Boy Chemist “Eats Up” Course in Foodstuffs (Dec, 1938)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1938
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1938
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Boy Chemist “Eats Up” Course in Foodstuffs
Relationship between the fields of chemistry and cookery is the research project that interests seventeen-year-old Edgar Friedenberg, the youngest man ever to appear on a program of the American Chemical Society. Friedenberg is pictured below taking time off from his studies in synthetic foodstuffs to try a little practical work with the frying pan.
This is odd because the paper he delivered was A Plea for the Establishment of Courses in Scientific Journalism http://www-sul.stanford.edu/de.....0th_1.html
Apparently he just passed away in 2000 “Edgar Z. Friedenberg, PhD’46, a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University, died June 1 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was 79. A scholar of education and gender studies, Friedenberg left the U.S. during the Vietnam era. His 1959 book, The Vanishing Adolescent, a sociological study of teens, has been reprinted ten times and translated into several languages. He was active in the Canadian Civil Liberties Union.” http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0.....print.html
Comment by Firebrand38 — May 3, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
Great detective work FB.
Comment by Tim Giachetti — May 5, 2008 @ 2:50 am
I’ve read his autobiography. He was an interesting guy, but he didn’t grow up to be a scientist. He did however enter university at age 13.
Comment by Blurgle — May 5, 2008 @ 5:33 am