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Jacox, Marilyn E.
Oral history interview with Marilyn E. Jacox, 1998 February 11 and 18.
Session 1: Marilyn Jacox discussses the many awards she received in career at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). These awards include: Utica College Outstanding Alumnus Award, Physical Sciences Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award, the Federal Woman's Award, the Stratton Award (with Dick Milligan) for ion studies, the Lippincott Award, The Hillebrand Prize of the Chemical Society of Washington, the WISE Lifetime Achievement Award (which requires the recepient to do something of sustained importance to the status of women), the Syracuse University honorary Doctorate of Science. Marilyn also talks about the changes she observed in the organizational structure of NBS and the change to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Session2: Marilyn Jacox begins her discussion with her early interest in science, her education in chemistry and physics, her teaching position at the Mellon Institute and her 15 year collaboration with Dick Milligan. She also recalls her work in free radicals at NBS/NIST (including F-atom reactions in solids and H-atom detachment and acetylene), her mandate to build a laboratory in 1962 upon her arrival at NBS, the Arturim Leonardi Prize which she shared with Dick Milligan, and the Infrared Spectroscopy Glidden Conference.
B.A., Sryacuse; Ph.D., Cornell. Professional experience: Fellow in Solid State Spectroscopy at the Mellon Institute; National Bureau of Standards.
Jacox, Marilyn E.
Mellon Institute
National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)
United States. National Bureau of Standards
Free Radicals (Chemistry).
Infrared spectroscopy
Science -- Awards
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Milligan, Dick
Beal, Karma A. interviewer.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Research Library and NIST Archives. Information Services Division. 100 Bureau Drive, MS 2500, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA.
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