Faculty support, physical chemistry

Dodge, and Maile Ventura. Another Hawaiian mahalo to Julia Myers and Michael Niederer for designing and maintaining the ConceptChem.com website. To Alayne Schroll and the other faculty of the chemistry and physics departments at St. Michael s College, thank you for your continued support. Special thanks are extended to Frank L. Lambert, Professor Emeritus Occidental College, for his much-appreciated assistance in the development of Conceptual Chemistrys presentation of the second law of thermodynamics. 

Supporting universities West University of Timi oara (Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography/Biology-Chemistry Department/ Laboratory of Computational and Structural Physical Chemistry for Nanosciences and QSAR) Free University of Berlin (Physics Department/Institute for Theoretical Physics/Research Center for Einstein s Physics, Centre for International Cooperation) University of Calabria (Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences/Chemistiy Department) ... 

Supporting universities West University of Timi oara (Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography/Biology-Chemistry Department/ Laboratory of Computational and Stmctural Physical Chemistry... 

Acknowledgement is made to the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, for partial support of this work. Partial equipment support for this research was provided by the National Science Foundation through the Physical Chemistry Program. M.I.L. thanks the Natural Science Association at the University of Pennsylvania for a Young Faculty Award. T.A.S. thanks Swarthmore College for a Eugene M. Lang Faculty Fellowship (1988-89). 

As the new atomic science, through ever more sophisticated detectors, opened a realm that could not be directly perceived by the physical senses, occult chemistry offered an alternative, a mode of scientific experimentation that could attempt to claim legitimacy through its scientific writing, charts, and visual illustrations of data while it also connected the human psyche to the subatomic world through a direct form of perception—that is, clairvoyance. (Theosophists argued that clairvoyance was indeed a sense faculty.) The conception of alchemy that supported such a vision was the spiritual alchemy we... 

Although he was loath to accept administrative responsibilities beyond those inherent in his research operation, Ken, nevertheless, did fulfil such tasks on occasion, at both the Departmental and Faculty level, but administration was not his forte. During his time at Queen s University, he served briefly as a Member of the Department of Chemistry Graduate Committee, and one term as Chairman of that Division of the School of Graduate Studies and Research which encompassed the physical sciences (Division IV). The Chairmen of the various Divisions are Members of the Council of the School of Graduate Studies. As well, Ken was Secretary of the Committee on Scientific Research, a committee that considered applications from faculty members for financial support of research. He contributed to the design of some of the laboratory renovations (completed in 1964) in Gordon Hall. 

No, we didn t. Some of us were paid as research associates or faculty members. We had a little bit of a budget to buy equipment and so forth. This was before the era of research proposals. The discovery of plutonium, for example, was personal research. It was not supported by the government or any other research foundation. Support is easier today. However, it is more difficult for young scientists today to find a position. There is a little oversupply of scientists in both chemistry and physics. However, we have been through that before, and it s the law of supply and demand sort of adjustment and takes care of itself. 

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