Dean S. Tarbell
Dean Stanley Tarbell (born October 19, 1913 in Hancock , New Hampshire , † May 26, 1999 in Bolingbrook , Illinois ) was an American chemist ( organic chemistry ) and chemical historian.
Tarbell studied chemistry from 1930 at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1934 and a doctorate with Paul Doughty Bartlett in 1937. As a post-doctoral student he was with Roger Adams at the University of Illinois . During World War II he worked on analysis methods for war gases such as mustard gas and worked on the development of agents against malaria. From 1946 to 1947 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at Oxford (and again at Stanford in 1961/62). In 1948 he became a professor at the University of Rochester , where he had been an instructor since 1938, Charles Frederick Houghton professor in 1960 and the chemistry faculty from 1964 to 1966. In 1967 he became a Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University . In 1981 he retired.
As an organic chemist, he dealt with the Claisen rearrangement , Fries rearrangement , organic sulfur compounds, derivatives of glycerine , mixed anhydrides, natural products and biologically active substances such as colchicine and fumagillin, and with cancer. Among other things, he advised the US Public Health Service.
As a chemical historian, he was particularly concerned with the history of organic chemistry in the USA.
In 1989 he received the Dexter Award in chemical history and in 1973 he received the Charles Holmes Herty Medal from the American Chemical Society (ACS). In 1980/81 he was in charge of the History Division (HIST) of the ACS.
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1959 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1961 .
He spoke and read several languages, in addition to German and French, classical Greek and Latin, Arabic and Russian. In his historical work he worked in part with his wife Ann Hoar Tracy, whom he married in 1942.
Fonts
- with AT Tarbell: Roger Adams, scientist and statesman, American Chemical Society, 1981
- with AT Tarbell: Essays on the history of organic chemistry in the United States 1875-1955, Nashville: Folio Publ., 1986
literature
- Nelson J. Leonhard, Biographical Memoirs Fellows National Academy, Volume 79, 2001, pdf
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tarbell, Dean S. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tarbell, Dean Stanley (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist (organic chemistry) and chemical historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hancock, New Hampshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1999 |
| Place of death | Bolingbrook, Illinois |