Background
Craver, Clara Diddle was born on December 3, 1924 in Portsmouth, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Ira O. and Flora A. (Shoemaker) Diddle.
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Clara Diddle Craver
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Bachelor of Science in Chemistry cum laude, Ohio State University, 1945. Doctor of Science (honorary), Fisk University, 1974.
Career
President, consultant in spectroscopy Craver & Craver, Inc., St. Louis, since 1979. Owner, founder Chemir Laboratories, 1969-1990. Vice president Polytech.
Laboratories, Inc., St. Louis, 1984-1990. Lecturer Fisk Institute, Nashville, since 1959, director, since 1986. Instructor Ohio State University, Marion, 1958-1959.
Lecturer Arizona State University, Tempe, 1990-1995. Research engineer Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, 1949-1958, chemical research assistant, research chemist Esso Research Laboratories, Linden, New Jersey, 1945-1948. Director polymer characterization workshops, St. Louis, 1984, Chicago, 1986, Los Angeles, 1988, Atlanta, 1991.
International Rectifier interp. course Midwest Association of Forensic Scientists, 1995, 97. International Rectifier of Polymers course Pittsburgh Conference, since 1995. Expert witness re: polymers and spectroscopy.
Consultant, lecturer in field.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Institute Chemists. Member American Society for Testing and Materials (Merit award 1982, member-at-large executive committee, past chairman E-13 on molecular spectroscopy), American Chemical Society (councilor, past chairman, officer division polymeric materials materials science and engineering since 1978), Coblentz Society (honorary, Williams-Wright award 1985, chairman committee reformed spectra), Society Applied Spectroscopy (chairman education committee 1990-1992), Phi Beta Kappa, Iota Sigma Pi.
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Connections
Married Ray Smith, January 6, 1946 (divorced 1969). Children: Linda Smith Burge, Stephen, Derrin, Cheryl O'Brien.
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Republican
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1945
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1974