Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Ralph Gardner-Chavis
Ralph Gardner-Chavis
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| Other authors / contributors: | Gardner-Chavis, Ralph, 1922-2018, interviewee.
Williams, Regennia N., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Regennia Williams, interviewer.
Recorded Cleveland, Ohio 2004 March 19.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Chemist and professor Ralph Gardner-Chavis was born on December 3, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1943. Gardner-Chavis earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Cleveland's Western Reserve University. From 1943 to 1947, Gardner-Chavis was employed as a research assistant on the Manhattan Project, which resulted in the United States developing the atomic bomb to end World War II in 1945. After the war, Gardner-Chavis worked as a research chemist and project leader at Standard Oil of Ohio from 1949 to 1968. Gardner-Chavis became a full-time faculty member in Cleveland State University's chemistry department in 1968, where he remained until 1985. He later combined part-time teaching with work in the research lab of the Molecular Technology Corporation. Gardner-Chavis became a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity in 1942, and AIChE in 2001.
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