Sub-series 3. Awards and Commemorative Dinners, 1910-1995, undated
Scope and Content
The Chemists’ Club Records contains the institutional records of the Chemist’s Club. This collection primarily deals with the various committees of the Chemists’ Club and individuals associated with the Club. The collection is arranged into the following eleven series:
- Minutes/Administrative Files
- Committee/Divisional Files
- Chemists’ Club Library
- Publications
- Scholarships
- Chemists’ Club Symposia
- Chemists’ Club Memorabilia
- Chemists’ Club Market Analyses
- General Files
- Individuals’ Collections
- Unprocessed Addenda
Dates
- Creation: 1910-1995, undated
Sub-series Description
Arranged by subject’s last name, this sub-series consists of one box of fifty-seven files about awards and commemorative dinners in honor of fifty-six individuals related to the Chemists’ Club. Individuals of note: Belgian chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland; American chemist William O. Baker; American chemist George Denton Beal; German-American chemist and chemical manufacturer Victor Gustav Bloede; American chemical industrialist Herbert Henry Dow; American chemist Henry Eyring; American scientist and ACS Board of Directors member Milton Harris; American chemist Donald F. Hornig; German chemist Hans Boegh Jonassen; James Rhyne Killian, Jr. (President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology); American chemist Irving Langmuir; Austrian-American chemist Herman Francis Mark; American chemist Carl Shipp Marks; American chemist William Henry Nichols; American chemist William Albert Noyes, Jr.; American chemist James A. Rafferty (General Manager, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation); American chemist George Scatchard; American chemist Glenn T. Seaborg; American chemical engineer Harold A. Sorgenti; research chemist Monroe E. Spaght, American engineer Earl A. Thompson; American physical chemist Harold C. Urey; American biochemist Vincent du Vigneaud; American chemical manufacturer William Wishnick.
Repository Details
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