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Cornell University. Department of Chemistry

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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

George Chapman Caldwell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-8-271
Scope and content

Diaries, lecture notes, personal accounts, a thesis, photographs, and pamphlets. Includes diaries of Caldwell and his wife, and of George W. Chamberlain, his son-in-law who was a professor of architecture at Cornell; notes kept by Caldwell on Louis Agassiz's lectures; family photographs, clippings, and letters, and an elaborate set of financial accounts kept by Caldwell. Typescript of a vacation journal, 1855.



Dates: 1853-1903.

History of organic chemistry at Cornell

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065184784]
Identifier: 14-8-3371
Scope and content Typescript "History of Organic Chemistry at Cornell including an "academic genealogy" of tenured organic chemistry faculty at Cornell, 1868-2004; biographies of six deceased faculty members: James M. Crafts, George C. Caldwell, William R. Orndorff, John R. Johnson, William T. Miller, and Alfred T. Blomquist; and "Chemistry Laboratories at Cornell," an update of the 1938 Chamot-Rhodes history with added materials. Also, reprint of "John Raven Johnston, 1900-1983: A Biographical Memoir," by...
Dates: 2004.

Jerrold Meinwald papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-8-4322
Scope and content The collection contains reprints by Jerrold Meinwald and reprints by Yvonne Meinwald, correspondence, course material, lecture notes, conference material, travel material, grant material, departemental files and symposia. Also, committee files regarding Cambridge NeuroScience research (CNS), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE). Also, a collection of slides used by Meinwald for...
Dates: circa 1970s-2000s.

Manuscript drafts and pamphlets on Cornell's Department of Chemistry and School of Chemical Engineering

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065222105]
Identifier: 14-8-668
Scope and content

Typewritten fair copy (bound) and lightly edited drafts of the manuscript, together with related pamphlets and reprints of articles on the chemical laboratory and the chemical engineering building at Cornell, and a volume published in honor of the 25th anniversary of the American Chemical Society in 1902. The manuscript includes biographical information on many Cornell faculty.

Dates: 1891-1960s.

Ralph Wyckoff papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088321819]
Identifier: 37-5-4168
Scope and content

Includes his biography, several unpublished papers, correspondence and vitae.

Dates: 1930-1994.

Roald Hoffmann papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065188462]
Identifier: 14-8-3360
Scope and content

Bound laboratory notebook (use CD copy), 1964; three letters from E.J. Corey, 1981 and 1984; and copy of letter to Corey, 1981. CD of scans of the notebook. Also items relating to Something That Belongs to You, a play by Hoffmann about the experience of a Holocaust survivor.

Dates: 1964-1984.

Simon Bauer papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-8-3451
Abstract

Includes publications and subject files.

Dates: 1932-2006.

William T. Miller papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-8-3021
Abstract

Papers, primarily relating to his research in fluorine chemistry, especially his work on the Manhattan Project at Columbia University. Also, files relating to the Cornell Chemistry Dept. and building projects in Baker Laboratory.

Dates: 1941-1992.

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