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Oral history interview with Kathleen L. Collins
- 2006-Jul-10 – 2006-Jul-12
…particularly well in his class. The next year, he had a honor’s-level chemistry class that allowed me to place out of chemistry requirement when …I felt very well prepared. I was able to place out of Introductory Chemistry because I’d had such a wonderful chemistry teacher in public school …, and that was a really good way to start. So I just kept going in chemistry. I took all the classes up to physical chemistry. What…
- Interviewee Collins, Kathleen L., 1963-
- Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Collins, Kathleen L., 1963-, Catholic Church, Molecular biology, Molecular cloning, DNA--Synthesis, Baltimore, David, University of Michigan, Women in medicine, HIV infections, Immune response
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Oral history interview with James A. Goodrich
- 2006-Aug-15 – 2006-Aug-07
…you were going to do? GOODRICH: Yes. It just opened my eyes to chemistry. Up till then science had been really not formal chemistry. It had …well, which maybe was the hardest course I’ve ever taken. Physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry, these are the things … took general chemistry, but once we got into organic chemistry, they got a lot smaller, …
- Interviewee Goodrich, James A., 1969-
- Interviewer Mejia, Robert
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Goodrich, James A., 1969-, Biochemistry, Molecular genetics, Genetic transcription, Genetic transcription--Regulation, Tjian, Robert, University of Colorado Boulder, Minorities in science, Molecular biology, Biochemists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Herman Mark
- 1986-Feb-03 (First session)
- 1986-Mar-17 (Second session)
- 1986-Jun-20 (Third session)
…in Vienna. You have stated that your preferred subject was physical chemistry, and yet you did a thesis in synthetic organic chemistry. Can you …furlough. There were several professors: one was the professor of organic chemistry, Wilhelm Schlenk; one was physical chemistry, Rudolf Wegscheider … chemistry. There were already divisions of organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry…
- Interviewee Mark, H. F. (Herman Francis), 1895-1992
- Interviewer Bohning, James J., Sturchio, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Louis), 1952-
- Subject Canadian International Paper Company, Polymers, Alfrey, Turner, 1918-1981, Macromolecules, Carothers, Wallace Hume, 1896-1937, Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Chemists--Biography, Mark, H. F. (Herman Francis), 1895-1992, Meyer, Kurt H. (Kurt Heinrich), 1883-1952, Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Chemie, Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934, Chemists, Cellulose, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Margaret E.M. Tolbert
- 2009-Aug-13
…professors at Tuskegee? TOLBERT: With there being only a few chemistry majors in [the Chemistry Department, I had a great deal of direct … Tolbert with a classmate in a chemistry laboratory. Tolbert received her B.S. degree in Chemistry … I am, “I’m going to [do] something about this. I’ll wait [for a] chemistry [position.” The Chemistry Department] was fully staffed. I said…
- Interviewee Tolbert, Margaret E.M., 1943-
- Interviewer Brown, Jeannette E.
- Subject Tolbert, Margaret E.M, 1943-, Chemists, Women chemists, Women in science, African American women chemists, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Institute. Carver Research Foundation, National Science Foundation (U.S.), BP America (Firm), Argonne National Laboratory, Scientists, Black
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Oral history interview with Tom W. Muir
- 2002-Aug-15 – 2002-Aug-16
…any of that, which was a bit of a bummer. VAN BENSCHOTEN: Why chemistry? Why did you study chemistry? MUIR: Well, I like the puzzle …while, and then he worked in Manchester before getting the chair of chemistry, of organic chemistry, at Edinburgh. He actually started the same … and [Robert N.] Boyd. It’s a big thick chemistry book, basic chemistry, and he’s sitting there and there’s 500 people…
- Interviewee Muir, Tom W., 1967-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Muir, Tom W., 1967-, Chemistry, Peptides--Synthesis, Scripps Research Institute, Cell interaction, Rockefeller University, Biochemistry, Recombinant proteins
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Oral history interview with Eugene Garfield
- 1987-Nov-16
…discharge. Garfield continues by discussing his undergraduate degree in chemistry, the influence of his first ACS meeting and the Division of Chemical …Nevertheless, I graduated from college in February of 1949. By then I was a chemistry major. I had switched from premed to chemistry for a simple reason …Chemico-Linguistics: Computer Translation of Chemical Nomenclature, 28 Chemistry Citation Index, 35 Chemistry set, 4 Chicken coop, 18, 22 Chomsky…
- Interviewee Garfield, Eugene, 1925-2017
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Sturchio, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Louis), 1952-
- Subject Citation indexes, Science--Abstracting and indexing, Chemistry--Nomenclature, Chemistry--Notation, Information scientists, Information science, Institute for Scientific Information, Communication in science, Technology--Abstracting and indexing, Information scientists--Biography, Humanities--Abstracting and indexing, Garfield, Eugene
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Oral history interview with M. Bishr Omary
- 1990-Mar-06
…the tenth grade most people take biology, but since I used to read chemistry on my own, I thought it would be easier for me to take chemistry. …Had you been looking at cell biology at both, or were you still in chemistry? OMARY: I was still in chemistry. I was a graduate student in the chemistry department. I took graduate-level courses in organic, inorganic chemistry …large public high school in Arlington, Virginia, and worked there as a chemistry lab assistant. Omary attended George Mason University, both for affordability and the option to live at home. He majored in chemistry, doing well toward the end of college. He chose the University of…
- Interviewee Omary, M. Bishr, 1954-
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Sawyer, Richard
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Syria, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Cell membranes, Biochemistry, Clinical medicine, Stanford University. School of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Epithelial cells, Cells--Growth--Regulation
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Oral history interview with Jacques Tocatlian
- 2000-Jun-22
…school and then an Egyptian university, where I studied industrial chemistry. Interestingly, the university's courses were taught in English by …had a teaching fellowship there. I worked on my master's degree in chemistry and taught. RAYWARD: You entered the industrial research sector …/library science seemed somewhat loose to me, probably compared to chemistry. Nevertheless, all through my career I've had a comfortable feeling…
- Interviewee Tocatlian, Jacques, 1929-2019
- Interviewer Rayward, W. Boyd
- Sponsor Eugene Garfield Foundation
- Subject Tocatlian, Jacques, 1929-2019, Chemical literature, Information science, Communication in science, Unesco, UNISIST (Program), Chemical engineers, Information storage and retrieval systems, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Michael K. Skinner
- 1990-Mar-04
…Then it was probably reinforced strongly by a high school teacher, chemistry teacher, James Krout, who was a very good teacher and showed me the …didn’t know of until, from the experience in high school, I went into chemistry initially in college. THACKRAY: How did you know what a PhD …for Dr. Davis, and in that first year I started hanging around the chemistry lab a lot. He recognized my interest and started having me do things…
- Interviewee Skinner, Michael K., 1956-
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Sawyer, Richard
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Skinner, Michael K., 1956-, Biologists, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Proteins--Research, Molecular biology, Reproduction--Research, Germ cells
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Oral history interview with William Braell
- 1989-Mar-07
… school perhaps. I’ve always had an interest in various aspects of chemistry, geology, statistics and that was most interesting. THACKRAY … BRAELL: Yeah, I’d say so. I didn’t have much trouble getting chemistry sets and things like that, as long as I didn’t blow the house up. … in chemistry right up to the very end, and it turned out that there were too many…
- Interviewee Braell, William, 1953-
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Morris, Stephanie
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Braell, William, 1953-, Biochemistry, Membranes (Biology), Cell membranes, Enzymology, AIDS (Disease), Kennedy, Eugene C.
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Oral history interview with Kathryn C. Hach-Darrow
- 2002-Jul-20 (First session)
- 2003-Oct-02 (Second session)
- 2004-Feb-08 (Third session)
…that really wasn’t what he wanted. What he really loved was straight chemistry. Very soon, he enrolled in analytical chemistry under Dr. Harvey …those orders? B. HACH: Clifford was incredibly comfortable with chemistry. He loved chemistry and chemistry apparatus. It was nothing for …’t even have chemistry education scholarships. Nobody is giving scholarships for chemistry…
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Oral history interview with James B. Nichols
- 1986-Jan-14 (First session)
- 1986-Jan-16 (Second session)
…mother, James Burton Nichols won scholarships to finance his studies of chemistry at Cornell University where he conducted a senior research project … FERGUSON: What subjects were required in the undergraduate chemistry degree? NICHOLS: This bachelor of chemistry degree was essentially …department, had the idea that he would like to establish a colloid chemistry course at Wisconsin, and even an institute for colloid chemistry.…
- Interviewee Nichols, James Burton, 1902-1995
- Interviewer Ferguson, Raymond C.
- Subject Chemists, Nichols, James Burton, 1902-1995, Chemists--Biography, Svedberg, Theodor, 1884-1971
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Chemical and Engineering News profiling Dr. Betty J. Sullivan (1902-1999)
- 1948-Jul-12
…University of Minnesota, where she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1922. Following graduation, she worked as a laboratory assistant … improve the baking qualities of flour. For her active research in chemistry related to grains, flour, and baking technologies, she became the…
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Oral history interview with Eugene Garfield
- 1997-Jul-29
…In a Ph.D. program? GARFIELD: Yes. I may also have had some chemistry credits from my days with Professor Hammett. In any case, that became … people, yes, because Current Contents covered the overlap between chemistry and biology. But if you were a typical chemist, and had to rely …algorithmically to calculate the same way. WILLIAMS: Now, without a chemistry background, my ability to ask really relevant questions is limited…
- Interviewee Garfield, Eugene, 1925-2017
- Interviewer Williams, Robert V.
- Subject Citation indexes, Science--Abstracting and indexing, Garfield, Eugene, 1925-2017, Chemistry--Nomenclature, Chemistry--Notation, Information scientists, Information science, Communication in science, Technology--Abstracting and indexing, Information scientists--Biography, Humanities--Abstracting and indexing
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Oral history interview with Stephanie L. Kwolek (1998)
- 1998-Mar-21
…Stephanie Kwolek joined DuPont in 1946, the same year she earned her BS in chemistry at Carnegie-Mellon University. She spent much of her time working …DATE: 21 March 1998 BENSAUDE-VINCENT: You must have loved chemistry, because you entered your profession with only a bachelor’s degree … chemistry because of the lack of pressure. Even if there was pressure, it …
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An Essay on the Chemical History and Medical Treatment of Calculous Disorders
- 1819
…. Marcet was one of few medical practitioners of the time who used chemistry in their explanation and treatment of disease. He was likely the …
- Author Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822
- Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Subject Calculi, Urinary organs--Calculi, Gallstones, Kidneys--Calculi, Bladder--Calculi, Therapeutics, Medicine, Urology
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Figure 36. Portion of Tape-worm
- 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 76. Young Lobster
- 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 42. Autolytus
- 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 41. Clam-worm
- 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 464. Specter. Figure 465. Graceful Loris
- 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 437. Fisher
- 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 414. Prong-horn. Figure 415. Mountain Goat
- 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 387. Virginia Deer. Deer Fighting
- 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 381. Dromedary
- 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…