Description: Papers of Roger Adams (1889-1971), professor of chemistry (1916-57), & department head (1926-54),including personal items relating to family, education and travel; photographs; correspondence with family, foundation officials, businessmen, officials of professional societies, scientists & former students; tape-recorded interviews on the chemistry department and financial support of research & graduate work; speeches; reports; manuscripts; reprints; books; correspondence & research on the chemistry on marijuana (1938-41); documents about service in the Chemical Warfare Service (1917-18) & National Defense Research Committee (1941-46) & as scientific advisor in Germany (1945-46) & Japan (1947-48); programs of symposia & award ceremonies & newspaper clippings relating to awards & activities. Three subject files (1949-71) contain correspondence, reports, agendas, minutes, memoranda & newsletters relating to associations with the Battelle Memorial Institute, Otto Haas Trust Fund, Robert Welch Foundation, Alfred Sloan Fund, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Institute, International Sugar Research Foundation, National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, National Science Foundation, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, American Philosophical Society, International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry, American Institute of Chemists, The Chemurgic Council, Illinois Board of Natural Resources & Conservation, Abbott Laboratories, E.I. DuPont Co., Coca Cola Co., Organic Reactions, Organic Syntheses, Cosmos Club & dealing with election, appointment of personnel, research, awarding of grants & securities investments. Correspondents include Wallace Carothers, James Conant, Ernest Volwiler, Robert Robinson & Richard Willstatter.
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