Aaron J. Ihde
Aaron John Ihde (born December 31, 1909 at Neenah , † February 23, 2000 in Sarasota ) was an American chemical historian .
Ihde was the son of dairy farmers and immigrants and studied chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison with a bachelor's degree in 1931. He was then a chemist with the Blue Valley Creamery Company in Chicago. In 1938 he returned to the University of Wisconsin and studied food chemistry and biochemistry with a doctorate under Henry Schuette in 1941. Schuette also sparked his interest in the history of chemistry. He taught for a year at Butler University in Indianapolis and then was an instructor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, where he was finally employed as an assistant professor in 1945 and held the introductory chemistry courses, but also revitalized and revitalized the course on chemistry history From 1947 until his retirement in 1980 he held an interdisciplinary course, The Physical Universe . 1951/52 he lectured at Harvard on the history of science as a Carnegie Intern in General Education. There he came into contact with James B. Conant , George Sarton , Thomas S. Kuhn , Gerald Holton and I. Bernard Cohen . In 1957 he became a professor in the Faculty of Science History at the University of Wisconsin, which he helped build.
His book The Development of Modern Chemistry has long been a standard work in the USA. He was long editor of the Badger Chemist.
He was active in ensuring drug and food purity standards and served at times on the Wisconsin Foods Standard Advisory Committee.
In 1968 he received the Dexter Award and in 1978 the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin. From 1962 to 1964 he was in charge of the History of Chemistry Division at ACS.
Fonts
- The development of modern chemistry, New York: Harper and Row 1964, Dover 2012
- Editor with William Kieffer: Selected readings in the History of Chemistry, Verlag Journal of Chemical Education, several volumes, from 1965 (from the Journal of Chemical Education)
- Chemistry, As Viewed from Bascom Hill: A History of the Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, 1990
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References and comments
- ↑ Marshall Clagett was also involved and this was supported by the acquisition of Denis Duveen's library on the history of chemistry
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ihde, Aaron J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ihde, Aaron John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemical historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neenah |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 2000 |
| Place of death | Sarasota |