Guide to the Philip Rieger papers, circa 1970

John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Published in 2013

Collection Overview

Title:	Philip Rieger papers
Date range:	circa 1970
Creator:	Rieger, Philip Henri, 1935-
Extent:	1.25 Linear feet
Abstract:	The collection comprises research and lecture notes.
Language of materials:	English
Repository:	John Hay Library , Special Collections
Collection number:	OF.1UF.R2

Scope & content

Access Points

Subject Organizations

• Brown University. Chemistry Dept..
• Brown University. Faculty.

Subject Topics

• Chemistry--Study and teaching (Higher)
• Electrochemistry
• Electron paramagnetic resonance

Document Types

• Research notes
• Writings (Document genre)

Subject Topics

• Education

Arrangement

The collection is organized in one series:

• I. Research files

Biographical Note

Philip Rieger (1935-2004) was Professor of Chemistry at Brown University. He died April 17, 2004, in Providence, Rhode Island. Upon graduation from Reed College in 1956, Rieger accepted a Eugene Higgins Fellowship to attend Columbia University. During his Ph.D. studies at Columbia he assisted in the graduate instrument analysis laboratory, gave recitation sections in physical chemistry and was supported as a US Rubber Company Fellow and subsequently as an NSF Cooperative Fellow. His Ph.D. work at Columbia under the direction of Prof. George K. Fraenkel began for him what turned into a lifelong investigation in the area of electron spin resonance spectroscopy. For his Ph.D. studies, he investigated various transition metal chelates in solution particularly those of vanadium (IV) and a variety of anion radicals derived from aromatic compounds. This work led to several papers in the Journal of the American Chemical.

On June 18, 1957 he married Anne B. Lloyd, who also graduated with an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Reed College and who also obtained her Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Columbia University. He and Anne moved to Providence in 1962 where he was appointed as an instructor for one year following which he moved through the ranks of Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at Brown. Other professional appointments included yearlong sabbaticals at the University of Adelaide in 1970, the University of Otago in1977 and the University of Bristol in 1991, and the University of Vermont. He established close personal and professional relationships with scientists at each of these universities. With many of these individuals he continued active scientific collaboration right up until his death.

Upon joining the ranks of Brown’s emeriti faculty in the summer of 2002 after forty years of service at Brown, Rieger had contributed well over 100 original manuscripts to the chemical literature mainly on the electron paramagnetic studies of classical inorganic coordination compounds, organometallic radicals and radical anions. He had developed methods for the analysis of electron spin resonance spectra of frozen solutions and powders and he also developed theoretical methods for the interpretation of the ESR spectra of these species to illuminate the electronic structure of the molecules that he studied. He was a chemistry consultant for the Educational Testing Service of Princeton NJ and he authored a highly successful textbook entitled “Electrochemistry”. For many years he served as the departmental chemistry concentration advisor and he was an active participant on university committees focused on undergraduate education such as the Committee on Academic Standing (CAS) and the College Curriculum Committee (CCC).

Access & Use

Access to the collection:	Collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.
Use of the materials:	Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Preferred citation:	Philip Rieger Papers, OF-1UF-R2, Brown University Archives.
Contact information:	John Hay Library , Special Collections Box A Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Tel: 401-863-2146 email: hay@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION
ABOUT THE FINDING AID
Author:	Finding aid prepared by Brown University Library staff.
Encoding:	This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013 January 25
Descriptive rules:	Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Sponsor:	Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

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