Chemists’wives

During a prolific career that has produced an astounding bibliography of about 600 publications, Robinson has found leisure time to scale many of the mountain peaks in Switzerland, Norway, and New Zealand. This zeal for mountaineering couples well with his interest in photography. He is a formidable chess player and a lover of music. His wife, also a chemist of note, aided him In his career while raising his family, a son and a daughter. 

On Dec. 21, when K. Inagaki called on the Ministry of Education to announce the formation of the Division, the officer, Willy Nagai (a son of Nagayoshi Nagai, a famous chemist in Japan whose wife was German),... 

Jean-Pierre Poirier. Lavoisier Chemist, Biologist, Economist. Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. A biography that deals with Lavoisier s economic and governmental careers and with his chemistry and biology. Thus, the source for Lavoisier s nonscientific activities. Also the source for Morveau s quote aristocratic chemistry Marat his personal life and wife scientific achievements terminology Lavoisier s biology promotion of new chemistry mobs destroy customs wall first and scientists work for revolutionary government. 

Margit Szollosi-Janze. Fritz Haber 1868-1934 Eine Biographie. Munich Verlag C. H. Beck, 1998. This authoritative biography of Haber scrupulously sorts fact from fiction unfortunately there is no English translation of this 928-page book. Source for facial scar attempt to become reserve officer role of sanitariums and Habers stays in them Clara as chemist and professor s wife Haber s BASF contract Reform Movement Clara s despairing letter Prussian ideals Haber as Archimedes his responsibility for poison gas and wartime authoritarianism Clara and poison gas Sackur Haber leaves after Clara s suicide Haber s postwar depression, Nobel Prize, postwar gas research, and help for Weimar Republic April 1933 events to end and Zyklon B. 

Although the correspondence with me concerned topics discussed in terms of the science of the day, Conway s interests were broad and he had interests in the Arts, stimulated by his wife in this direction (his house was decorated with her paintings). In this respect, Conway exemplifies the Scientist as a Great Man, a man of Knowledge in all and any direction. One is reminded of Frumkin in Moscow who kept abreast of modem literature from Anglo-America, France and Germany and Hinshelwood at Oxford, a physical chemist whose alternative interests were in Japanese Poetry. 

During World War I, Haber helped to develop the technology for deploying phosgene, chlorine, and mustard gas as weapons of chemical warfare. His wife Clara, also a chemist, was disgusted by the use of science in war. When her husband refused to stop his support of the war effort, she committed suicide. 

He sleeps on a small hill, in Tsu where he was born he is survived by Yukari, his wife of 46 years, sons Akifumi and Koji, daughters Mizuyo and Fumi, and numerous friends, including many Japanese carbohydrate chemists. 

Michael, A. J. Prakt. Chem. 1887, 35, 349. Arthur Michael (1853-1942) was horn in Buffalo, New York. He studied under Robert Bunsen, August Hofmann, Adolphe Wurtz, and Dimitri Mendeleev, but never bothered to take a degree. Back to the United States, Michael became a Professor of Chemistry at Tufts University, where he married one of his most brilliant students, Helen Abbott, one of the few women organic chemists in this period. Since he failed miserably as an administrator, Michael and his wife set up their own private laboratory at Newton Center, Massachusetts, where the Michael addition was discovered. 

When I finished my Ph.D., I applied for two postdoctoral positions. One famous chemist said come on but bring your own money, and another reputable chemist offered funding. I didn t have any money and my wife refused to go to the place with money. So, I took a job in academe. I really didn t know how important postdoctoral positions were until I arrived at work to discover that nearly everyone had done a postdoc. 

Professor Curie continued his researches on the growth of crystals, and his young wife prepared for her examinations. Many chemists consider her dissertation (55) to be the most remarkable thesis ever presented for the doctorate. She continued the work begun by Becquerel, and tested most of the known elements, including a number of rare ones loaned by E.-A. Demarpay and Georges Urbain, with Prof. Curie s piezoelectric quartz electrometer, and found that thorium and uranium were the only ones whose compounds produced appreciable ionization (26, 54, 55). The radioactivity of thorium was discovered independently by Gerhardt Carl Schmidt, professor of physics at the University of Munster (25). 

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) had been developed by a number of chemical companies in the 1920s. The problem with this material, however, was that it lost resiliency when heated. In 1929, Waldo Semon, a chemist at BFGoodrich, found that PVC could be made into a workable material by the addition of a plasticizer. Semon got the idea of using plasticized PVC as a shower curtain when he observed his wife sewing together a shower curtain made of rubberized cotton. 

Curie, Pierre (1859 1906). French chemist, educated at the Sorbonne, conducted researches on piezoelectricity magnetism, and became professor of physics at the Sorbonne. Pierre is known expecially for his work with his wife, Maria, on radioactivity leading to their discovery of polonium radium for which they were awarded with A.H.Becquerel the 1003 Nobel... 

In 1978, we observed that flash photolysis of butyrophenone produced acetophenone enol as a transient intermediate, which allowed us to determine the acidity constant KE of the enol from the pH-rate profile (section pH Rate Profiles ) of its decay in aqueous base.4 That work was a sideline of studies aimed at the characterization of biradical intermediates in Norrish Type II reactions and we had no intentions to pursue it any further. Enter Jerry Kresge, who had previously determined the ketonization kinetics of several enols using fast thermal methods for their generation. He immediately realized the potential of the photochemical approach to study keto enol equilibria and quickly convinced us that this technique should be further exploited. We were more than happy to follow suit and to cooperate with this distinguished, inspiring, and enthusing chemist and his cherished wife Yvonne Chiang, who sadly passed away in 2008. Over the years, this collaboration developed into an intimate friendship of our families. This chapter is an account of what has been achieved. Several reviews in this area appeared in the years up to 1998.5 10... 

Finally, it is my pleasure to thank—besides my untiring editor—everybody who contributed to the preparation of this book. I thank my wife, lutta, for typing version 1.0 of most of the chapters, a task that was difficult because she is not a chemist and that at times became downright hair raising because of the inadequacy of my dictation. 

The group of people at the client company who are involved in the decision on which of the several (often very many) fragrances submitted for a product launch or relaunch should be finally adopted is even more varied. It may include the purchasing department, development chemists, evaluation panels attached to the development laboratories, marketing, in-house evaluation panels, the market researchers who design and interpret consumer tests, even top management—or, as the rumor often goes, the president s wife or secretary. 

Catalysis, adsorption, explosives, and like activities lost, simultaneously, a gifted scientist, but the Portland Cement Association was the gainer in its senior research chemist, its principal research chemist, and, since July 1958, its manager of the Basic Research Section. Esther Caukin, who shared the bitter years, died in June 1959, but we welcome his new wife and wish for them both long years of happiness together. 

Finally, I wish to thank my wife, Charlotte (a fellow sulfur chemist) for her help with proofreading many of the contributions. It is to her, and our beautiful new daughter Chloft that this volume is dedicated. 

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry News Edition Ode to a Chemist and His Wife (p. 531) Volume 15, Number 22,10 December 1937... 

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