MSS Shoemaker
The David and Clara Shoemaker Papers document the Shoemakers' professional output as noted x-ray crystallographers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Oregon State University. The collection includes correspondence, research notebooks and scholarly manuscripts, among other material types. David Shoemaker, a former student of Linus Pauling, served as chair of the OSU Chemistry department from 1970-1981.
FEATURED
David Powell Shoemaker, 1920-1995
by Verner Schomaker and Kenneth Hedberg. 1996.
5 pages.
Biographical Sketch of Clara Shoemaker
by Mary F. Singleton. July 10, 1998.
6 pages.
Timeline for David and Clara Shoemaker
Biographical Note: David Shoemaker Biographical Note: Clara Shoemaker
Quantity
39 linear feet; 78 boxes; 266 books
Arrangement
The Shoemaker Papers have been organized into seven series. Broadly speaking, the contents of each series have been arranged chronologically, although many items in Series 4 and Series 7 are arranged alphabetically.
Related Papers
An oral history conducted with Clara Shoemaker is available at the Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library. WISE Archives: Oral History Collection.
The Shoemakers' relationship with Linus Pauling is also well-represented in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, particularly in correspondence files 363.3 and 363.4.
The Special Collections & Archives Research Center's collections also include the Chemistry Department Records (RG 098), which document the research and graduate programs in chemistry at Oregon State primarily in the post-war period of the late 1940s to early 1960s.