HIST 13 |
| When I came to UIUC in 1955 as a graduate student, Howard Malmstadt was an Assistant Professor. Howard asked me to help him create a graduate lecture/laboratory course in electronics and measurements. This evolved into a summer course for practicing scientists and the first text, Electronics for Scientists (1962). The experiments were included and Heath Company sold the equipment. This course was taken up by chemistry and physics departments all over the country. The rapid evolution of solid-state electronics led to Digital Electronics for Scientists (1969), with experiments incorporating the first integrated circuits. Stan Crouch joined the team for further iterations of the text Electronic Measurements for Scientists (1974), Electronics and Instrumentation for Scientists (1981), and Making the Right Connections (1994), and for development and presentation of the ACS Short course. In their time, these texts played a significant role in the early development of modern chemical instrumentation. |
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Landmark Chemistry Books of the Twentieth Century: Authors from the University of Illinois
1:30 PM-4:45 PM, Sunday, March 25, 2007 Hyatt Regency McCormick -- 20C, Oral
Division of the History of Chemistry |