Background
Boltwood was born on July 27, 1870 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States; the son of Thomas Kast Boltwood and Matilda (Van Hoesen) Boltwood.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Boltwood received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale University in 1897. He worked there from 1897.
Augustusplatz 10, Leipzig, Germany
Boltwood studied at the University of Leipzig during summer of 1896.
University of Munich, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Boltwood studied at the University of Munich from 1892 to 1894.
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Boltwood was born on July 27, 1870 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States; the son of Thomas Kast Boltwood and Matilda (Van Hoesen) Boltwood.
Boltwood studied inorganic chemistry at the University of Munich from 1892 to 1894. Also he studied physical chemistry at the University of Leipzig during summer of 1896. Bertram received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale University in 1897.
Boltwood began his career as an instructor at Yale University in 1897. Three years later he conducted a private laboratory in New Haven. Then in 1906, Bertram became an assistant professor of physics at Yale University. From 1910 he was a professor of radiochemistry at the same university.
Boltwood served as an acting director of Sloane Physics Laboratory in 1913-1914 and Kent Chemical Laboratory from 1919 to 1922. In addition, in 1918, he was appointed an acting professor of chemistry at Yale University, where he worked until 1922.
Boltwood was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, American Philosophical Society, National Academy of Sciences, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Alpha Chi Sigma, Book and Snake Society and Aurehan Honor Society.
Boltwood, in his later days, suffered from depression and committed suicide on August 15, 1927.