Collected by James Lipscomb,
Jean Evans, and Margaret Lipscomb
1. Biographical Information
Curriculum Vitae,
Employment, Honors, Fellowships, Memberships, Award Lectures,
Special Lectures, Research Granting Agencies, Other, Meetings
and Books in honor of William Lipscomb. Lipscomb's first
honor, "M.A. (hon.) Harvard University, 1959," was awarded
when Lipscomb arrived at Harvard, because a Masters Degree was
required to teach there but all Lipscomb had was a Ph.D.
About 9 pages.
Short
Autobiography, Written by Lipscomb on the occasion of
his Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1976. Brief CV, research,
and awards. 1 page, 1976.
Long
Autobiography. Click the small PDF icons on the right of
the page to download:
"Preface, Process of Discovery (1977); An
Autobiographical Sketch" (by William Lipscomb).
14-page PDF.
"The Landscape and the Horizons: An Introduction to the
Science of William N. Lipscomb" by Gareth R. Eaton. 16-page
PDF.
Introduction and
conclusion by Herb Beall to a lecture by Lipscomb at
Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Stories of giving
choices to graduate students, high school years, musical
accomplishments, the clock, and lipscombite. 4 pages,
1976.
World War 2 research in brief audio clips
by Lipscomb, which include his attempt to save the life of
Elizabeth Swingle. Linus Pauling's real-time
account of the accident in his notebook. Pauling's
technical description of the accident in
a letter to Eastman Kodak.
Conversation
with Bill and his sister Ginny in 2008: High-school chemistry,
clarinet, tennis court, tree house, PH.D. instead of an M.D.
Benefits
of Curiosity Driven Research, Three Examples, Lipscomb
observed that practical applications can come from basic
research, hence the importance of robust support for basic
research. 1 page, partially published, approx. 2006.
Full version is here.
Ph. D. Dissertation
(PDF) From the California Institute of
Technology. Only Part 1 and Part 2 are published.
Part 3 and Part 4 were classified work for World War II.
86 pages, 1946.
High School
science research project, Lipscomb extracted hydrogen
from sodium formate and sodium hydroxide in the back of his
high-school chemistry classroom. This idea was original
to Lipscomb in high school but not original to science, as
Lipscomb later in college found the reaction in a textbook. 7
pages, unpublished, 1937.
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