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Education
Chemistry In Pictures
Chemistry in Pictures: Keep good notes
by Craig Bettenhausen
May 11, 2023
Credit: Chris Armstrong
1: Cover page - The Journal of the Hull Student Chemical Society, Volume 4, No. 1. Autumn, 1960. Price: 6 pence.
Credit: Chris Armstrong
2: Departmental research by K. Clarke, notes from an attempted synthesis of melanin from tyrosine. In this case, synthesis of aldehyde intermediates to help prove a proposed biosynthetic route, Autumn 1959.
Credit: Chris Armstrong
3: Handwritten equations on the origin of electric dipole moments. C. W. N Cumper, Autumn 1959. “The first two integrals give the z coordinate of the centroids of the charge density for the atomic orbitals \psi_A and \psi_B.”
Credit: Chris Armstrong
4: Hand drawn crossword puzzle, reproduced in the characteristic purple of a spirit duplicator (a Banda machine or Ditto machine) and on notably waxier paper than the rest.
Credit: Chris Armstrong
5: Drawn diagrams with typed element symbols for the highly strained tricyclobutane and derivatives. “This compound has been cited frequently as an illustration of the degree to which carbon-carbon bonds could be distorted.” The Gooch, Vol. III, No. 2, Summer, 1960
Credit: Chris Armstrong
6: Notes from Departmental Research, R.R. Baldwin. “My interest in combustion started at an early age, when I succeeded in setting fire to the kitchen curtains.”
Credit: Chris Armstrong
7: A description of orbtial overlap, contribution to polarization and dipole moments, Autumn, 1959.
Credit: Chris Armstrong
8: Soccer scores, showing teams from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students, and researchers—who were leading with 9 pts.
Credit: Chris Armstrong
9: Further structures in the quest to find a synthetic route to melanin from basic amino acids.
Credit: Chris Armstrong
10: Hand-drawn Greek letters added after typing the rest of an equation.
Credit: Chris Armstrong
11: Discussion on the reaction of copper nitrate, Cu(NO3)2 with perchloric acid, HClO4
Credit: Chris Armstrong
12: Credit and acknowledgment to Mrs K. Bowden, typist, and the printer, Miss M. Cooper.
Research labs often retain the notebooks of the graduate students and other researchers who pass through as a form of institutional knowledge, where where details about experiments—even ones that didn’t work—can be found by future chemists in the group. For a while, the chemistry department at the UK’s University of Hull took it a step further, publishing their own mini journal, J. UoH Chem. Soc., which the students affectionately nicknamed “The Gooch.” Physical chemistry and chemical education lecturer Chris Armstrong recently received a packet of issues from 1958 to 1960, sent in by Brian Iddon, who had earned a bachelor degree and PhD from the university around that time. The collection includes synthetic methods, stories, and even puzzles and poems.
Credit: Chris Armstrong
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