Mellon Institute and the Fellowship System of Industrial Research
| Autor: | George D. Beal |
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| Rok vydání: | 1943 |
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| Zdroj: | Chemical & Engineering News Archive. 21:1865-1868 |
| ISSN: | 2157-4936 0009-2347 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/cen-v021n022.p1865 |
| Popis: | TO UNDERSTAND the system of industrial research practiced at Mellon Institute, one should be told the history of its foundation, and this sketch should be portrayed against a backdrop of the public view chemistry at the time. When the industrial fellowship plan was launched in January 1907, the annual report of the Secretary of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY showed a total of 3,079 members of all classes. The SOCIETY had 22 local sections, the largest, the New York Section, having 5 Councilors, or less than 500 msembers. A hasty survey of section programs and published papers indicates that the preferred fields for investigation were atomic weights; analytical chemistry, including portions of mineralogy, metallurgy, and agricultural and food chemistry; and synthetic organic chemistry. Papers on theoretical chemistry and on industrial problems, other than the interests of the control laboratory, were few in number. Publication of Chemical Abstracts began at that time; the Journal ... |
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