Autobiographical sketch, 1963.

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Autobiographical sketch, 1963.

The sketch discusses MacInnes' early childhood in Utah; his undergraduate education in chemistry at the University of Utah; graduate fellowship at the University of Illinois in physical chemistry, where he taught after receiving his Ph.D.; move to Massachusetts Institute of Technology and work for the F. C. Huyck Company of Albany; sabbatical year in Paris; acceptance of an associate membership in the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research where he did work on electrochemistry of solutions; work with the New York Academy of Sciences; and a brief discussion of his outside activities.

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