Molecular Electro-Optics. Electro-Optic Properties of Macromolecules and Colloids in Solution. Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on Molecular Electro-Optics Held July 14-4, 1980, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Sonja Krause

1982 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-236
Author(s):  
Myron L. Wolbarsht
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ◽  
Polytechnic Institute ◽  
Advanced Study ◽  
Electro Optic ◽  
Study Institute

"Gems" from Rensselaer

1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ◽  
Polytechnic Institute

This paper complements, supplements, and adds details on nineteenth-century geological pioneers, including faculty, alumni, and sponsors of the Rensselaer School-Institute, now Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York. These pioneers, all from one single university, have no match anywhere in the annals of promoting nineteenth-century American geological education. Stephen Van Rensselaer's commissioned geological studies were "of greater extent than had ever been offered to Geology" (Barnard, 1839, p. 76), but "the crowning glory of this good man's life" (p. 76) resulted in the founding of the Rensselaer School which by 1839 "furnished to the community more state geologists than has been furnished, in the same time, by all the colleges of the Union" (p. 83). An at-the-time well known but now largely forgotten geologist, was Jeremias Van Rensselaer who in 1825 published one of the first textbooks on geology which attempted to popularize the science. His study, in 1823, on the geology of salt includes descriptions of worldwide deposits. Details on faculty and students provide an insight on activity which led to rewards almost unmatched in any other single university.

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