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ON December 6, the centenary occurs of the birth of the distinguished American chemist, Charles Frederick Chandler, who in 1899-1900 served as president of the Society of Chemical Industry. He was brought up in New Bedford, Mass., being the son of a draper. As a schoolboy he contracted with his father to sweep out and open his shop every morning for a dollar a week, in order to buy chemicals and apparatus. From school he passed to Harvard and the Lawrence Scientific School, afterwards studying chemistry under Wohler at Gottingen. On returning home, he obtained a post as janitor under Prof. Joy at Schenectady, becoming successively instructor first in mineralogy, then in geology and eventually professor of chemistry. It was at Schenectady that he began his lifelong efforts to bring chemistry into daily life and into industry. In 1864, when the School of Mines was organized as part of Columbia College, he was invited to occupy the chair of chemistry, and thus began his great career as a teacher in New York. He was a founder and sometime president of the New York College of Pharmacy, served as president of the American Chemical Society and president of the Metropolitan Board of Health. For many years he edited The Chemical News. He died on August 25, 1925, at the age of eighty-eight years.
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Charles Frederick Chandler, 1836–1925. Nature 138, 961 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138961c0
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