Rosalind D. Lewis letters

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Rosalind D. Lewis letters

1940-1942

https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/980

This collection consists of correspondence between Rosalind D. Lewis and her future son-in-law Cherry L. Emerson, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who married her daughter Mary Lewis in 1942. In addition to letters about family matters, there are also references to Emerson's work on his SM degree in Chemical Engineering (Course 10A), which he earned in 1941 from MIT.

0.1 cubic feet; (12 letters and 5 postcards in one small manuscript box)

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 6358271

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Lewis, Warren Kendall, 1882-

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Warren K. Lewis, 1882-1975, SB, 1905, MIT; PhD in chemistry, 1908, University of Breslau, Germany, became assistant professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1910 and professor of chemical engineering in 1914. From 1920 to1929 he served as the first head of the newly established Department of Chemical Engineering. He then returned full time to teaching and research. Warren K. Lewis played a significant role in establishing chemical engi...

Lewis, Rosalind D.

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Rosalind Denny Kenway graduated from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, in 1908 and married Warren Kendall Lewis in October 1909. Warren Lewis was a 1905 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), later professor and the first head of the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering. Rosalind and Warren Lewis had four children: Rosalind, Mary, Warren K. and H. Clay Lewis. Cherry L. Emerson earned an SM degree in Chemical Engineering (Course 10-A) from MIT in 1941 and married Mary...

Emerson, Cherry Logan

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