Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-18
NOTED CHEMIST
IS HONORED BY
P!ERK|N MEDAL
Or. Charles +. Chandler,
Technical Adviser to Chemi-
cal Foundation, Cited for
Notable Achievements.

New York, Jan. H.-(Special. y
Eighty-three years old and still hard
at work at the top of his profession,
DR.. Charles F. Chandler of this city.
technical adviser to the Chemical
/ foundation, last evening received the
\ Perkin gold medal awarded by the
4 Society OF Chemical Industry for his
1 notable scientific achievements. The
! presentation of the medal to DR..
/ Chandler took place in the audi
torium Of the Chemists club.
This honor comes to Dr.. Chandler
| ut one of the busiest periods of a
I career of 90 years devoted to the
4 advancement of American industrial
chemistry, OF which he is hailed as
the dean. He retired from the pro-
fessorship of chemistry at Columbia
university in 1911, saying that he
/ wished to give up teaching before
4 he was "overtaken by the intirmltles
OF old age" He has kept so far
ahead of them that he goes to his
n office in Fulton street every day and
H advises the chemical manufacturers
Of the United States as to how they
may best employ the 1000 foreign
chemical patents taken over by the
alien property custodian, He is also
consulted by large corporations.
/ makes researches in his private labo-
\ ratory and thus in his 84th year he
\ has entered upon a new phase of ac-
4 tiyity.
Original Medal British.
After introductory remarks by
4 Charles Z Sholes, chairman of the
American section of the Society OF
4 Chemical Industry. and some reml-
uiscences by DR.. NJ. c. Whitaker,
Il who was associated with DIR. Chand-
j lcrsin the teaching work at Columbia
university, the Perkin medal was
/ presented BY Prof. Marston T. Bo-
CERT, also OF Columbia university.
1t is given annually to that Amerl..
can chemist who, in the opinion OF
/ a Jury of his profession, has done
1 the most to advance the progress OF
\ chemistry. The originalsmedal was
/ conferred upon Sir William Perkin
/ by the British Society ysof Chemical
| Industry in recognition OF his dis
/ coveries, which led to the founding
4 Of the coal tar dye industry. The
I iury is chosen from the American
4 section of the Society of Chemical
Industry from the American Cheml-
cal society and other chemical or
panizatiofis in the United States.
Professor Bogert, reviewing the
life of DR.. Chandler, drew attention
to the medaiist's notable services as
4 scientist, citizen and public official
and gave salient facts OF his bog
I'M br. Chandler was born December
6. 1886, a, Roxbury, Mass, at the
home OF his grandfather, Nathaniel
1 Chandler. He was educated at New
| Bedford, Mass, where his father,
/ Charles Chandler, was a prominent
merchant. -.
II As boy Charles Frederick
Il Chandler had a natural bent toward
/ scientific pursuits. After his gradua!-
l tion from the New Bedford High
school he took up the study Of chem
istry at Harvard university. ne
went for postgraduate study to the
4 University Of Cottingen IN Germany:
l where he received the degrees OF
Il A. M. and Ph. D., and he also
/ studied at the University OF Berlin.
Returning to the United States IN
1857 when barely of age, he became
i assistant instructor in chemistry IN
/ Union college at Schenectady, N.
IN under Prof. William Joy--at
4 whose suggestion he had gone TO
4 Germany. There was no appropria-
lion in the budget for him, bu there
was $4oO available for the salary OF
I II janitor. DR.. Chandler, therefore
qualified in two capacities-for he
swept out the laboratory and made
the fires. as we'll as instructed stu
dents.
Predicts Useful Future.
| Hc was called in 1864 to Colum-
Ibia college, then not university.
/ and became one of the founders OF
Il It's far-famed "School OF Mines,
Iof which he was dean until 1897.
II DR.. Chandler continued as the
Mitchell professor of chemistry. he
was largely responsible for inter
esting the Havemeyer family IN
building the university's great hall
81 chemistry, which bears its name
Il and at the time OF its erection was
4 considered the best equipped build
| ing Of its kind in the world. he
H was also. professor of chemistry at
i the College of Pharmacy and the
1 College of Physicians and Surgeons,
n IS we'll as in the School OF Mines.
II He is regarded as the founder OF
| the American Chemical society. tic
was twice president of that society
and twice was the head of the
II Chemists club, New York, OF which
he was one of the founders.
II He was adviser to the sugar, Pc
noleum, illuminating gas and photo
h graphic industries; made important
n researches which led to greater
II Eproduction of caustic soda and
II other commodities, and originated
/ many important processes of large
\ scale chemistry.
DR.. Chandler in accepting the
Il medal referred to the earlier days
I of, the chemical profession in the
| United States and predicted that the
future would give it still more ex-
tended field of usefulness.
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