Bender, Harry

Asaf A. Benderly Harry Diamond Laboratories, U.S. Army (retired)... 

One hundred and seven years after Faraday s first reported preparation of BHC, Harry Bender of the Great Western Electro-Chemical Company in California, was looking for new uses of chlorine. He added benzene to liquid chlorine in a Dewar flask in the open air and noticed that part of the product which spilled on the ground attracted and killed flies and bees. Thus, although compounds such as p-dichlorobenzene had been used as fumigants since World War I and BHC is said to have been used in smoke screens during that war, Bender s observation made in 1932-3 and referred to only fleetingly in the literature (1), was the first indication that technical BHC had unusual insecticidal properties. 

Configuration-interaction curves for the ground state and a number of excited states of HeH+ were calculated by Michels [51]. Similar studies of HeH have been carried out by Harris and co-workers [52, 53], by Davidson and Bender [54], and by Schaefer [55]. 

In 1940, he accepted an adjunct professorship at Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, which provided a teadier s visa and a consultanship with tiie DuPont company, his first course, "General Polymer Chemistry," attracted few graduate students but attracted auditors such as Emil Ott, Milton Harris, H.M. Spurlin, Calvin Schildknecht, I. Allen, H. Bender, W.J. Hamburger, E.O. Kraemer, and J.D. Sally. 

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