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REYNOLD CLAYTON FUSON
Pages 166-181

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... Fuson's scientific contributions were recognizec! by his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1944, his appointment as a founcling member of the Center for AcIvancec!
From page 168...
... Clayton Fuson was born on a farm near WakefielcI, Illinois, as the sixth of eleven chiTciren of John Alvin Fuson en c! Nancy lane Chestnut Fuson.
From page 169...
... not only for his chemistry but because he was the first foreign chemist to make a lecture tour in Italy speaking in Italian. His literary talents en c!
From page 170...
... from the University of Montana in two years and was encouraged by the chemistry faculty to go to graduate school. He was acimittec!
From page 171...
... Fuson won a coveter! National Research Council fellowship, which allowed!
From page 172...
... His experience set his own style, as a research director Fuson was notable for giving his students exceptional independence. He selected research problems to fit the stuclent, en c!
From page 173...
... was shyness, which had plagued me from childhood. My mania for doing independent research changed all of that and committed me to a life of teaching.
From page 174...
... interesting reactions. This led him to discover that ketones with heavily substituted aromatic groups could form stable enols.
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... teaching was reflected! in an influential text on the qualitative identification of organic compounds.
From page 176...
... At a clistinguishec! lecture series, which he initiated, he spoke to the students: At our Centennial Symposium in 1964, we had as speakers the President of the American Chemical Society, two members of the National Academy of Sciences and a representative of our largest industrial firm.
From page 177...
... Students, who should be the best critics and who have every right to express their opinions seldom get a fair chance to do so because of a built-in weakness of our system. The scientific contributions that Bob Fuson macle are imbedded in the idiom of organic chemistry.
From page 178...
... The reversible addition of aromatic compounds to conjugated systems.
From page 179...
... Reed. Thermal conversion of mustard gas to 1,2-bis(2-chloroethylthio jethane and bist2-~2-chloroethylthiojethyl]
From page 180...
... Conjugate bimolecular reduction of mesityl phenyl ketone.


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