Collection: Stephen P. Findlay notebooks | Science History Institute

Scope and Contents

One notebook in this collection contains notes taken by Findlay in 1939, while he was attending a Quantitative Analysis course at Princeton University. The other notebooks contain laboratory notes taken by Findlay in the 1950s, while he was working as a research chemist at the National Institutes of Health.

Dates

Creation: 1939-1956

Creator

Findlay, Stephen Powell, 1920- (Person)
National Institute of Health (U.S.) (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Biographical sketch

Findlay was born in Scranton, PA on May 21, 1920. He received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1942, and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1948. He worked as a research chemist for the National Institutes of Health from 1949-1957. His primary areas of research include cholorine oxidation of organic sulfur compounds, plant hormones, alkaloid chemistry, stereoisomerism and synthetic organic chemistry.