Scheuer, Paul Josef (31431249): Difference between revisions

Paul Scheuer studied chemistry at Northeastern University in Boston. In January 1945, Scheuer was transferred to Camp Ritchie for military intelligence training. Scheuer received his PhD in chemistry in 1950 under the GI Bill, and joined the University of Hawai'i faculty that year. Paul was born in 1915 in the city of Heilbronn, Germany, and emigrated to the United States in 1938 and graduated from Northeastern University, Boston, with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1943, His graduate studies at Harvard, interrupted by service in the U.S. As a German national, Paul was an enemy alien and had a few travel restrictions. Paul's research during the fall semester of 1943 consisted of many unsuccessful attempts to add ketene to alpha-vinylpyridine, probably in connection with the synthesis of quinine. Paul's spectacular chemical experience was the firing of WP (white phosphorus) shells from 4.2” chemical mortars in the Alabama hills. By January of 1945, Paul had left the Chemical Warfare Service and was assigned for training in military intelligence to Camp Ritchie,|Maryland. Paul had a long and distinguished career as a chemist. Paul passed away on January 12, 2003. He was later drafted into the US Army where he was assigned to the Chemical Warfare Service. He served in Europe at the 3rd Army headquarters in Bavaria, and became a special agent assigned to the Nuremberg trials. He was the author of 13 books on the subject of Marine Natural Products, chemical compounds produced by marine organisms, and was also the recipient of numerous awards. Another distinguished who didn't make Dan Gross' list of Notable. Army, led to a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1950. In December of 1941, the United States entered the war and everybody’s life changed. Like everybody else, he registered for the draft, but was rejected, when was first called.