Call Number:

Ms. Coll. 128

Repository:

University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Extent:

1 item (359 leaves)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Ms. Coll. 128, Fred W. Billmeyer, Textbook of polymer chemistry, 1954, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania

Date:

1954 (inclusive)

Creator:

Heindel, Ned D. and Billmeyer, Fred W.

Form:

Typescripts, Annotations, and Manuscripts for publication

Abstract:

Annotated typescript of Textbook of polymer chemistry written by Fred W. Billmeyer and Ned D. Heindel in 1954.

Born in 1919 Billmeyer, was Research Chemist, Polychemicals Depaprtment at E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. He was lecturer in high polymers at the University of Delaware.

Heindel was born in 1937 received his B.S. in 1959 and M.S. in 1961 from Lebanon Valley College. He received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1963 from University of Delaware. He was an assistant and instructor, chemistry, at the University of Delaware from 1961-1962.

Typed manuscript consisting of 357 leaves, with annotations. Pagination on table of contents has been annotated to correspond to contents of 1957 book. Illustrations and graphs are inserted into the book's text, while in the manuscript these appear on separate, unnumbered pages. The name Ned Heindel is written on the title page. This typescript was published as a textbook for graduate-level courses in the chemistry of high polymers at University of Delaware. The text follows the outline of Billmeyer's Textbook of polymer chemistry (Interscience Publishers, Inc., 1957). Reproduction of typed manuscript, with covers.