Chemical Genealogy Work Area

These pages are a work area in which information about every person considered for inclusion in the MSU Chemical Genealogy charts is gathered and evaluated. The prime interest lies in identifying the preceptor of an individual and in gathering identifying information about an individual.

Note that references to several chemical genealogy sources, including those available on the WWW in addition to reference books, were made in an attempt to find information upon which to make choices:

MSU sources:

• "McCarty (1969)" refers to the publication: McCarty, C. N., J. Chem. Ed. (1969). 46, 317-318. The entries contain: (for MSU Faculty) name, degree institution, or, (for non-MSU Faculty) name, life dates, preceptor.
• "We (after McCarty)" refers to the state of our information as of 27 November 2001 -- after years of building on McCarty's work by many people, and before referring to Chemical Genealogy Database created by Mainz and Girolami. The entries contain: name, life dates, degree, degree date, degree institution, [and for MSU Faculty start date, end date], preceptor.
• "Stein" refers to Robin Stein, a senior in Chemistry (2001-2002) at Michigan State University and an enthusiastic and active participant in the MSU Chemical Genealogy project for the year.
• "genealogy box" refers to MSU's accumulation of notes, photocopies, letters, and miscellaneous scribbling that began with McCarty and has since passed through many hands. This was recently reorganized by Stein and further reorganized by Ward and continues to grow.
• "MSU Chemistry personnel files" refer to any of a variety of active and archive files within the department. The question asked of the person searching the files was to supply missing information; this also implicitly verified the correctness of the information we did have at that time.
• "verified" refers to responses from current and former MSU Chemistry faculty members to a 10Apr02 letter from Donald L. Ward. The entries contain: name, birth year, degree, degree year, degree institution, MSU start year, MSU end year, preceptor -- the entries were verified as-is, corrected, or augmented by the individual to result in the data presented.

THE source:

• "Mainz" refers to the Chemical Genealogy Database created by Vera V. Mainz and Gregory S. Girolami and available on the WWW at the URL http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/. Entries in this database appear to be well researched and documented and they frequently provided the information which greatly influenced a choice. The entries contain: name, life dates, degree, degree date, degree institution, preceptor, notes.

Other sources:

• "Abbott" refers to the book "The biographical dictionary of scientists. Chemists", David Abbott PhD general editor, 1983, Frederick Muller Limited: London.
• "Davidson" refers to Genealogy of the Davidson College Department of Chemistry, researched by David M. Brown and available on the WWW at the URL http://www.chm.davidson.edu/dabrown/DCgenealogy.PDF. The entries contain: name, degree institution, degree date, preceptor.
• "DisAbs" refers to Dissertation Abstracts which we access by subscription through the MSU Library. The entries contain (if available): name, degree, degree date, degree institution, advisor's name, subject descriptor, whether title given, whether abstract given.
• "Mathematics" refers to The Mathematics Genealogy Project at North Dakota State University and available on the WWW at the URL http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/. The entries contain: name, degree, degree institution, degree date, advisor, students.
• "Morris" refers to Biographies of Chemists, prepared by Peter Morris with the web presentation by Gerry Moss and available on the WWW at the URL http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/rschg/biog.html.
• "NDSU" refers to the Chemical Genealogy of the NDSU Department of Chemistry created by Seth C. Rasmussen and available on the WWW at the URL http://www.chem.ndsu.nodak.edu/pdf/genealogy-web.pdf. The entries contain: name, degree, degree institution, degree date, preceptor(s), influence(s).
• "NotreD" refers to Academic Genealogy - Notre Dame Chemistry Department by Thurston Miller and available on the WWW at the URL http://www.nd.edu/~chemlib/resources/chemistry/genealogy.shtml. The entries contain: name, degree, degree institution, degree date, preceptor.
• "NotreD-Physics" refers to Academic Genealogy - Notre Dame Physics Department by Thurston Miller and available on the WWW at the URL http://www.nd.edu/~chemlib/resources/physics/academic-genealogy.shtml. The entries contain: name, degree institution, degree, degree date, preceptor.
• "OpenU" refers to the Biographical Database of the British Chemical Community, 1880-1970 authored by Robin Mackie and Gerrylynn Roberts and available on the WWW at the URL: http://www5.open.ac.uk/Arts/chemists/.
• "SciWorld" refers to Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography available on the WWW at the URL http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/.
• "StAndrews" refers to the Indexes of Biographies at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland and available on the WWW at the URL http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html.
• "Stanford Chemistry Department History 1891 to 1976" refers to the book by Professor Eric Hutchinson and available on the WWW at the URL http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/history/.
• "UConn" refers to An Archive of Famous Organic Chemists by Michael Smith at the University of Connecticut and available on the WWW at the URL http://orgchem.chem.uconn.edu/colleges/oldchemists.html.
• "UMass" refers to Department of Chemistry Genealogy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst by David L. Adams and available on the WWW at the URL http://www.chem.umass.edu/genealogy/. The entries contain: name, degree institution, degree date, preceptor's name.
• "UMich" refers to Department of Chemistry Genealogy at the University of Michigan by P. R. Jones and R. C. Taylor and available on the WWW at the URL http://www.umich.edu/~michchem/alumni/chemGenealogy.pdf. The entries contain: name, degree institution, degree date, preceptor's name.
• "USF" refers to the University of South Florida Department of Chemistry Academic Genealogy available on the WWW at the URL http://www.cas.usf.edu/chemistry/new/faculty/genealogy.php3?page=gene. The entries contain: name, degree institution, degree year, preceptor.
• "UTexas" refers to Academic Genealogy of Chemistry Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin available on the WWW at the URL http://www-old.lib.utexas.edu/chem/genealogy/cover.html.
• "VLChemBio" refers to Biographies of Famous Chemists in the WWW Virtual Library: Science: Chemistry available on the WWW at the URL http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/refbiog.html.
• "YorkU" refers to Scientific Genealogy Master List by John Andraos at York University (Toronto) and available on the WWW at the URL http://www.chem.yorku.ca/NAMED/PDF-FILES/MasterList.pdf. The entries contain: name, supervisor, degree year, degree institution

The last line for each individual, in bold font and labeled "display:", shows the text to be displayed on the web pages for the individual. This contains more information than is displayed on the plotted wall chart or is contained in the *.PDF file.

This page will always be a work in progress. Please let us know of any errors, or additional opinions or evidence, by e-mailing us at: .

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