According to Wikipedia, Samuel Stephens Kistler was an American scientist and chemical engineer, best known as the inventor of aerogels, one of the lightest known solid materials. Biography Kistler, the son of a shopkeeper, was born in the small town of Cedarville in the far northeastern corner of California. The family moved to the larger Santa Rosa when Kistler was 12, where he first became interested in chemistry. When he entered the College of the Pacific in 1917, however, his plan was to learn to play the cello, then pursue a degree in agriculture. Instead, he ended up taking every science course available, and after three years he moved to Stanford University and obtained a B.A. in chemistry, followed by a chemical engineering degree. He never did learn to play the cello. After a brief spell working for the Standard Oil Company of California, he returned to academia, teaching chemistry at the College of the Pacific until 1931, when he transferred to the University of Illinois.
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THE EFFECT OF PRESSURE ON THE RACEMIZATION OF NITRO DIPHENIC ACID (1957) (0)
A STUDY OF THICK-WALLED CYLINDERS AS TENSILE MEMBERS FOR HIGH PRESSURE VESSELS, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO STEEL AND THEIR HEAT TREATMENT FOR MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE. Technical Report No. III (1958) (0)
THE DESIGN OF PRESSURE VESSELS FOR EXTREME PRESSURE. Technical Report No. LI (1956) (0)
