Background
Bader, Alfred Robert was born on April 28, 1924 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Alfred and Elizabeth Maria (Serenyi) Bader. came to the United States, 1947, naturalized, 1964.
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This is the autobiography of the distinguished chemist, art collector and philanthropist, Alfred Bader. Born in Vienna, Bader fled to England at the age of 14, ten months before the outbreak of World War II. Although a Jewish refugee from the Nazis, he was interned in 1940 and sent to a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp. In this book, he tells the story of his success in the United States. It was a case of hard study and hard work. Obtaining his release in 1941, he was accepted by Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where he studied engineering chemistry. There followed a fellowship in organic chemistry at Harvard. Bader worked in Milwaukee as a research chemist for Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and in 1951 co-founded Aldrich, which today, as Sigma-Aldrich, is the world's largest supplier of research chemicals. After leaving Sigma-Aldrich, he continued a fruitful career as an art collector and dealer. Alfred Bader and his family have a reputation as generous benefactors, notably in the fields of chemistry, education and Jewish interests. In 1992, Bader gave #6 million to Queen's University, Ontario, to purchase and renovate Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex.
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Alfred Bader's achievements—as the founder of one of the most important companies in its field in the world, as a collector and dealer in Old Master paintings, and as a legendary philanthropist—make for fascinating reading. This book begins where Alfred Bader's first autobiography, Adventures of a Chemist Collector, ended: with the boardroom coup in which he was dismissed from the chemical company he had built up from the ground. Bader now turns his enormous energy to Old Master paintings, in which he had become interested at a young age and in which he by now has the means to invest. The chapters that follow are roughly chronological, with some devoted to particularly meaningful paintings or groups of paintings, memorable auctions, mysteries, or discoveries relating to the artworks in the Bader Collection, while others are dedicated to friends, family, love, religion, charity, and, occasionally, chemistry.
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Bader, Alfred Robert was born on April 28, 1924 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Alfred and Elizabeth Maria (Serenyi) Bader. came to the United States, 1947, naturalized, 1964.
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Chemistry, Queens U., Canada, 1945; Bachelor in History, Queens U., Canada, 1946; Master of Science in Organic Chemistry, Queens U., Canada, 1947; Doctor of Laws, Queens U., Canada, 1986; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1948; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1949; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1980; Doctor of Science (honorary), Purdue University, 1984; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Wisconsin-Madison, 1984; Doctor of Science (honorary), Northwestern University, 1990; Doctor of the University (honorary), University Sussex, England, 1989.
Research chemist, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Company, Milwaukee, 1950-1954; group leader, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Company, Milwaukee, 1953-1954; chief chemist, Aldrich Chemical Company, Milwaukee, 1954-1955; president, Aldrich Chemical Company, Milwaukee, 1955-1981; chairman, Aldrich Chemical Company, Milwaukee, 1981-1991; president, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, 1975-1980; chairman, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, 1980-1991; chairman emeritus, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, 1991-1992; president, Alfred Bader Fine Arts, Milwaukee, since 1991.
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Guest curator Milwaukee Art Museum, 1976, 89-. Fellow Royal Society Arts, Royal Society Chemistry (honorary). Member American Chemical Society (award Milwaukee section 1971, Parsons' award, 1995, named one of the top 75 distinguished contributors to the chemical enterprise in the last 75 years 1998), Chemical Society London, College Art Association.
Married Isabel Overton, January 26, 1982. Children from previous marriage: David, Daniel.