Cheves Walling photograph collection, 1938-1970
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Cheves Walling photograph collection
- Dates
- 1938-1970 (inclusive)19381970
- Quantity
- 0.25 linear feet, (1 box) : 5 Photographic Prints
- Collection Number
- P0534
- Summary
- The Cheves Walling photograph collection consists of group photographs of conferences in which Waling was the Vice-President, two personal photos, and as image of Hexachlor Benzene.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
- Languages
- English
Historical Note
Cheves Walling was born on February 28, 1916 in Evanston, Illinois to Frederika Haskell and Willoughby Walling. After receiving a B.A. degree from Harvard in 1937, he decided to pursue graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. under Morris Kharasch in 1939. The Kharasch group had just discovered the free-radical mechanism for anti-Markovnikov addition to alkenes. Thus, Walling performed key mechanistic work on the problem for his thesis and helped establish what is now routinely described in every textbook on organic chemistry. In 1940, he married Jane Ann Wilson; together, they had at least five children.
During World War II, Walling worked first for the DuPont Company and then for U.S. Rubber Company, with Frank Mayo helping develop the synthetic rubber industry. This collaboration with Mayo led to a couple of papers which were the first to point out that free-radical reactions can be subject to inductive polar effects. He finished his industrial career with three years at Lever Brothers Company. Then, in 1952 he joined the Chemistry Department at Columbia University as Professor of Organic Chemistry. He served as Department Chairman from 1963-1966. In 1970, he moved to the University of Utah as Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, where he taught until he retired in 1991. Cheves Walling died June 19, 2007.
See the biography on Walling by Peter Wagner in the 1982 Journal of the American Chemical Society for further information.
Content Description
Cheves Walling was an authority on free radical organic chemistry, professor of chemistry at the University of Utah, 1970-1990, and editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The collection consists of group photographs of conferences in which Waling was the Vice-President, two personal photos, and as image of Hexachlor Benzene.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Preferred Citation
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Administrative Information
Processing Note
Processed by Ashely Arave in 2004.
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Separated Materials
Manuscript materials were transferred to the Cheves Walling papers (ACCN 1236).
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Description: Personal photographs
- Photograph number 1: Ernest Grunwald
- Photograph number 2: 1938 Hill M. Priestley in Jones Lab
- Photograph number 3: Photographic Fourier Projection of Hexachlor Benzene
- Photograph number 4: Gordon Research Conferences, New Hampton School, Organic Reactions and Processes, Cheves Walling Chairman, David Breslow, Vice-Chairman. July 20-24, 1970, The Achber Studio, Laconia N.H. (includes a sheet identifying all 131 participants)
- Photograph number 5: Participants in 1959 NSF Summer Research Program for College Teachers held at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah.
Container: Box 1, Folder 1
