Call Number:

03.001

Repository:

Science History Institute Archives

Extent:

1.32 linear feet (3 boxes)

Preferred Citation:

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Frank Henry Verhoek Papers, 1906-1982, Othmer Library, Archives, Science History Institute Archives Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..

Date:

1906-1982 (inclusive)

Form:

Archival materials

Abstract:

The focus of this collection is Chemical Education. Verhoek's notebooks from Harvard and the University of Wisconsin give a fairly comprehensive overview of how Chemistry was taught in the early years of the 20th Century.

Frank H. Verhoek was born in 1909. He graduated from Harvard University in 1930 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1933. He student abroad at Trinity College, Oxford and at the University of Copenhagen for a year and in 1935 he began teaching at Ohio State University. In 1977 he was named at Emeritus Professor. He held many consultancies and was a lecturer on behalf of the Chemical Bond Approach for the teaching of high school-level chemistry. He died in Granville, Ohio on September 7, 1910.

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1078959~S6

The bulk of the college consists of Verhoek's undergraduate and graduate chemistry notebooks. There is a small amount of material relating to his work on the Chemical Bond Approach and miscellaneous material relating to the teaching on chemistry.

Arranged into three series: Series 1. Student Notebooks; Series 2. Lecture notes, Course Materials & Department Histories, 1906-1982; Series 3. The Chemical Bond Approach 1959-1961.