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Charles Baskerville was the first editor of the student newspaper, the Tar Heel, and played fullback for Carolina's football teams of 1892 to 1894. He taught chemistry at the university, chaired the department from 1900 to 1904, and in 1903 announced two new elements, carolinium and berzelium, before leaving for the City College of New York.
Source: NCpedia: Baskerville, Charles (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1979)
1870–1922 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
1 indexed work is connected with this person, and the index includes 4 works by Charles Baskerville.
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Charles Baskerville, professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina, reports on a case of spontaneous combustion, a hazard associated with fires in textile factories. Read before the midwinter meeting of the North Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society and printed at Chapel Hill in 1900 from the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society.
A short chemical note on a qualitative test for tin, read by Charles Baskerville at the midwinter meeting of the North Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society on February 24, 1900, and printed at Chapel Hill from the February 1900 Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. It concerns tin and its analysis.
Charles Baskerville on the serum treatment for diphtheria, reprinted from the University Magazine for February 1895 and issued by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Charles Baskerville sets out an improved way of preparing pure zirconium chlorides, reprinted from the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society and issued at Chapel Hill. Dated to the 1890s. A chemistry paper of interest chiefly as evidence of the research going into print from the university town in that decade.
Letters and data sheets from H. B. Battle and others, sent from 1892 to 1894 to Benjamin W. Kilgore, then assistant chemist at the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. They deal with the station's chemical work, trials of phosphoric acid, castor pomace and cottonseed meal as fertilizers, and various inquiries. Charles Baskerville and Charles E. Brewer are among the names connected with the letters. 56 images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Baskerville, Charles, 1870-1922.
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