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'''Emma Perry Carr''' (July 23, 1880 – January 7, 1972) was an American spectroscopist.
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'''Emma Perry Carr''' (July 23, 1880 – January 7, 1972) was an American spectroscopist and chemical educator.
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Carr was born in Holmesville, Ohio, the third child of Edmund and Anna Carr.<ref name="NOVA">{{citation | webpage = Emma Perry Carr | url = http://www.csupomona.edu/~nova/scientists/articles/carr.html | website = Project NOVA Biographical Data Base of Scientists | publisher = California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | accessdate = 2011-03-31}}.</ref> She went to high school in Coshocton, Ohio, before attening [[Ohio State University]] from 1898 until 1899, and then [[Mount Holyoke College]] from 1900 until 1902.<ref name="archive">{{citation | title = Carr, Emma P. – Papers, ca. 1902–1986 –Manuscript Collection: MS&nbsp;0517 | url = http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/msrg/mancol/ms0517r.htm | publisher = Mount Holyoke College | accessdate = 2011-03-31}}.</ref> She stayed at Mount Holyoke as an assistant in the chemistry department<ref name="NOVA"/> until going to the [[University of Chigaco]] to take her senior year in physical chemistry, receiving her B.S. in 1905.<ref name="archive"/> She then spent two years teaching at Mount Holyoke before returning to Chicago to study for her Ph.D., which she received in 1910.<ref name="NOVA"/><ref name="archive"/>
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With her Ph.D. in hand, she returned to Mount Holyoke as a professor, being named Head of Department in 1913.<ref name="NOVA"/><ref name="archive"/> She participated in the ''[[International Critical Tables]]'' of the [[International Research Council]], where she worked with Professor [[Victor Henri]] of the [[University of Zurich]].<ref name="archive"/> She retired in 1946.<ref name="NOVA"/><ref name="archive"/>
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Carr was the inaugural recipient in 1937 of the [[Francis P. Garvan Gold Medal]] of the [[American Chemical Society]] (ACS), established "to recognize distinguished service to chemistry by women chemists".<ref>{{citation | title = Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal | url = http://portal.acs.org/portal/PublicWebSite/funding/awards/national/bytopic/CTP_004521 | publisher = American Chemical Society | accessdate = 2011-03-31}}.</ref> She also recived the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry of the Northeastern Section of the ACS in Spring 1957 (with [[Mary Lura Sherrill]]).<ref>{{citation | title = Recipients of the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry | url = http://www.nesacs.org/Awards/Norris/norris_recipients.html | publisher = Northeastern Section, American Chemical Society | accessdate = 2011-03-31}}.</ref> The chemistry building at Mount Holyoke College was dedicated in her honor in 1955.<ref name="archive"/>
  
 
==Notes and references==
 
==Notes and references==
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==Selected writings==
 
==Selected writings==
 
*{{citation | first = Emma P. | last = Carr | authorlink = Emma P. Carr | title = Electronic Transitions in the Simple Unsaturated Hydrocarbons | journal = Chem. Rev. | year = 1947 | volume = 41 | issue = 2 | pages = 293–99 | doi = 10.1021/cr60129a008}}.
 
*{{citation | first = Emma P. | last = Carr | authorlink = Emma P. Carr | title = Electronic Transitions in the Simple Unsaturated Hydrocarbons | journal = Chem. Rev. | year = 1947 | volume = 41 | issue = 2 | pages = 293–99 | doi = 10.1021/cr60129a008}}.
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*{{citation | first = Emma P. | last = Carr | authorlink = Emma P. Carr | title = Research in a liberal arts college | journal = J. Chem. Educ. | year = 1957 | volume = 34 | issue = 9 | page = 467 | doi = 10.1021/ed034p467}}.
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==

Revision as of 17:36, 31 March 2011

Emma P. Carr
Born July 23, 1880(1880-07-23)
Holmesville, Ohio, USA
Died January 7, 1972 (aged 91)
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Fields ultraviolet spectroscopy
Institutions Mount Holyoke College
Alma mater Ohio State University
Mount Holyoke College
University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor Julius Stieglitz
Notable awards Francis P. Garvan Medal (1937)

Emma Perry Carr (July 23, 1880 – January 7, 1972) was an American spectroscopist and chemical educator.

Carr was born in Holmesville, Ohio, the third child of Edmund and Anna Carr.[1] She went to high school in Coshocton, Ohio, before attening Ohio State University from 1898 until 1899, and then Mount Holyoke College from 1900 until 1902.[2] She stayed at Mount Holyoke as an assistant in the chemistry department[1] until going to the University of Chigaco to take her senior year in physical chemistry, receiving her B.S. in 1905.[2] She then spent two years teaching at Mount Holyoke before returning to Chicago to study for her Ph.D., which she received in 1910.[1][2]

With her Ph.D. in hand, she returned to Mount Holyoke as a professor, being named Head of Department in 1913.[1][2] She participated in the International Critical Tables of the International Research Council, where she worked with Professor Victor Henri of the University of Zurich.[2] She retired in 1946.[1][2]

Carr was the inaugural recipient in 1937 of the Francis P. Garvan Gold Medal of the American Chemical Society (ACS), established "to recognize distinguished service to chemistry by women chemists".[3] She also recived the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry of the Northeastern Section of the ACS in Spring 1957 (with Mary Lura Sherrill).[4] The chemistry building at Mount Holyoke College was dedicated in her honor in 1955.[2]

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