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Haurowitz, Felix, 1896-1987. Mss., 1920-1985

Title: Haurowitz mss. 1920-1985

Papers of chemist and Indiana University professor Felix Haurowitz, 1896-1987.

ArchivalResource: 7500 items

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Records of the President of Radcliffe College, 1960-1972

Title: Records of the President of Radcliffe College, 1960-1972

Official Radcliffe College correspondence, reports, minutes, etc., of Mary Bunting-Smith, professor and fifth president of Radcliffe College.

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Westheimer, F. H., (Frank Henry) 1912-. Oral history interview with Frank H. Westheimer, 1979 January 4 & 5.

Title: Oral history interview with Frank H. Westheimer, 1979 January 4 & 5.

In this interview, Frank Westheimer begins with his family, his childhood and early education in Baltimore, his undergraduate days at Dartmouth, his decision to go into chemistry, and his choice of Harvard for graduate work. Next, he covers his years as a graduate student at Harvard and talks about his research with James Conant and Elmer Kohler, the faculty at Harvard and the courses they taught, and his summer work with Alsoph Corwin at Johns Hopkins. He also talks at length about his early interest in biochemistry, his view of theoretical organic chemistry in the mid-1930s and the opportunities for research open to him, the development of theoretical organic chemistry in the early part of the twentieth century, and the publications of some of the early scientists. This is followed by a description of his year as a National Research Fellow at Columbia, his research, his colleagues, and more on the development of his interest in biochemical problems. Westheimer continues with the offer of a position at the University of Chicago from Morris Kharasch, and includes an extensive discussion of the university, his research, and his collaboration with John Kirkwook, Joe Mayer and Birgit Vennesland. In the next part of the interview, he comments on his selection and training of students and discusses a number of former students who have been successful in research careers. The interview concludes with more discussion of physical organic chemistry, past, present and future; a review of his work on the hydrolysis of phosphate esters and pseudorotation; comments on the future of organic chemistry; and a review of the Westheimer Report, the analysis of American chemistry by the National Academy of Sciences.

ArchivalResource: Sound files ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : (130 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715391574 View

Walling, Cheves, 1916-. Oral history interview with Cheves Walling, 1979 September 12.

Title: Oral history interview with Cheves Walling, 1979 September 12.

Cheves Walling begins this interview by describing his family, early education, and undergraduate days at Harvard. He then discusses his graduate education at the University of Chicago, stressing the major review article on the peroxide effect that he and Frank Mayo wrote in 1940. Walling next examines the research that he undertook at Du Pont, U.S. Rubber, and Lever Brothers, emphasizing the work that he did before 1950 at U.S. Rubber. Finally, Walling examines his academic career at Columbia and the University of Utah. Throughout the interview he reflects upon the emergence and maturation of physical organic chemistry.

ArchivalResource: Sound files ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : (38 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715406929 View

Seeman, Jeffrey I. Collection of Jeffrey I. Seeman, 1944-1961.

Title: Collection of Jeffrey I. Seeman, 1944-1961.

Five photographs of chemists collected by chemical history researcher Jeffry I. Seeman while researching the synthesis of quinine for an article. The collection includes two photographs of William von Eggers Doering and Robert Burns Woodward in June 1944, an undated (color) photograph of Frank Westheimer standing by a street sign reading Westheimer Road, a photograph of Leopold Ruzicka, Woodward, Derek H. R. Barton, Vladimir Prelog, and Alexander R. Todd in Zurich in 1955, and a photograph of Carl Djerassi, Barton, Woodward, Todd, Prelog, and Joshua Lederberg in Stanford, CA in 1961. The prints themselves date from 2006-2007. The photographs are accompanied by an article cut from the February 26, 2007 issue of Science & Technology explaining Seeman's research.

ArchivalResource: 0.01 cubic feet (1 pamphlet binder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/723496571 View