Southwest Retort, Volume 16, Number 9, May 1964 Page: 9
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Head of the Department of Chemistry at the
University of Florida at Gainesville
is final Tour Speaker until fall.
Sisler
Tours in
MayHARRY H. SISLER was born in the hill
country of southern Ohio in 1917. He
entered the Ohio State University in 1933
and graduated with a major in chemistry
and mathematics in 1936. He received the
B.Sc. degree with distinction. He began
graduate work in inorganic chemistry at
the University of Illinois in 1936, receiv-
ing the M.Sc. degree in 1937, and the
Ph.D. degree in 1939. During the last
two years at the University of Illinois he
was University Fellow in Chemistry. His
graduate research was in the field of liquid
ammonia chemistry on the nitrogen-
sulfur acids.
In 1939, Dr. Sisler began teaching in
the Department of Physical Science of
the Chicago City Colleges. In 1941 he
became instructor in chemistry at the
University of Kansas, where he rose to
the rank of Associate Professor by 1945.
He moved to the Department of Chem-
istry of the Ohio State University in 1946
where in 1955 he became Professor of
Inorganic Chemistry. In 1956 he accept-
ed appointment as Head of the Depart-
ment of Chemistry of the University of
Florida. During the fall of 1962, he
taught the introductory chemistry course
at Harvard University as Arthur and Ruth
Sloan Visiting Professor of Chemistry.
During his professional career Dr. Sisler
has published more than 100 papers in
such journals as the "Journal of the
American Chemical Society," ChemicalReviews," "Journal of the American
Ceramic Society" and the "Journal of
Chemical Education." Dr. Sisler has con-
tributed to several volumes of Inorganic
Syntheses and is author or co-author of
nine reference or textbooks in the fields
of general, analytical, and inorganic
chemistry.
His principal researches have been in
the fields of inorganic nitrogen com-
pounds, oxides of nitrogen, chloramine
and hydrazine, liquid ammonia chemistry,
molecular addition compounds, boron hy-
drides and their derivatives, nitrogen-
phosphorus compounds, as well as the
study of reactions at high temperatures
in metal carbide systems. He is a co-
patenter of a new process for the syn-
thesis of hydrazine and of a process for
the synthesis of chloramine, and has a
number of related patents.
Dr. Sisler has been active in the affairs
of the Divisions of Chemical Education
and of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry
of the American Chemical Society, over
a period of years. He is a member of
Alpha Chi Sigma, Phi Lambda Upsilon,
Sigma Xi, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa
Phi, Kappa Delta Pi, Gamma Sigma Ep-
silon, and International Torch Club. He
has served as a member of the Chemistry
Advisory panel of the National Science
Foundation, as national chairman of the
Division of Chemical Education of the
American Chemical Society, and as chair-MAY, 1964
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