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Hermann Irving Schlesinger
Hermann Irving Schlesinger
Pages 368-395
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He devised simple, high-yield syntheses of these classes of compounds, making them available as uniquely valuable reclucing agents, particularly for various functional groups in organic compounds. Without the ready availability of lithium borohyciricie en c!
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The year he spent in Berlin was a greatly broadening intellectual experience for him. Again, he was in the midst of great movers of science.
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In 1910, the year he was appointed instructor in chemistry, he married Edna Simpson, a member of the gifted family that included the distinguished paleontologist, George Gaylorct Simpson. Throughout their long life together Mrs.
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free to adct my speculation as to a possible reason for the patchwork administration in the chemistry department during these twelve years. Robert Maynard Hutchins arrived at the University of Chicago as president at the age of twentynine.
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One of the earliest efforts was prompter! by the neecI to find volatile compounds of uranium suitable for use in the diffusion separation of the uranium isotopes.
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Near the end of his life Professor Schlesinger, to my knowIecige, was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to honor his landmark work with boron hyctrides. My opinion of his generous spirit makes me confident that, were he alive, he wouIct have been made as happy by the awards to Lipscomb and Brown as if he himself had been accordec!
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W Parry, an assistant professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Michigan, began a series of experiments giving results that suggested that the earlier formulation for the "ctiammoniate of cliborane" could be improved.
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It was an imposing application throughout, but the most impressive feature was a listing of some twenty publications that this young man had to his creclit. After listening to my enthusiastic assessment of the candiciate, Professor SchIesinger's terse comment, "It is unlikely that a scientist can produce twenty good publications while completing a thesis," macle no mystery of his own judgment.
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at the laboratory, concluctect a meeting of the cooperative apartment members, en cl inclulged a lifetime interest by watching professional football on television. His death the next clay, October ark, from pneumonia, was possibly a consequence of the absence of his wife's loving care.
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Preparation of the double fluorides of the metals of the platinum group and the absorption spectra of the halogen platinates.
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VII. Evidence for the transitory existence of borine, BH3; borine carbonyl and borine trimethylamine.
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III. Addition compounds of alkali metal hydrides.
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Urry. Diboron tetrachloride and tetrafluoride as reagents for the synthesis of organo-boron compounds.
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