Hopkins, B. S. (B. Smith), b. 1875.
B. Smith Hopkins papers, 1917-1963.
Correspondence relating to research work on the rare earths, fractionation of rare earth solutions, element 61 or "illinium," shipment and use of rare earth salts, ionic migration method of separating rare earth, x-ray spectrograhpic analysis of rare earths, Hopkins' faculty appointment (1919), work of graduate students, textbooks and revisions, x-ray equipment, laboratory notebooks (1925-1931), chemical manufacturing, and Hopkins' genealogy; and a posthumous list of Hopkins' publications, consisting of 12 books and 129 articles. Correspondents include Gerald Druce, of England; J. Allen Harris, of Canada; G. Hevesy, of Copenhagen; Charles James; David Kinley; R. J. Meyer, of Berlin; William A. Noyes; Luigi Rolla, of Florence; Manne Siegbahn, of Uppsala; S. Urbain, of Paris; and Leonard F. Yntema.
Professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Illinois. With colleagues discovered element 61, illinium, in 1926. Worked mainly with rare earth group of chemical elements. He died in 1952.
Hopkins, B. S. (B. Smith), b. 1875.
Chemical industry.
Distillation, Fractional.
Earths, Rare.
Earths, Rare -- Analysis.
Earths, Rare -- Separation.
Earths, Rare -- Spectra.
Graduate students.
Ions -- Migration and velocity.
Salt (Mineral resources) -- Research.
Soil solutions -- Research.
X-ray spectroscopy (Analytical chemistry) -- Methodology.
Promethium.
Bibliographies. aat aat
Genealogical tables. aat
Laboratory notes. aat aat
Textbooks. aat
Fractionation. phys-t
Druce, Gerald.
Harris, J. Allen.
Hevesy, Georg von, 1885-1966.
James, Charles.
Kinley, David.
Meyer, R. J.
Noyes, William A.
Rolla, Luigi.
Siegbahn, Manne, 1886-1978
Urbain, S.
Yntema, F.
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