Addenda to the papers of Robert G. Parr, 1935-2001 (bulk 1950-1995)

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Addenda to the papers of Robert G. Parr, 1935-2001 (bulk 1950-1995)

The collection mainly consists of Parr's working research files. There are also reports, project proposals and correspondence files.

37 boxes (5.25 linear ft.)

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Johns Hopkins University

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Parr, Robert G., 1921-....

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Robert G. Parr was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1921. He attended Brown University and did his graduate work at the University of Minnesota under Bryce Crawford. He subsequently taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Robert G. Parr was an important theoretical chemist. In concert with his pupil Rudolph Pariser and in conjunction with the researches of Sir John Pople he contributed to the formulation of what came t...

Crawford, Bryce L.

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Bryce Low Crawford was born on November 27, 1914 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned his B.A. in 1934, his M.A. in 1935 and his Ph.D. in 1937, all from Stanford University. After completing his Ph.D., Professor Crawford was a National Research Fellow at Harvard University (1937-1939) and an instructor in chemistry at Yale University (1939-1940). He came to the University of Minnesota in 1940. He was an assistant professor of chemistry from 1940-1943, associate professor from 1943-1946 and appoi...

Kohn, Walter, 1923-....

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Biography Walter Kohn is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at UCSB, with an emphasis in theoretical physics. On October 13, 1998 he was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his development of the density-functional theory. Kohn was born on March 9, 1923 to Jewish parents in Vienna, Austria. He lived for a year and a half under the Austrian Nazi regime until he fled as a refugee first to England in 1939 and later to Canad...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Carnegie Institute of Technology

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Founded in 1905, by steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie; well-known for its engineering and science programs. Merged with Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in 1967, changing the name to Carnegie-Mellon University. From the description of Official guide: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305814 ...

Pariser, Rudolph, 1923-

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Pariser was born in China on December 8, 1923. He received his Bachelors Degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944, and his Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1950. He worked as a research chemist for DuPont's Jackson Laboratory. He collaborated with Robert Parr, and helped develop the Pariser-Parr-Pople method. In 1954, he began work in the field of polymer science. He was named Research Supervisor of DuPont's polymer division, and by ...

Mulliken, Robert Sanderson

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Physicist. (1896-1986) From the description of Oral history interview with Robert S. Mulliken, 1964 February 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83555065 Chemical physicist. Born 1896. B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1917. Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1921. Assistant professor of physics, New York University, 1926-1928. Associate professor of physics, University of Chicago, 1928-1931; professor, 1931-1956; Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor, 19...