TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, S TI - Fred Basolo, interviewed by James J. Bohning in Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) on March 1, 1991 ID - j67314691 PB - Science History Institute CY - Philadelphia AV - Oral History Transcript 0091 VL - Oral History Transcript 0091 AN - Oral History Transcript 0091 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/j67314691 AB - Fred Basolo begins this interview by discussing his childhood in Coello, Illinois, and his elementary and high school education. He attended Southern Illinois University where he studied to be a chemistry teacher but his instructors encouraged him to attend graduate school in chemistry. At University of Illinois, he studied inorganic chemistry with John Bailar. After receiving his PhD, he worked at Rohm and Haas in Philadelphia for three years. He decided to return to academia and accepted a positions as professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. His research interests have included kinetics and mechanisms, and metal carbonyls. Basolo describes the connections he made with Italian scientists and his American Chemical Society presidency and concludes by offering his opinion of how general and inorganic chemistry courses should be taught. KW - Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) KW - Basolo, Fred, 1920-2007 KW - Reaction mechanisms (Chemistry) KW - Metal carbonyls KW - Chemistry, Inorganic KW - Rohm and Haas Company KW - Chemists--Biography LA - English ER -