The Wentworth Group

Lovelock often simply tried to measure the response of every volatile compound in the laboratory to characterize a detector. This method of inquiry was a Lovelock trademark later adopted by the Wentworth group. In the first half of the twentieth century few reactions of thermal electrons with molecules were studied. Some studies of electrons and ions in flames and electron swarms were conducted during this time. H. S. W. Massey described the work on negative ions in a series of monographs [3]. 

One of the major accomplishments of the Wentworth group has been the application of the nonlinear least-squares procedure to chemical problems. This has been generally recognized by the fact that two articles on the subject published in the Journal of Chemical Education in 1965 have become classics. The following is taken from the March 31, 1986, Current Contents issue ... 

Beginning in 1960 doctoral student E. C. M. Chen, master s students Hirsch, Tai, and Wang, and undergraduates Marie Cobb and Keith worked with the Wentworth group. By the end of the decade doctoral students Freeman and Lin had joined the group. Master s students, George, Steelhammer, Wiley, Han, and Ristau finished their work under Wentworth. 

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The copolymer has been described, and fully analyzed, by Wentworth and Sechrist in another context). This copolymer certainly does not contain isotactic sequences of AN units. Reaction of one CN group with the next within the same macromolecule is not very probable, since it is too far away. Nevertheless, there is a clear indication of the exothermic oligomerization reaction which is, however, preceded in this case by the endothermic dehydrochlorination, typical for aliphatic chlorinated compounds ... 

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