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 - Seymour Meyerson, interviewed by Michael A. Grayson in Gary, Indiana on March 7, 1991 ID - xs55md06z PB - Science History Institute CY - Philadelphia AV - Oral History Transcript 0398 VL - Oral History Transcript 0398 AN - Oral History Transcript 0398 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/xs55md06z AB - Seymour Meyerson was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and attended the University of Chicago from which he received his undergraduate degree. By 1943 Meyerson began active service with the US military, spending the majority of his time with the Signal Corps; he also performed important work as the technical liaison officer between the Manhattan District and Standard Oil Company (Indiana). His time with the military afforded him the opportunity to be trained in electronics and to encounter his first mass spectrometer. In 1946 Meyerson started what would become a nearly forty year career with Standard Oil Company (Indiana) (later the Amoco Corporation). From the outset, Meyerson was involved with the mass spectrometry group, first conducting quantitative gas analysis on gases and low-boiling liquids, consisting of hydrocarbons and fixed gases. KW - Meyerson, Seymour, 1916- KW - Chemistry KW - Chromatographic analysis KW - Mass spectrometry KW - Analytical chemistry KW - Chemists--Biography KW - Consolidated Engineering Corporation KW - Chemical apparatus KW - Chemistry, Organic LA - English ER -