Records, 1892-1923.

National Research Council (U.S.)

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The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. The Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. From the descriptio...

Gibbs, Wolcott, 1822-1908

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Gibbs received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1888. He served as Dean of Lawrence Scientific School and Dean of School of Mining and Practical Engineering, and taught chemistry and physics. From the description of Papers of Wolcott Gibbs, 1885-1944 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069357 Chemist (Ammonia-cobalt compounds; metals of platinum group; new methods of analysis; complex inorganic acids). A.M. Columbia College, 1841; M.D. Columbia College...

Smith, Edgar F. (Edgar Fahs), 1854-1928

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Professor of Chemistry, Vice-Provost (1898-1910), and Provost (1910-1920), University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Edgar Fahs Smith papers, circa 1870-1940. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213494303 Edgar Fahs Smith was Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1916. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884095 A politi...

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

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The National Academy of Sciences, founded in Washington, D. C., in 1863, grew out of a desire for a body of scientists to give advice on scientific matters to the federal government. Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian, was a force behind its creation. From the description of National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1887 Records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78403445 ...

Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956

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Robert Mearns Yerkes was an animal psychologist; he became a member of the American Philosophical Society, 1936. From the guide to the Testament: the scientific way, n.d., n.d., (American Philosophical Society) George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) Psychologist. From the description o...

Wolcott Gibbs Fund for Chemical Research.

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The Wolcott Gibbs Fund for Chemical Research was established by subscription and entrusted to the National Academy of Sciences, April 1892. The trustees named in the letter of gift were Charles Loring Jackson, Ira Remsen, and Thomas M. Down. From the description of Records, 1892-1923. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63644028 ...

Friedburg, Ludwig Henry.

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Richards, Theodore W. (Theodore William), 1868-1928

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Theodore W. Richards graduated from Harvard in 1886. From the description of Chemistry notebooks and bluebook, 1885-1886. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073083 From the description of First forensic and forensic thesis, 1885-1886. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073084 Harvard professor and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry. From the description of Letter to Sally Fairchild, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 5120...

Abbott, C. G.

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Jackson, Charles Loring, 1847-1935

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Jackson (Harvard, A.B., 1867) taught chemistry at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Charles Loring Jackson, 1884?-1964 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972796 Charles Loring Jackson (1847-1935) earned his Harvard AB 1867. He went on to serve Harvard as Professor of Chemistry from 1881-1894 and Erving Professor of Chemistry from 1894-1912. From the description of Letter from Charles Loring Jackson to Samuel Eliot Morison, 4 May 193...