Proskauer, Eric

Eric Proskauer. Together, they founded the Journal of Polymer Science. The journal was not in the early going as profitable... 

Garfield founder of ISI (Institute for Scientific Information), who was employed on the Index Medicus machine-reading project at the Welch Library. There was the proliferation of the paper record. Europeans were coming in, for example Eric Proskauer, the co-founder of Interscience. Thackray cited a remark of Proskauer s from 1986 Ostwald would have said that what you need is a textbook to teach the science. You need a journal to publish new developments, [and] you need an encyclopedia as a crowning collection of all the facts. ... 

In addition to being a publisher with Interscience, Eric Proskauer was a beloved member of the polymer community. A touching tribute to his 70 birthday was published by John Wiley and Sons, who acquired Interscience [25] (Fig. 3.19). 

Eric S. Proskauer was born in Frankfort am Main in 1903 and educated at Leipzig University. He worked with Carl Drucker and obtained his Ph.D. in 1931. He fell in love with editing and publishing and worked for Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft. In 1937 he immigrated to the United States, and founded Interscience Publishers with Marcell Dekker in 1940. They wasted no time in publishing the series on High Polymeric Substances ... 

The Tribute volume is hlled with praise from his myriad friends. The polymer community owes Eric Proskauer a great debt of gratitude. 

Eric S. Proskauer A Tribute. John Wiley and Sons, New York... 

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