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Theodore L. Cairns
Theodore L. Cairns
Pages 64-75
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Sanclin. About a year before graduation, he met Margaret Jean McDonald, a fellow University of Alberta student majoring in home economics.
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him to the renownec! Professor Roger Aciams of the University of Illinois Chemistry Department.
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chemists seeking useful applications of chemistry. His group looked for a new chemistry of cheap, reactive raw materials such as acetylene, ethyTene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulficle, en c!
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An extraordinary variety of magnetic properties is available from the radical anions of TCNE and other cyanocarbons.
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in Chemical and Engineering News fairly recently. ~ Cairns was graclually given greater responsibility in DuPont, becoming the laboratory director of the Central Research Department in 1952, its research director in 1966, en c!
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His broad experience and knowledge in science and technology was put to use through membership on several im portant government committees: The Delaware Governor's Council on Science and Technology, 1969-72 President Nixon's Science Policy Task Force, 1969 The President's Science Advisory Committee, 1970-73 The President's Committee on the National Medal of Science, 1974-75 The Polytechnic Institute of New York Advisory Council for Chemistry, 1976-78 For several years Cairns chairec! the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the National Research Council.
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Medal for Creative Research in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 1968 Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, University of Alberta, 1970 Perkin Medal, American section of the Society of Chemical Industry, 1973 Cresson Medal, The Franklin Institute, 1974 Cairns wouIc! use the occasion of an aware!
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extending through extensive collaboration in the DuPont Company. He well described Cairns as "an inspiring leacler with a sharp eye for spotting chemical talent en c!
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Formation of cyclic azo compounds from 2,2' diaminobiphenyls.
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Radiation grafting onto preswollen polymers.
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McGeer. Colored 1:1 pi complexes of tetracyanoethylene and aromatic compounds.
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