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James Flack Norris: His Early Contributions to Physical Organic Chemistry (2015)

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In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry, a brief biographical sketch of Norris is presented along with discussion of his research accomplishments in the contexts of the influence of his doctoral mentor Dr. Ira Remsen and the early development of physical organic chemistry. Dr. Norris had two distinct academic careers, researcher and teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and administrator and teacher at Simmons College. A third career, scientific leader and statesman, co-existed with these dual careers. This chapter will briefly describe Norris’s researches in molecular addition compounds, the triphenylmethyl system, Friedel-Crafts chemistry as well as his twenty paper series on “The reactivity of atoms and groups in organic compounds” (from 1920 through 1940).

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Authors & Contributors
Strom, E. Thomas
Mainz, Vera V.
Saltzman, Martin D.
Irene Bainbridge
Sztejnberg, Aleksander
Manuel DeLanda
Concepts
Organic chemistry
Physical chemistry
Chemistry
Biographies
Discipline formation
Models and modeling in science
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
Cracow (Poland)
Japan
Italy
Germany
Great Britain
Institutions
Leeds University (UK)
Tokyo Institute of Technology
American Chemical Society
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