Emma P. Carr

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Emma Perry Carr

Emma Perry Carr (born July 23, 1880 in Holmesville , Ohio , † January 7, 1972 in Evanston , Illinois ) was an American chemist and spectroscopist .

Life

Emma Perry Carr was the third of Edmund and Anna Mary Carr's five children. After she was born, the family moved to Coshocton , Ohio, where her father worked as a pediatrician and general practitioner. In 1898 she began studying chemistry at Ohio State University , but later moved to Mount Holyoke College and finally made her bachelor's degree in 1904 at the University of Chicago . She then returned to Mount Holyoke College, where she taught chemistry until 1907. In 1910 she did her doctorate under Julius Stieglitz , with whom she later became lifelong friends, at the University of Chicago. Carr then returned to the women's college, where she was professor and head of the chemistry department from 1913 until her retirement in 1946. During this time she spent some time abroad for research purposes, so she was at Queen's University Belfast in 1919 , at the University of Zurich in 1929 and at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1944 .

In her research, she examined the molecular properties such as bond lengths and strengths as well as the atomic components of unsaturated hydrocarbons using ultraviolet spectroscopy . It is one of the first scientists that the spectroscopy in organic chemistry inserting (see also Molecular Spectroscopy ) , and contributed to the understanding of the double bond at. In 1937 she was honored with the Garvan Olin Medal for her achievements . She was both its first recipient and the first scientist to be honored by the American Chemical Society . In 1955, the chemistry laboratory at Mount Holyoke College was renamed Carr Laboratory in her honor .

Awards

  • 1937: Garvan-Olin Medal (American Chemical Society)
  • 1957: James Flack Norris Award (Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society)

literature

  • Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey (Eds.): Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Volume 1, Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-1135963439 , pp. 468-471.
  • Marelene F. and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham: Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century. Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2005, ISBN 978-0941901277 , pp. 187-191.
  • Bojan Hamlin Jennings: The professional life of Emma Perry Carr. In: J. Chem. Educ. Vol. 63, No. 11, 1986, p. 923, doi : 10.1021 / ed063p923 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emma Perry Carr: The aliphatic imido esters. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1910.
  2. ↑ a b M. Ogilvie, J. Harvey (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Routledge, 2000, pp. 468-471.
  3. ↑ Marelene F. and Geoffrey W. Rayner-Canham: Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century. Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2005, pp. 187-191.
  4. ^ Margaret W. Rossiter: Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1984, ISBN 0-8018-2509-1 , p. 308.
  5. ↑ James Flack Norris Award Recipients. Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Carr, Emma P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carr, Emma Perry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist and spectroscopist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Holmesville , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH 7th January 1972
Place of death Evanston , Illinois