L. Carroll King

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Lafayette Carroll King (born September 9, 1914 in Maryvale , Utah , † January 30, 1999 in Whitehall ) was an American chemist ( organic chemistry ) and chemistry teacher.

King studied chemistry at Utah State University with a bachelor's degree in 1936 and Michigan State University with a master's degree in 1938 and a doctorate in 1942. From 1936 to 1942 he was an assistant in biochemistry at Michigan State College. From 1942 he was on the faculty of Northwestern University , where he was initially an instructor, later became a professor and became emeritus in 1985 (and finally retired in 1988). From 1950 he was also a consultant in the industry. At Northwestern University he concentrated on chemistry didactics from the 1960s and he held the introductory chemistry courses after the death of his predecessor Robert K. Summerbell (1904–1962).

He dealt in particular with chemistry didactics both at universities and schools. In 1944 he started a high school night at his university and he gave well-attended public demonstration lectures every year. As early as 1955 he appeared on local television in Chicago (Chicago Educational Television). 1961/62 he was chairman of the department of chemistry education of the American Chemical Society (ACS). In 1966 he became chairman of the college chemistry advisory board.

In 1969 he organized the Indo-US Binational Conference on Chemical Education, the first Interamerican Conference on Chemical Education in Buenos Aires in 1965 and the US-Japan Conference on Chemical Education (Japan 1964).

The Ortoleva-King reaction is named after him and Giovanni Ortoleva (King 1944) for the synthesis of pyridinium iodide salts (sometimes just named after King). He also dealt with the synthesis of quaternary salts, thiazoles and selenazoles , the structure of sterols , the mechanisms of organic reactions.

His research was funded by the National Institutes of Health (Cancer Institute) until the early 1960s , when the funding expired, he turned entirely to chemistry teaching. With Irving Klotz, he synthesized many compounds for the treatment and research of therapies for sickle cell anemia .

1953 to 1955 he was chairman of the Chicago section of the ACS. In 1969 he received the ACS Award in Chemical Education . In 1969 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Since 2001 there has been the L. Carroll King Lectures at Northwestern University , which was first given by Richard Zare .

He married in 1937 and has five children.

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  1. ↑ Birth and career dates American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004. Also fields of activity.
  2. ^ Year of death after Fred Basolo, From Coello to Inorganic Chemistry: A Lifetime of Reactions, Springer 2002, p. 73. With information about King's career as an academic teacher at Northwestern University, where Basolo also taught.
  3. ↑ King, The Reaction of Iodine with Some Ketones in the Presence of Pyridine, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 66, 1944, pp. 894-895, doi : 10.1021 / ja01234a015
personal data
SURNAME King, L. Carroll
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Lafayette Carroll
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Maryvale, Utah
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1999
Place of death Whitehall