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Benfey autographed letter collection
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Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
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For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1072427~S6
This is a collection of 21 letters, signed by eminent chemists of the modern era. All are typed and all but one is in English. Signers include Linus Pauling, Peter Debye, Road Hoffmann and Robert Woodward.
Filed with the Raymond Szymanowitz collection of autographed letters, 1791-1964.
Selected materials from this collection have been digitized and are available to view online in our Digital Collections: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/collections/h702q641c
Source of acquisition--Theodor O. Benfey. Method of acquisition--gift ;; Date of acquisition--1988..
People
- Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983
- Hoffmann, Roald
- Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
- Woodward, R.B. (Robert Burns), 1917-1979
- Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966
- Herzberg, Gerhard, 1904-1999
- Hildebrand, Joel Henry, 1881-1983
- Benfey, O. Theodor (Otto Theodor), 1925-
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- Science History Institute Archives