Willard Gibbs Medal
date: label: date made
content: 1913
notes: label: Description
content: William A. Converse, a director of the Dearborn Chemical Company, established the Willard Gibbs Medal (honoring a nineteenth-century professor of chemistry at Yale University) “To publicly recognize eminent chemists who, through years of application and devotion, have brought to the world developments that enable everyone to live more comfortably and to understand this world better." The presenter who announced the award to Leo Baekeland noted that “the chemical inventor . . . fills a new want as often as he does an old one . . . or he may even create a want where there was none before.” This is that medal The obverse has a portrait bust. The inscription on the reverse reads: “THE WILLARD GIBBS MEDAL / FOUNDED BY / WILLIAM A. CONVERSE / AWARDED TO / LEO. H. BAEKELAND / 1913 / BY THE CHICAGO SECTION / OF THE AMERICAN / CHEMICAL SOCIETY.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Bakelite
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. William Karraker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0034.33e
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0034.33e
label: accession number
content: 1982.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Willard Gibbs Medal
label: Object Name
content: medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 55 mm; 2 5/32 in