History of organic chemistry at Cornell, 2004.

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History of organic chemistry at Cornell, 2004.

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Typescript "History of Organic Chemistry at Cornell including an "academic genealogy" of tenured organic chemistry faculty at Cornell, 1868-2004; biographies of six deceased faculty members: James M. Crafts, George C. Caldwell, William R. Orndorff, John R. Johnson, William T. Miller, and Alfred T. Blomquist; and "Chemistry Laboratories at Cornell," an update of the 1938 Chamot-Rhodes history with added materials. Also, reprint of "John Raven Johnston, 1900-1983: A Biographical Memoir," by Charles F. Wilcox, Jerrold Meinwald, and Keith R. Johnston from National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, Volume 85, 2004.

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Miller, William T. (William Taylor), 1911-1998

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Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University. William Miller received a B.S. and a Ph.D. from Duke University, and came to Cornell in 1936. During World War II, he worked at the S.A.M. Laboratories of the Manhattan Project at Columbia University on highly stable fluorocarbon polymers that would not react with uranium gas, thus making possible the separation of the fissionable isotope at Oak Ridge. After the war he returned to Cornell where he taught until his retirement in...

Johnson, John R.

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John Raven Johnson (1900-1988) was a professor of chemistry at Cornell University from 1930 until his retirement in 1965. He also served as a consultant to E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. from 1937 until 1951, where he worked for the Organic Chemicals Department. Johnson received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois where he studied with Professor Roger Adams. At Illinois, Johnson became a close friend of Wallace Carothers who in 1928 joined the Chemi...

Caldwell, G. C. (George Chapman), 1834-1907

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U.S. Sanitary Commission was a volunteer civilian organization that had responsibility for the health of the volunteer soldiers in the Union Army. From the description of Notebook, 1862-1863. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 40153352 Professor of chemistry, Cornell University. From the description of George Chapman Caldwell papers, 1853-1903. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63534625 G.C. Caldwell was chairman of the chemis...

Cornell University. Dept. of Chemistry.

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Johnson, Keith R.

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Orndorff, W. R. (William Ridgely), 1862-1927

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Professor of organic chemistry, Cornell University. From the description of William Ridgely Orndorff papers, 1891-1912. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64075188 ...

Crafts, James Mason, 1839-1917

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Wilcox, Charles F., 1930-....

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Professor of Organic Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University. From the description of History of organic chemistry at Cornell, 2004. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64056987 ...

Blomquist, Alfred Theodore, 1906-1977.

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Alfred T. Blomquist was Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University from 1941 to 1971 and was a consultant to the B.F. Goodrich Company for 25 years. He wrote ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, a widely used textbook, in 1948, and also edited a series of monographs on organic chemistry. From the description of Progress reports to B.F. Goodrich Company, 1943-1965. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64072662 ...

Meinhold, Jerrold, 1927-

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