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Edgar Fahs Smith
Edgar Fahs Smith (May 23, 1854 – May 3, 1928) was an American scientist who is best known today for his interests in the history of chemistry. He served as provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1920, was deeply involved in the American Chemical Society and other organizations, and was awarded the Priestley Medal in 1926. He accumulated a large collection of pictures, books, and papers related to the history of chemistry, which today forms the nucleus of the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection at the University of Pennsylvania. The collection was designated as a National Historic Chemical Landmarks, National Historic Chemical Landmark on March 16, 2000. Life and work Edgar Fahs Smith was born in York, Pennsylvania on May 23, 1854, to Gibson Smith and Elizabeth Fahs (Smith). He was raised in the Moravian Church, Moravian faith. His younger brother Allen John Smith was born in 1863. He attended York County Academy, a college preparatory school, from 1867 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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United States National Academy Of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to the National Academy is one of the highest honors in the scientific field. Members of the National Academy of Sciences serve '' pro bono'' as "advisers to the nation" on science, engineering, and medicine. The group holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code. Founded in 1863 as a result of an Act of Congress that was approved by Abraham Lincoln, the NAS is charged with "providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. ... to provide scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Administrators Of The University Of Pennsylvania
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American Chemists
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1928 Deaths
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1854 Births
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Victor Von Richter
Victor von Richter (April 15, 1841 – October 8, 1891) was a German chemist and discovered the von Richter reaction. Works * ''Chemie der Kohlenstoffverbindungen. Band 1: Die Chemie der Fettkoerper'' . Cohen, Bonn 1894Digital editionby the University and State Library Düsseldorf * ''Chemie der Kohlenstoffverbindungen. Band 2: Carbocyclische und heterocyclische Verbindungen'' . Cohen, Bonn 189Digital editionby the University and State Library Düsseldorf * ''V. v. Richter's Lehrbuch der anorganischen Chemie : mit 90 Holzschnitten u. 1 Spectraltaf.'' . 8. Aufl. / neu bearb. von H. Klinger Cohen, Bonn 189Digital editionby the University and State Library Düsseldorf * ''Traité de chimie organique'' . Vol. 1&2 . éd. française trad. d'après la 11e éd. allemande, Béranger, Paris 191Digital editionby the University and State Library Düsseldorf The University and State Library Düsseldorf (german: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf, abbreviated ULB Düsseldo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley (; 24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist. He published over 150 works, and conducted experiments in electricity and other areas of science. He was a close friend of, and worked in close association with Benjamin Franklin involving electricity experiments. Priestley is credited with his independent discovery of oxygen by the thermal decomposition of mercuric oxide, having isolated it in 1774. During his lifetime, Priestley's considerable scientific reputation rested on his invention of carbonated water, his writings on electricity, and his discovery of several "airs" (gases), the most famous being what Priestley dubbed "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen). Priestley's determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution eventually left him isolated within the scientific community. Prie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cutbush
James Cutbush (born 1788 in Pennsylvania; died at West Point, New York, on 15 December 1823) was an American chemist. Biography Concerning his early history, very little is known, except that he taught chemistry. He was appointed to the United States Army with the rank of assistant apothecary-general in 1814, served first in Philadelphia, was afterward attached to the northern division of the Army, and was chief medical officer of the U. S. Military Academy and the Army post at West Point from June 1820 until November 1821. On the reorganization of the Army, he became assistant surgeon and acting professor of chemistry and mineralogy at West Point, in which capacity he continued until his death. He was president of the Columbian Chemical Society in Philadelphia. In 1814, Cutbush was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. Works He wrote several papers in the earlier volumes of Silliman's ''American Journal of Sciences'',” and was the author of: * ''Useful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Woodhouse
James Woodhouse (17 November 1770, Philadelphia – 4 June 1809, Philadelphia) was an American surgeon and chemist. Biography He was the son of English emigrants to the United States. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1787, and from its medical department in 1792. In 1791 he served as a surgeon in General Arthur St. Clair's expedition against the western Indians. When Joseph Priestley declined to accept the chair of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1795, Woodhouse received the appointment, which he held until his death. He is said to have been the first to demonstrate the superiority of the Lehigh anthracite coal in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, over the bituminous coals of Virginia for intensity and regularity of heating power. He also studied potassium, nitrous oxide, identification of basalt, starch and bread making. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and contributed to its transactions, to Samuel L. Mitchell's ''Medic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hare (chemist)
Robert Hare (January 17, 1781 – May 15, 1858) was an early American chemist and professor. Biography Hare was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 17, 1781. He developed and experimented with the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, with Edward Daniel Clarke of Oxford, shortly after 1800. He married Harriett Clark and had six children. In 1802, Hare was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. He was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania between 1810 and 1812 and between 1818 and 1847. By the 1820s, Hare had developed the "galvanic deflagrator", a type of voltaic battery having large plates used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.Kneeland, Timothy W. (2008). ''Robert Hare: Politics, Science, and Spiritualism in the Early Republic''. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 132, No. 3. pp. 245-260. He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1824. Hare died in Philadelphia on May 15, 1858. Spir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Armstrong
Eva Armstrong (December 22, 1877 in Key West, Florida - May 10, 1962) was an American secretary, librarian, curator, and historian of science. She was the original curator of the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection in the History of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. The collection, which opened on March 1, 1931, was designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark on March 16, 2000. Armstrong also helped to establish the journal '' Chymia'', working as secretary of the board of editors of the journal for the history of chemistry from 1948 to 1953. She published on the history of chemistry in journals including ''Chymia'', ''Isis'', and the ''Journal of Chemical Education''. Armstrong received the Dexter Award for contributions to the history of chemistry in 1958. Education Eva Vivian Armstrong was born on December 22, 1877 in Key West, Florida. Armstrong attended Atlantic City High School and was then a secretary, first at the Book Lover's Agency and then at the Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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