Oral history interview with Fred Basolo, 1991 March 1.

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Oral history interview with Fred Basolo, 1991 March 1.

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Fred Basolo begins his interview by discussing his childhood in Coello, Illinois and his elementary and high school education. He attended Southern Illinois University where he studied to be a chemistry teacher, but his instructors encouraged him to attend graduate school in chemistry. At the University of Illinois, he studied inorganic chemistry with John Bailar. After receiving his Ph. D., he worked at Rohm and Haas in Philadelphia for three years. He decided to return to academia and accepted a positions as professor of chemistry at Northwestern University. His research interests have included kinetics and mechanisms and metal carbonyls. Basolo describes the connections he made with Italian scientists and his American Chemical Society presidency and concludes by offering his opinion of how general and inorganic chemistry courses should be taught.

Sound recordings ; cassettes.Transcript : (60 leaves) ; 29 cm.

Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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