William Klemperer
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William Aloys Klemperer was an American chemist, chemical physicist and molecular spectroscopist. Klemperer is most widely known for introducing molecular beam methods into chemical physics research,
William Klemperer (captured by Stewart Novick, c. 1970)
Analytical chemistry
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Analytical chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the development and application of methods to identify the chemical composition of materials and quantify the amounts of components in mi
William Klemperer
…1954. After one semester as an instructor at Berkeley, Bill returned to Harvard in July 1954. Though his initial appointment was as an instructor of analytical chemistry, a position which was considered unlikely to lead to a faculty position, he was appointed full professor in 1965. He has remained associated with Harvard…
Gas chromatography laboratory
Gustav Kirchhoff (left) and Robert Bunsen (right)
The presence of copper in this qualitative analysis is indicated by the bluish-green color of the flame.
An accelerator mass spectrometer used for radiocarbon dating and other analysis