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Harry Boyer Weiser chemistry offprints

 Collection
Identifier: MS 415
Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Scope and Contents

Contains offprints of articles written by early Rice chemistry professor Harry Boyer Weiser between 1913 and 1950. The collection includes a complete bibliography of articles and books written by Weiser as well as some personal correspondence between Weiser and Rice Institute President E.O Lovett.

Dates

  • 1913 - 1950

Creator

Access Restrictions

This material is open for research. Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish from the Harry Boyer Weiser chemistry offprints, 1915-1950 must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

Biographical / Historical

Dr. Harry Boyer Weiser was fresh out of Cornell with a newly-minted doctorate in chemistry and newly married when Edgar Odell Lovett summoned him to establish the Department of Chemistry at Rice Institute. For thirty-five years, until his untimely death in 1950, Dr. Weiser served as Professor and Chairman of the Chemistry Department. In 1933 he was also named Dean of the Institute. His work in chemistry placed him among the top ten colloid chemists in the world. He wrote seven chemistry textbooks, the last of which was a second edition.

Extent

1 Linear Feet ( (2 boxes))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Overview

Contains offprints of articles written by early Rice chemistry professor Harry Boyer Weiser between 1913 and 1950. The collection includes a complete bibliography of articles and books written by Weiser as well as some personal correspondence between Weiser and Rice Institute President E.O Lovett.

Arrangement

The articles in scientific journals are arranged chronologically, preceded by a bibliography and personal correspondence and succeeded by miscellaneous exercises and abstracts.

Custodial History

Donated to the Woodson Research Center by Dr. Weiser's daughter, Dorothy Weiser Seale

Acquisition Information

This material was donated to the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, by Dr. Weiser's daughter, Dorothy Weiser Seale in 1972.

Accruals

No future additions to this material are expected.

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Harry Boyer Weiser chemistry offprints, 1913-1950
Status
Completed
Author
Barbara Mitchell
Date
2008
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

https://library.rice.edu/woodson
Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA

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