Background
He was born in Leavenworth, Kansas on June 15, 1895. He was the son of Joseph Secondule LaMer and Anna Pauline Kuhn.
He was born in Leavenworth, Kansas on June 15, 1895. He was the son of Joseph Secondule LaMer and Anna Pauline Kuhn.
University of Kansas.
They had three daughters. He died on September 26, 1966 in Nottingham. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas in 1915.
Over the next two years, he did a number of jobs, which include a high school teacher, a student at the University of Chicago, and a research chemist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
In 1921, he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1948.
He was also a member of American Chemical Society.