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The Alchemist's Experiment Takes Fire
- 1687
The alchemist's experiment has erupted in a sudden fire, with glass shattering in midair and smoke billowing upward. The alchemist is seated awkwardly in his chair with a startled expression on his face, having turned…
- Artist Heerschop, Hendrik
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art, Heerschop, Hendrik, Families in art
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Oral history interview with Raymond E. March
- 2014-Oct-27
…you were saying that Hardman—Hardman? He maybe got you interested in chemistry. MARCH: Chemistry. Yes. Methods of determining molecular weights …newspapers, whatever. So I saw this advertisement, and at least it was chemistry. It was in a chemistry laboratory. And I thought it would be interesting … chemistry. GRAYSON: Physical chemistry. MARCH: Yes. Chain reactions…
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Oral history interview with William E. Hanford
- 1995-Mar-15
… happen! I stayed there three hours, and I took the most difficult chemistry exam I ever took. He was an old chemist and as such, he thought chemistry is chemistry. [laughter] He asked me a lot of questions. I knew all the answers …her in Wilmington and I married her in Wilmington, and I always had chemistry with me. We'd sit on the porch, and I'd have a chemistry book, and …then continues on to his family background and youth. His high school chemistry teacher and his uncle both encouraged his interest in the sciences…
- Interviewee Hanford, William E., 1908-1996
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject General Aniline & Film Corporation, Olin Corporation, Polymers, Carothers, Wallace Hume, 1896-1937, Chemistry, Organic, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, Chemists--Biography, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, M. W. Kellogg Company, Hanford, William E., 1908-1996, Chemists
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Portrait of Francis Cowles Frary (1884-1970)
- 1950s
…University of Minnesota, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in analytical chemistry in 1905, a Master’s degree in 1906, and a PhD in 1912. Frary worked at the University of Minnesota as Assistant Professor of Chemistry from 1911 to 1915 before joining the Oldbury Chemical Company in …
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Oral history interview with Tadeus Reichstein
- 1985-Apr-22
… chemistry quite well. I did a lot of chemistry on my own in the cellar in our … chemistry. KOEPPEL: What was the name of that school? REICHSTEIN: At this …reached at this time. There were no rockets yet. KOEPPEL: What was the chemistry department like? REICHSTEIN: The chemistry department was quite …
- Interviewee Reichstein, Tadeusz, 1897-1996
- Interviewer Koeppel, Tonja A.
- Subject Chemical engineering, Nobel Prize winners, Chemical engineers
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Oral history interview with Edwin R. Chapman
- 2005-Dec-05 – 2005-Dec-07
… also as a child, I went through many years of being interested in chemistry, and I had chemistry sets and things like that. So my parents [Ray … to fulfill those requirements was to take, say, a year of general chemistry. So I took a year of general chemistry, and my chemistry professors …already in a chemistry course with a guy named Joe [Joseph R.] Crook, Crook just like a …
- Interviewee Chapman, Edwin R., 1969-
- Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Chapman, Edwin R., 1969-, Storm, Daniel R., Pharmacology, Neurosciences, Research grants, University of Wisconsin--Madison, Neural transmission, College teachers, Neuroscientists
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Postcard of Kasimir Fajans and Bror Holmberg sent to Georg Bredig
- 1923-Apr-15
…protactinium. In 1932, he was the head of the Institute of Physical Chemistry. In 1935, he fled Germany and relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Fajans…
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Wilhelm Ostwald and his students, 1892
- 1892
…Gruneberg, and Bradenburg. Georg Bredig (1868-1944) studied physical chemistry at the University of Leipzig directly under Ostwald. After receiving…
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Letter from Max Bredig to Journal of Chemical Education
- Decade starting 1945
…renowned chemist, Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932), became a full professor of chemistry at the University of Leipzig in 1935. In this letter to the editor…
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Melt viscometer at DuPont Experimental Station
- 1938-Aug-24
…Notably, the name of Dr. Paul Flory, winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is imprinted on the nitrogen cylinder visible on the left-hand side…
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Oral history interview with Masao Horiba
- 2004-Nov-19 (First session)
- 2004-Nov-20 (Second session)
…in Kyoto. When you were born, your father [Shinkichi Horiba] was a chemistry professor at Kyoto Imperial University. Would you tell me about … the field of chemistry in Japan. HORIBA: ????????????????????????????????????????? … analog state. So while one person might approach physics through chemistry, another might approach chemistry by way of physics. The relationship…
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Oral history interview with George M. Church
- 2008-Mar-03
… study, which meant they actually give you the keys to chemistry labs, which I thought…you know, in the ‘60s, for a teenager, it’s …it really is. I mean, that is really interesting because you have chemistry, you have, certainly, the computation, because crystallographers … phosphorus, 29 Pittcon. See Pittsburgh Convention on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Pittsburgh Convention on Analytical Chemistry…
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Oral history interview with Gordon M. Kline
- 1987-May-15 (First session)
- 1987-May-16 (Second session)
…within the last couple of years. But those two divisions, the Polymer Chemistry Division, and the Applied Polymer Chemistry Division [now the Polymeric …Colgate University in September, 1921, I was excused from freshman chemistry because I had taken chemistry at Central High School. It was recognized …, NBS, 1, 10, 14, 30, 33 Division of Paint, Varnish and Plastics Chemistry, ACS, 12 Division of Paint and Varnish Chemistry, ACS, 12 Division…
- Interviewee Kline, Gordon M. (Gordon Mabey), 1903-1996
- Interviewer Meikle, Jeffrey L.
- Subject Plastics, Polymers, United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Oral history interview with Melvin S. Newman
- 1979-Mar-03 (First session)
- 1979-Mar-04 (Second session)
…fortunate thing because the tutor turned out to be a Ph.D. in organic chemistry. I started to have a little chemistry lab in our New York apartment … you have to declare a major field of interest? Did you major in chemistry? Newman: Yes, I majored in chemistry. I knew that I was going …good golfer." How large were the classes at Yale, say in freshman chemistry? Newman: I never had a course in freshman chemistry because the…
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Oral history interview with Raymond F. Boyer
- 1986-Jan-14 (First session)
- 1986-Aug-19 (Second session)
… of Chemistry and Physics (4). I think that's right, Hodgman and Lange. He was excellent as a teacher. BOHNING: You took general chemistry and physical chemistry. No organic? BOYER: No organic. I never had a course in organic chemistry. Somewhere along the line there was a lab in analytical chemistry…
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Oral history interview with Rory M. Marks
- 1997-Nov-05 – 1997-Nov-07
… elective, and I actually took modern history. The physics and chemistry was not dissimilar from what I was doing in school; there was just … unusual. But the experimental classes were large. The physics and chemistry people held us in contempt because we were in medical school and …coupled it together using a cross-linking reagent. My knowledge of chemistry, by now, is almost nonexistent. I enjoyed chemistry when I did it…
- Interviewee Marks, Rory M., 1952-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Marks, Rory M., 1952-, T cells, Clinical medicine, Blood-vessels, Cytology, Free radicals (Chemistry), Molecular biology, Blood-vessels--Growth, Cells--Growth
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Oral history interview with Amy H. Newman
- 2009-Aug-25 – 2009-Aug-26
… chemistry course is like, about how you got more into organic chemistry the …, we took analytical chemistry. Then, I took a great physical chemistry class, and a lot of chemistry … taking all the organic chemistry courses that the organic chemistry Ph.D.s were taking, but I was …
- Interviewee Newman, Amy H., 1958-
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary
- Subject Newman, Amy H., 1958-, Women in science, Receptor-ligand complexes, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), Pharmacology, Dopamine--Receptors, Cocaine
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Oral history interview with Phillip A. Sharp
- 2003-Jan-28
- 2003-May-29
- 2003-Nov-20
… went back to chemistry. I think it was the best thing for basketball and for chemistry. … chemistry, 13, 18 inorganic chemistry, 13, 18, 21 macromolecule chemistry, 26 organic chemistry, 13 physical chemistry, 13, 27-28 structural chemistry, 28 Chiron …College, where he met his wife, Ann Holcombe. He received his BA in chemistry and math from Union College in 1966. Then, Sharp went on to earn his PhD in chemistry from the University of Illinois. Sharp went to Caltech initially …
- Interviewee Sharp, Phillip A.
- Interviewer Ashiya, Mona, Brock, David C., Thackray, Arnold, 1939-
- Subject Sharp, Phillip A., Medical scientists, Cancer--Research, RNA splicing, Nobel Prize winners, Neurosciences, DNA--Research, RNA--Research
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Oral history interview with Howard E. Simmons, Jr.
- 1993-Apr-27
…Technology (MIT) because of its post-World War II reputation, he studied chemistry and conducted research under Jack D. Roberts. Earning a BS in 1951 … a modest student, and by the time I graduated, I was first in the chemistry class. BOHNING: How many chemistry majors were there in that …, with the group you were in and the events that were happening in chemistry. SIMMONS: It was the events of chemistry. Almost every named…
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Oral history interview with George W. Govier
- 1997-May-07
…was rather new at that time—combined elements of math, physics, and chemistry, so it appealed to me even from high school days. TRAYNHAM … GOVIER: Yes, I did. There was quite a variety of courses in chemistry, also—not too many in chemical engineering itself. This was the …It had a very strong—well, two very strong men in the department of chemistry who had experience and leanings toward industrial chemistry and engineering…
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Oral history interview with Stephanie L. Kwolek (1986)
- 1986-May-04
… THE BECKMAN CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY … in chemistry Professional Experience …KWOLEK: None of us took over immediately. In those years polymer chemistry was not taught in schools. We had to learn a lot of chemistry in…
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Popular Zoology
- 1887
…the Fourteen Weeks Series in Natural Science, etc., etc. New Popular Chemistry New Descriptive Astronomy. New Popular Physics. New Hygienie Physiology …every well-informed person, The series contains works upon Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, Zoology, and Botany, with a Key to Sciences. … ‘‘ Fourteen Weeks in | Astronomy,” with new illustrations. In its Chemistry.” Clear in Explanation. Easy in new dress, the book is all that could…
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Will's habitat map
- 1886
… y Buck & Wootton, London. Published at the Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Trinity Square, London, S.E£. | ; ; 1 Name Hapirar …. Wills was the founder and Director of the Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy in London. The school was established to train druggists…
- Author Wills, George S. V.
- Printer Of Plates Buck & Wootton, London
- Publisher Simpkin, Marshall and Co.
- Subject Botany, Medical, Medicinal plants, Materia medica, Vegetable
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Figure 19. Section of the Coal Basin South of Malmesbury
- 1862
…Henry Pepper (1821-1900), was an analytical chemist and professor of chemistry at the Royal Polytechnic, London. Nearly 300 engravings illustrate…
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Plate 11: Red and pale cinchona bark
- 1886
…. Wills was the founder and Director of the Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy in London. The school was established to train druggists…
- Author Wills, George S. V.
- Publisher Simpkin, Marshall and Co.
- Subject Botany, Medical, Medicinal plants, Materia medica, Vegetable, Cinchona--Therapeutic use