Lamb, Arthur

Letter from G. N. Lewis to Paul Ehrenfest, undated but probably 1925, G. N. Lewis Correspondence, BL.UCB. G. N. Lewis and D. F. Smith promised in their paper, "The Theory of Reaction Rate," JACS 47 (1925) 15081520, to publish a demonstration that a range of frequencies of radiation affecting degrees of freedom in a molecule is responsible for chemical reaction. This paper was the subject of the letter, with anonymous referee s report, from Arthur B. Lamb to G. N. Lewis, 28 February 1925, G. N. Lewis Papers, BL.UCB. The referee said "No real unimolecular reaction has actually been observed they have been shown to be merely catalytic the idea that a unimolecular reaction is due to collision between a quantum and a molecule is not original with Lewis."... 

This remark further motivated Turkevich to obtain a perfect score in Richardson s General Chemistry course. It is interesting to note that during World War I Richardson worked with Arthur Lamb, subsequently a professor at Harvard, on adsorption of gases on charcoal. The teachers at Dartmouth ... 

Fritz Haber, Thermodynamik technischer Gasreaktionen. Sieben Vortrdge (Munich R. Oldenbourg, 1905), and, translated by Arthur H. Lamb, Thermodynamics of Technical Gas Reactions (London MacMillan, 1908). Haber s reputation in technical electrochemistry derived from his Grundriss der Technischen Elektrochemie auf theoretischer Grundlage (Munich R. Oldenbourg, 1898). 

Irving Langmuir William McPherson Moses Gomberg Lawrence V. Redman Arthur B. Lamb... 

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