Search Results
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Oral history interview with Michael W. Hill
- 2000-Jun-26
…first became interested in the information and documentation side of chemistry? HILL: It started while I was being educated as a chemist. …catalogues in those days. The second task was revising and updating the chemistry section of the POL classification scheme. On inspection, it proved …Richnell, Don, 8 Rome, Italy, 7 Rowlands, Mel, 4 Royal Society of Chemistry [RSC], 11-12 RSC. See Royal Society of Chemistry S Sassoon, …
- Interviewee Hill, Michael (Michael W.)
- Interviewer Rayward, W. Boyd
- Sponsor Eugene Garfield Foundation
- Subject Hill, Michael (Michael W.), Chemistry, Richards, Rex, Sir, 1922-, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, National Reference Library of Science and Invention, Great Britain. Patent Office. Library, Science Reference Library (British Library), Institute of Information Scientists, FID Congress, International Association of Technological University Libraries, Information science
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5 items
Oral history interview with Glen A. Evans
- 1989-Nov-20
…spending a year as a graduate student. In fact I initially went to the chemistry department, because I was working for a professor in the chemistry … it fit closer with what they were doing. Because I started in the chemistry department, the only requirement the chemistry department really had was to pass four examinations in four fields—physical chemistry, organic, inorganic and analytical chemistry. Most of the students …years, with a major in biology, enough credits for another major in chemistry, and with two published papers. Evans entered the Medical Scientist…
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Wilhelm Ostwald giving a lecture
- Circa 1900
…Wislieanus, Rudolf Boehm (Böhm) (1844- 1926) , Theodore Zineke professor of chemistry in the University of Marburg, Credner, Owens, Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845…
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Trade card for Cubes de Bouillon Oxo with August Wilhelm von Hofmann
- 1903
…Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892) at the inauguration of the School of Chemistry in London in 1846, of which Hofmann served as the first director.…
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Letter from Arnold O. Beckman to J. J. Murdock
- 1935-Sep-30
…he founded and partially funded the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, which produced many influential chemists. Noyes was instrumental…
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Oral history interview with Zhaohui Xu
- 2008-Oct-20 – 2008-Oct-21
…school when I have more…get into other subject, like, physics [and] chemistry. Then I, sort of, develop a particular affinity for chemistry, which …was never really interested in, sort of, studying the mechanism of chemistry, more, like, [I would] apply chemistry to something, something else … I was interested in, I guess, maybe traced back to my interest in chemistry still; that you’re essentially doing chemistry experiments on biological…
- Interviewee Xu, Zhaohui, 1967-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject X-ray crystallography, Biochemistry, Biochemists, Molecular biology--Research, Molecular biologists, Proteins--Analysis, Crystallography, Xu, Zhaohui, 1967-, Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976)
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Oral history interview with Margaret C. Kielian
- 1994-Jun-20
- 1994-Jun-23
- 1994-Jun-30
- 1996-Nov-14
…this is where the kitchen table thing comes from: they bought me a chemistry set, a very nice chemistry set. It folded out and had all these racks …Those were all very good qualities. The incident with the chemistry set was I got this chemistry set-- I don’t know how old I was. I …was labs. The labs I remember were being--well, I mean physics and chemistry-- We did a lot of equations in chemistry. I remember like “Take this…
- Interviewee Kielian, Margaret C., 1952-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D., Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Kielian, Margaret C., 1952-, Microbiology, Molecular biology, Women molecular biologists, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Helsingin yliopisto, Semliki Forest virus, Endocytosis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Cytology, Proteins--Structure
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Oral history interview with Mark Winey
- 1998-Sep-14 – 1998-Sep-16
…graduate student at the University of Chicago. He earned a master's in chemistry there. Shortly after I was born we moved back to Pennsylvania, where …right. And Syracuse, unlike other schools, did not teach a physical-chemistry-for-biologists course. We took it right with the chemistry majors …few minutes to talk to me. He's the one who told me to take physical chemistry. He looked at my records, and "You get a B or an A in physical chemistry…
- Interviewee Winey, Mark, 1961-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Microbiologists, Molecular biology--Research, Yeast, Yeast--Research, Centrosomes, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Winey, Mark
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Oral history interview with Morris Tanenbaum
- 2004-May-03
- 2004-Jul-26
…It just sort of came, I guess I’d have to say. I got interested in chemistry, but before I had any Chemistry. I was given […] one of these little … the different parts of chemistry when I was in college, and decided that I really liked physical chemistry …was kind of my plan anyway, was physical chemistry, not analytical chemistry. Bricker knew that as well. At that time…
- Interviewee Tanenbaum, Morris, 1928-
- Interviewer Brock, David C., Lécuyer, Christophe
- Subject Tanenbaum, Morris, 1928-, AT & T Bell Laboratories, Chemists, Electronic industries, Silicon, Semiconductors, Materials science, Metallurgy, Executives
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Oral history interview with John R. Ferraro
- 2011-May-09
…at IIT? FERRARO: I went into the science program, majored in chemistry. GRAYSON: Chemistry. FERRARO: Right, yeah. I start looking …pre-med people. I mean, they just want to get through it and take chemistry or whatever, and want to go on. They’re not interested in chemistry … on Analytical Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry…
- Interviewee Ferraro, John R., 1918-
- Interviewer Grayson, Michael A.
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Chemists, Argonne National Laboratory, Ferraro, John R., 1918-, Chemists--Biography
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Oral history interview with Paul S. Greer
- 1985-Nov-13
…Greer studied chemistry at the small Grove City College, but with one year at Carnegie Institute …chemical engineering degree. MORRIS: You also have a B.S. in chemistry? GREER: I have a B.S. in chemistry from Grove City. … in chemistry? Did it have a good reputation for chemistry? GREER: It had…
- Interviewee Greer, Paul S., 1904-2006
- Interviewer Morris, Peter J. T.
- Subject Chemical engineering, United States. Army Research Office, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Office of Synthetic Rubber, Greer, Paul S., 1904-2006, Chemical engineers, Petroleum chemicals
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1991 Nobel Prize Ceremonies: Richard Ernst
- 1991
…1991 when his colleague Richard Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Ernst's work on the MRI was based on earlier theories and instruments…
- Creator Of Work Anderson, Weston Arthur
- Subject Nobel Prizes, Ernst, Richard, Nobel Prize winners, Nobel Prize-winning scientists
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Portrait of Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889-1944)
- 1930s – circa
…named as an American delegate to the International Congress of Applied Chemistry. Thomas Midgley, Jr. died on November 2, 1944 in Worthington, Ohio…
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Oral history interview with Elkan Blout
- 1991-May-30 (First session)
- 2002-Sep-13 (Second session)
- 2002-Nov-22 (Third session)
… enjoyed teaching and studying chemistry. It was in his classes that I began to think about a career in chemistry …while I was at Princeton. I didn’t even take biology; I took all my chemistry courses. BOHNING: Was it organic chemistry that particularly … BOHNING: Did you get that exposure at Princeton in physical chemistry? BLOUT: Yes, physical chemistry in that period. BOHNING…
- Interviewee Blout, E. R. (Elkan Rogers), 1919-2006
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Blout, E. R. (Elkan Rogers), 1919-2006, Harvard School of Public Health, Land, Edwin H., 1909-1991, Polaroid Corporation, Children's Hospital Medical Center (Boston, Mass.), Harvard Medical School, Chemists--Biography, Columbia University, Woodward, R. B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979
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Oral history interview with William I. Weis
- 2000-Feb-07 – 2000-Feb-09
…was in sixth grade. In eighth grade he took a class of biology and chemistry together and fell in love with biochemistry. In high school he took …, many others went into molecular biology, but Weis liked physical chemistry best. He worked in Meredithe Applebury's lab, and she and Zoltan …
- Interviewee Weis, William I., 1959-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Weis, William I., 1959-, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Crystallography, Lectins, Cadherins, Biochemistry
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Doctor Einstien's Mistaken Notions and A Reply to the Soviet Scientists
- Essays printed by the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists
- 1948
… a soviet physicist and chemist. He was awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1956 for his research in the mechanism of chemical reactions. …
- Printer Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists
- Author Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
- Contributor Vavilov, S. I. (Sergeĭ Ivanovich), 1891-1951, Frumkin, A. N. (Aleksandr Naumovich), 1895-1976, Ioffe, A. F. (Abram Fedorovich), 1880-1960, Leskov, N. S. (Nikolaĭ Semenovich), 1831-1895
- Subject Ioffe, A. F. (Abram Fedorovich), 1880-1960, Semenov, N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich), 1896-1986, Vavilov, S. I. (Sergeĭ Ivanovich), 1891-1951, Frumkin, A. N. (Aleksandr Naumovich), 1895-1976, Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955, Nobel Prize winners, Scientists, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, Soviet Union
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Oral history interview with Patrick Brennwald
- 2000-May-22 – 2000-May-24
…had been really, really shocked by that. Then the next year I took chemistry and I actually did very well in AP Chemistry, both in the course …there were a couple of good—actually, they were called bio-organic chemistry—classes in the chemistry department that I would take as part of … lesser courses that I didn't have any interest in by switching to chemistry. So that was how I ended up being a chemistry major,…
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Oral history interview with David Ron
- 1998-Dec-07 – 1998-Dec-09
…biology. You could take biology or you could take math, physics, and chemistry. I chose the math, physics, and chemistry [track]. And …mother could run and had run, I think, for some time, a college-level chemistry course. She could do that. So she does actually know a lot of chemistry: not just physical chemistry, but also that kind of wet chemistry where things interact and colors …studying at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, his mother chemistry and his father physics. While Ron was still a young child, his parents…
- Interviewee Ron, David, 1955-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Ron, David, 1955-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Endocrinology, Genetic regulation, Endoplasmic reticulum
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Oral history interview with Thomas L. Ortel
- 2000-Oct-24 – 2000-Oct-26
…I liked the biological sciences better than I liked mathematics or chemistry, if you will. So I kind of trended in that direction. But I’d say …Bachelor of Science] in microbiology and an A.B. [Bachelor of Arts] in chemistry. COHEN: Oh, chemistry wasn’t a science degree, wasn’t a bachelor …did enjoy were people who taught well. I’ll be honest: Some of the chemistry teachers we had, especially for the lower-level chemistry, could …
- Interviewee Ortel, Thomas L. (Thomas Lee), 1957-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Ortel, Thomas L. (Thomas Lee), 1957-, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Oncology, Cancer--Research, Blood--Coagulation
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Oral history interview with K. Christopher Garcia
- 2008-Dec-01
…first time ever. And it’s ironic because, you know, I took so much chemistry in college. But in college chemistry, it was pre-med type chemistry …there. And I loved the environment of his lab. It was an organic chemistry lab, and I loved how creative you could be in organic chemistry, … he wanted me to do sort of more enzymology than organic chemistry, and he could see my interests were in the chemistry. …
- Interviewee Garcia, K. Christopher, 1962-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Garcia, K. Christopher, 1962-, Pharmacology, T cells, Biochemistry, Recombinant proteins, T cells--Receptors, Protein engineering, Stanford University, Cytokines, Medical scientists, Molecular biologists
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Oral history interview with Bruno H. Zimm
- 1986-Sep-09
…better run than you might expect. BOHNING: And then you took your chemistry at Kent. ZIMM: I took chemistry and physics at Kent. BOHNING: …Who was your first teacher in chemistry? ZIMM: In freshman chemistry it was Ray H. Crist, a photochemist … then the lab was divided into, I think five departments, of which chemistry was one. Each had a director. The chemistry department was divided…
- Interviewee Zimm, Bruno Hasbrouck, 1920-2005
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Zimm, Bruno Hasbrouck, 1920-2005, Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981, Light--Scattering, Chemists, General Electric Company, Chemists--Biography, Columbia University, Doty, Paul M., 1920-2011, University of California, Berkeley
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Oral history interview with Paul M. Cook
- 1992-Apr-02
…. Photography was a major interest for a while. I started a chemistry laboratory in the cellar of our house when I was about twelve years old, and developed it into a very wonderful chemistry laboratory facility. With the help of my mother, I was able to acquire … I was influenced by some counselors in high school. As you know, chemistry was very, very interesting to me. I did a lot of work in chemistry …background and childhood. When Cook was young, he took an interest in chemistry, developing a laboratory in the basement of his parents' house. After…
- Interviewee Cook, Paul M., 1924-
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Chemical engineering, Chemical engineers, Cook, Paul M., 1924-, Stanford Research Institute, Sequoia Wire Company, Raychem Corporation
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Oral history interview with Henry Earl Lumpkin
- 1992-Jan-02
…career in mass spectrometry. Lumpkin received his bachelor's degree in chemistry at Southwestern Texas State University and joined the U. S. Army … with a little extra in chemistry? LUMPKIN: I took all the courses in chemistry that were offered …C. [Cecil] L. Key was the department head and probably my favorite chemistry professor. Dr. Herschel Hopson taught freshman chemistry and physical…
- Interviewee Lumpkin, Henry Earle, 1920-2012
- Interviewer Grayson, Michael A.
- Subject American Society for Testing and Materials, Mass spectrometers, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Lumpkin, Henry Earle, 1920-2012, Mass spectrometry, Chemists--Biography, Humble Oil and Refining Company (Incorporated in Tex.), Chemists
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Oral history interview with Joshua Lederberg
- 1992-Jun-25 (First session)
- 1992-Jul-07 (Second session)
- 1992-Dec-09 (Third session)
…introduction. It wouldn’t be unreasonable. He had written on physiological chemistry. If there was such a thing as pathological chemistry I thought that …BOHNING: In that regard, it used to be very common to have a history of chemistry course in a chemistry department that was required for majors. Did … ragtail on your chemistry project, or a good piece of it. Biology’s such a diversified set…
- Interviewee Lederberg, Joshua
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Microbiologists, Biologists, Biology, Neurospora, Microbiology, University of Wisconsin, Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, Lederberg, Joshua, Nobel Prize winners, DNA, Cytochemistry, Escherichia coli, Biologists--Biography
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American Contemporaries article profiling Dr. Eugene Cornelius Sullivan (1872-1962)
- 1940
…the University of Michigan, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1894. He then undertook postgraduate study in Germany at the University…