\"National Academy of Sciences\" John Margrave Signed FDC Dated 1962 For Sale

Up for sale "National Academy of Sciences" John Margrave Signed First Day Cover Dated 1962. 

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Upon leaving the army, John returned to the

University of Kansas, where he was a Summerfield Scholar and a Slosson Fellow.

He received a B.S. in engineering physics in 1948. During his undergraduate

years, however, he developed a deep and enduring passion for chemistry that

persisted to the end of his life. Immediately after receiving his B.S. John

enrolled in the graduate program of the university’s chemistry department. He

was the first graduate advisee of Professor Paul W. Gilles, who himself had

been the first graduate student of Leo Brewer. John would later encounter

Brewer at the University of California at Berkeley. John’s work in Gilles’s

laboratory—partly fluorine chemistry and partly a preview of his later career, much of which was devoted to

“chemistry under extreme conditions.” Evidently his experimental skills were

already exceptional: He earned his Ph.D. degree in only two years, including

having written a 300-page dissertation. In the same year he got his doctorate,

he married Mary Lou Davis, the daughter of a prominent Kansas family.