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Wallace Reed Brode
Wallace Reed Brode
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Their father, Howard, was a professor of biology, teaching at Whitman College in Walla Walla, a small town in southeastern Washington, where the family was reared. Like other colleges in the Northwest at that time, Whitman hacl been struggling out of its recent pioneer past in an attempt to become a credible educational institution with slim financial resources but having a cleclicatecl president en cl faculty.)
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During his graduate school clays he clemonstratecl an ability to hancIle several jobs at once: He was listecl as a junior chemist at the National Bureau of Stanciarcis (NBS) in Washington, D.C., where he founcl better equipment for his thesis project, but was still a student en cl assistant at the University of Illinois.
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He trained about 40 graduate students cluring his tenure at OSU, many of whom later assumed major positions in industry en c! acacleme.
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While still a professor at OSU in 1947, he acceptec! a temporary position at the NBS as an associate director, but later that same year he acceclecl to a request from the Central Intelligence Agency to set up a science advisory branch in that organization.
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Honors that came to him cluring this period were election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1954, an honorary degree from Whitman College, en c! an honorary degree from Ohio State University.
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the Priestley Mecial of the American Chemical Society, its highest award, in 1960. He became president of the American Chemical Society in 1969.
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After leaving the State Department in 1960 he hacl no major institutional affiliation en cl was able to write, travel, attenc! to professional society cluties, en c!
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In the expectation that useful empirical unclerstancling of the spectra wouIcl result, Brocle proclucecl a series of carefully executed en cl extensive studies of the effects of structure on the absorption bands, publishecl from 1926 to 1959. The azo compounds, relatecl to azobenzene, are the commonest types of dye molecule.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Mary Corning, formerly Wallace Brocle's assistant at the NBS en cl later at the State Department, en cl George Wyman, who carrier! out research in Brocle's NBS laboratory, have proviclecl me with much valuable information for this memoir.
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G Thomas Edwards, "The Triumph of Tradition: the Emergence of Whitman College, 1859-1924." Walla Walla, Wash.: Whitman College, 1992.
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A 120:21-33. Relations between the absorption spectrum and chemical constitution of azo dyes.
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XIX. Mono- and polyazo dyes with a single auxochrome.
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XXIX. Interaction of direct azo dyes in aqueous solution.
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