Harlan L. Baumbach

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Harlan L. Baumbach (born October 6, 1912 in Pennsylvania , United States , † December 14, 1980 in Los Angeles , Los Angeles County , California , United States) was an American chemist and worked for Paramount West Coast Laboratory. He was awarded an Oscar in 1947 and 1958 .

Life

Baumbach majored in chemistry with Nathalie Seifert, his future wife, at the University of California at Berkeley . The chemist and nuclear physicist Glenn T. Seaborg was a classmate of the two. Since Harlan worked for Paramount Pictures after completing his studies , Seifert initially stayed in California. In the spring of 1943, Seaborg was able to persuade them to move to his team in Chicago .

In 1947 Baumbach was honored with an Oscar in the category “Technical Achievement” for his work for Paramount West Coast Laboratory “for an improved method for the quantitative determination of hydroquinone and metol in photographic developing baths” (for an improved method for the quantitative determination of Hydroquinone and Metol in the photographic developer bath ).

In 1958 he received another Oscar together with Lorand Wargo and Howard M. Little (Unicorn Engineering Corp.), this time in the category “Science and Development” “for the development of an automatic printer light selector”.

Awards

  • 1947 : Oscar in the Technical Achievement category
  • 1958 : Oscar in the Science and Development category

Web links

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  1. ↑ Harlan L. Baumbach in the US Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed May 15, 2017
  2. ↑ Harlan L. Baumbach ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: awardsdatabase.oscars.org; accessed on May 27, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / awardsdatabase.oscars.org
  3. ↑ Ruth H. Howes: Their Day in the Sun. Temple University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-59213-192-1 , p. 77 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Baumbach, Harlan L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Pennsylvania , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1980
Place of death Los Angeles , Los Angeles County , California , United States