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5. Edward Curtis Franklin
5. Edward Curtis Franklin
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the seemingly infinite variety of ~ An earlier version of this article appeared in the journal of the American Chemical Society 71(1949)
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In the last few years of his life Franklin managed to see again most of the scenic wonders of our land. I,n 1936 he drove to Kansas "by way of the Hoover Dam, Zion Canyon, Bryce Canyon, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Boulder, Colorado," and thence on a "wild tour of thirteen thousand miles, lecturing before groups of defenseless chemists through the MidcIle West to Philadelphia and Washington, and thence south to Florida and home by way of the southern route." To Franklin, the longest road was always the he.
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But once on campus, the congenial surroundings aroused his interest; then aged twenty-two, he decided to enroll as a special student in chemistry. He did odd jobs around the chemical laboratory during his first three undergraduate years and as a senior acted as an assistant in qualitative and quantitative analysis.
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For though, in the 1890s, two small cases in the department office contained the entire Kansas University chemistry library and the number of scientific journals received by the university as a whole was very small, each journal was watched for impatiently and devoured eagerly upon .
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Some days later, with a beautifully crystallized specimen of one of these interesting salts in his hand, Cady stated that the ammonia in these and other salts containing ammonia must function in a manner very similar to that of water in salts with water of crystallization. He suggested furthermore that liquid ammonia would probably be found to resemble water in its physical and chemical properties.
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Typical titles of papers from this productive perioc! are: "Liquid ammonia as a solvent," "Determination of the molecular rise of the boiling point of liqui(1 ammonia," "Metathetic reactions between certain salts in liquid ammonia," "Electrical conductivity of liquicl ammonia solutions," and "Concentration cells in liquid ammonia." But in the fall of 1903, this team of productive researchers, each outstanding in his own way, broke up.
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STANFORD YEARS (1903-1937) In 1903 Franklin left Kansas for Stanford University to fill the chair of organic chemistry left vacant by Professor Richarcison's death.
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Every one of these men acquired a skill in laboratory technique far above the average; each learned to think inclependently, and, in aciclition, to view his own experimental results with that critical skepticism that is the true measure at a scientist. Though Franklin never acquired the smooth ant!
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He delighted in talking of his own work and pleasures and equally enjoyed listening to the exploits of others. From the beginning of his professional career until the year of his death, he attended the meetings of the American Chemical Society- anti, of all the honors he received, valued his election to the presidency of that society the most.
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The conductivity temperature coefficient of some liquid ammonia solutions.
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15:509. The electrical conductivity of liquid sulfur dioxide solutions at —33.3°, - 20°, - 10°, 0°, and + 10°.
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44:486. 1923 Hydrocyanic acid, an ammono carbonous acid and a formic anammonide.
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American Chemical Society Monograph. New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp.
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