President of the Colorado Scientific Society (1894)
Charles S. Palmer
Chemist, miner
Graduate Amherst College, A.B. and M.A.; Johns Hopkins, Ph.D.; and Univ. of Leipzig, Germany
Professor of Chemistry, Univ. of Colo.
President, Colorado School of Mines
Head of Chemistry Dept. of Colorado Academy of Science, 1900
Active in Cripple Creek, Creede, and Breckenridge mining districts; chief chemist at Washoe Smelter, Anaconda, Montana; Associate Editor Engineering & Mining Journal; Editor to D. Appleton & Co. Publishing; chemist for several large companies
Discovered, and received a patent for, a process for the reduction of petroleum to gasoline
President, Colorado State Teachers Association; fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; member, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Electrochemical Society, National Education Association, Engineering Society of Western Pennsylvania, and Chemists Club of New York
Author of many articles on chemistry, on the rocks of Boulder County, Colorado, and on meteorites
Sam Rosenblum: Photo of Palmer in Denver Post, July 12, 1935, p. 24
