Lucius A. Bigelow papers, 1915-1973

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Summary

Creator:
Bigelow, Lucius A., b. 1892
Abstract:
Lucius A. Bigelow (1892-1973) served as a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Duke University from 1929 to 1961. Papers of Lucius A. Bigelow include correspondence, class examinations and procedures, research papers, research status reports, and photographs during his career as a professor of chemistry at Brown University and Duke University. Major subjects within the papers are fluorine chemistry, organic chemistry, chemistry education, and research conducted for the Manhattan Project, the Office of Naval Research, and the Army Research Office. Professional correspondents include H. S. Booth, Henry Gilman, and William A. Noyes. English.
Extent:
2 Linear Feet
Language:
English.
Collection ID:
UA.29.02.0019
University Archives Record Group:
29 -- Papers of Faculty, Staff, and Associates
29 -- Papers of Faculty, Staff, and Associates > 02 -- Individuals

Background

Scope and content:

Records produced by Lucius A. Bigelow throughout his career as a professor of chemistry both at Brown University and Duke University. Materials are present from 1915 to 1973. The bulk of the records consist of correspondence, class examinations and procedures, research papers, research status reports, and photographs. The majority of the material pertains to Bigelow's time at Duke University however, there is some material stemming from his tenure at Brown University.

Biographical / historical:

Lucius Aurelius Bigelow was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 31, 1892 to Lucius Aurelius and Mary Elizabeth Bigelow. He graduated from Boston English High and from there went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received his S.B. in 1915. He attended Harvard from 1916 to 1917 and then went to Yale as a Howard Fellow from 1918 to 1919, leaving with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry. He began his teaching career at St. Lawrence University but only stayed a short time until moving to Brown University, where he taught for nine years. In 1929 Bigelow came to Duke University where he served as a member of the chemistry department faculty until 1961. Bigelow's primary field of research was fluorine chemistry and the direct fluorination of organic compounds. His research provided the foundations for the preparation of fluorocarbons by direct fluorination carried out during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project. After retiring from active teaching at Duke, he continued his research work at Hynes Chemical Research, a firm started by several of his former graduate students. In 1958 he was the recipient of the Herty Medal by the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society, recognizing him as an outstanding Southern chemist. Lucius Bigelow married Mary Louise Cummings of Warren, Massacusetts, in 1932 and the couple had two children, Mary Elizabeth Bigelow (later Mary Johnson), born 1938, and Lucius C. Bigelow, born 1939. Mary Cummings Bigelow died in February, 1972, and Lucius A. Bigelow died December 11, 1973.

Acquisition information:
This collection consists of material acquired in accession number 74-197 on January 18, 1974.
Processing information:

Processed by Sarah G. Carr

Completed April, 2000

Encoded by Joshua McKim, December 2002

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[Identification of item], Lucius A. Bigelow Papers, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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