Oral history interview with James B. Nichols, 1986 January 14 and 16.

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Oral history interview with James B. Nichols, 1986 January 14 and 16.

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Nichols won scholarships to help him through his undergraduate studies of chemistry at Cornell, where he completed a senior research project with Wilder D. Bancroft. At Bancroft's urging, Burton Nichols met Svedberg, who was then on his way to Wisconsin on sabbatical leave, and followed him to Madison. His introduction to sedimentation techniques was by construction of a pioneer optical centrifuge and its use in pigment characterization. Recollections of this period are followed by an account of his arrival at the Du Pont Experimental Station to work in Kraemer's group, starting with the application of ultracentrifugal techniques to industrial problems. During his long career at Du Pont, Nichols was involved in the evolution of new instruments and polymer characterization. The interview concludes with Nichols recalling colleagues, Du Pont management and organization, as well as his professional society activities.

Sound files ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : (83 leaves) ; 29 cm.

Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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James Burton Nichols was born on February 25, 1902 at Danbury, Conn. He did his undergraduate work at Cornell University and received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in colloid chemistry in 1927. His first project was to construct an ultracentrifuge for the Du Pont Company's fundamental research program. Nichols then began to study the particle sizes of Du Pont's pigments and the relationship between particle size and pigment properties. Charles Stine, the Director of the Fundamental Re...