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Married Gerda V. Bierzonski, April 28, 1951.
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Meeting Minutes - Prague, Czechoslovakia (Meeting chaired by Norbert M. Bikales.), 1984.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, City College of New York, 1951; Master of Science in Chemistry, Polytech.
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Nomenclature - Recycling - includes reprints and definitions, 1993-1997.
With IUPAC, Bikales served as Secretary of the Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature (also called Commission IV.I) (1977-1987) and as Chairman of the Working Party on Recycling of Plastics (1993-1997).
Norbert M. Bikales was the recipient of several awards, including the Great Medal of the City of Paris (1985) and the National Science Foundation's Distinguished Service Award (1999).
He was accepted, but his parents were ordered to leave for Poland before the transport was scheduled to depart.
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Reading File: 1985-1987 - correspondence, minutes, publications, 1985-1987.
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Sub-series Description
Arranged alphabetically by subject, this sub-series contains miscellaneous administrative files generated by IUPAC's Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature (Commission IV.I) that were collected and maintained by Norbert M.
Bikales. The contents of these files include, but are not limited to, correspondence, reprints, proposals, and a manuscript.
Classification - includes some reprints, 1966-1989.
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Minutes (of Commission) - minutes only, 1971-1992. The collection also includes a postcard depicting the Chateau de Quincy-sous-Sénart.
The Nobert Bikales photographs are arranged as a single series.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
Le 28 octobre 1938, Salomon, le père de Norbert et son frère aîné, Richard (né en 1921) sont arrêtés et déportés à la frontière Polonaise comme les autres Juifs d'origine polonaise. In December 1943 Norbert was transferred to a children's home in Speicher sponsored by the Swiss Council for Refugees.
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American Chemical Society Polymer Division - Division of Organic Coatings and Plastics Chemistry (ORPL) Name Change (Norbert M.
Bikales as incoming Division Chairman helped bring this inter-divisional dispute to a satisfactory conclusion.) - correspondence, 1981-1982. He was involved with this ACS division in various capacities, which included serving a single term as Division Chairman (1983).
Arranged in its original order, this series contains Bikales' ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry administrative files, which document his activities with the division, including his term as Division Chairman.
Après son arrivée à Paris, Norbert est envoyé château de Quincy-sous-Sénart, à 30 km au sud est de Paris. En Creuse, ils ne seront pas épargnés et les gendarmes viennent chercher les enfants de plus de 16 ans, y compris à Chaumont. They expected to be reunited with Norbert as soon as the family received American visas.
During World War II, under the protection of the Oeuvre des Secours aux Enfants (OSE), Bikales was hidden in Nazi occupied France for a time, then escaped to Switzerland in 1943.
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Meeting Minutes - Leuven, Belgium, 1981. Richard, déporté au camp de concentration de Janowska a pu s'échapper et se cacher durant toute la guerre avec Charlotte qu'il a épousée en 1940.