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256 x 192 mm. Large 8vo. Pages 1141-1145. [Entire Volume: 1141-1680 pp.] 5 figs, 3 tables. Black cloth, gilt spine. Ex library spine number, pocket on rear paste-down. Ownership rubber stamp. Very good. Also: WALLING, Cheves (1916-2007); Emorene R. ["Randy"] BRIGGS (1920-2008); Frank R. MAYO (1908-1987). "The Kinetics of the Thermal Polymerization of Styrene." July 1946. Cheves Walling was an American organic chemist, having been a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at and also the former Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the American Chemical Society. He was also a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Briggs began her career as a research chemist for U.S. Rubber Co. in Passaic, N.J. She was part of the team that discovered extended polystyrene. he was also a licensed bush pilot and a member of the American Chemical Society. "She worked on the team that helped develop Styrene and over her lifetime did work with the Corp of Engineers here in Alaska". [Roland Briggs blog]. "Frank R. Mayo was a research chemist who worked for a variety of companies and won the 1967 Award in Polymer Chemistry from the American Chemical Society for his work on the Mayo-Lewis equation in polymer chemistry which describes the distribution of monomers in a copolymer." [Wikip.] Mayo was professionally a research chemist with Du Pont, "an instructor at the University of Chicago where his primary role was the supervision of Morris Kharasch's research group, a group leader at U.S. Rubber during and after World War II, a research associate at General Electric, and finally, a fellow at SRI International." [Science History Institute].