Album 1 Pages 1-10
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Album 2 Pages 11-20
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900 K)
Album 3 Pages
21-30
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1 MB)
Album 4 Pages 31-40
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608 K)
Album 5 Pages 41-50
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736 K)
Album 6 Pages 51-60
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Album 7 Pages 61-70
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1.8 MB)
Album 8 Pages 71-80
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Album 9 Pages 81-88
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Album 10 Pages 89-102
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In the first part of this book I described my scientific and some personal history and experiences. I next told my upbringing in a little town, my years in the university, the industrial years and the academic years at the University of Massachusetts and the Polytechnic University. I also portrayed my roles in professional societies, teaching, some professional "politics" and international activities. Much of my writing was devoted to science and "how things happened". This latter part was supported with some figures and pictures that I thought were necessary for those trained in Chemistry. I took the risk of having the general readership finding these sections of the book too "technical"; I found their inclusions important. When possible I find illustrations very important. They make the stories livelier and names in pictures become more tangible. I have consequently decided to provide a picture section for the book. The collection of pictures illustrates the course of my life. They do not follow the text and are some times completely unrelated to the writing in the book. They do, however, represent the various sectors of my life. How were the pictures selected? I have taken almost all the pictures or others took them with my camera. Occasionally pictures taken from other photographers involving activities in which I was involved are also included. Photography has changed in 75 years. In the beginning few pictures were taken. Frequently, one did not have a camera (nor could we afford to have films developed and pictures made. Black and white pictures gave way to colored slides. As larger and better cameras (à la Pentax) came on the market in the 60's slides as a means of taking pictures became the technique of choice. A new direction in personal photography was the automatic camera and the ease and low cost of taking color pictures. Scanning of pictures or slides, and formatting them to my liking produced nearly all the pictures of this second section of the book. I have not graduated to digital photography and do not plan to do so. Many pictures could have been added. For some sections described in the book there are no pictures. Either I did not have the camera available or it was inappropriate to take pictures. After all 30, 40, and 50 years ago I had not started to think of writing my autobiography.
Otto Vogl
Amherst, April 2005 |