Register of the Paul J. Flory Papers, 1975-1986
1910 June 19 | Born, Sterling, Illinois |
1931 | Bachelor's degree, Manchester College |
1934 | Ph.D in Chemistry, Ohio State University |
1936 | Married Emily Catherine Tabor |
1937-1939 | Employed at Basic Science Research Laboratory of the University of Cincinnati |
1940-1943 | Employed at Esso Laboratories of the Standard Oil Development Company (later known as Exxon) |
1943-1948 | Employed at the Research Laboratory of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company |
1948 | Accepted professorship, Cornell University |
1961-1975 | Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University |
1974 | Nobel Laureate (Chemistry) |
1975 | Awarded National Medal of Science |
1978 | Withdrew from a symposium in Tashkent in response to persecution of Soviet scientists |
1980 | Delegate, Hamburg Scientific Forum, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) |
1982 | Panelist, Madrid CSCE |
1984 | Served as spokesman for a group of scholars offering themselves as personal witnesses with the hope of securing medical treatment for Elena Bonner |
1985 | Co-authored public letter to the editor of Science concerning National Academy of Science (NAS) scientific exchange protocol |
1985 | Died |
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Business cards and notes undated
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe 1982, undated
Committee of Concerned Scientists, Inc.
1978-1983
1984-1985
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Hamburg Scientific Forum
Agendas and briefings 1980-1981
Correspondence 1979-1984
Forum binder 1978-1980
Hearing on the Scientific Forum 1978-1980
Statements and reports 1979-1980
Statements and reports by Flory 1980
Miscellany 1980
Madrid 1982
Correspondence
General 1980-1985
Human rights, miscellaneous letters 1976-1985
Frenkel, S. 1980-1984
Helsinki Watch
1979, 1985
1980
1980
1981
1981-1985
1985
Herczynski 1982
Human rights
General 1978-1985
Clippings 1983-1984
Organizations, Miscellaneous 1980-1983
International Committee of Scientists for Soviet Refusniks 1985
International Conference on Collective Phenomena (Moscow Refusnik Seminar held 1983 December) 1980-1983
Jewish organizations 1977-1984
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on Human Rights
General
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
Handler, Philip (NAS Letter to Members) 1979
Letters supporting various oppressed scientists
1977-1979
1981
Meeting 1983 January-February
Sakharov, Andreĭ
General
1979-1985
1980-1984
Andreĭ Sakharov Institute 1981 1984-1985
Clippings 1980-1985
Fifth International Sakharov Hearing 1985
Yankelevich, Efrem 1985
Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Shcharansky (SOS)
General
1978
1978-1982
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1984-1985
1985
Background information, publicity and other printed matter
1978
1979
1979
Shcharansky, Anatoly 1982
Writings by Flory 1980-1984
UNESCO, Committee for an Effective UNESCO 1975-1979
USSR Tashkent Meeting 1978-1979
Yarim-Agaev, Yuri 1979-1980
Miscellany 1983