Background
Rochow, Theodore George was born on July 8, 1907 in Newark. Son of Theodore Carl and Mary Catherine (Liebermann) Rochow.
(Resinography is a strange new word to many people. Like a...)
Resinography is a strange new word to many people. Like all scientific terms, it is a word coined for a specific purpose: to indicate (in this case) that resins, polymers, and plastics write their own history on the molecular and other structural levels. The word indicates further that anyone trained and equipped to ask the right questions (by means of instruments and techniques) will be able to read that history. That person must have sufficient training and experience to interpret the answers, of course, and he or she needs to have the temperament of a detective. But in the end, as readers of this book will discover, one is able to identify the material, to determine its history of treatment, and to learn much about its possible field of usefulness. Obviously, the resinographer seeks to do the same thing with res ins, polymers, and plastics that the metallographer does with metals and their alloys. Often the investigative techniques and the instru ments, too, are similar, but sometimes they are decidedly different. Perhaps it would be best to say that resinography and metallographyl (and petrography as well) share a common origin, and that origin is deeply rooted in microscopy. The "grandfather" of all three "ographies" was Henry Clifton Sorby (1826-1908),2 who initiated 3 metallography and petrography, and was the first to report on the microstructure of a resin (amber, a natural fossil resin).
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Rochow, Theodore George was born on July 8, 1907 in Newark. Son of Theodore Carl and Mary Catherine (Liebermann) Rochow.
Bachelor Chemistry, Cornell University, 1929. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1934.
Microscopist, American Cyanamid Company, Linden, New Jersey, 1934-1937; group leader, American Cyanamid Company, Stamford, Connecticut, 1937-1955; research fellow, American Cyanamid Company, Stamford, Connecticut, 1955-1969; associate professor of chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 1969-1975; associate professor emeritus, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, since 1975.
(Resinography is a strange new word to many people. Like a...)
(Resinography is a strange new word to many people. Like a...)
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Life member Friends of Library., North Carolina State University, 1988. Member American Society for Testing and Materials (Merit award 1968, Templin award 1973), American Chemical Society (emeritus, symposia participant, 50-Year Member award 1988), Microscopy Society of America (charter, past secretary, board directors), New York Micros. Society (president 1967-1968, chairman editorial committee on glossary since 1980, Ashby award 1968), Sigma Xi.
Married Corinne Weiler, 1934 (deceased 1956). 1 child, Theodore Frederick. Married Elizabeth Cook, June 14, 1958.