Dorothy Virginia Nightingale

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Dorothy Virginia Nightingale (born February 21, 1902 in Fort Collins , Colorado , † June 12, 2000 in Boulder , Colorado) was an American chemist .

Life

Dorothy Virginia Nightingale was born in 1902 in Fort Collins, Colorado to William David and Jennie Nightingale, née Beem. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a teacher and later a secretary in Indianapolis before they married . She received her school education in Colorado. In 1918 , at the age of 17, the family moved to Columbia , Missouri , where they began studying at the University of Missouri . She intended to major in foreign languages ​​and history, but was won over by her chemistry teacher for the natural sciences and, after completing her Bachelor of Arts (1922), completed her master's degree in chemistry (1923). Then she works as a teacher of chemistry at the University of Missouri, but started in 1924 together with her dissertation and was established in 1928 as an academic student of Julius Stieglitz at the University of Chicago PhD .

She then continued teaching chemistry at the University of Missouri and was here in 1939, after a year at the University of Minnesota in 1938, assistant professor and rose to professor until 1958. With a few interruptions, she worked at the university for almost fifty years until she retired in 1972. During the Second World War she worked for the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) from 1942 to 1945 and at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1946 to 1947 .

Dorothy Virginia Nightingale did research in the field of organic chemistry and devoted himself in the early years to the chemiluminescence of organic halides . She then dealt with Friedel-Crafts reactions and specialized in Friedel-Crafts alkylation . At that time, knowledge about these complex reactions was not very well developed and processes for the production of fuels , synthetic rubber and other plastics benefited from their research .

Awards

literature

  • Elizabeth H. Oakes: Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Revised Edition, Facts On File, 2007, ISBN 978-1438118826 , p. 540 f ( online ).
  • Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey (Eds.): The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Volume 2, Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415920407 , p. 944.
  • Tiffany K. Wayne: American Women of Science Since 1900 (Vol.1: Essays AH). ABC-Clio, 2011, ISBN 978-1598841589 , p. 719 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorothy Virginia Nightingale: Studies in the Murexide and Alloxantine Series. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1928.
  2. ^ A b c Elizabeth H. Oakes: Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Revised Edition, Facts On File, 2007, p. 540 f.
  3. ↑ Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey (Ed.): The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Volume 2, Routledge, 2000, p. 944.
  4. ^ Tiffany K. Wayne: American Women of Science Since 1900 (Vol.1: Essays AH). ABC-Clio, 2011, p. 719 f.
personal data
SURNAME Nightingale, Dorothy Virginia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nightingale, Dorothy V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Collins , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 2000
Place of death Boulder , Colorado