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William Standish Knowles [1917-0] American
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Scientist, Chemist


William Standish Knowles was an American chemist. He was born in Taunton, Massachusetts. Knowles was one of the recipients of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.


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At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years.
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I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.
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My family gave me the best in education.
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I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.
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I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.
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I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.
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My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
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In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
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To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
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I was particularly good at math and science.
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At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.
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At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.
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In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.
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Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
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