Miriam L. Douglass

Adventures in Organosulfur Chemistry

Abstract Irwin Douglass was born in 1904 in Des Moines, Iowa and was educated in the public schools of Nebraska, Illinois and Iowa. He received a B.S. degree from Monmouth College, Illinois in 1926 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1932. In his forty-six year career as a teacher of chemistry he has taught at Monmouth, Illinois High School (1926–1928), the Junior College of Kansas City, Missouri (1930–1931), North Dakota Agricultural College (1932–1933), Northern Montana College (1933–1940) and the University of Maine (1940–1972). He conducted post-doctoral research at Yale University during 1937–1938, served as a Ranger-Naturalist in Yellowstone National Park during the summers of 1936–1940 and was a visiting scholar at the University of California in Los Angeles 1962–1963. He became Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus at the University of Maine in 1972 and was a member of the State of Maine Board of Environmental Protection during 1974–1977. His research explored both the fundamental...