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Henry Gilman
Henry Gilman
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The original, in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1990, vol. 36, pp 153-72, includes, on microfiche, the complete version of G'lmania, a full account of Gilman~s research contributions, and a complete list of his publications 83
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This was done as an aside, and either carried no credit or only a small token of credit. Not a little of the work was done at night, and I recall how when the research was completed for the day, often near midnight, we would cross the street to a drugstore on Massachusetts Avenue for a chocolate malted milk.
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(He took special clelight in having met at the Sorbonne Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Chemistry, en c! cluring a visit to the Royal Society in 1975 was able to realize an ambition to meet Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, the most recent female recipient of that award, en c!
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attenclec! Henry Gilman's first-year class in organic chemistry on her way to an AB in history, which she received in 1924.
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to it, a highly enthusiastic tennis player, who playact a h are! competitive game, en c!
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Professor King relates that, although he knew Gilman well throughout his life from 1923, and regularly played golf, tennis, and card games with him, he conic! never, even as a senior professor at Ames himself, aciciress Gilman as Henry, so great was his admiration for him.
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to be giving their full attention to experiments in progress, en c! those caught seizing an opportunity to stucly for graduate course or preliminary examinations were sharply reprimanclecI.
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to give rise to a number of short publications, and it required considerable initiative and ingenuity on the part of the student to devise and carry out additional experiments that wouic! enable him or her to ciraw the material together into a coherent whole for a thesis.
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stucliec! for a time uncler one of Gilman's former research students en c!
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A few of us who were treated differently were fully aware of the problems of the other students, but there was nothing we could do, since Gilman represented absolute authority in the Organic Chemistry Department. The attitudes of the graduate students under Gilman were based largely on overwork, underpay, uncertainty as to the future, and a constant prevailing fear of HO.
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(It seems, however, that like many leacling organic chemists of that time in Britain, he hac! a low opinion of the inorganic chemistry of the period, en c!
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an influence on almost all organic chemists. He was offerer!
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in particular he was engages! on aspects of the Manhattan Project (the code name for the programme of work on the atom bomb)
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Gilmania, with the subtitle 'Being a thesaurus of pictorial efforts on the part of slivers organic-chymists as a brief commentary upon their experience in the laboratories of Iowa State College of Agriculture en c! Mechanic Arts'.
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part, 'The carbon chemist', meant to be 'sung to the vulgar air, Strip Polka', relates the sad tale of an organic chemist who went to Ames to work with Oilman expecting to get his Ph.D. in nine quarters, was macle to work for seven quarters on ethyIleacI, en c!
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out by his graduate students, who also took turns to react to him from current journals. In 1947 a combination of glaucoma and a detachment of a retina, which could not be remecliec!
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extent by homing the page close to his eye, preferably with the aid of a large magnifying glass, he had to rely completely on students en c! his wife to react the literature to him.
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War II en c! several very able organic chemists joiner!
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I once asked him the secret of his success, thinking that he might refer me to this systematic organization and hard work, but he replied 'The intelligent use of the chemical literature'. Dr Rahman goes on to say that Gilman was very annoyed!
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This work consistec! of chapters covering a wicle range of topics in organic chemistry written by eminent authorities on them.
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At some time cluring his first 25 years at Ames he gave all the organic chemistry courses at all unclergracluate en c! postgracluate levels, en c!
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He was especially severe on chemical engineering students, maintaining a constant confrontation with them, in a tactic clesignecI, as one who attenclec! such classes has pointer!
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distinguish between people, especially students, in terms of their personal qualities, en c! in particular their integrity en c!
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a phenomenal memory for events in the lives of former students and colleagues whom he had not seen for many years.
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, former students en c! postcloctoral fellows, former colleagues, en c!
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meet eminent visitors. Gilman was rightly the recipient of much admiration for the way in which he responded to severe loss of sight which clevelopec!
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four-wall hanciball in the winter, usually with graduate students, because of the time of clay they took place the games were referrer! to for many years as 'five o'clocks'.
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He had a strong sense of history and it gave him very special pleasure that he was macle an Honorary Fellow of the (British) Chemical Society, the oiclest chemical society in the woricI, en c!
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He had been brought up in the Jewish faith but upon marriage he joined the Episcopal Church, to which his wife belonged, and they remained active members of it throughout their married life. As has been seen, for the last 40 years of his life he was able to sustain his remarkable level of activity only with the help of his devoted and able wife.
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1977 Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society 1982 Iowa Governor's Science Medals 1987 Gilman Graduate Fellowship Fund established in his memory at Iowa State University Among publisher! tributes are the following: (a)
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that the importance of his overall contribution to chemistry was formally recognizec! sooner in Britain than in the U.S.A., in that in 1961 he was macle an Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Society, the highest clistinction the British chemical community can bestow, en c!
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5, May-Tune. Program for dedication of Henry Gilman Hall, Iowa State Univ.
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HENRY OILMAN D.M. Hayes 1934 Master's Thesis, Iowa State Univ.
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