Overberger, Charles

C. G. Overberger, Charles Frazier, Jerome Mandelman, and Harry F. Smith, ibid., 71, 3326 (1953). 

Prof. Charles G. Overberger, Department of Chemistry. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, U.S.A. 

I thank the following for their direct contributions in the preparation of this paper Charles Overberger, Ray Seymour, Paul Flory, James Scott Long, Zeno Wicks, Maurice Huggins, A1 Zettle-moyer, Walter Stockmayer, Fred Elrich, Fred Billmeyer, Malcolm Renfrew, Carl Marvel and Malcolm Dole and Edgar Hardy for suggestions as to how to develop the presented material. 

Submitted by C. G. Overberger, Irving C. Kogon, and Ronald Minin.1 Checked by Charles C. Price and T. L. V. Ulbricht. 

Despite his own achievements, Furukawa s chapter indicates the need for future research. How did chemists and physicists work together in the 1940s and 1950s to create a new unified discipline of polymer science It would also be useful to look at how the discipline was taught in the period between 1940 and 1965, especially in the United States. To do this, one would need to examine which courses were taught, the launch of new journals and the evolution of textbooks across various editions. As the polymer science in America started in a few key institutions, notably Brooklyn Polytechnic, it would also be valuable to look at the diffusion of the new discipline from these seed institutions, tracing the careers of the early alumni and coworkers such as Charles Overberger. 

Prof. Werner Kern, Institut fur Organische Chemie der Universitat, 6500 Mainz, BRD Prof. Seizo Okamura, No. 24, Minami-Goshomachi, Okazaki, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606, Japan Prof. Charles G. Overberger, Macromolecular Research Center, Institute of Science and Technology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, U.S.A. 

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