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Spotlight: Rodebush, Worth H. (1887-1959)
Worth Huff Rodebush was born on a farm near Selden, Kansas in 1887. As his biographers stated, "The child of a frontier, rural society which had little interest in pure science, he became part of the scholarly community which developed modern physical chemistry." Rodebush received his PhD in 1917 while working with Wendell Latimer at the University of California, Berkeley. With Latimer, he developed the concept and theory of the hydrogen bond. He joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Illinois as an Associate Professor in charge of the Division of Physical Chemistry in 1921....