Biographical Sketch

A book of scientific articles in celebration of Boas s 75th birthday (Borland et al. 1979) includes a biographical sketch of Boas by J.F. Nicholas. A substantial account of his life can be found in an obituary by Clarebrough and Head (1987). 

Some of the earliest studies of the aldol reaction were carried out by Aleksander Borodin. Though a physician by training and a chemist by profession, Borodin is remembered as the composer of some familiar works in Russian music. See pp. 326-327 in the April 1987 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education for a biographical sketch of Borodin. 

The importance of Heinrich Ritthausen s fundamental studies, 1862 to 1899, on analytical procedures for the determination of amino acids in proteins has been emphasized in the biographical sketches which have been presented by Osborne (210), Vickery (289), and Chibnall (47). It is of particular interest to note here the prediction made by Ritt-hausen about 1870 that the amino acid composition would prove to be the most adequate basis for the characterization of proteins. Ritthausen and Kreusler (230) were the first, in 1871, to determine amino acids derived from proteins, and some of the values which they found for aspartic and glutamic acids are given in Table III (cited by Chibnall, 47, and Vickery, 286). 

Sibley, J.L. Biographical sketches of graduates of Harvard University. Cambridge (MA) Sever, 1873. 

Boehme, Jacob.De electione gratiae and quaestiones theosophicae with a biographical sketch, translated from the German by J. R. Earle. Translated by J.R. Earle. London Constable, 1930. 327p. 

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