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[Identification of item], in the Oscar Knefler Rice Papers, #4223, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift 1979

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• Chemists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Federation of American Scientists.
• Military research--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• Rice, Oscar Knefler, 1903-
• School notebooks.
• Science--United States--Societies, etc.
• University of California, Berkeley--Students--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--History--20th century.

Oscar Knefler Rice, chemist and professor, was a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He came to the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1936 and in 1959 was named Kenan Professor of Chemistry. In 1946-1947, he served as principal chemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Materials documenting Rice's career including material relating to his research, some of it defense-related; notes pertaining to his published works; bibliographies; notebooks he kept as a student; and Federation of American Scientists materials.