Letters, New York, N.Y., to Dean F.C. Whitmore, 1930 July 1 and 6.

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Letters, New York, N.Y., to Dean F.C. Whitmore, 1930 July 1 and 6.

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Gerald Wendt writes about completing a textbook for physical chemistry and critiques the chemistry and physics courses at Pennsylvania State College and their professors, particularly Oscar F. Smith and Pauline Gracia Beery Mack.

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Smith, Oscar Franklin

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Wendt, G. (Gerald), 1891-

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Gerald Louis Wendt, researcher, teacher, and editor, was born on March 3, 1891, to Johannes Heinrich and Dora (Albrecht) Wendt in Davenport, Iowa. He received his Harvard AB in 1913, his AM in 1914, and his Ph.D. in 1916. On September 5, 1916, Wendt married Elsie Paula Lerch; they had one child. After the marriage ended in 1938, he married Anne D. Powers on February 22, 1947. Wendt taught chemistry at the Rice Institute in Houston and at the University of Chicago. He later served as Dean of the ...

Whitmore, Frank C. (Frank Clifford), 1887-1947

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Frank C. Whitmore was born in North Attleboro, Massachusetts on 1 October 1887. He completed both his undergraduate and graduate degrees studies Harvard University, and received his Ph. D. in organic chemistry in 1914. Four universities awarded him honorary Doctor of Science degrees: Franklin and Marshall (1947), University of Delaware (1937), Allegheny (1938), and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy (1943). He taught at Williams College (1916-1917), the Rice Institute (1917-1918), the Univer...

Mack, Pauline Beery, 1891-1974

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Dr. Pauline Gracia Beery Mack was born 19 December 1891, in Norborne, Missouri. In 1913 she earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Missouri and chaired science departments in three Missouri high schools before attending Columbia University where she received a master's degree in 1919. That year, she joined the Penn State faculty, completing her Ph.D. in 1932. In 1923 she married botanist Warren Bryan Mack who later became head of Penn State's Department of Horticulture. D...