Branch, Gerald

Branch, Gerald E.K. Appendix Gilbert Newton Lewis, 1875— 1946. Journal of Chemical Education 61 (1984) 18-20. 

Gerald Ankley US Environmental Protection Agency 6201 Congdon Boulevard Duluth, Minnesota 55804 U.S.A. Larry Ausley Microbiol. Inorganic Chem. Branch NC Div. of Water Quality Laboratory Section 1623 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1623 U.S.A. 

G. E. Gibson, M. Calvin, J. H. Hildebrand and J. E. Tippett, In Memoriam, University of California, 1954, 27. This is part of a collection of material about Gerald Branch, some of it in typescript, which the present contributor was sent many years ago by B. M. Wepster of Delft. The originals of the material are presumably in University of California archives. 

Individuals met with Gerald Hardy Chief, Land Division, ADEM Stephen Cobb, Chief, Government Hazardous Waste Branch, Land Division, ADEM Greg Potts, BAE Systems Sherri Summers, President, Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce Drew Lyle, CMA Tim Garrett, Site Manager, ANCDF Robie Jackson, Rob Brooks, and Tracy Smith, ANCDF staff. 

Lewis s research was wide-ranging and outstanding. He published important papers on chemical bonds, acid-base theory, and thermodynamics. He also developed firm ideas about howto build a chemistry department. His philosophy of education was something less than egalitarian. Writing in the Journal of Chemical Education, the distinguished chemist Gerald Branch spelled out Lewis s ideas "[F]or a chemist to be useful to... 

As if to preface his Canadian work that lay ahead, Gerald became involved in structural studies of the complex, highly branched extracellular polysaccharide of the microorganism Aerobacter aero genes, which contains glucose, galactose, fucose, and glucuronic acid. 

R. Stephen Berry, University of Chicago W. Peter Cherry, Independent Consultant Joseph M. DeSimone, University of North Carolina Gerald L. Epstein, US Department of Homeland Security Thomas G. Ksiazek, University of Texas Medical Branch Stephen S. Morse, Columbia University... 

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