Roger Adams (other)
Roger Adams (1889–1971), an American organic chemist and president of the American Chemical Society Roger Adams may also refer to: * Roger Adams (printer) (c. 1681–1741), printer and bookseller * Roger Adams (MP) (died 1405), Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth See also * Adams (surname) *Roger Adam The Établissements aéronautiques Roger Adam (Roger Adam Aeronautical Establishments) was a company that produced light aircraft in kit in France between 1948 and 1955 intended for amateur construction. The company was found by French engineer Rog ...

Roger Adams
Roger Adams (January 2, 1889 – July 6, 1971) was an American organic chemist who developed the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and helped determine the composition of natural substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids. He isolated and identified CBD in 1940. As head of the Chemistry department at the University of Illinois from 1926 to 1954, he influenced graduate education in America, taught over 250 Ph.D. students and postgraduate students, and served in military science during World War I and World War II. Early life Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts to railroad official Austin W. Adams and Lydia Curtis, and grew up in a prosperous neighborhood in South Boston, the last child in a gifted family that included Adams's three older sisters (two went to Radcliffe College and one to Smith College). Adams was part of the prominent Adams family, and was descended from John Adams's grandfather. Adams attending Boston Latin School and Cambridge Latin High ...
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Roger Adams (printer)
Roger Adams (1681–1741) of Chester was a printer and bookseller, and amongst the first printers of Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peopl ... texts. 'Ystyriaethau o Gyflwr Dyn' (1724) was probably his earliest publication.D. Nuttall, 'Adams, Roger (1681?–1741)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200accessed 15 Jan 2017/ref> References English printers Welsh literature English booksellers 1741 deaths Year of birth uncertain {{publish-bio-stub ...
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Roger Adams (MP)
Roger Adams (died 1405), of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, was an English politician. Life Adams married a woman named Agnes at some point before 1399. There is no record of them having children. In the 1376 Parliament, there were complaints that Adams and others were 'terrorising' the poor men of the town, and in 1384, Adams killed Ralph Mawg the elder of Yarmouth, allegedly in self-defence. He died before December 1405. Career He held the office of Bailiff in Yarmouth in 1401-1402 just one time before his membership in the Parliament. He imported wine from Gascony, shipped a lot of cloth to the Low Countries, and had a share in the herring trade in Yarmouth, which was the most important commodity of the county then. Adams acted as a trustee of property acquired by Ralph Ramsey in Yarmouth in 1384, and he was to be a mainpernor for this Ramsey at the elections to the second Parliament of 1397. Since 1386 he had been one of the 24 jurats of Yarmouth, his name appeared under the numbe ...
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Adams (surname)
Adams is a common surname of English and Scottish origin, meaning "son of the soil (Adama)". Variations include Addams, McAdam and MacAdam. People with the surname Politics and law * A. A. Adams (1900–1985), American politician *Abigail Adams (1744–1818), second First Lady of the United States and mother of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States * Barbara Adams (born 1962), Canadian politician * Benjamin F. Adams (1822–1902), American politician *Brock Adams (1927–2004), U.S. representative and U.S. senator from Washington * Bryan Adams (politician) (born 1963), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Jefferson Parish * Campbell W. Adams (1852–1930), New York state engineer and surveyor * Charles C. Adams Jr. (born 1947), American international arbitration lawyer, civic activist *Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886), U.S. congressman, ambassador *Dick Adams (politician) (born 1951), Australian politician * Dorothy Adams, later known ...
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