David and Clara Shoemaker Papers 1930-2000

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David and Clara Shoemaker Papers 1930-2000

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David P. Shoemaker (1920-1995) served as chairman of the Oregon State University Chemistry department from 1970-1981. Primarily an X-ray crystallographer, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947 and enjoyed a long career during which he was elected to a number of leadership positions within the profession. His wife Clara Brink Shoemaker (1921-2009), received her doctorate in chemistry in 1950 from Leiden University, where her research focus was also X-ray crystallography. Clara Brink met David Shoemaker in 1953 while working as a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - the couple wed in 1955. Clara Shoemaker was promoted to the rank of senior research professor at Oregon State University in 1982 and, as with her husband, retired as professor emeritus.

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