Orville A. Beath Papers 1924-1988

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Orville A. Beath Papers 1924-1988

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Includes correspondence, manuscripts, printed matter, reports, subject files and photographic material concerning Beath's life and work as a chemist and authority on plants and selenium in the Western United States.

10.6 cubic ft. (30 boxes)

eng,

American Heritage Center. University of Wyoming

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Rosenfeld, Irene.

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Dr. Irene Rosenfeld (1908-1983) was an experimental pathologist at the University of Wyoming for 25 years. She did extensive research on the element selenium and its effects on mammals, birds and humans. She authored over sixty publications and co-authored, with Orville A. Beath, the book "Selenium" in 1964. Irene Rosenfeld was born in Austria in 1908. She came to the United States in 1920 and became a naturalized citizen in 1921. Her higher education included a B.A. 193...

Beath, Orville A. (Orville Andrew), 1884-

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Orville A. Beath was a professor of chemistry and leader of a team (Irene Rosenfeld, Carl S. Gilbert and Harold F. Eppson) at the University of Wyoming which researched plant chemistry, poisonous constituents of western range plants, seleniferous vegetation, chemical valuation of native forage plants and the geology of selenium distribution. Beath was an internationally known authority on the toxicity of selenium and authored or coauthored fifty-nine publications on this and related subjects inc...

Trelease, Sam F. (Sam Farlow), 1892-

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