Doctoral Dissertations Accepted

Association of Research Libraries, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, H. W. Wilson, New York, 1933-1957. D. B. Gilchrist, E. A. Henry, A. H. Trotier, and M. Harman, editors. Gives titles for dissertations. Appendix shows which publications of universities in the United States contain abstracts. Information on availability of photostats and microfilms is listed. In 1957, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities was absorbed by Dissertation Abstracts. 

Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities. New York, H. H. Wilson Co., 1933 to date. Annual. Compiled by Association of Research Librarians gives titles for dissertations appendix shows which publications of universities in United States contain abstracts gives information on photoprints, microfilms, and other facilities that universities have for providing copies. 

For all practical purposes, theses and doctoral dissertations can be classified as unpublished data. They are a fruitful source of information and should not be overlooked. Few of these are published in full, some in part, and less than half are printed at all. Nevertheless, copies are available in the libraries of the institutions at which they were written. The problem is to discover that a dissertation exists on a particular subject of interest. It has been essentially solved by the annual appearance of Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities (I), first published in 1933. It lists the doctoral dissertations in all fields. Under each subject clas cation, the institutions at which the dissertations were prepared are listed in alphabetical order with subsequent listing by author. Although the classifications are broad, a subject which involves two or more fields can be located easily through the alphabetical subject index. This index, of course,... 

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While still a student at the Academy, Ipatieffbegan to make a name for himself in the Russian chemical community as he began to publish some of his laboratory findings. His first professional milestone as a chemist came in 18h() when he joined Russia s Physical-Chemical Society. Here he came into close contact with Russia s most famous chemists, including Dimitri Mendeleev, discoverer of the periodic table and one of the founders ol the Society. In 1891, upon graduating from the school, he was appointed lecturer in chemistry at the Academy where he also continued to undertake original chemical research for his doctoral dissertation. In 1895, he was made assistant professor and, upon completion and acceptance of his dissertation in 1899, he became a full professor of chemistry. 

University of Virginia, Abstracts of Dissertations Accepted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1945-1947, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 1948. 

Back at Uppsala, Arrhenius took his doctoral dissertation containing the new theory to his advisor. Professor Cleve, an eminent chemist and the discoverer of the elements holmium and thulium. Cleve s uninterested response was what Arrhenius had expected. It was in keeping with Cleve s resistance to new ideas—he had not even accepted Mendeleev s periodic table, introduced 10 years earlier. 

Financial conditions in 1933 kept Brown University from reappointing Onsager, and so on being offered a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship by Yale University, he accepted. On arrival at Yale, it was realized that he did not have a doctorate his doctoral dissertation filed years before in Trondheim had not been in proper form in some way and no PhD was awarded. Yale chose to solve the problem of Onsager s appointment by awarding him a Yale PhD in chemistry on the basis of a dissertation he submitted, a dissertation... 

Although Onsager s first appointment at Yale was a postdoctoral fellowship, he had no doctorate. It disturbed him that everybody called him Dr. Oiisager, and he decided to seek the Ph.D. from Yale. He was told that any of his published works would do for the thesis, but he felt he should write something new, and he quickly submitted a lengthy dissertation on Mathieu functions. Both the Department of Chemistiy and the Department of Physics, found it difficult. The Department of Mathematics, however, was enthusiastic and was prepared to award the degree, whereupon the Department of Chemistiy did not hesitate m accepting the thesis. 

Received for review March 27, 1957. Accepted June 19, 1957. Work supported by ONR under contract N7 onr-292. Task Order I. Part of the work for the dissertation submitted by S. A. Harper in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the University of Missouri. 

Received for review April 19, 1957. Accepted June 19, 1957. Based on the dissertation Ozonation of Cyanides, submitted by Krishna K. Khandelwal in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of doctor of philosophy in chemical engineering in the Graduate School of Syracuse University, June 1956. 

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