Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

John G. Kirkwood (1907 - 1959)

Cornell Faculty 1935 - 1947
Theoretical Chemistry

Education
SB, University of Chicago, 1926
PhD, MIT, 1929

Honors
Langmuir Prize (American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry), 1936
Meritorious Civilian Service Award of the U.S. Navy, 1945
Presidential Certificate of Appreciation, 1947
Theodore William Richards Medal of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, 1950
Gilbert Norton Lewis Medal of the California Section of the American Chemical Society, 1953
Honory Doctor of Science, Chicago University, 1954
Honory Doctor of Science, Free University of Brussels, 1959
[John G. Kirkwood Award from the ACS New Haven Section]

Biographies
Scatchard, George. John Gamble Kirkwood 1907-1959. Journal of Chemical Physics (1960), 33 1279-81.
TIMASHEFF S N; BROWN R A; CANN J R John G. Kirkwood, 1907-1959. Archives of biochemistry and biophysics (1960 Feb), 86 i-iii.
Anon. Laurels to Kirkwood and Cram. Chemical & Engineering News (1953), 31 4900-1.
Anon. John G. Kirkwood. Chemical & Engineering News (1950), 28 1823.

Academic Geneaology
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/index.htm (Oct 11, 2004)

Kirkwood, John Gamble (1907-1959) (PhD 1929, MIT)
Keyes, Frederick George (1885-1976) (PhD 1909, Brown)
Bucher, John Emery (1872-1943) (PhD 1894, Johns Hopkins)
Morse, Harmon Northrop (1848-1920) (PhD 1875, Göttingen)
Hübner, Hans Julius Anton Edward (1837-1884) (PhD 1859, Göttingen)
Wöhler, Friedrich (1800-1882) (MD 1823, Heidelberg)
Gmelin, Leopold (1788-1853) (PhD 1812, 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)

Selected Publications

Brinkley, Stuart R., Jr.; Kirkwood, John G.. Theory of the propagation of shock waves from infinite cylinders of explosive. Physical Review (1947), 72 1109-13.

Kirkwood, John G.. Errata: Statistical mechanics of transport processes. II. Transport in gases. Journal of Chemical Physics (1947), 15 155.

Kirkwood, John G.. The statistical mechanical theory of transport processes. II. Transport in gases. Journal of Chemical Physics (1947), 15 72-6.

Kirkwood, John G.. Errata: Statistical mechanics of transport processes. I. General theory. Journal of Chemical Physics (1946), 14 347.

Kirkwood, John G.. The statistical mechanical theory of transport processes. I. General theory. Journal of Chemical Physics (1946), 14 180-201.

Kirkwood, John G.. Elastic loss and relaxation times in cross-linked polymers. Journal of Chemical Physics (1946), 14 51-6.

Nielsen, Lawrence E.; Kirkwood, John G.. The fractionation of proteins by electrophoresis-convection. Journal of the American Chemical Society (1946), 68 181-5.