Photographs from the Papers of Eugene G. Rochow

This collection contains black and white and color print photographs and some negatives of chemist Eugene Rochow, his wife Helen, and assorted colleagues spanning 1913 to the 1990s. The earliest photographs depict Rochow at age 4 in 1913 and with his kindergarten class in 1915. Other photographs include formal portraits of Rochow, including two from when he was a Perkin Medalist in 1962, as well as snapshots of Rochow, his wife, and other family members. The collection also includes several portraits of Rochow’s peers in the field of silicone chemistry, including British chemist Sir Frederic Stanley Kipping, German chemist Alfred Stock, and American chemist and inventor James Franklin Hyde, known as the “Father of Silicones.” Several photographs of Rochow and colleagues at various ISOC Symposium, as well as photographs used as illustrations in Rochow’s Silicon and silicones: About stone-age tools, antique pottery, modern ceramics, computers, space materials, and how they all got that way (1987) round out the collection.