Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Louis M. Dennis (1863 - 1936)

Cornell Faculty 1891 - 1932
Inorganic Chemistry
Chair, 1903-1931

Education
PhB, University of Michigan, 1885

Biographies
Browne, A. W. Louis Munroe Dennis. Ind. Eng. Chem. (1930), 22 1257-8.
Lauby's Cornell Chemical Recollections, August 1970, “THE KING”

Academic Geneaology
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/index.htm (Sept 24, 2004)

Dennis, Louis Munroe (1863-1936) (PhD 1886, Michigan)
Hempel, Walther Matthias (1851-1916) (PhD 1873, Heidelberg)
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-1899) (PhD 1830, Göttingen)
Friedrich Stromeyer (1776-1835) (MD 1800, Göttingen)
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829) (MA 1790, Paris)
Antoine Francois de Fourcroy (1755-1809) (MD 1780, Paris)
Jean Baptiste Michel Bucquet (1746-1780) (MD 1770, Paris)
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) (LLB 1758, Paris)
Guillaume Francois Rouelle (1703-1770) (Apothecary 1725, Paris)

PhD Granted Students

Magee, William Henry (1894)
Chamot, Émile Monnin (1897)
Dales, Benton (1901)
Browne, Arthur Wesley (1903)
Middleton, Arthur Renwick (1903)
Isham, Helen (1906)
Mathers, Frank Curry (1907)
Geer, William Chauncey (1912)
Smith, Gilbert Brown Lorenzo (1922)
Johnson, Edgar Blauvelt (1923)

Selected Publications

Dennis, L. M.; Hunter, H. L. Germanium. XXVII. Germanium dichloride. Journal of the American Chemical Society (1929), 51 1151-4.

Dennis, L. M.; Rhodes, F. H. Fractional crystallization of the picrates of the rare earths of the didymium group. Journal of the American Chemical Society (1915), 37 807-15.

Dennis, L. M.; Lemon, B. J. The electrolysis of solutions of the rare earths. Journal of the American Chemical Society (1915), 37 131-7.

Dennis, L. M.; Anderson, R. P. Hydrogen telluride and the atomic weight of
tellurium. Journal of the American Chemical Society (1914), 36
882-909. CODEN: JACSAT ISSN:0002-7863. CAN 8:14343 AN 1914:14343
CAPLUS (Copyright 2004 ACS on SciFinder (R))

Dennis, L. M.; Bennett, C. W. Fractional Crystallization of the Picrates of
the Rare Earths. Journal of the American Chemical Society (1912), 34
7-10. CODEN: JACSAT ISSN:0002-7863. CAN 6:4516 AN 1912:4516 CAPLUS
(Copyright 2004 ACS on SciFinder (R))

Dennis, L. M.; McCarthy, Ellen S. The Determination of Benzene in
Illuminating Gas. Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science
(1908), Volume Date Jun 1908-19 Jun 1908, 97 282-4,293-6. CODEN: CHNWAY
CAN 2:11419 AN 1908:11419 CAPLUS (Copyright 2004 ACS on SciFinder
(R))

Dennis, L. M.; McCarthy, Ellen S. The Determination of Benzene in
Illuminating Gas. Journal of the American Chemical Society (1908), 30
233-47. CODEN: JACSAT ISSN:0002-7863. CAN 2:4139 AN 1908:4139 CAPLUS
(Copyright 2004 ACS on SciFinder (R))

Dennis, L. M.; Hawley, L. F. Upon the Chemical Nature of the Radium
Emanation. Physical Review (1908), 24 511-4. CODEN: PHRVAO
ISSN:0031-899X. CAN 2:1408 AN 1908:1408 CAPLUS (Copyright 2004 ACS
on SciFinder (R))

Dennis, L. M.; Isham, Helen. Hydronitric Acid. VI. Ber. (1907), 40
458-68. CAN 1:4565 AN 1907:4565 CAPLUS (Copyright 2004 ACS on
SciFinder (R))

Dennis, L. M.; Isham, Helen. Hydronitric Acid. VI. Journal of the
American Chemical Society (1907), 29 216-23. CODEN: JACSAT
ISSN:0002-7863. CAN 1:4564 AN 1907:4564 CAPLUS (Copyright 2004 ACS
on SciFinder (R))

Dennis, L. M.; Isham, Helen. Hydronitric Acid V. Journal of the American
Chemical Society (1907), 29 18-31. CODEN: JACSAT ISSN:0002-7863. CAN
1:2112 AN 1907:2112 CAPLUS (Copyright 2004 ACS on SciFinder (R))

Dennis, L. M.; Browne, A. W. Hydronitric acid and the inorganic trinitrides.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1904), 26(6), 577-612.
CODEN: JACSAT ISSN:0002-7863. CAN 0:1963 AN 1906:1963 CAPLUS
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Dennis, L. M.; Geer, W. C. The atomic weight of indium. [Preliminary Note.].
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1904), 26(4), 437-8.
CODEN: JACSAT ISSN:0002-7863. CAN 0:1939 AN 1906:1939 CAPLUS
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Dennis, L. M.; O'Neill, J. G. The determination of benzene in illuminating
gas. Journal of the American Chemical Society (1903), 25(5), 503-11.
CODEN: JACSAT ISSN:0002-7863. CAN 0:1696 AN 1906:1696 CAPLUS
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Dennis, L. M.; Dales, Benton. Contributions to the chemistry of the rare
earths of the ittrium group. I. Journal of the American Chemical Society
(1902), 24(5), 401-35. CODEN: JACSAT ISSN:0002-7863. CAN 0:1455 AN
1906:1455 CAPLUS (Copyright 2004 ACS on SciFinder (R))

Dennis, L. M.; Brown, O. W. Potassium perselenate-preliminary note.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1901), 23(5), 358-9. CODEN:
JACSAT ISSN:0002-7863. CAN 0:1300 AN 1906:1300 CAPLUS (Copyright
2004 ACS on SciFinder (R))