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Oral history interview with Allen G. Debus
- 2007-Mar-29
…north of Chicago, where he attended public schools. He earned a BS in chemistry, with almost enough credits for a second major in history. After …: As a matter of fact, I had moved from chemical engineering to a chemistry major. So my Northwestern degree is in chemistry. It’s a B.S. …department program. But, there really was no one who was doing history of chemistry. Leonard K. Nash of the chemistry department had an interest in …
- Interviewee Debus, Allen G.
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Historians of science, Chemistry, Chemists, Chemists--Biography, Science--Historiography, Debus, Allen G.
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Oral history interview with James D. Idol
- 1994-Dec-08
…James D. Idol discusses his early interest in chemistry and decision to pursue chemistry in higher education, which led to …than I. He was an Eagle Scout and was in the process of getting his chemistry merit badge. At the age of six, I was exposed to his chemistry set …journalism graduate from Missouri University—but I seemed always to enjoy chemistry and science. Chemistry was always the favorite. I considered medicine…
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Postcard from Svante Arrhenius to Georg Bredig, January 1896
- 1896-Jan-02
… Georg Bredig Assistant at the Institute for Physical Chemistry House Number (if it can be stated): Brüderstrasse 34 …left his fortune to a fund that would award annual prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. The first Nobel Prize …Arrhenius would be the third person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his electrolytic theory of dissociation. …
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Trade card for Bouillon Oxo en Flacons [Bouillon Oxo in Bottles] with Justus von Liebig in Giessen in 1840
- 1929
…, as well as a biography of Liebig. Justus von Liebig transformed chemistry education through the development and organization of his laboratory. Liebig's laboratory became the model in teaching practical chemistry. Liebig's Extract of Meat Company was founded in 1865 by Justus…
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Oral history interview with Howard S. Turner
- 2002-Sep-09
…Howard S. Turner discusses his early interests in chemistry before receiving his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Swarthmore … It was probably through school that I became interested in chemistry. Like so many other children at that time, I had a Chemcraft [Chemistry …collapsed in September of 1929. I was very much looking forward to my chemistry courses. Thinking back, a man named Samuel Cone asked our chemistry…
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Portrait of Samuel Phillip Sadtler (1847-1923)
- 1910s
…to the United States, Sadtler assumed the position of professor of chemistry and physics at Pennsylvania College (1871-1874) and subsequently became chair of general and organic chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, a position he held until 1891. Sadtler later served as chair of the chemistry department at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (now University…
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Formula for Plenty...Pattern for the Future!
- 1951
…land through soil erosion. Better seed. Better machines. And modern chemistry . . . analyzing the soil, defeating the pests, Pent : destroying …elevated view of farm fields, while the accompanying text details modern chemistry's contributions to a range of products for analyzing soil, defeating…
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Chemical Education Roundtable with Ron Tempest, Bill Bleam and Joseph S. Schmuckler
- 2008
…Tempest, Bill Bleam, and Joseph S. Schmuckler about the changes in chemistry education in the later half of the 20th century. In particular, …
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Letter of condolence from Carl Neuberg to Max Bredig
- 1944-Apr-30
…father of modern biochemistry and was nominated for a Nobel Prize for Chemistry twenty-five times. He was the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute…
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Letter from Max Bredig to Ernst Berl, March 25, 1943
- 1943-Mar-25
… an Austrian chemist and professor of technical and macromolecular chemistry. During World War One, he produced explosives and chemical weapons…
- Author Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
- Addressee Berl, Ernst, 1877-1946
- Subject Berl, Ernst, 1877-1946, Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977, Citizenship, Chemists
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Letter from Ernst Berl to Max Bredig, March 22, 1943
- 1943-Mar-22
… an Austrian chemist and professor of technical and macromolecular chemistry. During World War One, he produced explosives and chemical weapons…
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Portrait of Jöns Jacob Berzelius
- Undated
…was a Swedish physician, chemist, and one of the founders of modern chemistry. He is particularly recognized for determining atomic weights in …
- Publisher Engelmann, Wilhelm, 1808-1878
- Artist Krüger, Franz, 1797-1857
- Subject Berzelius, Jöns Jakob, friherre, 1779-1848, Portraits
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Portrait of Hans Fischer
- Circa 1930
… of Hans Fischer (1881-1945), recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in determining the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll…
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Perkin-Elmer atomic absorption spectrophotometer in use at Air Pollution Control Directorate
- 1970s
… content of an airborne particulates sample in a laboratory at the Chemistry Division of the Air Pollution Control Directorate. Per notations …
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Canadian postage stamp depicting chemical industry
- 1956
…Stamp depicts aspects of chemistry and related sciences. The design depicting a laboratory vessel is…
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Oral history interview with James S. Murday
- 2007-May-29
…since he had a chemistry background he migrated over to the Chemistry Division at NRL. No …you're dumping atoms. Henry had first migrated into the Protective Chemistry Group, but in truth he was better off in Surface Chemistry. Resing also could have had a home in Materials Chemistry, but there was a magnetic resonance person in Materials Chemistry …Cotts. Murday’s interests expanded to include diffusion. At the time, chemistry’s new pulse techniques provided greater impetus for NMR, and Murday exploited the growing interface between chemistry and physics. When he finished his PhD he was recruited by Henry Resing…
- Interviewee Murday, James S., 1942-
- Interviewer Mody, Cyrus C. M.
- Sponsor Center for Nanotechnology in Society
- Subject Murday, James S., 1942-, Nuclear magnetic resonance, Solid state physics, Nanoscience, United States. Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.), American Vacuum Society, Nanostructures, United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science and Technology Council (U.S.), National Nanotechnology Initiative (U.S.), University of Southern California
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Oral history interview with R. Stanley Williams
- 2006-Mar-14
… of hands on activity? WILLIAMS: Oh yes. I was heavily into chemistry-type stuff. If I’d known a little bit more I might have been able …scientist and was calling myself a “materials chemist,” because I was in a chemistry department. Even though I was in a chemistry department I actually … group. It’s materials chemistry or maybe it’s just materials or whatever, but since I was in a chemistry…
- Interviewee Williams, R. Stanley, 1951-
- Interviewer Mody, Cyrus C. M.
- Sponsor Center for Nanotechnology in Society
- Subject Williams, R. Stanley, 1951-, Chemists, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Nanotechnology, Nanostructured materials, Nanostructured materials industry, Nanoelectronics, Nanophotonics, Nanoelectromechanical systems
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Oral history interview with Sidney Edelstein
- 1987-Aug-31 (First session)
- 1988-Feb-24 (Second session)
…the time I was seven or eight years old, when I had my first little chemistry set, chemistry was my thing. Baylor was a school that …with the fraternity house. THACKRAY: So you were pretty keen on chemistry still? EDELSTEIN: Always chemistry. Always chemistry. … of chemistry. My interest in the history of chemistry came from an interest in…
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Oral history interview with Louis C. Rubens
- 1986-Aug-19
…Escanaba, Michigan, the development of his interests in mathematics and chemistry, and his difficulties in finishing his studies when Jordan College … I think she was responsible for much of my very early interest in chemistry and math. BOHNING: You had her for both chemistry and math … at the time. He knew inorganic chemistry too, so that was pretty much the type of thing he taught. He knew…
- Interviewee Rubens, Louis C., 1919-2013
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Polymers, Dow Chemical Company, Chemists, Rubens, Louis C., 1919-2013, Chemists--Biography
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Oral history interview with Catherine T. Hunt
- 2009-Mar-26
- 2009-Aug-28
…and a brother and two younger sisters and a brother. Why chemistry? Well, I don’t think that I started thinking it was chemistry as …school before that. Our teacher, Mr. Saltman—Nick Saltman, who taught chemistry and then physics. Everybody didn’t take chemistry or at least the …about it so much. Then I took physics and not everybody who took chemistry [took physics]. But you had to take chemistry to take physics. …
- Interviewee Hunt, Catherine T. 1955-
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary
- Subject Hunt, Catherine T. 1955-, Chemistry, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Women in chemistry, Rohm and Haas Company, American Chemical Society, Dow Chemical Company, Science--Study and teaching, Sustainable development, Chemists, Women chemists
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Oral history interview with Miguel A. Ondetti
- 1995-Jan-12
… a couple years of chemistry. I got very interested in chemistry, but I always had a sort of biological …chemistry all the way to biological chemistry, going through inorganic analysis, clinical analysis, food analysis, biological chemistry, and physical chemistry--the whole gamut. By the time I finished- …immigrant background and work in Argentina, his early interests in chemistry, and his education at vocational school in Buenos Aires. Upon high…
- Interviewee Ondetti, Miguel A., 1930-2004
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Captopril, Chemists, Ondetti, Miguel A., Chemists--Biography, Squibb Institute for Medical Research, Emigration and immigration
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Letter from Kasimir Fajans to Max Bredig, September 13, 1937
- 1937-Sep-13
… ANN ARBOR DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY September 13, 1937 Dear Dr. Bredig, Your letter from September … ANN ARBOR DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY 13. IX. 37 Mein lieber Doktor Bredig, Heute traf Ihr Brief …Kasimir Fajans (1887-1975), a Polish professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, informs his friend and mentee, Max…
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A Tale of Soap and Water
- 1928
…December 27 ,1822,ina little town in France. Asa young man he studied chemistry. Later he became interested in fermen- tation and as a result of …Bulwer Lytton The Cloister and the Hearth, by Charles Reade Everyman’s Chemistry, by Ellwood Hendrick; Harper & Brothers, New York The Story of the …early American settlers. The work concludes with a description of the chemistry of modern soap and the value of cleanliness among modern Americans…
- Author Hallock, Grace T. (Grace Taber), 1893-
- Publisher Cleanliness Institute
- Subject Hygiene, Bathing customs in literature, Baths, Soap
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Postcard from Paul Pfeiffer to Georg Bredig, January 1921
- 1921-Jan-23
… Alfred Werner (1866-1919). He studied both organic and inorganic chemistry. Throughout his career, he worked at the University of Zurich, University…
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Pfeiffer, Paul, 1875-1951
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Schloss Cecilienhof, Pfeiffer, Paul, 1875-1951, Chemists
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Letter from Max Bredig to Georg Bredig, July 17, 1939
- 1939-Jul-17
…from Germany, Berl was a professor of technical and macromolecular chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt. During World War One, he…