"Jack Dunitz, after meeting Clara [Brink] in Holland and learning of her plans to come to my laboratory, is reported to have
said to mutual acquaintances: 'I have just met Dave Shoemaker's future wife!' Well it took two years for Dave Shoemaker to
get the picture, but Jack's perceptivity was vindicated when the wedding took place in 1955."
- David Shoemaker, Crystallography in North America, 1983
David Shoemaker
(1920-1995) served as chairman of the Oregon State University Chemistry department from
1970-1981. Primarily an X-ray crystallographer he was the
recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947. His wife, Clara Brink Shoemaker
(1921- ), received her doctorate in chemistry in 1950 from Leiden University, where her
research focus was also X-ray crystallography. She met and married David
Shoemaker while working as a research fellow at MIT in 1955. Clara Shoemaker
became a senior research professor at Oregon State University in 1982 and
retired as professor emeritus. The Shoemaker Papers are comprised chiefly of publications and
correspondence.
Published Article: David Powell Shoemaker, 1920-1995 by Verner Schomaker, Kenneth Hedberg.
1996
Published Article: Biographical Sketch of Clara Shoemaker by Mary F. Singleton.
July 10, 1998
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