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Cloos, Ernst, 1898-1974. Ernst Cloos papers, 1921-1980.

Title: Ernst Cloos papers, 1921-1980.

The collection documents Cloos's field work and research through his meticulous, detailed field notebooks and research data.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear ft. (3 document, 4 record center, 4 flat boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48388261 View

Field, F. H. (Frank Henry), 1922-. Oral history interview with Frank H. Field 2009 December 9 & 10

Title: Oral history interview with Frank H. Field 2009 December 9 & 10

Frank H. Field was raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, by an aunt, an uncle, and a grandmother. He entered Duke University, placing a year ahead in chemistry, but had very little money. To meet his expenses he worked in the school dining hall and graded math papers. He continued on at Duke for his graduate education and worked on using fluorocarbons as hydraulic fluids to replace hydrocarbons on warships. He then took a position at the University of Texas and began his mass spectrometry career. He worked first on measuring the ionization potential of cyclopropane. Field left the University of Texas to work with Joe Franklin at Humble Oil, and then after time at Esso, he was recruited by Rockefeller University as a full professor. He shifted into biochemical mass spectroscopy to be more in keeping with the biomedical orientation of Rockefeller. He built the second Californium-252 mass spectrometer in the world. A talk in Bordeaux, France, excited his enthusiasm for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) and he persuaded his postdoc, Brian Chait, to build one.

ArchivalResource: Sound files ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : (95 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743095317 View

American Iron and Steel Institute. Office of vice president - Research and technology. Technical reports, 1939-1985.

Title: Technical reports, 1939-1985.

The first series consists of reports on a variety of research projects sponsored by the American Iron and Steel Institute and conducted either at universities or private research laboratories. The second series consists of theses and dissertations in metallurgy and allied engineering disciplines that were sponsored by the Institute through research grants. Most of the reports and theses deal with metallurgy and the chemistry of iron and steel, although several concern water and air pollution effects and abatement.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503467 View

Eger Vaughan Murphree, 1932-1963, (bulk 1957-1962)

Title: Eger Vaughan Murphree 1932-1963 (bulk 1957-1962)

Scientist, engineer, and businessman. Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, and biographical material relating primarily to Murphree's activities as president of Esso Research and Engineering Company and as an official of the Fifth World Petroleum Congress.

ArchivalResource: 1,000 items; 4 containers; 1.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012010 View

J. B. (John Bell) Condliffe Papers: Additions, 1919-1981, 1960-1969

Title: J. B. (John Bell) Condliffe Papers: Additions 1919-1981 1960-1969

Correspondence (personal and professional); manuscripts of his autobiography and other writings, speeches, and lecture notes; correspondence and subject files relating to his work with Stanford Research Institute; Subject files; clippings, and miscellaneous personal papers concerning his life and activities with family, friends, and associates involved in teaching and writing.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 14 boxes, 24 cartons, 1 oversize folder; Linear feet: 35.8

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8g5006rh View

Green, Donald A., 1905-. Oral history interview with Donald A. Green and Willard C. Asbury 9 December 1985

Title: Oral history interview with Donald A. Green and Willard C. Asbury 9 December 1985

Peter Morris starts this interview by asking Donald Green and Willard Asbury about the early years at Standard Oil Development Company and the influence of Frank Howard and Eger Murphree. The arc process is discussed as well as the level of assistance obtained from IG Farben; Green and Asbury recall the IG research organization. The wartime pressures during the development of GR-S, and the problems at the Baton Rouge plant are discussed by Green, while Asbury tells of his visit to Germany with the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. The political recriminations of the prewar cooperation between Standard Oil and IG Farben are recollected as are visits to Germany in the 1930s and 1950s. The interview ends with a survey of the postwar move into chemicals, the Ziegler process and the future of the oil and petrochemical industries.

ArchivalResource: sound recordings: cassettes ( 180 mins.)Transcript : ( 52 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62751661 View

Directors of Industrial Research (U.S.). Records, 1929-1982.

Title: Records, 1929-1982.

The records of the Directors of Industrial Research are an important collection primarily for its documentation of the development of industrial research. These records provide ample opportunity for the study of a powerful elite of corporate researchers, and a close-up view of certain aspects of the relationship between science and big business in the twentieth century.

ArchivalResource: 3.3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370814 View