The Samuel Phillip Sadtler materials

Samuel Phillip Sadtler was born in 1847. He studied first at Gettysburg College, then at Harvard where he was a student of Wolcott Gibbs. Sadtler pursued post-graduate studies in Germany with Robert Bunsen and Friedrich Wohler. Upon his return Sadtler first taught at Gettysburg, then accepted a position at the University of Pennsylvania where he remained for seventeen years. As an acknowledged expert in the then-new field of chemical engineering Sadtler was also in demand as a consultant, working for such prestigious clients as John D. Rockefeller. Sadtler was both author and translator and belonged to several scientific societies in England and in Germany. He was a founding member of both the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Electrochemical Society. Samuel P. Sadtler died in 1923.