Household and organic chemistry course notebooks

Collection

Identifier: GB98-09-002

Staff Only

Scope and content

The notebooks contain tentative lecture schedules on a range of topics, including water purification, waste disposal, cleaning and polishing agents stain removal, and aromatic compounds, as well as the procedure for writing out laboratory experiments. Additionally, forty-three laboratory exercises are detailed with topics ranging from stain removal and color-fastness tests, to qualitative analyses of commercial tooth pastes, deodorants, and face creams.

Dates

Creation: 1942

Creator

Pennsylvania State University (Organization)

Language of Materials

Text in English.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

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Biographical sketch

Pauline Beery was born in Norborne, Missouri in 1891 and earned a degree in chemistry at the University of Missouri in 1913. During World War I, she taught high school science in Missouri before returning to graduate work and earning her master's degree in chemistry from Columbia University in 1919. Beery began teaching chemistry in the Penn State home economics program in 1919 and eventually earned her doctorate from Penn State in 1932. In 1923, she married botanist and printmaker Warren Bryan Mack. Over the course of her career, Dr. Beery Mack served as director of the Pennsylvania Mass Studies in Human Nutrition project and also was a technical advisor to the Pennsylvania Laundry Owners Association. In 1950, she received the Francis P. Garvan Medal from the American Chemical Society for her work on calcium, nutrition, and bone density measurement. Pauline Beery Mack retired from research in 1973 and died the following year in Denton, Texas.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (2 notebooks)

Additional Description

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of William D. Williams.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Williams, William D. Method of acquisition--Gift ;; Date of acquisition--1998..

Alternate Form Available

Part or all of this item has been digitized by Science History Institute.

General Note

Two notebooks of laboratory exercises and study questions for Household and Organic Chemistry (Chemistry 52) course taught by American chemist home economist, and college administrator Dr. Pauline Beery Mack at Pennsylvania State University.