Lyman Beecher Hall Prize in Chemistry correspondence
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents relating to the establishment of a 100-dollar prize in Chemistry dedicated to Lyman Beecher Hall, a renowned professor of Chemistry at Haverford College. The fund for the prize was established by the class of 1898, as a reward to a student who “shows promise of contributing substantially to the advancement of science in any field of service.” Included are correspondences between Hall and Walter C. Janney as well as W. Buell Meldrum regarding Hall’s thoughts on the prize and the statement by which it would be made known to students.
Dates
- Creation: 1923-1924, 1962
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use
Use Restrictions
Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17)
Biographical / Historical
Lyman Beecher Hall (1852-1935) was a professor of Chemistry at Haverford College from 1880 to 1917. He attended Amherst College (1869-1873), before attaining a doctorate from the University of Göttingen (1875). Hall was a fellow and instructor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University (1877-1880) and taught at Haverford for 37 years before his retirement in 1917. The “New Chemistry building” (now known as Hall Building) was named in his honor. He died in 1935 in Madison, Wisconsin.
Extent
0.01 linear ft. (1 folder )
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection contains documents relating to the establishment of a 100-dollar prize in Chemistry dedicated to Lyman Beecher Hall, a renowned professor of Chemistry at Haverford College.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged chronologically
Acquisition
Unknown
Processing Information
Processed by Cullen Worth, completed July, 2024
Genre / Form
- Title
- Lyman Beecher Hall Prize in Chemistry correspondence
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Cullen Worth
- Date
- July, 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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