PaulEmmett Papers 1918-2001

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PaulEmmett Papers 1918-2001

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Paul Emmett (1900-1985),a friend and colleague of Linus Pauling, graduated in 1922 from OregonAgricultural College and completed his doctoral work on heterogeneouscatalysis at Caltech in 1925. A major figure in the history of catalysischemistry, Emmett was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1955and worked at a handful of institutions, including The Johns HopkinsUniversity, where he chaired the Chemical Engineering Department until hisretirement in 1971. Special Collections houses Emmett's manuscripts,research notebooks, correspondence and awards.

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