Noyes Laboratory, an ACS national chemical landmark: 100 years of chemistry at the University of Illinois

McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch

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Title

Noyes Laboratory, an ACS national chemical landmark: 100 years of chemistry at the University of Illinois

Author(s)

McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch

Issue Date

2004-03-15

Keyword(s)

• History
• Chemistry
• History Noyes Lab Acs Historic Building

Abstract

Ten Nobel Prize winners and, in the past 80 yr, almost one out of every four presidents of the American Chem. Society (ACS) have studied or worked in the William Albert Noyes Lab. of Chem. at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. On Sept. 14, 2002, the ACS celebrated the centennial of Noyes Lab. by designating it an ACS National Historic Landmark. The early history of Noyes Lab., which suggests several reasons for its remarkable success, is traced.

Publisher

Division of the History of Chemistry

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1053-4385

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127601

DOI

https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2004v029p045

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Copyright 2004 Division of the History of Chemistry

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