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Carl Shipp Marvel
Carl Shipp Marvel
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for nearly sixty years for the DuPont Experimental Station. He was a dominant figure in American organic chemistry and has been recognized as the "father" of synthetic polymer chemistry.
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16301707. John Marvel had a limited grade school education with a very short period at the preparatory school of TIlinois Wesleyan University.
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.. At Illinois Wesleyan University, which he attenclecl during 1911-15, receiving A.B.
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As a chemistry graduate stuclent, Speed Marvel clelightecl in the synthesis of organic compounds and earned an early
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In chemistry under the direction of Professor William Albert Noyes with a thesis entitles! "A Study of the Possible Asymmetry of Aliphatic Diazo Compounds," which was published in the same year in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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of the chemical community for pure organic compounds for example, the amino acids that were to form the basis of Professor William C Rose's classical research on human nutritional requirements, in particular the essential amino acids.
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the principal structural features of the high-molecular-weight polymer. Reaction of sulfur dioxide with monosubstituted olefins en c!
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He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1938 and servecl, (luring 194~47, as chairman of the Section on Chemistry. He gave the Julius Stieglitz Memorial Lecture before the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society in 1943 and received the Nichols Mecial of the New York Section of the American Chemical Society in 1944.
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Within one year's time, this effort brought forth adequate formulation, aciclitives, modifiers, ant! processes for synthetic rubber ant!
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Air Force's high-temperature polymer research program as its principal contributor, which began toward the end of his first career at the University of Illinois, continued throughout his entire second career at the University of Arizona. His basic research on condensation polymers with aromatic and heteroaromatic recurring units led to a series of products with progressively better anct better properties and finally to polybenzimiciazole (PBT)
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When Marvel took up his duties as a teacher at Illinois in 1920, he had six seniors in research. In the first class that Marvel taught in organic qualitative analysis there were several impressive students, inclucling Wallace Carothers, who later invented nylon at DuPont; Samuel McEIvain, who became a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Wisconsin; en cl George Graves, who playecI an important role in the plutonium plant at Hanforc!
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The New York Section of the ACS awarded him the Nichols Medal (1944, mentioned earlier) ; the Chicago Section, the Willard Gibbs Medal (1950~; and the North Alabama Section, the Madison Marshall Award (1966~; and he delivered the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial IJecture before the Philadelphia Section (19481.
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Sciences ( ;~9601; the Society of Plastic Engineers International Award (1964~; the American Section of the Society of Chemical Tnclustry Perkin Medal (1965~; the American Institute of Chemists Gold Mecial (1955) en cl the Chemical Pioneer Award (1967~; the Alpha Chi Sigma John R
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One of his consulting abilities was to direct the attention of DuPont scientists to appropriate publications and reports by other DuPont scientists and to encourage and facilitate contact between people working in different parts of the company. Beyond the coordinating function, Speed also proviclect specif~c help with particular problems.
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Norman Hackerman, chairman of the Advisory Board, in decisions as to clepartmental grants, scholarships, fellowships, establishment of Welch chairs, visiting lectureships, and summer science training programs, as well as presiding over two of the annual Welch conferences on chemical research. Marvel also presider!
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A one-man employment and reemployment agency, he sought out alumni at national ACS meetings, quickly recognized all former TIlinois students, and helped them in every way possible. He was always in a hurry yet always had time for people; always busy, but never gave the impression that he was being imposed upon when asker!
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CARL SHIPP MARVEL 249 out the country. The chemical community showoct its appreciation for his research, teaching, and personal contributions with numerous recognitions in adclition to those mentioned earlier anct in honorary degrees from Illinois Wesleyan University; the University of Illinois; the University of Louvain, Belgium; and the Polytechnic Institute of New York.
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He macle major funciamental contributions to the polymer field with innovative methodology in synthesis, analysis, and characterization. His ideas anct his research led to substantial practical results; for example, the production in the United States of synthetic rubber, amide solvents for polyacrylonitrile, ant!
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Optically active hypnotics.
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Quaternary ammonium salts from halogenated alkyl dimethylamines.
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V Conversion of cyclic ammonium salts to linear polymers.
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The structure of vinyl polymers: the polymer from methyl vinyl ketone.
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Structural identity of polysulfones prepared by peroxide catalysis and under the influence of ultraviolet light.
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Prill. Optically active acyl peroxides.
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An optically active styrene derivative and its polymer.
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258 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS 1950 With E
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Polybenzimidazoles, new thermally stable polymers.
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A-1, 4:2907-8. 1967 Thermally stable polymers with aromatic recurring units.
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Ladder pyrrolone structures with anthraquinone recurring units.
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Dutt. New thermally stable polymer with a graphite-type structure.
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Lee. Rigid-ladder polymers: Polymers containing anthraquinone recurring units.
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Synthesis of acetylene-terminated polymers using supported palladium(II) catalysts.
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