RARE "Garvin-Olin Medal” Marjorie & Robert Vold Signed FDC Dated 1951 For Sale

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RARE "Garvin-Olin Medal” Marjorie & Robert Vold Signed FDC Dated 1951:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Chemist" Marjorie & Robert Vold Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1951. 

ES-3941

Marjorie

J. Vold (October 25, 1913

– November 4, 1991) was an American chemist. Her research focused on colloids, and was recognized with a Garvan-Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society in

1967. Marjorie Jean Young was born in October 25, 1913 in Ottawa, Ontario, and moved to Mount Hamilton, California

as a child, with her parents Reynold and Wilhelmine Aitken Young. Her

grandfather Robert Grant Aitken cataloged binary stars at Lick Observatory, and her father also worked an astronomer

there. Young attended the University

of California at Berkeley for undergraduate and graduate work,

earning her doctorate in 1936. She did postdoctoral work at Stanford University. Vold

moved to southern California in 1941. She worked as a chemist for Union Oil Company during World War II. In 1947 she became a Research Associate at

the University of Southern

California, and from 1958 until 1974 she held adjunct professor

status there. Her research continued to the end of her life, when she was

working from a hospital bed on her final paper on premicelles. In 1964, Vold and her husband were

authors of Colloidal Chemistry, a widely used reference text.

Marjorie Vold was awarded the Garvan Medal by the American Chemical Society for 1967,

for her pioneering work in computer models of colloids. She was also named

one of the Los Angeles Times "Women

of the Year" for 1966.[5] Vold received a Guggenheim

Fellowship to teach in the Netherlands in 1953-54, the only

woman chemist to earn that honor between 1940 and 1970. In 1957, Vold was the

first woman to address the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. Marjorie Young married fellow chemist Robert

D. Vold in 1936. They had three children, Mary, Robert and Wylda, all born

during World War II. Marjorie

Vold was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in

1958, and used a wheelchair beginning in the early 1960s. She died from

complications of the disease in 1991, age 78.

RARE "Garvin-Olin Medal” Marjorie & Robert Vold Signed FDC Dated 1951

$299.99