Background
Latimer, Wendell Mitchell was born on April 22, 1893 in Garnett, Kansas, United States. Son of Walter and Emma (Mitchell) Latimer.
Latimer, Wendell Mitchell was born on April 22, 1893 in Garnett, Kansas, United States. Son of Walter and Emma (Mitchell) Latimer.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Kansas, 1915. Doctor of Philisophy, University of California, 1918.
1 son, Walter R.; married second, Glatha Hatfield, June 16, 1926. Children—Eleanor Ann, Robert Milton. Lecturer and demonstrator in chemistry, University of California, 1918-1921, assistant professor, 1921-1923, associate professor, 1924-1931, professor, since 1931.
Assistant dean College Letters and Science, University of California, 1923-1924, dean College of Chemistry, 1941-1950, associate director radiation laboratory, since 1949.
Official investigator National Defense Research Committee, 1942-1943. Member War Department Mission to England, 1943.
Member division 10 committee, National Defense Research Committee. Technical observer and science expert General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area, 1944.
Director Manhattan England District Contract on Chemistry of Plutonium, 1943-1947.
Member War Department Mission to England, 1943. Member division 10 committee, National Defense Research Committee. Member Chemical Corps Research Council, 1947-1951, communications of Electrochemistry of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Academy Political Science, National Academy Sciences, American Chemistry Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Electrochemical Society, Sigma Xi, Alpha Chi Sigma.
Guggenheim Foundation fellow, Munich, 1930. Clubs: Bohemian, Orinda Country, Faculty.
Married Bertha Eichenauer, August, 1917. Married second, Glatha Hatfield, June 16, 1926. Children: Eleanor Ann, Robert Milton.