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10. Joseph Edward Mayer
10. Joseph Edward Mayer
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The first, the thermodynamics of ionic crystals, involvecI both theoretical calculations and the development of ingenious experimental techniques; the second, for which he was particularly well known, was in the statistical mechanical theory of imperfect gases and solutions, inclucling ionic solutions. In his professional career, he was successively a member of the chemistry departments of Johns Hopkins (1930-39)
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Dickinson of the chemistry faculty, who were all first-cIass scientists, and with graduate students Paul Emmett and Linus PauTing, soon to become famous as scientists themselves. Mayer workoc!
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N Lewis was titled, "A Disproof of the Racliation Theory of Chemical Activation," which was followed by a longer paper by Mayer alone in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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in the Johns Hopkins and Columbia years Mayer ran an experimental program measuring various thermodynamic properties of alkali halide crystals and vapors as a complement to accompanying theoretical work. This program occupie(1 a series of graduate students, of whom Lindsay Helmho~z was the first, and Paul Doty and the author among the last.
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With the move to Chicago in 1945, however, he found setting up a laboratory again to be too much of an investment of time and energy, and he terminated the experimental work. they curiect themselves up and clicI At Johns Hopkins he wrote, in collaboration with three students, Philip Ackermann, Sally Harrison, ant!
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In his Chicago and UCSD periods his work became increasingly directed toward attempts to find a rigorous basis for a complete statistical mechanical theory of both the static and dynamic aspects of the liqui phase, an activity that he sometimes referred to as "my hobby." This was very difficult work that progressed very slowly, and which was never effectively completed. In addition to his research and teaching career, Joe Mayer was active in public service.
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Cannon Griffen. In 1960 the Mayers left Chicago and came to help build the new general campus at UCSD, where Maria had for the first time a full professorship in the newly formed Physics Department.
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IN ADDITION TO Mayer's own account, referred to above, and a set of biographical data that he prepared in 1982, much useful biographical material is given by Harold J Raveche, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry Symposium, 16 ( 1982~: 1-13, "Dedication to Joseph E
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A direct experimental determination of electron affinities, the electron affinity of iodine.
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Measurements of low vapor pressures of alkali halides.
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