Stanford Chemistry Department History
1891 to 1976

by Eric Hutchinson

The early history of Stanford University’s Chemistry Department, written by Professor Eric Hutchinson, is available in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat Reader, a PDF reader, may be downloaded for free from Adobe. The History may be downloaded as a single zipped file, or read by section. The print copy of this book is available at the Swain Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library with call number QD47.5 .C23 S7 (bibliographic citation). See also: Stanford Faculty Memorials Online.

An HTML version of the Stanford Chemistry Department History is also available.

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Front Matter	pages i–ix
Chapter One — The Early Years	pages 1–10
Chapter Two — The Middle Years	pages 11–26
Chapter Three — Modern Times	pages 27–38
The Faculty	pages 39–48
Stillman, John Maxson	page 49
Richardson, George Mann	page 50
Lenox, Lionel Remond	page 51
Young, Steward Woodford	page 52
Franklin, Edward Curtis	page 53
Swain, Robert Eckles	page 54
Mitchell, John Pearce	page 55
Sloan, William Henry	page 56
Parks, George Sutton	page 57
Bergstrom, Francis William	page 58
Luck, James Murray	page 59
McBain, James William	page 60
Leighton, Philip Albert	page 61
Noller, Carl Robert	page 62
Koenig, Frederick Otto	page 63
Loring, Hubert Scott	page 64
Ogg, Jr., Richard Andrew	page 65
Alvarez-Tostado, Claudio	page 66
Bonner, William Andrew	page 67
Eastman, Richard Hallenbeck	page 68
Mosher, Harry Stone	page 69
Skoog, Douglas Arvid	page 70
Hutchinson, Eric	page 71
Mason, David Malcolm	page 72
Djerassi, Carl	page 73
Johnson, William Sumner	page 74
Flory, Paul John	page 75
Taube, Henry	page 76
Van Tamelen, Eugene Earle	page 77
Brauman, John I.	page 78
McConnell, Harden Marsden	page 79
Boudart, Michel Jean	page 80
Collman, James P.	page 81
Andersen, Hans Christian	page 82
Pauling, Linus Carl	page 83
Holm, Richard A.	page 84
The Graduates
1894–1925	pages 85–93
1925–1949	pages 94–107
1950–1976	pages 108–122

Eric Hutchinson. 1977. The Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, 1891–1976 : a brief account of the first eighty-five years. Stanford, Calif. : Dept. of Chemistry, Stanford University, 1977. ix, 122 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Many thanks to John Brauman for donating his copy of the book for scanning and to W. E. Moerner for suggesting this project! Thanks also to two Swain students who worked on this project: David Liu did the scanning and Barden Shimbo developed the web page.