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World War I

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At the time I graduated from MIT in 1917, this country had entered World War I. I then accepted a wartime job at American University in Washington, D.C. which at that time seemed appropriate for a chemist. The work was with poison gases, probably to try to improve the chemical steps in their manufacture. J.B. Conant, later well known as a chemist and administrator, was in charge. If I remember correctly he was then in uniform as a lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS). I think I had some good ideas about the chemical preparation of mustard gas, but was too timid to talk to him about them.

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Mulliken, R.S., Ransil, B.J. (1989). World War I. In: Ransil, B.J. (eds) Life of a Scientist. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61320-3_4

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