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Samuel Shrowder Pickles

English chemist
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Born:
April 15, 1878, Rochdale, Eng.
Died:
Feb. 11, 1962, Bradford-on-Avon? (aged 83)

Samuel Shrowder Pickles (born April 15, 1878, Rochdale, Eng.—died Feb. 11, 1962, Bradford-on-Avon?) was an English chemist who proposed a chain (actually, very large ring) structure for rubber. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1903 from Owens College, Manchester, Pickles worked there on terpenes with William Henry Perkin, Jr. He received a doctorate (1908) from the Imperial Institute, London, for a study of rubber and vegetable fats and oils. The German chemist Carl Dietrich Harries, on the basis of his ozonolysis technique, had assumed that rubber consists of two isoprene units combined to form small eight-membered rings, which ...(100 of 279 words)

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