistry accessible to the public, which are and will be important for engineering …Wagner that the following notice be included in the Journal of Physical Chemistry (Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie): “This year's general …acid process, Le Born, Staßfurt’s work, Delem's treatise on “Physical Chemistry”, Bancroft’s work on the technical value of physical chemistry, Cohen's…
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Letter from Raphael M. Munavu to Theophilus Sorrell, September 28, 1983
- 1983-Sep-28
…UNIVERSITY OF NAIRO DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY ‘i a FPO Dra SOG ANiirobi. Konya Telephone G3II5F Tologrsens Farsity …recommendation in the area of Chemical Education (page 4) deals with a Chemistry Newsletter. We would be interested to hear your experiences with …Association of Faculties of Science of African Universities (AFSAU) Chemistry Committee, to Theophilus Sorrel. Munavu writes regarding materials…
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Letter from Johannes Jaenicke to Max Bredig, October 21, 1957
- 1957-Oct-27
…writing. Fritz Haber was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918. …
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Letter from H. Jermain Creighton to Max Bredig, June 8, 1939
- 1939-Jun-09
…H. Jermain Creighton, a chemistry professor at Swarthmore College, writes Max Bredig (1902-1977) to…
- Author Creighton, H. Jermain
- Addressee Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
- Subject Swarthmore College, Creighton, H. Jermain, Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
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Letter from Campbell Morfit to James Curtis Booth, May 8, 1855
- 1855-May-08
…co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry, writes to philosophize on the death of his wife, Marie, and request…
- Author Morfit, Campbell, 1820-1897
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Morfit, Campbell, 1820-1897
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Letter from Campbell Morfit to James Curtis Booth, April 26, 1852
- 1852-Apr-26
…co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850), writes to Booth to plan a 3-day visit to Philadelphia to …
- Author Morfit, Campbell, 1820-1897
- Addressee Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
- Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Morfit, Campbell, 1820-1897, Chemists
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Postcard from Adolf Windaus to Georg Bredig, November 1928
- 1928-Nov-27
… to Georg Bredig (1868-1944). Windaus received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1928 for his research on sterols and their relationship with vitamins…
- Author Windaus, Adolf, 1876-1959
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Windaus, Adolf, 1876-1959, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Nobel Prize winners
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Charles C. Price in laboratory
- 1950s
…Dame, where he served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1946 to 1954. …
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Caricature of James Pickering Kendall (1889-1978)
- 1931
…National Meeting in Buffalo, New York. A graduate and Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University, Kendall's research interests included electrolytes…
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First Day Cover commemorating the 200th birthday of Johan Gadolin
- 1960-Jun-04
…discovered the element yttrium and is considered the "founder of Finnish chemistry." The stamp commemorates the bicentennial of Gadolin's birth and …
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Oral history interview with Harry Sello
- 2004-Nov-04 (First session)
- 2005-Jan-07 (Second session)
- 2005-Mar-16 (Third session)
… which included emigration from Russia. Sello became interested in chemistry and completed undergraduate work in organic chemistry before applying … BROCK: Right. And you’re getting more and more interested in chemistry and science? SELLO: Well, the chemistry continued, yes. Of …could take, but nobody used French. [laughter] LÉCUYER: Not in chemistry. SELLO: Yes, right. Not in chemistry. Well, in organic chemistry…
- Interviewee Sello, Harry, 1921-
- Interviewer Brock, David C., Lécuyer, Christophe
- Subject Fairchild (Firm), Noyce, Robert N. (Robert Norton), 1927-1990, Metal oxide semiconductors, Complementary, Grove, Andrew S., Microelectronics industry, Shockley, William, 1910-1989, Moore, Gordon E., 1929-2023, Electronic industries, Chemists, Intel Corporation, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Hoerni, Jean A., 1924-1997, Sello, Harry, 1921-, Chemists--Biography, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Warren G. Schlinger
- 2002-Jul-24
… by tracing his family heritage and discussing his introduction to chemistry: a Gilbert Chemistry Set owned by a friend. While a young man, Schlinger …Christmas after that, I’m quite certain that I got my first Gilbert Chemistry Set, and my interest in chemistry continued. In junior high school …incendiary devices and so forth, as kids do! By the time I got through chemistry in high school, I pretty much knew that chemistry or chemical engineering…
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Dedicated Spaces
- 1999
…following renovations. Originally founded as the Center for the History of Chemistry in 1982 and renamed Chemical Heritage Foundation in 1994, it was …DuPont Lobby, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, the Herbert H. Dow Public Square, the Carl A. Gerstacker Board Room…
- Producer Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemical Heritage Foundation, Museums, Libraries
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Georg Bredig and fellow chemists in Zürich
- 1910
…1910, Bredig took a position at ETH Zurich as a professor of physical chemistry. He only left soon after when he was given the opportunity to become the Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe.…
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Georg Bredig and fellow chemists in Zürich
- 1910
…1910, Bredig took a position at ETH Zurich as a professor of physical chemistry. He only left soon after when he was given the opportunity to become the Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe.…
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Postcard from Jacobus H. van 't Hoff to Georg Bredig, 1898
- 1898
…Van't Hoff is considered to be one of the founding fathers of physical chemistry. In 1901 van’t Hoff received the first Nobel prize in Chemistry “…
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Postcard from Wilhelm Ostwald to Georg Bredig, April 1925
- 1925-Apr-14
…German chemist and philosopher. In 1909 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental …is considered one of the founding fathers of the field of physical chemistry. When he retired in 1906 Ostwald studied art, philosophy, and politics…
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932
- Subject Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Nobel Prize winners, Chemists
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Oral history interview with Kurt Wüthrich
- 2004-Mar-09
…INTERVIEWER: David C. Brock LOCATION:Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chicago, Illinois DATE: 9 March 2004 …: My interest in chemistry started during high school. I had a small lab on our farm where I …reported by physicists around 1945. In 1962, its use for applications in chemistry was very new. In a collection of articles on the history of chemistry…
- Interviewee Wüthrich, Kurt, 1938-
- Interviewer Brock, David C.
- Subject Wüthrich, Kurt, 1938-, Chemists, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Molecular biology, Electron paramagnetic resonance
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Letter from Raphael M. Munavu to Edward A. Knapp, October 4, 1983
- 1983-Oct-04
…DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY PO Bs 30197 Cy es | Selephone G3553 4th October 1983 Dr. Edward A …Association of Faculties of Science of African Universities (AFSAU) Chemistry Committee, to extend our thanks to the NSF for the grants which enabled … receive from NSF. : sree cen tse FF Raphael M,. pecretary , AFSAU Chemistry co…
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Laboratory Experiments with Radioisotopes for High School Science Demonstrations
- 1958
…grant to pay for the services of a group of six New York City biology, chemistry and physics teachers who gave up their Easter recess in the Spring …because they could be introduced into high school courses in biology, chemistry, and vhysics. Dr. William Jansen, Superintendent of Schools, New …experiments designed by New York City teachers to be performed in biology, chemistry, and physics high school classes. The experiments deal with topics…
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Postcard to Georg Bredig from Alfred Stock, July 1936
- 1936-Jul-20
…, and mercury poisoning. In 1926, Stock became the director of the chemistry department at Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe.…
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Stock, Alfred, 1876-1946
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Stock, Alfred, 1876-1946
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Letter from Max Bredig to the American consul, Stuttgart, December 18, 1938
- 1938-Dec-18
…the letter Max explains that his father is a professor of Physical Chemistry in Germany and how many people will be grateful for him to be in …
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Letter from Campbell Morfit to James Curtis Booth, April 11, 1859
- 1859-Apr-11
…co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850), writes to express a misgiving as to how the new post of Commissioner…
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Letter from Eduard Buchner to Georg Bredig, November 1899
- 1899-Nov-20
…-1917), a German chemist and zymologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1907, discusses his work on enzymes in a letter to Georg Bredig…
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Buchner, Eduard, 1860-1917
- Subject Buchner, Eduard, 1860-1917, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Enzymes, Nobel Prize winners