Alfred Bader : The Adventures of a Chemist Collector

Bader, Alfred

ISBN 10: 0297834614 / ISBN 13: 9780297834618

Published by Orion Publishing Group, Limited, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alfred Bader : The Adventures of a Chemist Collector
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Limited
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297834614
• ISBN 13: 9780297834618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.53 pounds

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Synopsis

Born in Vienna, Alfred Bader fled to England at the age of fourteen, ten months before the outbreak of World War II. Although a Jewish refugee from the Nazis, he was interned in 1940, along with other 'enemy aliens', and sent to a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp.
Obtaining his release in 1941, he was accepted at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where he studied engineering chemistry. There followed a fellowship in organic chemistry at Harvard. He worked in Milwaukee as a research chemist for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and in 1951 co-founded Aldrich, which today, as Sigma-Aldrich, is the world's largest supplier of research chemicals.
He spent forty years building Aldrich's distinctive reputation, and the extraordinary story of how he was eventually thrown off the board of Sigma-Aldrich will be of key interest to people in the chemical industry worldwide, as well as to students of business.
After leaving Sigma-Aldrich, he continued a fruitful career as an art collector and dealer, and he has some very pertinent and amusing things to say about his experiences in the art world.