Call Number:

001.002

Repository:

Science History Institute Archives

Extent:

1 linear feet (1 box; consisting of 10 print photographs)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Collection or item title, Othmer Library of Chemical History, Science History Institute..

Date:

circa 1950-1998 (inclusive)

Form:

Photographs, Photograph collections, and Archival materials

Abstract:

Photographs from the career of Rudolph Pariser, a research chemist and one of the creators of the Pariser-Parr-Pople Method.

Rudolph Pariser was born in China on December 8, 1923. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944, and subsequently attended the University of Minnesota, where he received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1950. After graduating, he obtained a position at Dupont's Jackson Laboratory as a research chemist. In 1951, working with Robert Parr and John Pople, they developed the Pariser-Parr-Pople method, an innovative theory that was useful in predicting the physical and chemical nature of a molecule. Pariser later became interested in polymer science, and oversaw many new products developed at Dupont. He retired from Dupont in 1989 and continued working as a consultant and as president of Pariser & Co., Inc.

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1071647~S6

This collection contains photographs of Rudolph Pariser individually, in group settings, and with his colleagues Robert Parr & John Pople, with whom he created the Pariser-Parr-Pople Method. Group portraits from a Quantum Mechanics Conference in Austin (1955), the IBM Technical Computing Service 701 Course in NY (1953) and the Physical Chemistry Department at the University of Minnesota (1946) all include a key and list of participants. Several of the photographs of Pariser are presumed to have been taken at Dupont's Jackson Laboratory in New Jersey, where Pariser worked for many years.