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William Albert Noyes, Jr.
William Albert Noyes, Jr.
Pages 340-353
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a liberal philosophy. Albert Noyes consiclered himself, at bottom, a "university man," but his life encompassed numerous activities and enterprises outside the realm of academics.
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government, with the American Chemical Society, with universities, and with a number of industrial laboratories. His long-standing association with Argonne National Laboratory is, to this clay, noted with a prominent photograph in the lobby of the Chemistry Division Building.
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Later that fall, during the election in which Woodrow Wilson won the presidency, Albert was called upon to help receive returns at the local radio station. At school he was taking a heavy load of chemistry coursework, and by the end of the year he was only twenty-one hours shy of the graduation requirement.
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The University of Chicago lured Albert Noyes back to the Midwest in 1922. Here he had complete charge of the quantitative analysis course.
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Late in the decade, he and his friend Philip Leighton began writing a book on photochemistry; little was yet available in this interesting field, and Albert Noyes had acquired a reputation as a leading photochemist during his years at Brown. The book appeared in print, as Noyes noted in his memoirs, the week before the Japanese attacked Pear!
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His duties required a good deal of travel in the United States, Europe, and even Australia; when he was at home he worked six-and-a-half day weeks, still had duties at Roch ester and, remarkably, served as editor of Chemical Reviews. His memories, however, were less of the drudgery than of the politics and personalities of the time, and vivid recollections fell several chapters of his memoirs.
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been at Texas for some years when Noyes arrived there, considers him "the best thing that happened to physical chemistry at the University of Texas cluring my tenure. He brought in strong leadership and a real ensemble spirit." Noyes organized monthly physical chemistry dinners where faculty met to discuss problems of general interest.
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When T arrived in Austin in February 1967 to take up my faculty position, two excellent students, Gene Sturm and Gerry WoocI, signed on with me within a few weeks. They had been encourages!
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~ hope that someone will take them from me with as much gratitude as T received them from William Albert Noyes, in THE AUTHORS THANK the following people for their help in compiling this memoir: at the University of Texas at Austin, Martha Boyd, Dorothy Frasch, and Professors William C Gardiner, Norman Hackerman, and F
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I Photochemical decomposition of solid oxalic acid.
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XXXI. A systematic study of the near ultraviolet Photochemical decomposition of acetone.
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Primary photochemical process in some simple aromatic molecules.
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