John Maurice Nelson

Affiliations:

Columbia University, New York, NY

Area:

Organic chemistry

Website:

http://acswebcontent.acs.org/landmarks/landmarks/hav/hav_pioneer.html

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Bio:

After returning from studying with Wilhelm Ostwald in Germany, John M. Nelson received his Ph.D. under Marston T. Bogert. He, along with a Columbia University colleague K. George Falk, applied the electronic theory of valence to covalent bonds. They suggested that the direction the electron moves would depend on the relative position of the elements in the periodic table. This pioneering work offered an explanation for properties of organic compounds that had previously been a mystery.

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Parents

Wilhelm Friedrich Ostwald	research assistant
Marston T. Bogert	grad student	1907	Columbia
(Some compounds derived from the ethyl p-diiminosuccinylosuccinate)

Children

Emil L. Smith	research assistant	1931	Columbia
John Howard Northrop	grad student	1915	Columbia
Warren C. Vosburgh	grad student	1919	Columbia
T. Clinton Taylor	grad student	1920	Columbia
Maxwell Philip Schubert	grad student	1928	Columbia
Roger M. Herriott	grad student	1932	Columbia
Charles Reginald Dawson	grad student	1938	Columbia
Mark Hancock Adams	grad student	1939	Columbia (Microtree)

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