Latimer, Wendell

In some of the older American literature, such as the venerable and still useful books by Wendell M. Latimer,9 the reverse convention (oxidation potentials) was used the electrons appear on the right, and the sign of E° is reversed. 

I received a letter from Department Chairman Joel Hildebrand in Berkeley inviting me to join the faculty of the Department of Chemistry. The Salary would be 2,000.00 per annum. That was nearly 167 dollars a month It was a stellar opportunity... Linus Pauling and Wendell Latimer,... 

Dr. Wendell Latimer, dean of the university s college of chemistry announced Dr. Ruben s death. He said that Dr. Ruben was engaged on official investigations on Government contracts with the Office of Scientific Research and Development when the explosion occurred. 

Indeed, among the personal papers of Wendell M. Latimer is recorded the remark that the first response of G. N. Lewis to the manuscript of the now-famous Latimer and Rodebush paper was to suggest the deletion of the H bond proposal because of its contradiction of these rules. 

By permission from Wendell M. Latimer, The Oxidation States of the Elements and Their Potentials in Aqueous Solutions, 2d ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, 1952, pp. 354-356. 

PRENTICE-HALL CHEMISTRY SERIES Wendell M. Latimer, Ph.D., Editor... 

Lewis s ideas were extended in 1919 by Irving Langmuir (1881-1957), who drew a clearer distinction between the bonding in the two types of compound and introduced the terms electrovalency, covalency and octet. Like Lewis, he also represented covalent compounds by means of joined cubes (Figure 11.18). Other developments soon followed. In 1920 Wendell M. Latimer and Worth H. Rodebush... 

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