Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation
Marshall Gates research notebooks
Gates, Marshall D., 1915-2003
D.43
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4 box(es)
(4 boxes and 14 volumes)
1909-1988
English
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Biographical / Historical note
Marshall Gates, Jr. (1915-2003) was C.F. Houghton Professor of Chemistry at the University of Rochester until his retirement in 1981 and Professor Emeritus until his death in 2003. Gates came to the University of Rochester at the request of W. Albert Noyes, Jr. in 1949 to be the assistant editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1950, and succeeded Noyes as the 8 th editor of that publication in 1963 until his retirement from that position in 1970.
Gates is most widely known as the first chemist to synthesize morphine in 1952, an enormous achievement he shared with his co-worker Gilg Tschudi. He subsequently created hundreds of compounds and was awarded 13 patents in his quest for the perfect painkiller. Professor Gates was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1958. He won a Fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the New York Academy of Sciences shortly thereafter. Gates authored Looking Back: A Memoir in 1995.
Scope and Contents
The Marshall Gates Research Notebooks collection is comprised of four manuscript boxes containing 107 glass lantern slides, research, dissertations, and fourteen volumes, recording fifty years of Marshall Gates, Jr.'s laboratory activities.
Access
The Marshall Gates Research Notebooks is open for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation Department prior to visiting. Upon arrival, researchers will also be asked to fill out a registration form and provide photo identification.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was the gift of the Marshall Gates Family. The notebook volumes were given in 2004 and the contents of boxes 1-4 were given in 2014.
Use
In consultation with a curator, reproductions may be made upon request. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from a curator. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
Preferred Citation
[Item title, item date], Marshall Gates Research Notebooks, D.43, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Chemists
Scientists
Notebooks
Lantern slides
Gates, Marshall D., 1915-2003
University of Rochester -- Faculty
Series I: Print materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/160132Notebook/repositories/2/archival_objects/1601371938-19391Notebook, Converse Laboratory/repositories/2/archival_objects/160138October 1939-February 22, 19412Notebook, including National Defense Council, March 1941-August 1941; Bryn Mawr College, December 1946-April 1948/repositories/2/archival_objects/1601393Notebook, Bryn Mawr College/repositories/2/archival_objects/160140October 1941-September 19464Notebook, Bryn Mawr College/repositories/2/archival_objects/160141April 1948-December 19485Notebook, Bryn Mawr College/repositories/2/archival_objects/160142December 16, 1948-January 12, 19516Notebook/repositories/2/archival_objects/160143January 14, 1951-November 21, 19527Scope and ContentsThis volume contains Gates's work to synthesize morphine
Notebook/repositories/2/archival_objects/160144September 23, 1952-January 18, 19558Notebook/repositories/2/archival_objects/160145January 31, 1955-June 28, 19659Notebook/repositories/2/archival_objects/160146December 30, 1965-September 26, 197510Notebook/repositories/2/archival_objects/160147October 14, 1975-April 18, 197811Notebook/repositories/2/archival_objects/160148April 21, 1978-April 13, 197912Notebook/repositories/2/archival_objects/160149April 17, 1979-July 8, 198113Notebook/repositories/2/archival_objects/160150September 29, 1981-November 10, 198814Marshall D. Gates, Jr. research notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/160152Summer 193911Synthesis analgesics part II-A morphinans/repositories/2/archival_objects/16015312David Lawrence Frank dissertation/repositories/2/archival_objects/160154197013Notes and drafts relating to the dissertation of David Lawrence Frank/repositories/2/archival_objects/16015514Manuscript pages and letter/repositories/2/archival_objects/160156January 11, 197415Newspaper clippings and ephemera removed from English and German Dictionary, part II/repositories/2/archival_objects/160159circa 1909-191818Series II: Glass lantern slides/repositories/2/archival_objects/160133Slides/repositories/2/archival_objects/16015716Glass slides/repositories/2/archival_objects/16015817Synthesis of morphine/repositories/2/archival_objects/160160195213 slides21Synthesis of morphine, unnumbered/repositories/2/archival_objects/16016119525 slides22Recent advances in chemistry of morphine alkaloids/repositories/2/archival_objects/160162195319 slides23Synthesis of ring systems related to morphine/repositories/2/archival_objects/1601637 slides24Analgesics/repositories/2/archival_objects/160164195417 slides31Obsolete slides on analgesics/repositories/2/archival_objects/1601653 slides32Non-benzenoid aromatics/repositories/2/archival_objects/160166195519 slides33Figures I-IV, unbound edges/repositories/2/archival_objects/1601675 slides34Slides on opium addiction/repositories/2/archival_objects/160168195617 slides41Opium addiction, unbound edges/repositories/2/archival_objects/16016917 slides42Unidentified slides/repositories/2/archival_objects/160170195820 slides43