Herty, Charles Holmes

In the postwar years a spirit of "chemical boosterism," to use a term coined in a recent historical study, emerged in the United States. A group of chemists, chemical journalists and science popularizers acted as propagandists for the chemical profession and industry. Their message, delivered with conviction to the public through a variety of popular publications, was that chemistry was vital to the national defense and to economic progress. One of the more active of these chemical boosters was Charles Holmes Herty, and his efforts to establish a national institute for drug research must be viewed within this context (11). 

Herty, C. H. to Bailey, J. R. January 23, 1922, Charles Holmes Herty Papers, Special Collections, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, box 74, folder 1. Hereafter this collection will be cited as "Herty Papers."... 

Harden, Victoria Angela. "Charles Holmes Herty, Joseph Eugene Ransdell and the Establishment of the National Institute of Health, 1926-1930" unpublished manuscript. This paper provides a detailed discussion of the campaign for the N.I.H. bill. I am indebted to the author for a copy of her paper. 

Rhees (ref. 14), 64-112 Germaine Reed, Crusading for chemistry The professional career of Charles Holmes Herty (Athens, GA, 1995), 119-155 see also Herty s editorials during the war in the Journal of industrial and engineering chemistry, a publication of the American Chemical Society. 

Reed, Crusading for Chemistry The Professional Career of Charles Holmes Herty. As the title suggests, Reed provides a full biography of Herty s life in chemistry. 

Parascandola, John. Charles Holmes Herty and the Effort to Establish an Institute for Drug Research in Post World War I America. In Chemistry and Modern Society, edited by Parascandola and James C. Whorton, 85-103. Washington, D.C. American Chemical Society, 1983. 

Oden, 1977. Jack P. Oden. Charles Holmes Herty and the Birth of the Southern Newsprint Paper Industry, 1927-1940. Journal of Forest History 21 (April 1977) 77-89. 

Reed, 1983. Germaine M. Reed. Charles Holmes Herty and the Promotion of Southern Economic Development . South Atlantic Quarterly 82 (1983) 424-436. 

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