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Chemist and administrator at UC Berkeley, Rice University, Stanford University, and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1935-1997
: oral history transcript / 1999.
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Chemist and administrator at UC Berkeley, Rice University, Stanford University, and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1935-1997 : oral history transcript / 1999University of California history series
Creator/Contributor:
Pitzer, Kenneth S. (Kenneth Sanborn), 1914-1997, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Pitzer, Jean Mosher, 1914-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
LaBerge, Germaine, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Curl, Robert Floyd.Creator/Contributor:
Massey, Marilyn Chapin, 1942-Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Childhood and education in Pomona, B.S. from Caltech; College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1935-1997:
graduate student years, G.N. Lewis, William Giauque, Wendell Latimer; postwar expansion and reorganization of the college;
Director of Research, Atomic Energy Commission, 1949-1951; research: internal rotation in ethane, ring molecules, corresponding
states, relativistic effects on molecular properties, spin species conversion in methane, other condensed state research,
ion interaction equations for aqueous electrolytes, Pitzer equations for concentrated solutions; discusses teaching and scientific
collaborations, committee work, the research process; presidency of Rice University, 1961-1968, Stanford University, Includes
an interview with Jean Mosher Pitzer on faculty wives, College of Chemistry, years at Stanford, and includes interviews conducted
at Rice University on Rice presidency.
Date:
1999 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caChemists -- California -- Interviews
Molecular theory -- Research
Electrolyte solutions -- Research
College teachers' spouses -- Interviews
Chimistes -- Californie -- Entretiens
Théorie moléculaire -- Recherche
Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) -- Conjoints -- Entretiens
Presidents
Electrolyte solutions
College teachers' spouses
Chemists
California
University of California (1868-1952). -- College of Chemistry.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Rice University -- Presidents -- Interviews
University of California (1868-1952). -- College of Letters and Science.
University of California, Berkeley -- Presidents
University of California, Berkeley. -- College of Chemistry.
University of California, Berkeley. -- College of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Rice University.
Note:
Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer ; with introductions by Robert Curl and Marilyn Chapin Massey. Interviews conducted by Sally Smith
Hughes and Germaine LaBerge in 1996, 1997, and 1998. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley,
Includes an interview with Jean Mosher Pitzer.
Forms part of: University history oral history series.
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3061 C:1-31.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (xiii, 544 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm
31 audiocassettes
1 portfolio (.1 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.