George B. Kauffman
George Bernard Kauffman (born September 4, 1930 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † May 2, 2020 in Fresno ) was an American chemist ( inorganic chemistry , complex chemistry ) and chemical historian .
Kauffman won the Science Talent Search in 1948, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1951, and received his doctorate from the University of Florida in 1956 . In 1955 he was at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and research chemist at Humble Oil and Refining Company and in 1955/56 he was an instructor at the University of Texas. He was from 1956 Assistant Professor and from 1966 Professor at California State University, Fresno .
Kauffman was a Guggenheim Fellow and received the 1978 Dexter Award for Chemical History. In 1993 he received the George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education and in 1992 the Marc August Pictet Medal of the Society for Physics and Natural History in Geneva. In 1984 he received the Exceptional Merit Service Award from California State University and in 2002 the Helen M. Free Award for Public Outreach from ACS. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
He was the contributing editor of the Journal of Chemical Education, Chemical Heritage, Today's Chemists at Work, Polyhedron (in which he published Historical Sketches from 1982 to 1985), Hexagon, Today's Chemist, Industrial Chemist, Chem 13 News, Chemical Educator and Chemical Intelligencer. In 1969/70 he was chairman of the History Division of the American Society of Chemistry, where he chaired symposia and program committees (including 1975 to 1981 of ACS listening courses on the history of chemistry). Kauffman also had good connections with the Soviet Union (as early as 1969 he was invited by the Soviet Academy of Sciences to write two articles on a commemorative volume on Mendeleev's discovery of the Periodic Table) and received several awards from the NS Kurnakov Institute.
Kauffman dealt among other things with the founder of complex chemistry Alfred Werner and with August Strindberg's relationship to chemistry. He is the author of numerous (over 2000) essays, reviews and encyclopedia articles on chemistry, chemistry lessons and the history of science and of 17 books, in particular on Alfred Werner and the history of complex chemistry. He was married to Laurie Papazian since 1969 and has four daughters and one son.
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- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ George Bernard Kauffman, Obituary. Lisle Funeral Home, accessed May 8, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kauffman, George B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kauffman, George Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemical historian and chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th September 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 2020 |
| Place of death | Fresno |