| LC control no. | no2005095176 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Chappelle, Emmett W. (Emmett William) |
| Variant(s) | Chappelle, Emmett William Chappelle, E. W. (Emmett William) |
| Associated place | Greenbelt (Md.) |
| Located | Baltimore (Md.) |
| Death date | 2019-10-14 |
| Place of birth | Phoenix (Ariz.) |
| Place of death | Baltimore (Md.) |
| Field of activity | Biochemistry |
| Affiliation | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Profession or occupation | Biochemists Inventors |
| Found in | Analytical applications of bioluminescence ... 1975: t.p. (Emmett W. Chappelle) OCLC data base, Oct. 11, 2005: (hdgs.: Chappelle, Emmett W., Chappelle, Emmett William; usage, Emmett W. Chappelle, E.W. Chappelle) Baltimore sun WWW site, viewed Oct. 28, 2019 (in obituary dated Oct 23, 2019: Emmett William Chappelle Sr., a retired NASA scientist, died Oct. 14 at his home in the Garwyn Oaks section of West Baltimore. He was 93. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree from the University of Washington. Mr. Chappelle settled in Baltimore in 1958. He joined the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. Working in NASA's Remote Sensing Division, he was a specialist in the field of luminescence--light without heat--and bioluminescence--warm light produced by living organisms. He worked to find how to gauge plant health and detect bacteria in outer space. He had 15 U.S. patents for inventions in medicine, food science and biochemistry. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007) |
| Associated language | eng |
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