Frank Henry Verhoek Papers

Collection

Identifier: 96-03-001

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1078959~S6

The bulk of the college consists of Verhoek's undergraduate and graduate chemistry notebooks. There is a small amount of material relating to his work on the Chemical Bond Approach and miscellaneous material relating to the teaching on chemistry.

Dates

Creation: 1906-1982

Language of Materials

Text in English.

Biographical sketch

Frank H. Verhoek was born in 1909. He graduated from Harvard University in 1930 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1933. He student abroad at Trinity College, Oxford and at the University of Copenhagen for a year and in 1935 he began teaching at Ohio State University. In 1977 he was named at Emeritus Professor. He held many consultancies and was a lecturer on behalf of the Chemical Bond Approach for the teaching of high school-level chemistry. He died in Granville, Ohio on September 7, 1910.

Extent

1.32 Linear Feet (3 boxes)

Additional Description

Abstract

The focus of this collection is Chemical Education. Verhoek's notebooks from Harvard and the University of Wisconsin give a fairly comprehensive overview of how Chemistry was taught in the early years of the 20th Century.

Arrangement

Arranged into three series: Series 1. Student Notebooks; Series 2. Lecture notes, Course Materials & Department Histories, 1906-1982; Series 3. The Chemical Bond Approach 1959-1961.