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The Following Four Pages Are the Professional Genealogy Of The following four pages are the professional genealogy of Professor Steven H. Strauss, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1982 2002 • Professor of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry (CSU) • Studied iron hydroporphyrins, Steven H. Strauss fluorinated superweak anions, nonclassical metal carbonyls, PhD Northwestern 1979 halofullerenes, and detection & extraction of aqueous anions • CSU Research Foundation • Professor of Inorganic Chemistry Researcher of the Year 2002 (NorthwesternU) • Author of Manipulation of Air-Sensitive Compounds Duward F. Shriver • Co-author of textbook PhD Michigan 1962 Inorganic Chemistry • ACS Award for Distinguished Service in Inorg. Chem.1987 • Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (UMich and UUtah) Robert W. Parry • ACS Award for Distinguished Service in Inorg. Chem. 1965 PhD Illinois 1947 • ACS Award in Chemical Education 1977 • ACS Priestley Medal 1993 • Professor of Inorg. Chem. (UIll.) • The "Father" of American coordination chemistry • ACS President 1957 John C. Bailar • ACS Award in Chem. Educ. 1961 PhD Michigan 1928 • ACS Award for Distinguished Service in Inorg. Chem. 1972 • ACS Priestley Medal 1964 • Professor of Chemistry (UMich) • Synthesis of CPh4 in Meyer's lab • First isolation of an organic free Moses Gomberg radical (CPh3•) in Meyer's lab PhD Michigan 1894 • The "Father" of organic free radical chemistry • Developed the first satisfactory • Professor of Organic Chemistry antifreeze and Pharmacy (UMich) • Founded qualitative org. analysis • Studied alkaloid toxicology (esp. Alfred B. Prescott alkaloidal periodides) and the MD Michigan 1864 structure of caffeine • Developed the first assay for opium • Established chemistry lab at UMich (Houghton's assistant) • Took over Houghton's chemistry Silas H. Douglass duties in 1845 MD Maryland 1842 • Co-authored (with A. B. Prescott) Qualitative Chemical Analysis • Worked for MD Zina Pitcher in • Professor of Geology, Chemistry, Detroit before getting MD degree Mineralogy (UMich), but never taught chemistry • Surgeon/botanist on expedition Douglass Houghton to find the source of the AB Rensselaer 1829 Mississippi River • Michigan state geologist • Mayor of Detroit (two terms) • Teacher (New England and Hudson Valley) • Originally trained as lawyer Amos Eaton • Persauded upstate NY landlord AB Williams College 1799 Stephan van Renssalaer to finance a school for training "in the application of science • Professor of Chemistry, Geology, to the common purposes of life" Pharmacy, Mineralogy (Yale) • Founded Am. J. Sci. in 1818 (first science journal in America) Benjamin Silliman, Sr. • Co-founded AAAS AB Yale 1796 • Discovered fusion of carbon by electric arcs (C60?) • First analysis of petroleum James Woodhouse Thomas C. Hope MD Pennsylvania 1792 MD Edinburgh 1787 • Professor of Chemistry (UPenn) • Teacher; introduced Lavoisier's • Founded Chemical Society of ideas to Great Britain Philadelphia (world's first) • Rediscovered strontia; proposed • Determined that "heavy it contained a new element inflammable air" is CO, not H2 • Studied barium compounds • Opponent of phlogiston theory • Measured ρmax(H2O) temperature • May have isolated potassium ("Hope experiment") independent of Humphrey Davy • Coined the term xanthogen Benjamin Rush MD Edinburgh 1768 • Professor of Chemistry (UPenn) • "Father" of chemistry in America • Wrote first chemistry textbook by an American; signed and helped write Declaration of Independence • Analyzed minerals, spring water • Founded College of Physicians • Professor of Medicine (Edinburgh) and the first antislavery society • Studied with Cullen at Glasgow • Rediscovered CO2 (MgCO3 + ∆) Joseph Black • Showed that CO2 ("fixed air") is a product of respiration and will MD Edinburgh 1754 not support life • Invented the concepts of latent heat and specific heat • Professor of Chemistry (Glasgow) • Discovered the bicarbonates • First in Glasgow to teach in English instead of Latin • Discovered evaporative cooling William Cullen • Studied soil nitrate content to MD Glasgow 1740 determine soil fertility • Studied the classification of diseases • Professor of Chemistry (Glasgow) • First to teach modern chemistry in Great Britain Andrew Plummer • Developed "Plummer's pills", MD Leiden 1722 used for nearly 200 years to fight diseases (they contained Sb2S3 and HgCl ) • Professor of Physics (Leiden) 2 • Founder of physical chemistry and calorimetry • Introduced exact quantitative Hermann Boerhaave measurements into chemistry • First to isolate urea and discover MD Harderwijk 1763 it's diuretic properties • Established that smallpox is spread by contact • Professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics (Leiden) Burchard de Volder • Enthusiastic supporter of Boyle • Published on the weight of air MD Leiden 1664 • Improved the air-pump • Set up first physics lab in Leiden • Co-edited the works of Huygens • Physician and Professor of Practical Medicine (Leiden) • Defended Harvey's new theory of blood circulation Franciscus Sylvius • Described anatomy of the brain MD Basel 1637 • Championed iatrochemistry • Invented gin (?) as a diuretic • Investigated iron + acid reactions Stupaeus ?? ?? The line of descent was taken from the outstanding website maintained by Greg Girolami and Vera Mainz at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainz/web_genealogy). According to Girolami, "The criterion for choosing the research mentor was as follows. The mentor is the scientist most responsible for turning the person from a student into an independent professional scientist. This is almost always the advisor for the person's highest non-honorary degree. Although postdoctoral mentors can often cause a scientist to change their professional interests, this usually happens at a time after the scientist is already a scientist." Information about the scientists was taken from the above-mentioned website and from many other websites. For those interested in Strauss' line of descent through his postdoctoral advisor, Professor Richard H. Holm of Harvard University, it is as follows. Steven H. Strauss ← Richard H. Holm (Ph.D., MIT, 1959) ← F. Albert Cotton (Ph.D., Harvard, 1955) ← Geoffrey Wilkinson (Ph.D., Imperial College, London, 1946) ← Henry V. A. Briscoe (BA, London, 1909) ← Thomas E. Thorpe (Ph.D., Heidelberg, 1868) ← Robert E. W. Bunsen (Ph.D., Göttingen, 1830) ← Friedrich Stromeyer (MD, 1800, Göttingen) ← Vauquelin, Gmelin, Fourcroy, Bucquet, etc..
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