Further reading

Bikales, Norbert. “Herman Mark’s Children.” In Polymers to the Year 2000 and Beyond: A Memorial Symposium for Herman F. Mark, eds. Sheldon Atlas, Eli Pearce, and F.R. Eirich. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1993. 143-150

Carraher, C.E. “Polymer Education and the Mark Connection.” In Polymer Science Overview: A Tribute To Herman F. Mark, ed. G. Allan Stahl. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1981. 123-142.

Clare, George. Last Waltz in Vienna. London: F.A. Thorpe, 1981.

Furukawa, Yasu. Inventing Polymer Science: Staudinger, Carothers, and the Emergence of Marcromolecular Chemistry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

Goodman, Murray. “Herman Mark, My Career Catalyst.” In Polymers to the Year 2000 and Beyond: A Memorial Symposium for Herman F. Mark, eds. Sheldon Atlas, Eli Pearce, and F.R. Eirich. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1993. 187-191.

Hunt, Morton. “Profiles: Polymers Everywhere,” The New Yorker, September 13, 1958.

Mark, Herman. From Small Organic Molecules to Large: A Century of Progress. In Profiles, Pathways, and Dreams: Autobiographies of Eminent Chemists, ed. Jeffrey Seeman. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1993.

Morawetz, Herbert. Polymers: The Origins and Growth of a Science. New York: Dover Publications, 1985.

Morris, Peter J.T. Polymer Pioneers: A Popular History of the Science and Technology of Large Molecules. Philadelphia: Center for the History of Chemistry, 1986.

Pauling, Linus. “Herman F. Mark and the Structure of Crystals.” In Polymer Science Overview: A Tribute to Herman F. Mark, ed. G. Allan Stahl. Washington, D.C: American Chemical Society, 1981. 93-99.

Stahl, G. Allan. “Herman Mark: The Continuing Invasion.” In Polymer Science Overview: A Tribute To Herman F. Mark, ed. G. Allan Stahl. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1981. 105-121.

Stahl, G. Allan. “Herman F. Mark: The Early Years, 1895-1926.” In Polymer Science Overview: A Tribute To Herman F. Mark, ed. G. Allan Stahl. Washington, D.C: American Chemical Society, 1981. 5-19.

Acknowledgments
Photo Credits: Polytechnic University, Hans Mark

Written by Judah Ginsberg.
The author wishes to thank Hans Mark, Eli Pearce, Herbert Morawetz, and Murray Goodman for sharing their memories of Herman Mark and the founding of the Polymer Research Institute. Drs. Mark, Pearce, Morawetz, and Goodman not only agreed to be interviewed, but they also generously granted their time to edit these pages. Needless to say, any errors are mine alone.

Thanks as well to Drs. James Bohning and Jeffrey Sturchio for directing me to their lengthy three-part interview with Herman Mark, conducted in 1986.

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