Marjorie J. Vold

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Marjorie Jean Young Vold (born October 25, 1913 in Ottawa , Ontario , † November 4, 1991 in San Diego , California ) was an American chemist . She spent most of her scientific career at the University of Southern California , doing research in the field of colloid chemistry .

Life

Marjorie Jean Young was born in Canada in 1913 to Reynold Kenneth and Wilhelmine Young, née Aitkon . The family left Ottawa as a child and moved to California in the United States . She studied at the University of California, Berkeley , where she in 1934 her Bachelor's degree made the best of the year and with the University Medal was awarded their subsequent doctorate in chemistry , she received the 1,936th

Her grandfather Robert Grant Aitken cataloged binary stars at the Lick Observatory, and her father worked there as an astronomer as well. While at Berkeley, she met her future husband Robert D. Vold , who received his PhD in chemistry here in 1935; they married in 1936. The following year they went together for four years as post-graduate students at Stanford University and in 1941 moved to the University of Southern California (USC). From 1942 to 1946 Marjorie J. Vold worked as a chemist at the Union Oil Company of California and returned to USC in 1947, where she worked until her retirement in 1973. Starting as a research assistant and teacher, she was adjunct professor at the chemistry faculty from 1958 , where her husband had also been professor of chemistry from 1947 and which he headed from 1950 to 1953.

Marjorie J. Vold and her husband did research mainly in the field of colloid chemistry . At Stanford the focus was on colloidal electrolytes and at USC, among other things, association colloids and the kinetics and thermodynamics of soaps and liquid crystals . In her later years she also created computer programs to simulate colloidal processes. She died in 1991 at the age of 78 after over thirty years of battling multiple sclerosis , which for the past few years had forced her to work from her hospital bed.

Awards

Works

  • Marjorie J. and Robert D. Vold: Colloid chemistry; the science of large molecules, small particles, and surfaces. Reinhold, New York 1964.
  • Marjorie J. and Robert D. Vold: Colloid and interface chemistry. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA 1983.

literature

  • Sharon Sue Kleinman: Unpacking the Gendering of Chemistry: A Biographical Case Study of Marjorie Vold. In: Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. Vol. 3, No. 1 & 2, 1997, pp. 65-75.
  • Elizabeth H. Oakes: Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Revised Edition, Facts On File, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4381-1882-6 , p. 740 f ( online ).
  • Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey (Eds.): The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Volume 2, Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7 , pp. 1331 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey (Ed.): The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Volume 2, Routledge, 2000, pp. 1331 f.
  2. ^ A b c Robert D. Vold: Obituary. Marjorie Jean Vold, 1913-1991. In: Langmuir . Vol. 8, No. 4, 1992, pp. 1234-1234, doi: 10.1021 / la00040a600 .
  3. ^ Prizes and Honors / University Medal Winners. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  4. ^ PM Millman: Reynold Kenneth Young, 1886-1977 . In: Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada . tape 72 , no. 4 , August 1978, p. 181–188 , bibcode : 1978JRASC..72..181M (English, online [accessed November 26, 2019]).
  5. ↑ a b 1969 Tolman Award Medalist: Professor Robert D. Vold, University of Southern California. Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society (SCALACS). Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  6. ^ A b Elizabeth H. Oakes: Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Revised Edition, Facts On File, 2007, p. 740 f.
personal data
SURNAME Vold, Marjorie J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vold, Marjorie Jean Young (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH November 4th 1991
Place of death San Diego , California