Papers, 1900-1971.

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Papers, 1900-1971.

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Includes personal items relating to family, education and travel; photographs; correspondence with family, friends, foundation officials, businessmen, officials of professional societies, scientists and former students; tape-recorded interviews on the chemistry department and financial support of research and graduate work; speeches; reports; manuscripts; reprints; books; correspondence and research on the chemistry of marihuana (1938-41); articles and speeches about Adams; programs of symposia and award ceremonies and newspaper clippings relating to awards and activities. Three subject files (1917-71) contain correspondence, reports, agendas, minutes, memoranda and newsletters relating to associations with the Battelle Memorial Institute, Otto Haas Trust Fund, Robert Welch Foundation, Alfred Sloan Fund, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Institute, International Sugar Research Foundation, National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, National Science Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Philosophical Society, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemists, The Chemurgic Council, International Union of Pure and Applied Chenistry, Illinois Board of Natural Resources and Conservation, Abbott Laboratories, E. I. du Pont Company, Coca Cola Company, Organic Reactions, Organic Syntheses, and Cosmos Club. Correspondents include Wallace Carothers, James Conant, Ernest Volwiler, Robert Robinson and Richard Willsttter.

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