This page is a work area in which information about every person in the MSU Chemical Genealogy charts is gathered and evaluated. The references to several chemical genealogy sources, including those available on the WWW in addition to reference books, are listed on the previous page.
The last line for each individual, in bold font and labeled "display:", shows the text to be displayed on the MSU Chemistry genealogy web pages for the individual.
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Odling, William
** [?]
- We (after McCarty) show: William Odling (____-____) ( ) Brodie
- Mainz does not include Odling
- DisAbs has no matching entry for: Odling, William
- Mathematics does not include: Odling
- NDSU does not include Odling
- OpenU shows: ODLING, William|1829-1921|MB|1851|London University|
worked with: (not listed)
Odom, Aaron Lynn
[Odom]
- We (after McCarty) show: Aaron L Odom (1971-____) (PhD 1997, MIT) (MSU
1999-____) (none)
- Stein received 11/26/01 an email from Odom which stated his preceptor
was Cummins
- Mainz does not include Odom
- DisAbs shows: Odom, Aaron Lynn|PhD|1998|Mass Institute of Technology|
Advisor: Christopher C. Cummins|Chemistry, Inorganic|(title)|(abstract)|
- Mathematics does not include: Odom, Aaron
- NDSU does not include Odom
- UConn does not include Odom
- YorkU does not include Odom
Display: Aaron Lynn Odom (1971-____) (PhD 1998, MIT) (MSU 1999-____)
[preceptor: Christopher "Kit" Colin Cummins]
O'Hair, Richard A J
[Reid]
- Aust. J. Chem. (2003), 56, 343-348 by Richard A. J. O'Hair shows:
"Under the supervision of John Bowie, Richard O'Hair graduated with a PhD
in organic chemistry in 1991". Elsewhere in the article, Bowie tells of
his "active role in administration at Adelaide" in "the 1980s and early
1990s" which imply that Bowie was at Adelaide in 1991, the year of O'Hair
receiving his PhD.
- E-mail from O'Hair to Donald L. Ward on 7 Nov 2005 includes: "My birth year
is 1964."
Display: Richard A J O'Hair (1964- ) (PhD 1991, Adelaide (Australia))
[preceptor: John Bowie]
O'Halloran, Thomas Vincent
[J Broderick]
- We (after McCarty) show: (nothing - O'Halloran not included)
- Stein received 11/30/01 an email from J J Broderick which stated O'Halloran's
preceptor was Lippard
- Mainz does not include O'Halloran
- DisAbs shows: O'Halloran, Thomas Vincent|PhD|1985|Columbia U|
Chemistry, Inorganic|(title)|(abstract)|
- Mathematics does not include: O'Halloran, T
- NDSU does not include O'Halloran
- UConn does not include O'Halloran
- YorkU does not include O'Halloran
Display: Thomas Vincent O'Halloran (1957-____) (PhD 1985, Columbia)
[preceptor: Stephen James Lippard]
Oka, Takeshi
[Weliky]
- We (after McCarty) show: (nothing - Oka not included)
- Stein received 11/19/01 an email from Weliky which stated Oka's preceptor
was Y Morino
- Mainz does not include Oka
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index shows: "Oka, Takeshi (1932-)" and
46 citations.
- DisAbs has no matching entry for: Oka
- Mathematics does not include: Oka, T
- NDSU does not include Oka
- UConn does not include Oka
- YorkU does not include Oka
Display: Takeshi Oka (1932-____) (PhD 1960, Tokyo)
[preceptor: Y Morino]
Olson, Axel Ragnar
** [?]
- We (after McCarty) show: (nothing - Olson not included)
- Mainz shows: Olson, Axel Ragnar|1899-1954|PhD|1917|Berkeley|Lewis
- DisAbs shows: Olson, Axel Ragnar|PhD|1918|U California-Berkeley|
Chemistry, General|(title)
- Mathematics does not include: Olson, A
- NDSU shows: Axel Ragnar Olson|PhD|Berkeley|1917|Lewis
- UConn does not include Olson
- YorkU does not include Olson
display: Axel Ragnar Olson (1899-1954) (PhD 1918, Berkeley)
[preceptor: Gilbert Newton Lewis]
Oppenheim, Irwin
[Cukier]
- We (after McCarty) show: J. Oppenheim (1929-____) ( ) Kirkwood
- Mainz shows: Oppenheim, Irwin|1929- |PhD|1956|Yale|Kirkwood
- DisAbs shows: Oppenhein, Irwin|PhD|1957|Yale U|
Chemistry, General|(title)|
- Mathematics does not include: Oppenheim, I
- NDSU does not include Oppenheim
- UConn does not include Oppenheim
- YorkU does not include Oppenheim
Display: Irwin Oppenheim (1929- 0) (PhD 1957, Yale)
[preceptor: John Gamble Kirkwood]
Osburn, John Anthony
[Odom]
- We (after McCarty) show: (nothing - Osburn not included)
- Stein received 11/26/01 an email from Odom which stated Osburn's preceptor
was Wilkinson
- Mainz shows: Osborn, John Anthony|1939- |PhD|1966|Imperial College,
London|Wilkinson
- DisAbs has no matching entry for: Osburn, John
- Mathematics does not include: Osburn, J
- NDSU does not include Osborn
- UConn does not include Osborn
- YorkU does not include Osborn
Display: John Anthony Osburn (1939-1999) (PhD 1966, Imperial College)
[preceptor: Geoffrey Wilkinson ]
Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm
[Blanchard, Geiger, Horne, Kinsinger, Ledford, Melson, Posey, Rogers,
Schwendeman, Smith]
- McCarty (1969) shows: W. Ostwald|1853-1932|C. Schmidt
- We (after McCarty) show: W. Ostwald (1855-1932) ( ) Schmidt
- Mainz shows: Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm|1853-1932|PhD|1878|Dorpat|Schmidt
Mainz includes a "FOOTNOTE: Lemberg (who was Schmidt's principal assistant)
instructed Ostwald during his stay in Dorpat. Lemberg taught Ostwald to
pay close attention to problems in chemical equilibrium, mass action, and
reaction velocity: all themes of Ostwald's later work."
- Abbott shows: Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm (1853-1932) ... in 1872 went to the
University of Dorpat (Tartu) in Estonia to study chemistry under Carl
Schmidt and Johann Lemberg. He also studied physics under Arthur von
Oettingen, and was awarded his PhD in 1878."
- DisAbs has no matching entry for: Ostwald, Friedrich
- Mathematics does not include: Ostwald, F
- NDSU shows: Friedrich Wiulhelm Ostwald|PhD|Dorpat|1878|C. Schmidt
- NotreD shows: Frederich Wilhelm Ostwald||Dorpat (Latvia)|1878|Carl Schmidt
- SciWorld shows: Ostwald, Wilhelm (1853-1932) [under construction]
Russian-German chemist who is considered one of the principle founders of
physical chemistry. He translated Gibbs's works into German in 1892, and
founded the first journal of physical chemistry with van't Hoff. He
presented the modern view of catalysis, namely that catalysts do not alter
the reaction mechanism, but merely lower the reaction barrier, for which he
was awarded to Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1909. He developed a theory of
solutions based on ionic dissociation and an analogy between gases and
chemical solutions similar to Arrhenius's. He also believed that energy was
the single real entity in nature."
- UConn does not include Ostwald
- UMass shows: Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm|Dorpat|1878|C. Schmidt
- USF shows: William Ostwald|Dorpat|1875|Schmidt
- YorkU shows: Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm|Carl Schmidt, Johann Lemberg|1877/8|
Dorpat
Display: Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (1855-1932) (PhD 1878, Dorpat)
[preceptor: Carl Schmidt]