Guy Fleming Lipscomb papers, 1913-1946.

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Lipscomb, Guy Fleming, 1885-1958. Guy Fleming Lipscomb papers, 1913-1946.

Guy Fleming Lipscomb papers, 1913-1946.

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Consisting chiefly of material documenting Lipscomb's tenure as a professor of chemistry at Clemson University, 1912-1919, and the University of South Carolina, 1919-1949. Includes chemistry articles authored and/or co- authored by Lipscomb and his students; correspondence, 1925-1927, re his attempts to secure a patent for his method of catalytic oxidation; and articles re chemical warfare published during World War I era; and memorial tribute, c. Feb. 1931, to Dr. William B. Burney, U.S.C. professor of chemistry. Also includes correspondence and miscellaneous items re the U.S.C. Faculty Advisory Committee, 1940-1946, on which Lipscomb served and which was charged with consideration of faculty salary adjustment and promotions, department travel expenses, and insurance/annuity/retirement plans, including letters of U.S.C. faculty members Havilah Babcock, Francis W. Bradley, Wilfrid H. Callcott, James Bruce Coleman, Frank A. DeMars, Samuel M. Derrick, J. Nelson Frierson, Katherine B. Heyward, W.E. Hoy, W.C. McCall, George McCutchen, Charles F. Mercer, Robert Lee Meriwether, Josiah Morse, E.T. Motley, George E. Olson, Ellison M. Smith, Laurence L. Smith, Reed Smith, Robert L. Sumwalt, Grace Cameron Sweeny, Stephen Taber, Charles Hardy Waterfall, G. Croft Williams, W.L. Williams, and Hugh Williamson, as well as presidents J. Rion McKissock and Norman M. Smith.

195 items.

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