Description: Correspondence, manuscripts, publications and photographs of William A. Noyes, (1857-1941), professor of Chemistry (1907-26), including essays, notebooks and correspondence from his student years (Iowa College, 1875-79; Johns Hopkins, 1880-82); manuscripts of published and unpublished scientific papers; correspondence with colleagues on chemical problems; personal correspondence with family and friends; laboratory notebooks and correspondence and manuscripts on domestic and international affairs, economics and religion. The papers include manuscripts of his early investigations into the structure of camphoric acid and the camphor series, and of his later studies on valence, electron theory, correspondence with Linus Pauling, Gilbert Lewis, Robert Mulliken and Julius Stieglitz. Other scientific correspondents include Ira Remsen, Alexander Smith, Roger Adams, Arthur B. Lamb, Arthur Compton, Charles Jackson and Theodore Richards. Numerous files concern Noyes; editorship of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Abstracts, Chemical Reviews and Chemical Monographs. His laboratory notes are complete from 189501934. Included in his personal and non-scientific papers are manuscripts of articles on war, the economy, fascism, interventionism, religion and similar subjects (1920-40). Related correspondence stresses his efforts to reunite the international scientific community after World War I, encouragement of economic sanctions against aggressors in the 1930's, work on behalf of European refugees, and support of civil rights organizations. Richard Willstatter, Charles Marie, Marston Bogart, Albert Shaw, Charles M. Sheldon and Arthur Capper correspond on these subjects. Personal correspondence includes letters from his wives and children.
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