Autobiography, ca. 1965.

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Autobiography, ca. 1965.

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Traxler describes his pioneering grandparents and parents; his home life and influences; his undergraduate work at the University of Colorado in chemistry, briefly interrupted by a short duty tour during World War I; work between his undergraduate and master's degree at the Great Western Sugar Company; his graduate work in physical chemistry at the University of Colorado, under Frank E. E. Germann (he received his M.A. in 1922), and at the University of Wisconsin where he obtained his Ph.D. under Louis Kahlenberg; his early work in the sugar industry as a chemist and his later switch to asphalt research at the Barber Asphalt Company beginning in the 1930s and then at Texaco, Inc., where his interest in rheology grew; his early retirement from Texaco in 1958 to join the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University, where he was also a professor of Chemistry and Civil Engineering. Traxler also discusses his research methods, non-scientific activities, and family.

11 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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