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Plate 7: Limonis Cortex and Belae Fructus
- Plate 7.
- 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 Lemon, Botany, Medical, Medicinal plants, Bael (Tree)--Therapeutic use, Bael (Tree), Materia medica, Vegetable
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Oral history interview with Rebecca W. Heald
- 2005-Oct-17 – 2005-Oct-19
…’s in chemistry and then she later had part-time jobs teaching and has also worked …that, and that’s when I decided that even though I was finishing as a chemistry major, I wasn’t going to go into chemistry. MEJIA: Do … that woman’s lab? HEALD: Yes. At Rice I had to take physical chemistry and I had to take some horrible chemistry classes that really took…
- Interviewee Heald, Rebecca W., 1963-
- Interviewer Mejia, Robin
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Heald, Rebecca W., 1963-, Biochemistry, Nuclear membranes, Cell cycle, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Spindle (Cell division), Women in science, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Women medical scientists, Molecular biologists, Women molecular biologists
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Oral history interview with William H. Joyce
- 2004-Aug-17
…Virginia [Ginny] Joyce, became a chemist when there were no women in chemistry at all. She was involved in water treatment—unfortunately with a … other courses. If you were a chemical engineer, you took organic chemistry with the people who were organic chemistry majors. You took physical chemistry with the people who were physical chemistry majors. You took electrical … sports such as golf and skiing, but also had a strong interest in chemistry. Very early in his academic career, before high school even, Joyce…
- Interviewee Joyce, William H., 1935-
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-
- Sponsor Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain). American Section
- Subject Joyce, William H., 1935-, Chemical engineering, United States. Navy, Union Carbide Corporation, Telephone cables, Hercules Incorporated, Nalco Chemical Company
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7 items
Oral history interview with Norman Hackerman
- 1990-Oct-23
…introductory biology course, a full year of physics, and two years of chemistry including laboratories. I took organic chemistry in high school, …yearbook of the year I graduated from city, it says I was going to study chemistry. That was my fourth semester of chemistry. Dr. Ingram and Mr. Robb … or more sections of freshman chemistry and a course in colloid chemistry predominantly for chemical engineers…
- Interviewee Hackerman, Norman
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District, United States. Coast Guard, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Lone Star Gas Company, Loyola College in Maryland, Colloid Corporation, Johns Hopkins University, University of Texas, Hackerman, Norman, Balcones Research Center
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Oral history interview with Douglas Yee
- 1995-Aug-23 – 1995-Aug-25
…that you didn't have to work so hard at? YEE: I really liked chemistry at the time, and I actually liked organic chemistry a lot in college. I think it has to do with the puzzle aspect of organic chemistry. So I actually enjoy organic chemistry; I don't know many other people … chemistry a lot better than I liked inorganic chemistry. So when you were thinking …evince an early passion for science, but he did like the puzzle of chemistry, especially organic chemistry, when he was in college at the University…
- Interviewee Yee, Douglas, 1955-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Yee, Douglas, 1955-, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Oncology, Cancer--Research, Internal medicine, Somatomedin
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Oral history interview with Russell E. Marker
- 1987-Apr-17
…why I decided on that, but after the first year I changed to regular chemistry. We had laboratories in those days, and in the general chemistry …laboratory. I got interested in laboratory work. They had a new organic chemistry teacher come in my senior year and I took advanced organic chemistry …me to support myself. There was no fellowship available in organic chemistry. Ben Scher was the man who had the fellowship in organic chemistry…
- Interviewee Marker, Russell Earl, 1902-1995
- Interviewer Sturchio, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Louis), 1952-
- Subject Marker, Russell Earl, 1902-1995, United States Naval Powder Factory, Rockefeller Institute, Chemists, Pennsylvania State University, Gasoline--Anti-knock and anti-knock mixtures, Chemists--Biography, Syntex Pharmaceuticals, Ethyl Corporation
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Oral history interview with Lester F. Lau
- 1992-Nov-06 – 1992-Nov-08
…. First of all, I think that chemistry has always grabbed me more than anything else, because it was just …talking about yesterday, the subject that I felt most interested in was chemistry. As you may know, my undergraduate degree was in chemistry. When I decided to do graduate work, I really wanted to do it in chemistry, really not so much in biology or molecular biology. In fact, my … He originally thought he might be a history major, but an organic chemistry class changed his mind. He found science to be like a puzzle or a…
- Interviewee Lau, Lester F., 1955-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Lau, Lester F., 1955-, Molecular biology, Genetic engineering, Yeast--Genetics, SV40 (Virus), Cell cycle--Regulation, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Medical School, College of Medicine at Chicago, Nucleotide sequence
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Oral history interview with Robert W. Allington
- 2001-Nov-13
…in 1952, at the age of sixteen. My father rekindled my interest in chemistry and I started taking chemistry courses, as many as the obligatory … in his physical chemistry course about what happens and why things happen than in any other … was one thing I always had trouble with in chemistry. I remember the hardest thing I ever had to do in a chemistry laboratory…
- Interviewee Allington, R. W. (Robert W.), 1935-2006
- Interviewer Van Ness, John R., Thackray, Arnold, 1939-
- Subject Poliomyelitis--Patients, Electrical engineers, People with disabilities, Allington, R. W. (Robert W.), 1935-2006, Electrical engineering, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Poliomyelitis, Separation (Technology), Scientists with disabilities, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Oral history interview with Konrad E. Bloch
- 1993-Mar-22
…I'd like to come back to that, if I could. In high school, you had chemistry and you had the other sciences. BLOCH: Yes. The chemistry course …chemists. These meetings really turned the scales, convincing me that chemistry, organic chemistry, natural product chemistry was my metier. But …studying biological events. There are now at least two members of this Chemistry department, professors of chemistry who were trained in organic chemistry…
- Interviewee Bloch, Konrad Emil, 1912-
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject University of Oxford, Biosynthesis, Biochemists, Human Genome Project, Cholesterol, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Organic, Harvard University, Bloch, Konrad Emil, 1912-, Columbia University, Nobel Prize winners, Cholesterol--Synthesis, Nutrition, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with J. Paul Hogan
- 1995-Feb-10
…J. Paul Hogan received a BS in chemistry and physics and first taught high school and undergraduate chemistry …interesting," and it was, but I switched from the physics major to the chemistry major during my junior year. I had been taking chemistry and just simply switched over and got a major in chemistry and a minor in physics. BOHNING: Had you had any chemistry …
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Oral history interview with John D. Altman
- 2006-Jan-30 – 2006-Jan-31
- 2006-Feb-01
…when I got to MIT and started taking classes and did well and enjoyed chemistry. All freshmen there had to take chemistry. I had AP’d [Advanced Placement] out of the first semester of chemistry, so skipped general chemistry and started right in or organic chemistry …that I was in some sense closer to. I guess I had a good high school chemistry teacher and took a couple years of high school chemistry, and I took …reverted to biology. Soon after beginning college he switched majors to chemistry, working in Michael Marletta’s toxicology laboratory throughout his…
- Interviewee Altman, John D., 1962-
- Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Emory University, Immunologists, Vaccines -- Research, HIV (Viruses)--Research, Altman, John D., 1962-, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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Colour, An Elementary Manual for Students
- 1911
… H. CHURCH, K.C.V.O. M.A. Oxon., F.R.S., F.C.S., F.C. Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Academy of Arts, London ‘WITH SIX COLOURED PLATES TENTH … his lifetime, Church became an expert on pottery, stones, and the chemistry of paintings. He also discovered the naturally occurring red pigment…
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Letter from Max Bredig to Ernst A. Hauser, February 24, 1946
- 1946-Feb-24
…renowned chemist, Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932), became a full professor of chemistry at the University of Leipzig in 1935. In his letter to the editor…
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Figure 40. Aytoun's Patent Safety Cage
- 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 12: 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
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Letter from Dr. Donald H. Loughridge to Arnold O. Beckman
- 1953-Nov-17
…University, exchanges friendly news with Arnold Beckman before discussing chemistry professor Robert L. Burwell's complaints about the IR-2T spectrophotometer…
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Portrait of Williams Haynes (1886-1960)
- Circa 1950
…Hopkins University in 1908, where he studied economics, biology, and chemistry. Haynes left Johns Hopkins in 1911 and went on to have a prolific…
- Subject Journalists, Haynes, Williams, 1886-1960, Portraits
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Portrait of Williams Haynes (1886-1960)
- Circa 1930
…Hopkins University in 1908, where he studied economics, biology, and chemistry. Haynes left Johns Hopkins in 1911 and went on to have a prolific…
- Subject Journalists, Haynes, Williams, 1886-1960, Portraits
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Oral history interview with Donald F. Othmer
- 1986-Apr-02 (First session)
- 1986-Jun-11 (Second session)
- 1987-Jan-15 (Third session)
…blowing smoke in your face. As to himself, he said he had learned his chemistry at the university (master's in physical chemistry) and his engineering …interesting thing of this fire was that it had started in the attic over a chemistry laboratory. Of course, everyone first blamed the chemistry laboratory …first, was Joe [Joseph J.] Vetter. I knew him better than the first chemistry doctorate-- who, like all chemistry doctorates for many years, were…
- Interviewee Othmer, Donald F. (Donald Frederick), 1904-1995
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Chemical engineering, Eastman Kodak Company, Chemistry, Technical, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Tennessee Eastman Company, Othmer, Donald F. (Donald Frederick), 1904-1995, Chemical engineers, Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology
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Photograph album belonging to Max Albert Bredig
- 1927 – 1928
…Bredig (1868-1944), served as the Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. Max followed in his father…
- Creator Of Work Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977
- Subject Bredig, Max Albert, 1902-1977, Hiking, Sailing, Leisure
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Figure 101. Spring-tail (Enlarged)
- Part of Popular Zoology
- 1887
…). Subjects addressed in a similar manner in other volumes include chemistry, human physiology, physics,and astronomy. Popular Zoology was completed…
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Figure 318. Skull of a Rodent
- Part of Popular Zoology
- 1887
…). Subjects addressed in a similar manner in other volumes include chemistry, human physiology, physics,and astronomy. Popular Zoology was completed…
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Figure 347. Big-eared Bat
- Part of Popular Zoology
- 1887
…). Subjects addressed in a similar manner in other volumes include chemistry, human physiology, physics,and astronomy. Popular Zoology was completed…
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Figure 261. Passenger Pigeon
- Part of Popular Zoology
- 1887
…). Subjects addressed in a similar manner in other volumes include chemistry, human physiology, physics,and astronomy. Popular Zoology was completed…
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Figure 226. Loon
- Part of Popular Zoology
- 1887
…). Subjects addressed in a similar manner in other volumes include chemistry, human physiology, physics,and astronomy. Popular Zoology was completed…