Title and Description Page
Early Interest in Science 1
Growing up in Portland, Oregon. Collects laboratory equipment and carries out first chemistry experiments. Sisters and brothers. Takes high school chemistry and works in the lab after school.
Oregon Agricultural College 5
Chemistry textbooks, classes and independent study. Supports self through college. Applies to several graduate schools and accepts appointment at Caltech.
Caltech 10
Learns x-ray crystallography from Roscoe Dickinson. Publishes first paper. Studies physical science with Richard C. Tolman. Mathematics. Personal interaction with faculty and students. Publishes series of papers with Dickinson. Studies quantum mechanics.
Guggenheim Fellowship in Europe 18
Münich. Expands Gregor Wentzel's method to calculate properties of atoms and ions. Zürich. Works on problem of helium atom interaction. Studies wave mechanics. American friends.
Return to Caltech 22
Influence of A. A. Noyes. Becomes assistant professor of chemistry. Berkeley.
Notes 25
Index 29