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A "Pure" Organic Chemist's Downward Path

A "Pure" Organic Chemist's Downward Path to science followed in the eighth grade at the Workingman's School of the Ethical Culture Society, with a beautiful course in botany by Dr. Henry A. Kelly, followed in the Ethical Culture High School by his tour through zoology and well-taught courses in physics and chemistry by William E. Stark, with many hours in the laboratory. These led to my first research, an unpublished venture with Mr. Stark. Late in 1904, the Seventh Avenue-Broadway subway was about to open and the newspapers contained dire predictions of mass suffocation in the soon-to-be crowded trains. During the Christmas holiday, we lugged a five-gallon demijohn of water about a quarter of a mile to the nearest subway platform, emptied it there, replacing the water with air, and bore the stoppered demijohn back in triumph to the labora­ tory. There we exploded a small portion of the air with hydrogen in a eudiometer. Something went wrong, however, and we found only five percent of oxygen! At the Ethical, I also learned to write good English from Percival Chubb and was taught higher mathematics, even trigonometry, by Matilda Auerbach, a superb but very strict teacher. As a freshman at Columbia, I started with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Microbiology Annual Reviews

A "Pure" Organic Chemist's Downward Path

Heidelberger, Michael
Annual Review of Microbiology , Volume 31 (1) – Oct 1, 1977
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Annual Reviews
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Copyright 1977 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
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0066-4227
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1545-3251
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10.1146/annurev.mi.31.100177.000245
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to science followed in the eighth grade at the Workingman's School of the Ethical Culture Society, with a beautiful course in botany by Dr. Henry A. Kelly, followed in the Ethical Culture High School by his tour through zoology and well-taught courses in physics and chemistry by William E. Stark, with many hours in the laboratory. These led to my first research, an unpublished venture with Mr. Stark. Late in 1904, the Seventh Avenue-Broadway subway was about to open and the newspapers contained dire predictions of mass suffocation in the soon-to-be crowded trains. During the Christmas holiday, we lugged a five-gallon demijohn of water about a quarter of a mile to the nearest subway platform, emptied it there, replacing the water with air, and bore the stoppered demijohn back in triumph to the labora­ tory. There we exploded a small portion of the air with hydrogen in a eudiometer. Something went wrong, however, and we found only five percent of oxygen! At the Ethical, I also learned to write good English from Percival Chubb and was taught higher mathematics, even trigonometry, by Matilda Auerbach, a superb but very strict teacher. As a freshman at Columbia, I started with

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Annual Review of Microbiology – Annual Reviews

Published: Oct 1, 1977

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