Miller, Eugene

Lei ter, Joseph, Scheiderman, Marvin, Miller, Eugene, Data Processing Program of the Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center, Abstracts of Papers, 136th Meeting, ACS, September 1959, p. 5G. 

While there is no doubt that Peter Pauson and Samuel Miller and their coworkers have the priority regarding the isolation and characterization of FeCioHio, they were probably not the first to have prepared this novel organo-metallic compound. Eugene O. Brimm from Linde Air Products, nowadays well known for the first synthesis of Mn2(CO)i0 (see Chap. 4), was one of several industrial chemists who, after reading the communication by Kealy and Pauson, wanted to prepare a sample of the new substance. For this reason, he asked a colleague at Union Carbide (at that time Linde s parent company) whether they had any cyclopentadiene. The reply, that they not longer did so, was accompanied by the statement that, some years previously, they had... 

Sommerville, Diane Miller. 2004. Moonlight, Magnolias, and Brigadoon, or Almost Like Being in Love Mastery and Sexual Exploitation in Eugene D. Genovese s Plantation South. Radical History Review 88 (Winter) 68-82. 

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