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038.001
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Science History Institute Archives
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16.0 linear feet (64 boxes)
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English, German, and French
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Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Papers of Seymour Meyerson, 1910-2016, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1910-2016 (inclusive) and 1947-1997 (inclusive)
Creator:
Meyerson, Seymour
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Archival materials
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Research files, professional files, correspondence, reports, and publications of American analytical chemist and historian of mass spectrometry Seymour Meyerson.

Seymour Meyerson Seymour Meyerson (1916-2016) was an American analytical chemist and a noted authority on mass spectrometry. Born in Chicago, Illinois on May 28, 1916, Meyerson received his S.B. degree in Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1938. After earning his undergraduate degree, he took additional courses in a variety of disciplines at the University of Chicago and George Williams College.

After a brief stint as a chemist at Deavitt Laboratories in Chicago (1941-1942), Meyerson went to work as a civilian inspector for the United States Army at the Kankakee Ordnance Works in Joliet, Illinois. In 1943, he volunteered for the United States military, where he served in the Army Signal Corps and the Army Corps of Engineers, Manhattan Engineer District. While with the Corps of Engineers, Meyerson served as technical liaison officer between the Manhattan Engineer District and Standard Oil Company (Indiana). During his military service, he took graduate course in physics, organic chemistry, and thermodynamics. He also received training in electronics and gained his formative experience with the mass spectrometer.

In 1946, Meyerson went to work for Standard Oil Company (Indiana), where he enjoyed a distinguished thirty-eight year career. At Standard Oil of Indiana, he became a noted authority on mass spectrometry. Initially serving as a chemist in the firm's Research and Development Department, Meyerson was involved from the outset with the company's mass spectrometry group, conducting quantitative gas analysis on gases and low boiling liquids, consisting of hydrocarbons and fixed gases. When conducting his research, he was a frequent user of instruments manufactured by Consolidated Engineering Corporation (C.E.C.).

Over the course of his career with Standard Oil of Indiana, Meyerson rose through the firm's research hierarchy, which included serving as Research Associate (1962-1972), Senior Research Associate (1972-1980) and Research Consultant (1980-1984). He retired from Standard Oil of Indiana in 1984. His stature as an authority on mass spectrometry led to his retirement career as a historian of the early days of this technology, especially as it related to the petroleum industry.

Seymour Meyerson was an active member of several professional organizations, including the American Chemical Society's Division of Petroleum Chemistry and the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM). As a member of the ASTM's Committee E-14, Subcommittee X, he was involved in proposing a list of acceptable definitions in mass spectrometry to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). He was also the author of numerous papers, articles, and book chapters.

Seymour Meyerson passed away on May 28, 2016.

Standard Oil Company (Indiana)/Amoco Standard Oil Company (Indiana), also called Amoco (American Oil Company), was an American oil company. Founded in 1889 around an oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana, it was originally part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust. The firm originally refined crude oil into axle grease, paraffin, and kerosene. The company grew rapidly and became a leading supplier of kerosene in the American Midwest by the early 1900s. In 1910, due to the rapid growth of automobile ownership in the United States, Standard Oil of Indiana started to specialize in the refining of crude oil into gasoline for automotive uses.

When the Standard Oil Trust was broken up in 1911, Standard Oil of Indiana became an independent concern with an assigned market in the American Midwest. The company continued to grow. In 1925, Standard Oil of Indiana purchased Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company, which owned a half interest in American Oil Company, a Baltimore, Maryland based oil firm founded in 1910 by Louis and Jacob Blaustein. This acquisition marked the beginning of Standard Oil of Indiana's long association with the Amoco brand name. In 1931, Standard Oil of Indiana expanded its operations to include exploration and production when it founded Stanolind.

Standard Oil of Indiana was responsible for a number of innovations. The company opened its first drive-in filling station in 1912. Company scientist William Burton was awarded a patent for a process called thermal cracking, which doubled the amount of gasoline that could be made from crude oil. The company also bucked the tide toward leaded gasoline by marketing its lead-free Amoco Super-Premium fuel. During World War II, Standard Oil of Indiana contributed to the American war effort by producing aviation fuel and land fuels, and by developing new methods of oil refinement. In 1948, the firm invented Hydrafrac (also known as fracking), a well fracturing method that increased oil production worldwide. Standard Oil of Indiana was also a pioneer in offshore oil drilling.

Following World War II, Standard Oil of Indiana continued to grow and evolve. During the 1970s, the firm phased in the Amoco name throughout its sales territory. Standard Oil of Indiana formally changed its name to Amoco Corporation in 1985.

In 1998, Amoco Corporation merged with British Petroleum (also called BP) to form BP Amoco. The firm's service stations in the United States were rebranded as BP. For several years, the only trace of the Amoco brand was its use for Amoco Ultimate gasoline. In 2017, BP Amoco relaunched the Amoco brand by opening new Amoco service stations in the United States.

Sources

Internet Archive Wayback Machine - History of Amoco - history of bp|history of Amoco|about bp|bp.com (archive.org)

Obituary of Seymour Meyerson - Seymour Meyerson Obituary (1916 - 2016) - Asheville Citizen-Times (legacy.com)

Oral History Interview with Seymour Meyerson, Science History Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - meyerson_s_0398_suppl_0.pdf (sciencehistory.org)

Papers of Seymour Meyerson, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Yergin, Daniel, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

The Papers of Seymour Meyerson contain the personal papers of American analytical chemist and historian of mass spectrometry Seymour Meyerson. The contents of this collection document Meyerson's professional career at Standard Oil Company (Indiana) and his retirement career as a historian of mass spectrometry. The files in this collection also document the early use of mass spectrometry in the petroleum industry.

The Papers of Seymour Meyerson are arranged into the following six series:

  1. Mass Spectrometry
  2. Meeting Notes
  3. Professional Life
  4. Publications
  5. Supplementary Files
  6. Addenda to the Collection

The Papers of Seymour Meyerson were donated to the Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation) in two accretions: by Seymour Meyerson in July 2008 and by Sheella Mierson in June 2016.

The Papers of Seymour Meyerson were processed by Andrew Mangravite in October 2016.

The Photographs from the Papers of Seymour Meyerson are preserved at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Oral History Interview with Seymour Meyerson is preserved at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

There are four related archival collections preserved at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

  1. Papers of Charles M. Judson
  2. Papers of Walter Slavin
  3. Abraham Savitzky Papers
  4. Chemical Heritage Foundation Instrumentation Manual Collection

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Finding aid created by Andrew Mangravite and encoded into EAD by Kenton G. Jaehnig.
Finding Aid Date
2016
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Collection Inventory

Series Description

This series contains Seymour Meyerson's Mass Spectrometry files. Its contents consist of materials pertaining to mass spectrometry collected by Meyerson while working at Standard Oil Company (Indiana) and during his retirement career as a historian of mass spectrometry. Some of the files in this series shed light on the early days of mass spectrometry. The Mass Spectrometry files are arranged into the following seven sub-series:

  1. Miscellaneous Mass Spectrometry Files
  2. American Society for Testing Materials (ATSM)
  3. American Chemical Society (ACS)/Other Organizations
  4. Reprint Files by Topic
  5. Mass Spectrometry Correspondence
  6. Mass Spectrometry Research Files by Author
  7. Mass Spectrometry Research Files by Topic
Sub-series Description

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series contains miscellaneous files pertaining to mass spectrometry collected by Seymour Meyerson. The contents of these files consist of correspondence, trade ads, technical ads, notes, meeting minutes, and bibliographies.

Quads; Mass Spectrometer Companies other than in Mass Spectrometry Group - correspondence, consultant notes, technical ads from various manufacturers, some with Seymour Meyerson's comments attached, 1980-1983.
Box 1 Folder 1
VG Instruments - correspondence, trade ads, technical ads, 1977, 1981.
Box 1 Folder 2
Mass Spectrometry 30 & 50 - trade ads and correspondence re: service agreements with Kratos, AEI, and others, 1976-1981.
Box 1 Folder 3
Organic Mass Spectrometry - Correspondence, re: Organic Mass Spectrometry: An International Journal, of which Seymour Meyerson was a member of the original Editorial Advisory Board (Meyerson's term on the Board expired in 1987.), 1967-1999.
Box 1 Folder 4
Mass Spectrometry Reviews - correspondence, meeting minutes, etc. (Seymour Meyerson served as a member of this publication's Advisory Board), 1980-1987.
Box 1 Folder 5
Mass Spectrometry - Surveys and Reviews - two early mass spectrometry bibliographies, 1952, 1953.
Box 1 Folder 6
Sub-series Description

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series contains Seymour Meyerson's American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) files. These files provide some documentation of Meyerson's activities with the ASTM, including his involvement with the organization's Committee E-14. The contents of these files consist of correspondence, minutes, announcements, newsletters, memoranda, articles, and a membership handbook.

American Society for Testing Materials - minutes, announcements, and correspondence, 1968-1979.
Box 2 Folder 1
American Society for Testing Materials - The Spectaker - assorted issues - 1983-1999/newsletters from the Chicago Section - 1985-1991/correspondence re: Seymour Meyerson's status as an emeritus member, 1983-1999.
Box 2 Folder 2
American Society for Testing Materials - Committee E-14 - meeting memoranda, 1948-1960.
Box 2 Folder 3
American Society for Testing Materials - Committee E-14 - correspondence, minutes, articles, and announcements (Folder 1 of 2.), 1956, 1959-1990.
Box 2 Folder 4
American Society for Testing Materials - Committee E-14 (Folder 2 of 2.), 1956, 1959-1990.
Box 2 Folder 5
American Society for Testing Materials - Committee E-14 - Membership Handbook (ring binder), 1972.
Box 2 Folder 6
Sub-series Description

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series contains Seymour Meyerson's files pertaining to the American Chemical Society (ACS) and a few other professional organizations, including the Madison-Chicago-Milwaukee Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group. Materials generated by the ACS Division of Petroleum Chemistry, consisting of newsletters and annual reports, make up the largest component of this sub-series. Materials generated by other professional organizations, consisting of newsletters, correspondence, conference announcements, and reprints are preserved here as well.

American Chemical Society Division of Petroleum Chemistry Newsletters (Folder 1 of 2.), 1984-2001.
Box 3 Folder 1
American Chemical Society Division of Petroleum Chemistry Newsletters (Folder 2 of 2.), 1984-2001.
Box 3 Folder 2
American Chemical Society Division of Petroleum Chemistry Annual Reports, 1987-1996.
Box 3 Folder 3
Madison-Chicago-Milwaukee Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group (This was an informal get-together of mass spectrometry specialists working in the Madison-Chicago-Milwaukee area.) - newsletters, 1984-1986.
Box 3 Folder 4
Other Organizations (Includes American Chemical Society Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry.) - correspondence and conference announcements, 1957-1991.
Box 3 Folder 5
Miscellaneous Analytical Chemistry - Post May 1984 - includes material by Seymour Meyerson and reprints by others, 1984-2002.
Box 3 Folder 6
Sub-series Description

Arranged alphabetically by topic, this sub-series contains reprint files collected by Seymour Meyerson. The files in this sub-series concern individual research topics that were of interest to Meyerson. Article reprints make up the bulk of the materials in this sub-series. Smaller amounts of accompanying materials, including correspondence, notes, tables, reports, and syllabi are preserved here as well.

Broad Fundamental Aspects of Chemistry - 33 reprints, mostly on isotopes and atomic weights, 1955-1985.
Box 4 Folder 1
Carbenes and Arynes - 18 reprints by various authors, 1944-1981.
Box 4 Folder 2
Catenanes - 2 reprints, 1970, 1977.
Box 4 Folder 3
Common Contaminants/Artifacts - 6 reprints, 1985-1993.
Box 4 Folder 4
Cyclopropyl Derivatives - notes and readings - 1958-1959/4 reprints - 1969-1979 (Includes one by Carl Djerassi.), 1958-1979.
Box 4 Folder 5
Double-Bond Location, Related Syntheses and Labeling - 21 reprints, 1959-1981.
Box 4 Folder 6
Emission Spectra of Organic Compounds - Emissions - 16 reprints, tables, and notes, 1912-1976.
Box 4 Folder 7
Emission Spectra of Organic Compounds - Porter - correspondence and 3 reprints, 2 by George Porter, 1957-1959.
Box 4 Folder 8
Emission Spectra of Organic Compounds - V Spectra - correspondence, notes, and reprints (Folder 1 of 2.), 1910-1972.
Box 5 Folder 1
Emission Spectra of Organic Compounds - V Spectra (Folder 2 of 2.), 1910-1972.
Box 5 Folder 2
Hot Atom Chemistry - correspondence and reprints, 1960-1978.
Box 5 Folder 3
IPs, Electronic Structures - Ionization Potentials/Measurements and Correlations - 18 reprints, 1951-1972, undated.
Box 5 Folder 4
IPs, Electronic Structures - Electron Impact Spectroscopy (Work with J.H. McMechan; correspondence with R.I. Reed.), 1960.
Box 5 Folder 5
IPs, Electronic Structures-Bond Strengths and Distances/Conjugations and Resonances - 3 reprints, 1948-1966.
Box 5 Folder 6
Isotope Correction Factors - tables of data (In a binder.), 1957.
Box 6 Folder 1
Mass Spectrometry - Kinetic Interpretations - Kinetics - Thermodynamics - Isotope Effects - correspondence and 7 reprints, 1953-1982.
Box 6 Folder 2
Mass Spectrometry - Kinetic Interpretations - Morrison - notes and 7 reprints, 1952-1962.
Box 6 Folder 3
Mass Spectrometry - Kinetic Interpretations - Measurement of Appearance Potentials - 14 reprints, 1948-1965.
Box 6 Folder 4
Mass Spectrometry - Kinetic Interpretations - X.S. Energy, Unstable Peaks, Q.E.T. - 1 reprint, 1957.
Box 6 Folder 5
Mass Spectrometry - Kinetic Interpretations - Electronic Structures - Correlations - correspondence, 4 reprints, 1957-1961.
Box 6 Folder 6
Organic Chemistry - Mechanisms and Structures - correspondence and 21 reprints, 1955-1981.
Box 6 Folder 7
Origins of Petroleum - 12 reprints, 1959-1989.
Box 6 Folder 8
Photochemistry - 3 reprints, 1954-1969.
Box 6 Folder 9
Polywater - 17 reprints, 1969-1994.
Box 6 Folder 10
General Note

Not exactly a hoax, polywater or "super water" was an example of basic research gone awry resulting in a "product" that, as Joel Hildebrand remarked, was "hard to swallow."

Pyrolysis - Nitrobenzene from Nitric Acid Pyrolysis - correspondence, lab notes, and 3 reprints (Includes one by Ellis K. Fields and Seymour Meyerson.), 1967-1974.
Box 6 Folder 11
Radiation Chemistry - 28 reprints (Folder 1 of 2.), 1953-1976.
Box 7 Folder 1
Radiation Chemistry - 28 reprints (Includes notes taken at a 1957 Gordon Research Conference on Radiation Chemistry.) (Folder 2 of 2.), 1953-1976.
Box 7 Folder 2
Review of Modern Physics/Table of Isotopes - 3 reprints, includes Seaborg's "Table of Isotopes", 1944, 1953, undated.
Box 7 Folder 3
Stable Tracer Studies, Including Mass Spectrometry Techniques - 10 reprints and reports, 1950-1981.
Box 7 Folder 4
Sulfur Compounds, Including Mass Spectrometry - 13 reprints, 1952-1994.
Box 7 Folder 5
Norbornane - lab notes (1961-1968) and 37 reprints, 1953-1995.
Box 7b Folder 1
Lecture Series on the Nuclear Atom - University of Chicago, 1944.
Box 7b Folder 2
Syllabus for Advanced Organic Chemistry - University of Chicago, 1946.
Box 7b Folder 3
RSSR Addition to Olefins - 69 reprints, some with reader's notes and material gathered for a Seymour Meyerson paper on olefins, 1948-1986.
Box 7c Folder 1
Sulfones - reprints, notes, correspondence, undated.
Box 7d Folder 1
Wide-Range Structural Correlations - 35 reprints, 1957-1990.
Box 7e Folder 1
Sub-series Description

Arranged chronologically by year, this sub-series contains Seymour Meyerson's correspondence pertaining to mass spectrometry. Created between 1954 and 1980, these files were generated during Meyerson's career with Standard Oil Company (Indiana). The contents of these files consist mainly of correspondence. Lab notes, preprints, and reports concerning chemical analyses are preserved here as well.

Mass Spectrometry Correspondence, 1954-1960.
Box 8 Folder 1
Mass Spectrometry Correspondence, 1961-1964.
Box 8 Folder 2
Mass Spectrometry Correspondence, 1965.
Box 8 Folder 3
Mass Spectrometry Correspondence, 1966-1980.
Box 8 Folder 4
Sub-series Description

Arranged alphabetically by author, this sub-series contains mass spectrometry research files collected and maintained by Seymour Meyerson. The files in this sub-series represent mass spectrometry research conducted by other scientists that was of interest to Meyerson. The files are identified by the last name of the primary author only. Some of the files also contain reprints by authors other than the main one, whose works were either commented upon by Meyerson or served as an inspiration to him.

Article reprints and correspondence are the most common materials found in this sub-series. Small amounts of data, articles, notes, and a Ph.D. dissertation are preserved here as well.

Aizenshtat, Z. - 32 reprints by Aizenshtat and others (Folder 1 of 2.), 1970-1989.
Box 9 Folder 1a
General Note

Dead Sea Asphalt.

Related Materials

See also Box 31 Folder 1.

Aizenshtat, Z. (Folder 2 of 2.), 1970-1989.
Box 9 Folder 1b
Balaban, A.T. - 28 reprints (Graph Theory), 1960-1993.
Box 9 Folder 2
Randic, M. - "Graph Theory a la Balaban" - 34 reprints, 1975-1983.
Box 9 Folder 3
Beauchamp, J.L. - 2 reprints, data, and correspondence (Photoelectron Spectroscopy), 1983-1984.
Box 9 Folder 4
Benyon, J.H. - 3 reprints by Benyon and 2 by G.R. Lester (Mass Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules), 1958-1985.
Box 9 Folder 5
Black, S. - Origins of Life - reprints by Black and others (Thermodynamics of Evolution), 1953-1988.
Box 9 Folder 6
Bowie, J.H. - 1 reprint (Negative Ions), 1984.
Box 9 Folder 7
Budzikiewicz, H. - 11 reprints in English and German (Structural and Stereochemical Problems), 1984-1988.
Box 9 Folder 8
Campana, J.E. - 3 reprints and 2 magazine articles (Ultra-High Mass Spectrometry), 1984-1985.
Box 9 Folder 9
Chipman, G.R. - Methoxymethyl benzoates - 24 reprints, only 5 by Chipman, 1967-1991.
Box 9 Folder 10
Derrick, P.J. - 22 reprints (Reaction Kinetics), 1972-1986.
Box 9 Folder 11
Dibeller, V.H. and F.L. Mohler - 2 reprints (Ionization of Hydrocarbons), 1950, 1954.
Box 9 Folder 12
Dougherty, R.C. - correspondence and 2 reprints (Perturbation Molecular Orbital Method), 1968, 1973.
Box 9 Folder 13
Eisenbraun, E.J. - correspondence and 6 reprints (Molecular Sieves), 1958-1969.
Box 9 Folder 14
Field, F.H., J.L. Franklin, and F.W. Lampe - 1 reprint, Lampe is listed as primary author (Cross Sections for Ionization by Electrons), 1957.
Box 9 Folder 15
Foster, N.G. - correspondence, data, and 9 reprints (Various), 1950-1987.
Box 9 Folder 16
Gillis, R.G. -, Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry, 1988 - correspondence and 6 reprints, 1966-1991.
Box 10 Folder 1
Goldenfeld, I. - correspondence and 7 reprints (Field-Ionization; The Plyusch Affair - Dissidents Confined to Psychiatric Wards), 1975-1986.
Box 10 Folder 2
Goldenfeld Visit - August 1983 - correspondence and 10 reprints (Field Ionization), 1983-1984.
Box 10 Folder 3
Green, M.M. - correspondence and 26 reprints (EIMS and Thermal Reactions) (Folder 1 of 2.), 1973-1989.
Box 10 Folder 4a
Green, M.M. (Folder 2 of 2.), 1973-1989.
Box 10 Folder 4b
Gross, M. - 5 reprints, includes one dealing with Agent Orange use in Vietnam, 1985-1986.
Box 10 Folder 5
Grutzmacher, H. - F. and D. Kuck - 20 reprints, including a bound copy of Kuck's Ph.D. dissertation (in German) (Electron Impact Fragmentation), 1976-1986.
Box 10 Folder 6
Related Materials

See also Box 10 Folder 13.

Gur'ev, M.V. - 3 reprints and notes by Seymour Meyerson (Electron Impact; Large Molecules), 1958-1964.
Box 10 Folder 7
Hanus, V. and Z. Dolejsek - correspondence and 25 reprints, 1959-1996.
Box 10 Folder 8
Harrison, A.G. - 7 reprints (Stereochemistry; Charge Exchange Mass Spectrometry), 1984-1987.
Box 10 Folder 9
Related Materials

See also Box 10 Folder 16.

Haynes, J.M. - correspondence and 10 reprints (Isotopic Measurements), 1983-1984.
Box 10 Folder 10
Henchman, M. - correspondence and 4 reprints (High Temperature Plasma Chemical Effects), 1983-1985.
Box 10 Folder 11
Kenttamaa, H. - correspondence and 6 reprints (Gas Phase Reactions), 1984-1986.
Box 10 Folder 12
Kuck, D. - correspondence and 18 reprints (Proton Exchange), 1984-1991.
Box 10 Folder 13
Related Materials

See also Box 10 Folder 6.

Lattimer, R.P. - 1 reprint (Analysis of Additives in Polymers), 1985.
Box 10 Folder 14
Lindholm, E. - correspondence and 18 reprints (Molecular Orbitals), 1967-1990.
Box 10 Folder 15
Lossing, F.P. and A.G. Harrison - correspondence and 25 reprints (Free Radical), 1956-1984.
Box 10 Folder 16
Related Materials

See also Box 10 Folder 9.

Mandelbaum, A. - 3 reprints (Stereochemistry and Mass Spectrometry), 1975-1987.
Box 11 Folder 1
McEwen, C.N. - 2 reprints (Radicals in Analytical Mass Spectrometry; Organic Salts), 1985, 1987.
Box 11 Folder 2
McLafferty, F.W. - 4 reprints (Neutralization-Reionization Mass Spectrometry), 1982-1986.
Box 11 Folder 3
McLuckey, S.A. and D.H. Smith - correspondence and 5 reprints (Radiohaloes), 1987.
Box 11 Folder 4
Milliet, A. and H.E. Audier - 31 reprints, most in French (Isomerization and Fragmentation), 1980-1984.
Box 11 Folder 5
Morrison, J. - Correspondence (2 letters.), 1984, 1991.
Box 11 Folder 6
Morton, T.H. - correspondence and 3 reprints, 1982-1984.
Box 11 Folder 7
Nibbering, N.M.M. - correspondence and 26 reprints (Reaction Studies), 1973-1993.
Box 11 Folder 8
Nibbering, N.M.M. - FOM Pyrolysis Mass Spectrometry - correspondence and 10 reprints, 1976-1977.
Box 11 Folder 9
Page, F.M. - correspondence and 3 reprints (Negative Ions), 1960-1966.
Box 11 Folder 10
Pauls, R. - Styrene Inhibition - correspondence and 3 reprints, 1982-1987.
Box 11 Folder 11
Pihlaja, K. and J. Jalonen - correspondence and 10 reprints (Fragmentation), 1971-1989.
Box 11 Folder 12
Platzman, R.L. - 16 reprints (Ionization; Radiation Chemistry), 1952-1962.
Box 11 Folder 13
Reed, R.I. - 4 reprints (Electron Impact Methods), 1956-1959.
Box 11 Folder 14
Ryhage, R. and S. Stenhagen - 4 reprints, 1958-1968.
Box 11 Folder 15
Schulten, H.R. - 7 reprints (Medicinal Chemistry), 1980-1985.
Box 11 Folder 16
Schwarz, H. - 1 reprint (Ionization), 1984.
Box 11 Folder 17
Spiteller, G. - correspondence and 1 reprint (Soft Ionization Methods), 1984, 1986.
Box 11 Folder 18
Stevenson, D.P. - 17 reprints (Ionization Cross-Sections), 1950-1983.
Box 11 Folder 19
Teeter, R.M (High Resolution Mass Spectrometry) - 1 reprint, 1984.
Box 11 Folder 20
Turecek, F. and J.S. Splitter - correspondence and 7 reprints (Organic Stereochemistry) (Includes reprints by Carl Djerassi and Melvin Calvin.), 1979-1984.
Box 11 Folder 21
Virtanen, P.O.I. - correspondence and 3 reprints (Cation-Anion Combination Reactions), 1971-1979.
Box 11 Folder 22
Wahrhaftig, A.L. - correspondence and 6 reprints (Electron Bombardment) (Includes two reprints by Henry Eyring.), 1956-1964.
Box 11 Folder 23
Williams, D.L. - 3 reprints (Bio-Active Molecules), 1970-1984.
Box 11 Folder 24
Zaretskii, Z. - correspondence and 1 reprint (Stereochemistry of Steroids), 1984.
Box 11 Folder 25
Sub-series Description

Arranged in its original order by topic, this sub-series contains mass spectrometry research files collected and maintained by Seymour Meyerson. The files in this sub-series represent research topics that were of personal interest to Meyerson and attracted his attention as an editor. Authors represented in these files include Henry Eyring on Quasi-Equilibrium Theory, Robert S. Mulliken, Einar Lindholm, Charles Coulson, John D. Bartlett, Robert Burns Woodward, M.J.S. Dewarr, Per-Olav Lowden, and John Shorter.

Article reprints make up the bulk of the materials found in this sub-series. Small amounts of notes, tables, and a flyer are preserved here as well.

Quasi-Equilibrium Theory-1 - 12 reprints by Eyring, M.B. Wallenstein, and others, 1951-1982.
Box 12 Folder 1
Quasi-Equilibrium Theory-2 - 7 reprints by Mulliken, Lindholm, and others, 1956-1990.
Box 12 Folder 2
Theoretical Chemistry-1 - 17 reprints by Mulliken, Shorter, and others, 1963-1979.
Box 12 Folder 3
Theoretical Chemistry-2 - 22 reprints by Mulliken, Lowdin, Woodward, Hoffmann, and others, 1953-1969.
Box 12 Folder 4
Theoretical - Dewar - 16 reprints by M.J.S. Dewar and others, 1951-1971.
Box 12 Folder 5
Theoretical - Material Relevant to Dewar's Course - 21 reprints by Dewar, Bartlett, Coulson, J.R. Platt, and others, 1947-1977.
Box 12 Folder 6
Seymour Meyerson - Notes on Dewar's Course - Spring 1962, 1962.
Box 12 Folder 7
American Chemical Society Short Courses - "Molecular Orbital Theory in Organic Chemistry" and "Reprints and Tables - Molecular Orbital Theory in Organic Chemistry", 1966.
Box 12 Folder 8
The Quadrupole Quintessence, a publication of Amoco Production Company, Nos. 1-12, 1983-1988.
Box 12 Folder 9
General Note

"The Quadrupole Quintessence (otherwise known as QQ) is a flier transmitting unexpected or unusual items of general interest we have turned up during our routine analysis of samples with the gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (gc/ms)."

Series Description

Arranged in its original order (mostly chronological), this series contains Seymour Meyerson's Meeting Notes files. The files in this series provide documentation of the professional meetings Meyer attended over the course of his career. Of special interest are the notes taken by Meyerson at the Gordon Research Conferences he attended, as these were all strictly "off the books".

The contents of these files consist mainly of handwritten notes and typewritten summaries by Meyerson. A variety of other meeting materials, including programs, mimeographed handouts, and black and white photographs of lecture slides taken by Meyerson are preserved in this series as well.

Consolidated Engineering Corporation Mass Spectrometry Meeting - Mass Spectrometer Group Meeting, Jung Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 17-19, 1950, 1950.
Box 13 Folder 1
General Note

Re: C.E.C. 21-103 Mass Spectrometer; contributors include H. Wiley, S.M. Rock (C.E.C.), and Seymour Meyerson (Standard Oil of Indiana). Includes hand-outs, notes, and photographs of lecture slides.

Pittsburgh Analytical Conference, March 1952 - programs, correspondence, notes, and photographs of lecture slides, 1952.
Box 13 Folder 2
General Note

Third Conference - includes Agenda for Organization Meeting of Committee E-14 on Mass Spectrometry.

American Society for Testing Materials E-14 Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 1954 (Second Meeting), 1954.
Box 13 Folder 3
American Society for Testing Materials E-14 1955 (Third Meeting), 1955.
Box 13 Folder 4
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Cincinnati, Ohio, May-June 1956 (Fourth Meeting), 1956.
Box 13 Folder 5
Meetings, U.S.A., 1948-1987.
Box 13a Folder 1
Memos on Trips Abroad, 1961-1989.
Box 13a Folder 2
American Chemical Society (ACS) Meeting, Miami, Florida, April 1957, 1957.
Box 14 Folder 1
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, New York, New York, May 20-24, 1957 (Fifth Meeting), 1957.
Box 14 Folder 2
Gordon Conference on Radiation Chemistry, July 1957, 1957.
Box 14 Folder 3
American Chemical Society Meeting, New York, New York, September 1957, 1957.
Box 14 Folder 4
Michigan Trip - Local American Chemical Society Section, October 14-18, 1957, 1957.
Box 14 Folder 5
American Society for Testing Materials E-14 1958, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1958 (Sixth Meeting), 1958.
Box 14 Folder 6
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Los Angeles, California, May 18-22, 1959, 1959.
Box 15 Folder 1
Bartlett, Paul D. - Lectures for the Research & Development Department of Standard Oil, 1959 June.
Box 15 Folder 2
American Petroleum Institute 48-52 (American Petroleum Institute - Research Projects 48 and 52.), Laramie, Wyoming, 1959 August.
Box 15 Folder 3
American Chemical Society Mass Spectrometry Symposium, Fall 1959 - correspondence and typed manuscript of talks presented, 1958-1959.
Box 15 Folder 4
American Chemical Society Meeting, Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 1959, 1959.
Box 15 Folder 5
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 26-July 1, 1960, 1960.
Box 16 Folder 1
Gordon Conference on Analytical Chemistry, August 15-19, 1960, 1960.
Box 16 Folder 2
University of Chicago Sponsors' Meeting 1960-1961 (Includes short digests of research being done at the University of Chicago and some presentation hand-outs.), 1960-1961.
Box 16 Folder 3
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Chicago, Illinois, June 4-9, 1961, 1961.
Box 16 Folder 4
European Trip and Oxford Mass Spectrometry Conference, September 11-15, 1961, 1961.
Box 16 Folder 5
General Note

Seymour Meyerson, representing Standard Oil of Indiana's Research & Development Department, visited sixteen labs in six countries, collecting useful information and holding technical discussions with colleagues.

Eastern Analytical Symposium and Visit to Esso Research & Development, 1961 November.
Box 16 Folder 6
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 3-8, 1962, 1962.
Box 16 Folder 7
Gordon Conference on Radiation Chemistry, July 16-20, 1962, 1962.
Box 16 Folder 8
American Chemical Society Symposium on Mass Spectrometry, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 7-10, 1963 ("Unimolecular Reactions in the Mass Spectrometer"), 1963.
Box 17 Folder 1
Gordon Conference on Organic Chemistry, July 21-26, 1963, 1963.
Box 17 Folder 2
University of Chicago Industrial Sponsors' Meeting, 1964 February.
Box 17 Folder 3
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 7-12, 1964, 1964.
Box 17 Folder 4
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, St. Louis, Missouri, May 16-21, 1965, 1965.
Box 17 Folder 5
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Dallas, Texas, May 22-26, 1966, 1966.
Box 17 Folder 6
Great Lakes Regional American Chemical Society Meeting, June 16-17, 1966, 1966.
Box 17 Folder 7
American Chemical Society 152nd National Meeting, New York, New York, September 11-16, 1966, 1966.
Box 17 Folder 8
Field Emission Visit to Esso, September 16, 1966 (Notes and typed memo discussing visit.), 1966.
Box 17 Folder 9
Consolidated Engineering Corporation 3-Day Course, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2-4, 1967 (Typed memo; Seymour Meyerson was a guest lecturer.), 1967.
Box 18 Folder 1
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Denver, Colorado, May 14-19, 1967, 1967.
Box 18 Folder 2
154th Annual American Chemical Society Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, September 1967 (Typed memo; sales literature on EAI 160 Quad; Varian M-66.), 1967.
Box 18 Folder 3
155th National Meeting, American Chemical Society, San Francisco, California, March 31-April 5, 1968, 1968.
Box 18 Folder 4
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 12-17, 1968 (JEOL JMS-01S and JEOL JMC-1A Comparator.), 1968.
Box 18 Folder 5
3rd Isotopes Applications Conference, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, April 28-30, 1969, 1969.
Box 18 Folder 6
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Dallas, Texas, May 18-23, 1969, 1969.
Box 18 Folder 7
159th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Houston, Texas (Gel-Permeation Chromatography; Hetero-Compounds in Petroleum), 1970.
Box 19 Folder 1
5th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Brussels, Belgium, August 31-September 4, 1970, 1970.
Box 19 Folder 2
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2-7, 1971, 1971.
Box 19 Folder 3
Notre Dame Conference on Elementary Processes in Radiation Chemistry, April 4-7, 1972 (Seymour Meyerson presented a paper at this conference.), 1972.
Box 19 Folder 4
American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Dallas, Texas, June 4-9, 1972 (TRC Data Project), 1972.
Box 19 Folder 5
Related Materials

See also Box 26 Folder 2.

Triennial Mass Spectrometry Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 10-14, 1973, 1973.
Box 19 Folder 6
American Society for Mass Spectrometry/American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 19-24, 1974, 1974.
Box 20 Folder 1
American Society for Mass Spectrometry 23rd Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Houston, Texas, May 25-30, 1975, 1975.
Box 20 Folder 2
American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 24th Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry, San Diego, California, May 9-14, 1976, 1976.
Box 20 Folder 3
7th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Florence, Italy, August 30-September 3, 1976 (Folder 1 of 2.), 1976.
Box 20 Folder 4
Florence, etc. (Includes programs and preprints.) (Folder 2 of 2.), 1976.
Box 20 Folder 5
American Society for Mass Spectrometry 25th Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Washington, D.C., May 29-June 3, 1977 (Kratos MS25), 1977.
Box 21 Folder 1
American Chemical Society, Anaheim, California, March 12-17, 1978 (Search for a viable replacement for the C.E.C. 21-100 Series.), 1978.
Box 21 Folder 2
American Society for Mass Spectrometry 26th Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry, St. Louis, Missouri, May 28-June 2, 1978 (Includes program for Kratos, Incorporated Organic Mass Spectrometry Users Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, May 26-27.) (Folder 1 of 2.), 1978.
Box 21 Folder 3
St. Louis (Folder 2 of 2.), 1978.
Box 21 Folder 4
American Society for Mass Spectrometry 27th Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Seattle, Washington, June 3-8, 1979 (Seymour Meyerson did not attend.), 1979.
Box 22 Folder 1
Lab Visits in Finland and Sweden (Includes several large reprints.) (Folder 1 of 2.), 1979.
Box 22 Folder 2
Lab Visits (Folder 2 of 2.), 1979.
Box 22 Folder 3
8th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Oslo, Norway, August 12-18, 1979 (VG Micromass 12-812F) (Folder 1 of 2.), 1979.
Box 22 Folder 4
8th International Mass Conference (Folder 2 of 2.), 1979.
Box 22 Folder 5
American Society for Mass Spectrometry 28th Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry, New York City, May 25-30, 1980 (Extranuclear Laboratories Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry), 1980.
Box 23 Folder 1
American Society for Mass Spectrometry 29th Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 24-29, 1981, 1981.
Box 23 Folder 2
1981 International Conference on Phosphorus Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, May 31-June 5, 1981, 1981.
Box 23 Folder 3
American Society for Mass Spectrometry 30th Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 6-11, 1982, 1982.
Box 24 Folder 1
9th International Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Vienna, Austria, August 29-September 3, 1982, 1982.
Box 24 Folder 2
American Society for Mass Spectrometry 31st Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, May 8-13, 1983 (CEC Incorporated Consultants), 1983.
Box 24 Folder 3
3rd Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Lab Visits to Syntex and Chevron, 1983.
Box 24 Folder 4
American Society for Mass Spectrometry 32nd Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, May 27-June 1, 1984, 1984.
Box 25 Folder 1
10th International Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Swansea, Wales, September 9-13, 1985 (Following Seymour Meyerson's retirement from "active duty," the quantity and quality of this conference material declines sharply.), 1985.
Box 25 Folder 2
American Society for Mass Spectrometry 34th Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 8-13, 1986, 1986.
Box 25 Folder 3
American Society for Mass Spectrometry 36th Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, June 5-10, 1988, 1988.
Box 25 Folder 4
Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry and Australian Trip, 1988.
Box 25 Folder 5
11th International Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Bordeaux, France, August 29-September 2, 1988, 1988.
Box 25 Folder 6
Pittsburgh Conference (PITTCON '94), Chicago, Illinois, March 5-10, 1994 (Seymour Meyerson was an Honored Guest at the 1994 James L. Waters Symposium, where he spoke on "The Metamorphosis of Organic Mass Spectrometry from Black Magic to Chemistry."), 1994.
Box 25 Folder 7

Series Description

This series contains Seymour Meyerson's Professional Life files. These files provide documentation of professional projects that Meyerson was personally involved with, which includes his activities as an employee of Standard Oil of Indiana (SOCO), as a member of the American Society for Testing Materials' (ASTM) Committee E-14, Subcommittee X, and as a member of the American Chemical Society's Division of Petroleum Chemistry. The contents of the Professional Life files are arranged into the following nine sub-series:

  1. Work on Terms, Definitions, Nomenclature
  2. Advanced Process Technology Peer Review Materials
  3. Standard Oil of Indiana (SOCO) Contracts and Research Engineering Professional Employees Association (REPEA) Bulletins
  4. Research Consultant Files
  5. Work with Fausto Ramirez
  6. Counseling Sessions, Standard Oil of Indiana (SOCO) Internal Reports
  7. Monthly Summaries
  8. Correspondence
  9. Awards and Nominations
Sub-series Description

Seymour Meyerson was an active member of the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) Committee E-14, Subcommittee X. As a member of this subcommittee, he was involved in proposing a list of acceptable definitions in mass spectrometry to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series documents Meyerson's involvement in the ASTM Committee E-14, Subcommittee X's efforts to develop mass spectrometry definitions for IUPAC. The contents of the files in this sub-series consist of correspondence, reprints, notes, reports, and drafts.

Standard Nomenclature - International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, SI, Wiswesser Line Notation, etc. - reprints (Metric Conversion, IUPAC transfermium elements naming controversy.), 1967-1997.
Box 26 Folder 1
Definitions and Terms - Dallas 1972 - correspondence to and from International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, 1970-1978.
Box 26 Folder 2
General Note

American Society for Testing Materials E-14, Subcommittee X was tasked with making recommendations to IUPAC regarding a proposed list of acceptable definitions in mass spectroscopy. Preliminary meetings were held during the American Society for Mass Spectrometry meeting in Dallas.

Related Materials

See also Box 19 Folder 5.

American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) E-14 Subcommittee 10 on Definitions and Terms - correspondence, notes, progress reports (Folder 1 of 2.), 1973-1975.
Box 26 Folder 3
American Society for Testing Materials E-14 Subcommittee 10 (Folder 2 of 2.), 1973-1975.
Box 26 Folder 4
E-14 Subcommittee X - Definitions and Terms - correspondence, notes, reports, 1970-1973.
Box 27 Folder 1
Definitions and Terms - Work on Odor, Flavor, etc. - correspondence, reprints, and drafts, 1968-1978.
Box 27 Folder 2
Additive Impurities as Source of Odor in Amoco PP, 1978.
Box 27 Folder 3
Sub-series Description

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series contains Seymour Meyerson's files regarding peer review of research conducted on Advanced Process Technology (APT). The contents of these files include background reports.

Advanced Process Technology Peer Review (Folder 1 of 2.), 1984 December.
Box 28 Folder 1
Advanced Process Technology Peer Review (Folder 2 of 2.), 1984 December.
Box 28 Folder 2
Supplementary Materials - Sheladia Peer Review Meeting - Tulsa, Oklahoma, 12/10-14/84, 1984.
Box 28 Folder 3
Lawrence - Berkeley Laboratory Advance Process Technology Background Reports, undated.
Box 28 Folder 4
MEOR Background Reports, undated.
Box 28 Folder 5
Battelle-Pacific Northwest Laboratories Advanced Process Technology Background Reports, undated.
Box 28 Folder 6
University of Oklahoma MEOR Background Reports, undated.
Box 28 Folder 7
Sub-series Description

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series contains Seymour Meyerson's Standard Oil of Indiana (SOCO) contracts and Research Engineering Professional Employees Association Bulletins. The contents of this sub-series consist of SOCO contracts, SOCO compliance certificates, and REPEA Bulletins.

Research Engineering Professional Employees Association (REPEA) Bulletin (and Salary Surveys), 1947-1967.
Box 28b Folder 1
Employment Contracts and Compliance Certificates, 1961-1983.
Box 28b Folder 2
Sub-series Description

While working for Standard Oil of Indiana, Seymour Meyerson served as a research consultant on various projects, especially during the latter stages of his career with the firm.

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series contains Meyerson's research consultant files. The files in this sub-series provide documentation of Meyerson's research consultant work over the course of his career with Standard Oil of Indiana.

The contents of the Research Consultant Files consist of a variety of materials. Correspondence, notes, reprints, and reports are the most common materials found in this sub-series. Smaller, but noticeable, amounts of memoranda, drafts, and data are also present in these files. Small amounts of other miscellaneous materials, including, but not limited to, manuscripts, design schematics, drawings, and printouts are preserved here as well.

Reports on Talks Given, 1956-1966.
Box 29 Folder 1
Reports on Talks Given, 1967-1969.
Box 29 Folder 2
Reports on Talks Given, 1970-1977.
Box 29 Folder 3
Drafts of Oral Presentations, 1957-1960.
Box 29 Folder 4
Lecture Notes, 1958, 1964.
Box 29 Folder 5
Talks Planned - Whiting Research Laboratories of Amoco - Technical Lectures - informational notes on lecture titles and attendance, 1961-1969.
Box 29 Folder 6
Preparation of Pure Carbon Monoxide report for a C.E.C. (Consolidated Engineering Corporation) Users Group meeting and correspondence with Sybil M. Rock, 1948-1949.
Box 30 Folder 1
Magnet Current Switching Circuit - report for C.E.C. Users Group meeting and correspondence with Sybil M. Rock, 1948-1949.
Box 30 Folder 2
Handling of Samples/Sample Introduction - informational notes, memoranda, correspondence, design schematics, and reprints, 1948-1973.
Box 30 Folder 3
Electrical Alterations to C.E.C. 21-103 Mass Spectrometer - report for C.E.C. Users Group meeting and correspondence with Sybil M. Rock and S.F. Micheletti, 1950.
Box 30 Folder 4
Lowering Thresholds of Detection - correspondence with Sybil M. Rock, 1950.
Box 30 Folder 5
General Note

C.E.C. used the report "Electrical Alterations to C.E.C. 21-103 MS" in their symposium "Lowering Thresholds of Detection". Here, Sybil Rocks asks permission to reprint and thanks Seymour Meyerson and the Whiting Laboratories group for their good work.

Modified Sweep Control CKT-Use of Thyrites - production drawings, 1951.
Box 30 Folder 6
General Note

This was another modification made by the Whiting Laboratories to a C.E.C. Mass Spectrometer unit "to provide a reproducible scanning rate".

Computed Matrices - handwritten manuscript, drafts, and correspondence, re: "Computed Calibration Data for Gas Analysis by Mass Spectrometer" and "Gain Control of Mass Spectrometer Amplifier", two papers presented at the 1953 Pittsburgh Conference, 1952-1953.
Box 30 Folder 7
General Note

Includes machine readouts, tables of raw data, and a conference program book.

Butyltoluenes, etc. Ion-Molecule Reactions - two pages of handwritten notes dated 11-30-57 and 6-19-58, 1957, 1958.
Box 30 Folder 8
Memo - data, notes on readings, and two memoranda/reports, 1957, 1959.
Box 30 Folder 9
Methanol Impurity - Trimethyl Borate (B(OCH3)3) - 1972 - informational notes, one monthly progress report, notes of readings, and two reprints, 1957-1979.
Box 30 Folder 10
Deuterated + - Butyltoluenes - correspondence, notes, reprints, abstracts, 1959-1973.
Box 30 Folder 11
Wax Tailings - L.A. Schaap - printouts, notes, and correspondence, 1963-1978.
Box 30 Folder 12
Quarterly Technical Meeting Talk 10-10-68 - "Organic Chemistry in the Mass Spectrometer & the Flask" - typed copy, print-outs of lecture slides, and notes, 1968.
Box 30 Folder 13
Simple Phosphate Esters - Methyl (CH3) & Ethyl (C2H5) - notes on readings, 1976-1991.
Box 30 Folder 14
Doubly Charged Ions - correspondence and reprints, 1979-1991.
Box 30 Folder 15
Hydroxyacids and Lactones - correspondence with and reprints from Z. Aizenshtat, 1980.
Box 31 Folder 1
Related Materials

See also Box 9 Folder 1.

Tandem Mass Spectrometry - report and reprint, 1980.
Box 31 Folder 2
R.E. Pauls: Resolving Components of Chrom. Pk. By Mass Spectrometry - memorandum and notes, 1980-1983.
Box 31 Folder 3
Project 5038 - R.E. Pauls, Factor Analysis and Pattern Recognition - Memoranda, 1981, 1983.
Box 31 Folder 4
FAB, SIMS, LD, PD - correspondence, notes, and memorandum, ("Justification for purchase of fast-atom-bombardment accessory to be added to the VG ZAB-2F mass spectrometer".), 1982.
Box 31 Folder 5
Negative Ions - memorandum and reprint, 1982.
Box 31 Folder 6
Project 4003 - correspondence, memos, progress reports, and a project review report, 1983-1984.
Box 31 Folder 7
General Note

Project 4300 was a 30-year exploratory program "focused on physico-chemical mechanisms underlying mass spectra".

Aryl Dimethyl Phosphate Mass Spectrometry - correspondence and a thesis by Martha Louise Gay, 1975, 1983.
Box 31 Folder 8
Porphyrins - Possible ARP with AO/AP - memorandum, re: Analytical Research Project 59-5008 and Agenda for meeting of Analytical Supervisors, 1984.
Box 31 Folder 9
Related Materials

See also Box 36 Folder 4.

Chain-Structure Detail - correspondence, notes, and reprints, 1984.
Box 31 Folder 10
Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) Problem Papers - miscellaneous reprints (Folder 1 of 2.), 1978-1981.
Box 32 Folder 1
Adenosine Triphosphate Problem Papers (Folder 2 of 2.), 1978-1981.
Box 32 Folder 2
Adenosine Triphosphate Studies - Particularly Pertinent Literature - miscellaneous reprints, 1973-1981.
Box 32 Folder 3
Correspondence between Seymour Meyerson and J.F. Marecek on Adenosine Triphosphate synthesis, 1979-1980.
Box 32 Folder 4
Adenosine Triphosphate Hydrolysis - preprints, drafts, notebook entries, and correspondence between Seymour Meyerson and Fausto Ramirez, re: a co-authored paper (Folder 1 of 3.), 1979-1980.
Box 32 Folder 5
Adenosine Triphosphate Hydrolysis (Folder 2 of 3.), 1979-1980.
Box 32 Folder 6
Adenosine Triphosphate Hydrolysis (Folder 3 of 3.), 1979-1980.
Box 32 Folder 7
Isotropic Analysis for Enzymatic Studies - 18O in TMPO - correspondence and annotated reprints, 1979-1981.
Box 33 Folder 1
Gratis Samples - data and correspondence between Seymour Meyerson and Fausto Ramirez, 1980.
Box 33 Folder 2
Non-Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) - correspondence between Seymour Meyerson and Fausto Ramirez, notes, etc. (Folder 1 of 3.), 1979-1981.
Box 33 Folder 3
Non-Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Adenosine Triphosphate - correspondence between Seymour Meyerson and Fausto Ramirez, notes, drafts of a co-authored paper (Folder 2 of 3.), 1981.
Box 33 Folder 4
Non-Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Adenosine Triphosphate (Folder 3 of 3.), 1979-1981.
Box 33 Folder 5
Haas and Harvan - Phosphoric Acid (H3PO4) and Adenosine - spectra and data, 1983.
Box 34 Folder 1
Haas and Harvan - Phosphate (PO3) Literature, 1983-1987.
Box 34 Folder 2
Haas and Harvan - correspondence, data, etc., 1977-1983.
Box 34 Folder 3
Haas and Harvan - Direct Observation of Phosphoric Acid (H3PO4), 1978-1980.
Box 34 Folder 4
Mass Spectrometry Organophosphorus - miscellaneous reprints annotated by Seymour Meyerson, 1979-1985.
Box 34 Folder 5
Sub-series Description

Fausto Ramirez was a chemist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Seymour Meyerson collaborated with Ramirez on several research projects and co-authored several scientific articles and papers with him.

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series contains files documenting Meyerson's research work with Fausto Ramirez. The contents of these files consist of correspondence, reprints, laboratory notes, papers, and data.

Fausto Ramirez - Trimethyl Phosphate/Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) (Most Pertinent Letters and Papers), 1979-1981.
Box 35 Folder 1
Fausto Ramirez - Tridimethylaminophosphoranes - correspondence and reprints, 1966-1987.
Box 35 Folder 2
Fausto Ramirez - 5-Coordinate P - lab notes, 1974.
Box 35 Folder 3
Fausto Ramirez - Further Work on Reactions of Total Alkali Silica (TAS) with Hydrofluoric Acid (HFA) and Trifluoroacetic Acid (TFA) - reprints and notes, 1967, 1979.
Box 35 Folder 4
Fausto Ramirez - Pyrolysis - correspondence, lab notes, and a reprint, 1966.
Box 35 Folder 5
Fausto Ramirez - Phosphate Esters - correspondence, data, and reprints, 1962-1979.
Box 35 Folder 6
Fausto Ramirez - general correspondence, 1984-1997.
Box 35 Folder 7
Sub-series Description

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series contains Seymour Meyerson's Standard Oil of Indiana counseling session and internal reports files. The contents of this sub-series consist of reports, memoranda, and correspondence.

Company Reports and Memos, re: topics other than mass spectrometry (Includes a report on Standard Oil's war work with boron.), 1954-1974, undated.
Box 36 Folder 1
Company Reports and Memos, re: mass spectrometry (Folder 1 of 2.), 1952-1966.
Box 36 Folder 2a
Company Reports and Memos, re: mass spectrometry (Folder 2 of 2.), 1952-1966.
Box 36 Folder 2b
Counseling Sessions, 1954, 1971-1983.
Box 36 Folder 3
Tulsa - D.L. Dolcater - correspondence and reports (re: Project 59-5008), 1983-1989.
Box 36 Folder 4
Sub-series Description

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series contains Seymour Meyerson's Monthly Summaries files. Its contents consist of monthly summaries and a review with Ed Mason.

Analytical Monthly Summaries, 1983-1984.
Box 37 Folder 1
Monthly Summaries, 1971-1984.
Box 37 Folder 2
ARP Review with Ed Mason 1/28/83, 1983.
Box 37 Folder 3
Sub-series Description

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series contains Seymour Meyerson's professional correspondence. Its contents consist of eight files. Seven of the files contain professional correspondence that does not pertain to analytical chemistry. A single file containing correspondence regarding C-labelled picoline and lutidine is also preserved here.

Professional Correspondence other than Analytical (Folder 1 of 2.), 1952-1968.
Box 38 Folder 1a
Professional Correspondence (Folder 2 of 2.), 1952-1968.
Box 38 Folder 1b
Correspondence other than Analytical (Folder 1 of 3.), 1969-1976.
Box 38 Folder 2a
Correspondence other than Analytical (Folder 2 of 3.), 1969-1976.
Box 38 Folder 2b
Correspondence other than Analytical (Folder 3 of 3.), 1969-1976.
Box 39 Folder 1
Correspondence other than Analytical (Folder 1 of 2.), 1977-1984.
Box 39 Folder 2a
Correspondence other than Analytical (Folder 2 of 2.), 1977-1984.
Box 39 Folder 2b
C-Labeled Picoline and Lutadine - R. Bittman, 1965-1971.
Box 39 Folder 3
Sub-series Description

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series contains Seymour Meyerson's Awards and Nominations files. Two files regarding award nominations for Ellis K. Fields, a former president of the American Chemical Society, former chair of the ACS' Division of Petroleum Chemistry, and an early collaborator with Meyerson, are found in this sub-series. Four files regarding Meyerson being named recipient of the ACS' 1993 Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award are also present here.

The contents of the files in this sub-series consist of correspondence, nominating statements, and announcements.

E.K. Fields Nomination - correspondence and nominating statements, including Field's patent files (Folder 1 of 2.), 1975-1984.
Box 40 Folder 1a
General Note

Ellis K. Fields, former Chair of the American Chemical Society Division of Petroleum Chemistry and President of the American Chemical Society, was a collaborator with Seymour Meyerson on many early papers.

E.K. Fields Nomination (Folder 2 of 2.), 1975-1984.
Box 40 Folder 1b
American Chemical Society 1993 Franklin & Field Award to Seymour Meyerson - Notification and Announcements, 1993.
Box 40 Folder 2
American Chemical Society 1993 Franklin & Field Award - Letters of Congratulations, 1993.
Box 40 Folder 3
American Chemical Society 1993 Franklin & Field Award - Correspondence with Symposia Participants, 1993.
Box 40 Folder 4
American Chemical Society 1993 Franklin & Field Award - Correspondence, re: the Denver Meeting, 1993.
Box 40 Folder 5

Series Description

Arranged in its original order, this series contains Seymour Meyerson's Publications files. The files in this series concern published articles and papers authored by Meyerson over the course of his career. The contents of the Publications files consist of reprints, correspondence, data, and manuscripts.

Working Files for Publications #1-47 (Includes index to Seymour Meyerson publications.), undated.
Box 41 Folder 1-47
Working Files for Publications #48-78, undated.
Box 42 Folder 1-32
Working Files for Publications #79-109, undated.
Box 43 Folder 1-30
Working Files for Publications #110-138, undated.
Box 44 Folder 1-31
Working Files for Publications #139-158, undated.
Box 45 Folder 1-20
Working Files for Publications #159-167, undated.
Box 46 Folder 1-19
Working Files for Publications #168-172, undated.
Box 47 Folder 1-19
Working Files for Publications #173-175 (Includes materials gathered for "Reminiscences of the Early Days of Mass Spectrometry in the Petroleum Industry".), undated.
Box 48 Folder 1-13
Working Files for Publications #176-184 (Includes "Recent Publications by the Staff", Standard Oil of Indiana publication containing abstracts of published work, incomplete run.), 1956, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1967.
Box 49 Folder 1-15
Publications of Seymour Meyerson - Complete Run (#1-184), 1949-1997.
Box 50

Series Description

Arranged in its original order, this series contains Seymour Meyerson's Supplementary Files. The files in this series concern Meyerson's research work in mass spectrometry and supplement the materials preserved in Series I. They tend to contain more raw data than those found in Series I.

The contents of the Supplementary Files consist of a variety of materials. Reprints, notes, and data are the most common materials found in this series. Miscellaneous other materials, including, but not limited to, correspondence, drafts, scans, drawings, and overhead slides are present here as well.

Acetoin Phosphates - Loss of Methylene (CH2) Carbon Monoxide (CO), of Inside Carbon Monoxide, 1979.
Box 51 Folder 1
Acetoin Phosphates - Manuscript of "A Family of Acetoinyl Phosphoesters", 1977-1979.
Box 51 Folder 2
Acetoin Phosphates - Manuscript of "P Compounds and Salts", 1972-1978.
Box 51 Folder 3
Acetoin Phosphates - Phosphomono- , Di-, Triesters, 1979.
Box 51 Folder 4
Acetoin Phosphates - Ethylidene/Ethylene, Carbenes, Labeled Ethane, 1979.
Box 51 Folder 5
Seymour Meyerson - Metaphosphate - correspondence and drafts, 1975-1979.
Box 51 Folder 6
Metaphosphate - working notes/working drafts of manuscript "Alpha-Ketol Salts", 1975-1977.
Box 51 Folder 7
File of Previous Phosphate Papers (Not by Seymour Meyerson.), 1974-1978.
Box 51 Folder 8
Activation and Inhibition in H-MIG'N, 1957-1970.
Box 51 Folder 9
Localized Activation, 1955-1970.
Box 51 Folder 10
5-Phenylpentanol and 6-Phenylhexanol (Includes spectra.), 1966-1977.
Box 51 Folder 11
Diphenyl Methane and Benzene, Bibenzyl, Phenylcycloheptatirene, Tolylarenes, 1953-1966.
Box 51 Folder 12
Trinitrobenzene-1 - reprints by Seymour Meyerson and others, 1945-1971.
Box 51 Folder 13
Trinitrobenzene-2 - reprints, notes, and data, 1967-1971.
Box 51 Folder 14
Trinitrobenzene-3 - reprints and notes, 1965-1971.
Box 51 Folder 15
TM An Esters-1 - reprints and notes, 1951-1972.
Box 51 Folder 16
TM An Esters-2 - reprints and notes, 1968-1975.
Box 51 Folder 17
Long-Chain Trimethylamine (TMA) Esters/Long Distance Reactions - reprints, 1963-1983.
Box 51 Folder 18
Winnik, Breslow, Long-Distance Effects - correspondence, reprints, 1970-1978.
Box 52 Folder 1
Coiling - reprints, data, 1969-1972.
Box 52 Folder 2
MSI LV Octadecyl Benzoates - data and spectra, 1984.
Box 52 Folder 3
Labeled Octadecyl Benzoates - B/E scans - notes and spectra, 1984.
Box 52 Folder 4
Labeled Octadecyl Benzoates - Mike scans, 1982-1989.
Box 52 Folder 5
N-Octadeyl Benzoate 70ev and 12.0ev 250 Degrees Celsius - 8 files (Folder 1 of 2.), 1984.
Box 52 Folder 6
N-Octadeyl Benzoate 70ev and 12.0ev 250 degrees Celsius (Folder 2 of 2.), 1984.
Box 52 Folder 7
Nominal Butyl Ester Ion: Postscript, 1982.
Box 52 Folder 8
Octadecyl Benzoates (from Sullivan), 1978 September 30.
Box 52 Folder 9
Seymour Meyerson Talk - "Origin of Nominal Butyl Ester Ion Chain in the Mass Spectra of Long-Chain n-Alkyl Esters", Standard Oil Physics Section Group Meeting, February 11, 1976 - lecture overheads, 1976.
Box 52 Folder 10
Octadecyl Benzoates - Seymour Meyerson scans - 10 files (Folder 1 of 2.), 1981.
Box 52 Folder 11
Octadecyl Benzoates - Seymour Meyerson scans (Folder 2 of 2.), 1981.
Box 52 Folder 12
Hydroge - Migration Considerations-1 - reprints and notes, 1983.
Box 52 Folder 13
Hydroge - Migration Considerations-2 - reprints and notes, 1983.
Box 52 Folder 14
Hydroge - Migration Considerations-3 - reprints and notes, 1983.
Box 52 Folder 15
Hydrogen Bonding - reprints and notes, 1983.
Box 52 Folder 16
Mass Spectrometry Randomization - olefins and aromatics (Folder 1 of 3.), undated.
Box 53 Folder 1
Mass Spectrometry Randomizations (Folder 2 of 3.), undated.
Box 53 Folder 2
Mass Spectrometry Randomizations (Folder 3 of 3.), undated.
Box 53 Folder 3
More Randomizations - reprints and reviews by Seymour Meyerson (Folder 1 of 2.), 1977-1998.
Box 53 Folder 4
More Randomizations (Folder 2 of 2.), 1973-1975.
Box 53 Folder 5
Benzene - reprints (Folder 1 of 3.), undated.
Box 53 Folder 6
Benzene - reprints (Folder 2 of 3.), undated.
Box 53 Folder 7
Benzene - reprints, correspondence, and data (Folder 3 of 3.), 1962-1986.
Box 53 Folder 8
Mass Spectrometry of Chlorobenzene - reprints and data, 1965-1972.
Box 53 Folder 9
Mass Spectrometry Not Obviously Relevant to the Benzene Problem, 1959-1969.
Box 53 Folder 10
Drawings and Slides - Unsorted Drawings (originals), undated.
Box 54 Folder 1
Drawings and Slides - Butyl Ester Ion, undated.
Box 54 Folder 2
Drawings and Slides - Coiling-Trimellitic Esters (Large format, including data.), undated.
Box 54 Folder 3
Drawings and Slides - Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) Hydrolysis, undated.
Box 54 Folder 4
Drawings and Slides - Trinitrobenzene Slides (Large format.), undated.
Box 54 Folder 5

Series Description

Arranged in its original order, this is an addendum to the collection, which was donated by Sheella Mierson in 2016. The files in this series mainly concern Seymour Meyerson's research work in mass spectrometry and various professional activities. Some biographical materials are also found here.

The contents of the Addenda to the Collection consist of a variety of materials. Correspondence, reprints, and data are the most common materials found in this series. Other miscellaneous materials, including, but not limited to, proposals, manuscripts, papers, scans, and notes are preserved here as well.

Ricinine with Waller and Ryhage - includes reprints, scans, data, and correspondence, 1958-1981.
Box 55 Folder 1
G.R. Waller - Ricinine, Etc. - includes reprints and correspondence, 1958-1977.
Box 55 Folder 2
Flavone - Possible Commun. - includes reprints, correspondence, and data, 1963-1974.
Box 55 Folder 3
Helsinki - Phosphorous Compounds - Hilka Kenttamaa - correspondence, re: study abroad (Includes two Kenttamaa preprints.), 1979-1982.
Box 55 Folder 4
Alkoxyaklkyl Benzoates and TMAn Esters - data and a reprint, 1969, 1979.
Box 55 Folder 5
Norbornane, Norbornene, Norboradiene - correspondence, reprints, and data, 1960-1974.
Box 55 Folder 6
Acetaldehyde - reprints, correspondence, and data, 1963-1982.
Box 55 Folder 7
Benzoyl and Acetyl Compounds - data, undated.
Box 55 Folder 8
C-C Coupling by C6, Cl6, and UV Irradiation - correspondence and reprints, 1972-1980.
Box 55 Folder 9
Auto Ionization, Etc. - correspondence, reprints, and data, 1962-1965.
Box 55 Folder 10
Gaseous Ionic Alkylation/Participation - Seymour Meyerson abstract, 1962.
Box 55 Folder 11
Selected Papers and Notes Relevant to Phosphoric Acid (PO3), 1984-1991.
Box 55 Folder 12
Miscellaneous (Re: Mass Spectrometry and Seymour Meyerson's role at Amoco.), 1960-1968.
Box 55 Folder 13
American Oil Company - Research and Development Management Training Texts, 1968, 1979.
Box 55 Folder 14
Field & Franklin Award in Mass Spectrometry (Awarded to Seymour Meyerson in 1993.), 1983-1993.
Box 55 Folder 15
Honorary Doctor of Science - Valparaiso University, 1995.
Box 55 Folder 16
Professional Correspondence-1 - includes reprints, 1966-1985.
Box 55 Folder 17
Professional Correspondence-2 - includes reprints, 1986-1991.
Box 55 Folder 18
Professional Correspondence-2 (Folder 1 of 3.), 1992-2002.
Box 56 Folder 1
Professional Correspondence-2 (Folder 2 of 3.), 1992-2002.
Box 56 Folder 2
Professional Correspondence-2 (Folder 3 of 3.), 1992-2002.
Box 56 Folder 3
Reviews of Manuscripts and Proposals-1 (Folder 1 of 3.), 1984-1996.
Box 56 Folder 4
Reviews of Manuscripts and Proposals-1 (Folder 2 of 3.), 1984-1996.
Box 56 Folder 5
Reviews of Manuscripts and Proposals-1 (Folder 3 of 3.), 1984-1996.
Box 56 Folder 6
Reviews of Manuscripts and Proposals-2 (Folder 1 of 2.), 1968, 1975-1983.
Box 56 Folder 7
Reviews of Manuscripts and Proposals-2 (Folder 2 of 2.), 1968, 1975-1983.
Box 56 Folder 8
Seymour Meyerson - Biographical (Various sources.) (Folder 1 of 2.), 1972-2007.
Box 56 Folder 9
Seymour Meyerson - Biographical (Various sources.) (Folder 2 of 2.), 1972-2007.
Box 56 Folder 10
Seymour Meyerson - "Snippets from my Life from My Folders" - highlights, mostly from emails and internet sites, 2006-2010.
Box 56 Folder 11
Seymour Meyerson - "Snippets from My Life" - highlights, mostly from Letters-to-the-Editor, 1993-2016.
Box 56 Folder 12
Manuscript Critiques - Bursey, J.T. and M.M. Bursey. "Intramolecular Hydrogen Transfer in Mass Spectra. Part I. Classical Rearrangements" - Reviewed by Seymour Meyerson in 1972 for Chemical Reviews - Not Recommended, 1972.
Box 57 Folder 1
Manuscript Critiques - Kingston, D.G.I., J.T. Bursey, and M.M. Bursey. "Intramolecular Hydrogen Transfer in Mass Spectra. Part II. McLafferty Rearrangement" - Reviewed by Seymour Meyerson in 1973 for Chemical Reviews - Recommended, 1973.
Box 57 Folder 2
Manuscript Critiques - Kingston, D.G.I., J.T. Bursey, and M.M. Bursey. "Intramolecular Hydrogen Transfer in Mass Spectra. Part III. Rearrangements Involving the Loss of Small Neutral Molecules" - Reviewed by Seymour Meyerson in 1974 for Chemical Reviews - Recommended, 1974.
Box 57 Folder 3
Manuscript Critiques - B.S. Earl. "Studies Directed Towards the Use of Electron Impact Mass Spectrometry for Isotropic Analysis of Carbon 13" - Reviewed by Seymour Meyerson in 1980 for ACS Monographs - Not Recommended, 1980.
Box 57 Folder 4
Virtual Party for Seymour's 90th Birthday - 2006 - Supplement to Seymour's Virtual Party/Local Party , 2006 December 4.
Box 58

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