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Charles Skeele Palmer
1858-1939
President 1894
Chemist, miner Graduate Amherst
College, A.B. and M.A.; Johns Hopkins, Ph.D.; and Univ. of Leipzig,
Germany Professor of
Chemistry, Univ. of Colo. President, Colorado
School of Mines Head of Chemistry
Dept. of Colorado Academy of Science, 1900 Active in Cripple
Creek, Creede, and Breckenridge mining districts; chief chemist at
Washoe Smelter, Anaconda, Montana; Assoc. Editor Eng. & Mining
Journal; Editor to D. Appleton & Co. Publishing; chemist for several
large companies Discovered, and
received a patent for, a process for the reduction of petroleum to
gasoline President, Colorado
State Teachers Association; fellow, American Association for the
Advancement of Science; member, American Chemical Society, American
Institute of Chemical Engineers, Electrochemical Society, National
Education Association, Engineering Society of Western Pennsylvania,
and Chemists Club of New York Author of many
articles on chemistry, on the rocks of Boulder County, Colorado, and
on meteorites Sam Rosenblum:
Photo of Palmer in Denver Post, July 12, 1935, p. 24
from Presidents of the
Colorado Scientific Society
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