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Scientists -- Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Autographed letters of famous chemists

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-517
Scope and Content For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1063863~S6Collection consists of 54 loose letters in mylar sleeves. They are autographed letters by famous chemists on various subjects. The letters are a mix of personal and scientific correspondence. One letter from Joseph Fourier to John Dalton is in French and one from...
Dates: 1717-1969; Majority of material found within 1791-1964

Benfey autographed letter collection

 Collection
Identifier: 88-13
Scope and content

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1072427~S6


This is a collection of 21 letters, signed by eminent chemists of the modern era. All are typed and all but one is in English. Signers include Linus Pauling, Peter Debye, Road Hoffmann and Robert Woodward.

Dates: 1947-1984

Frank H. Stodola Nobel laureate letter collection

 Collection
Identifier: 88-8
Scope and content

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1064219~S6


This is a collection of signed letters sent to Frank H. Stodola by various Nobel laureates in Chemistry. Letters are typed with the signature of the Nobel Laureate and addressed to Dr. Stodola at a variety of institutions.

Dates: 1937-1971

Frederick Carl Strong III autograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-004
Scope and content

There is no real focus to the collection, in that Strong's principal interest was in the autograph rather than the contents, which are, for the most part, routine notes or inquiries. There are several Nobel laureates and a few outstanding American chemists represented.

Dates: 1938-1983; Majority of material found within 1940-1950

Handwritten letter by Giovanni Antonio Giobert

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-038-002
Scope and content

The letter concerns a sample of indigo from Piedmont sent to the Count de Chanteloup who is Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal.

Dates: 1812

Handwritten letter by Marsilo Landriani to a naturalist

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-038-001
Scope and content

This 4 page letter written on May 7, 1787 deals with several topics including the work of Lavoisier, Guyton de Morveau and others in the evolving nomenclature, and the work of Richard Kirwan, a Scottish meteorologist.

Dates: 1787

Izaak M. Kolthoff - Herbert A. Laitinen correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-012
Abstract

This correspondence between the Dutch-born analytical chemist Izaak M. Kolthoff (1894-1993) and his pupil Herbert A. Laitinen (1915-1991) who himself went on to an illustrious career as an analytical chemist.

Dates: 1937-1989; Majority of material found within 1940-1986

John D. Ferry Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 92-03
Abstract

A collection of correspondence between American chemists John D. Ferry and Paul Flory, with additionally correspondence between John D. Ferry and other scientists, as well as clippings and ephemera regarding the death of Paul Flory.

Dates: 1948-1985

Paul D. Bartlett family correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-014
Scope and Contents

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1074686~S6


This is a rich source of biographical information concerning Bartlett at the start of his illustrious career.

Dates: 1924-1950; Majority of material found within 1930-1936

Robert Mulliken - Harrison Shull correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-026
Abstract

This is assemblage of correspondence between Robert Mulliken and Harrison Shull, American quantum chemists.

Dates: 1942-1978