Willard Gibbs Medal
Willard Gibbs Medal
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- Description
- William A. Converse, a director of the Dearborn Chemical Company, established the Willard Gibbs Medal (honoring a nineteenth-century professor of chemistry at Yale University) “To publicly recognize eminent chemists who, through years of application and devotion, have brought to the world developments that enable everyone to live more comfortably and to understand this world better." The presenter who announced the award to Leo Baekeland noted that “the chemical inventor... fills a new want as often as he does an old one... or he may even create a want where there was none before.” This is that medal The obverse has a portrait bust. The inscription on the reverse reads: “THE WILLARD GIBBS MEDAL / FOUNDED BY / WILLIAM A. CONVERSE / AWARDED TO / LEO. H. BAEKELAND / 1913 / BY THE CHICAGO SECTION / OF THE AMERICAN / CHEMICAL SOCIETY.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Willard Gibbs Medal
- medal
- date made
- 1913
- Physical Description
- gold (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 55 mm; 2 5/32 in
- ID Number
- 1982.0034.33e
- catalog number
- 1982.0034.33e
- accession number
- 1982.0034
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. William Karraker
- subject
- Bakelite
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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