Fred Basolo

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Essay on Italian chemist Basolo. Summary of his early life and education. His academic background. Love of teaching. His educational philosophy. His move to the United States. Cites his many honors and awards. His legacy to students of inorganic chemistry. Based on the book PRIESTLEY MEDALIST: A CHEMIST FROM COELLO, by M. Jacoby.

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"Fred Basolo was born in Coello, a coal mining village with a population of roughly 300, in 1920. Basolo's parents had emigrated from the Piedmont region of Northern Italy to escape poverty and famine. He became interested in chemistry in high school. He took a lab course run reluctantly by a home economics teacher who was given the job of teaching the course on Saturdays. The students read the lab book and did a few experiments and Basolo's interest in chemistry was kindled. His principal recommended that Basolo attend college, but he needed some convincing since none of his siblings had even gone to high school and no one in Coello, his home town, had ever gone to college.
Basolo attended the Southern Illinois Normal school in nearby Carbondale, a low-cost school that offered only one type of..."

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