- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 8 min., 27 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Chemist and professor Ralph Gardner-Chavis was born on December 3, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1943. Gardner-Chavis earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Cleveland's Western Reserve University. From 1943 to 1947, Gardner-Chavis was employed as a research assistant on the Manhattan Project, which resulted in the United States developing the atomic bomb to end World War II in 1945. After the war, Gardner-Chavis worked as a research chemist and project leader at Standard Oil of Ohio from 1949 to 1968. Gardner-Chavis became a full-time faculty member in Cleveland State University's chemistry department in 1968, where he remained until 1985. He later combined part-time teaching with work in the research lab of the Molecular Technology Corporation. Gardner-Chavis became a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity in 1942, and AIChE in 2001.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Ralph Gardner-Chavis
- Ralph Gardner-Chavis
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 1003150233
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ralph Gardner-Chavis.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
030827
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Regennia Williams, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Cleveland, Ohio 2004 March 19.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Chemistry Professor Chemist.
- Added Author
Gardner-Chavis, Ralph, 1922-2018, interviewee.
Williams, Regennia N., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.