The Papers of Adrian Docken, 1910-2003 | Luther College Archives

Collection Overview

Title: The Papers of Adrian Docken, 1910-2003Add to your cart.

ID: LCA/RG15/Docken, A

Primary Creator: Docken, Adrian (1913-2003)

Extent: 4.4 Linear Feet. More info below.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Collection contains scientific reports and analyses for many different organizations. All involve organic chemistry components

Biographical Note

Adrian Docken was born November 17, 1913 in Holt, Minnesota, He graduated from Luther College in 1937 with degrees in chemistry and mathematics. Docken then went and earned a PhD in chemistry in 1941 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the chemistry faculty at Luther College in 1942 and remained until his retirement in 1979. He continued to run his research lab at Luther until 2002. While at Luther, Docken and his colleague George Knudson developed the chemistry major and earned the accreditation of the American Chemical Society.

Docken received several grants and fellowships to support his research and develop Luther's science facilities during his career, including from the National Science Foundation. He spent 1954-1955 as the Faculty Fellow of the Ford Foundation for the Advancement of Education at Yale University, 1961-1962 as the National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow at Imperial College of Science in London, 1967-1968 at Stanford University as the Petroleum Research Fund recipient, and as a visiting scholar in the fall of 1974 at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Docken married Orene Madson, a 1938 Luther graduate, in 1941. They had four children and were active in the local Decorah community.

Docken passed away on November 27, 2003.

Administrative Information

Repository: Luther College Archives

Alternate Extent Statement: 5 boxes

Use Restrictions: Though we may hold the property rights, Luther College Archives does not hold the copyrights for all materials. Individuals may use materials for non-commercial, private use, but commercial users must secure permissions from the copyright holders and/or Luther College Archives to reproduce, publish, or quote protected materials and photographs. For more information about the Luther College copyright and fair use policy, please visit https://www.luther.edu/library/copyright

Preferred Citation: Cite unpublished materials: Adrian Docken Papers RG15 Manuscripts, Luther College Archives, Decorah, Iowa

Finding Aid Revision History:

6/10/24: Abby Bates updated copyright policy link.

11/15/19: EC updated the preferred citation.


Box and Folder Listing


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[Box 1: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1955-2000, n.d.],
[Box 2: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1910-2000, n.d.],
[Box 3: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1942-1996, n.d.],
[Box 4: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1938-1997, n.d.],
[Box 5: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1973-2003, n.d.],
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Box 1: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1955-2000, n.d.Add to your cart.
Folder 1: COSIP Grant Papers, 1972-1976, 1980, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: National Science Foundation (NSF) Equipment Grant 1, 1962-1963Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Iowa Science Foundation (ISF) Proposal, 1997Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Iowa Academy, 1994-1997, 2002-2003Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Undergraduate Research Participation (URP) Grant, 1966-1968Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Faculty Research Grant II, 1982, 1984, 1987Add to your cart.
Item 1: Council for Chemical Research mail, 1983Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Pew Grant, 1988-1989Add to your cart.
Folder 8: ACS - Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) Fellowship at Stanford, 1966-1969Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Undergraduate Research Participation (URP) Grant, 1979-1980Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Grant Material - Shell Proposal, 1963-1980, 1987, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: Undergraduate Research Participation (URP) Grant, 1969-1970Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Undergraduate Research Participation (URP) Final Copy, 1980Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) Application - Type B, 1969Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) Application and Grant, 1964-1966, 1970, 1981, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: First Notice 69A Proposal, 1979, 1980Add to your cart.
Folder 16: 3M Proposal, 1965Add to your cart.
Folder 17: National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Fellowship, 1960, 1962, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 18: National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant I, 1955-1959, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 19: National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant II, 1958-1961Add to your cart.
Folder 20: National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant III, 1959-1964Add to your cart.
Folder 21: National Institutes of Health (N.I.H.) Research, 1958-1960Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) Evaluations, 1967-1968, 1973Add to your cart.
Folder 23: U of MN and U of IA Mass Spectrometry Forms, 1987, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Copies of Forms sent to Colorado State NMR Facility, 1984, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 25: Instructions and Forms for Colorado State NMR Facility, 1985-1986, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 26: Nebraska Mass Spectrometry Facility, 1984, 1987Add to your cart.
Item 2: Iowa State University Chemical Instrument Services, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 27: Klaus Mullen, 2002, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 28: U of M Cyclic Voltammetry Results on HHHBC and THNBC (HBC), January 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 29: UVs on Hexabenzocoronenes (HBCs), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 30: Hexamethoxy (HM) Hexabenzocoronene (HBC) and Organic Ferromagnets, 1988, 2000, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 31: Mass Specs, Nicolet, IBM, CSU, 1982, 1985, 1991, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 32: High Resolution Mass Specs on Hydrabenzocoronenes (HBC's) - Correspondence, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Fourier Transform Infrareds (FT-IR) of Hydrabenzocoronenes (HBC), undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 34: Mike Daniels Reports, summer 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 35: Michael Ward, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 36: NASA - Bernstein, 1999, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 37: Hart's Reprints, 1981-1986, 1990-1991Add to your cart.
Folder 38: Pitzenberger - NMR on Hydrabenzocoronenes (HBC), 1992Add to your cart.
Folder 39: NMR's on hexabenzocoronenes (HBC) - oxidation product and methoxy cpds, 1982-1984Add to your cart.
Folder 40: NMR's on DiMe TMTPB and supposed DiMe TMTBA, 1984Add to your cart.
Folder 41: NMR's on Hydroxy HBC's, TMHBC solid and HMHBC solid, 1984-1986, 1991, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 42: Dave Weil 3M - Mass Spectrums, 1991, 1993Add to your cart.
Folder 43: Electrospray Mass Spectrometry at various colleges (including NYU), 1992, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 44: NMR's on oxidized hydrabenzocoronenes (HBC) - Gerstein, 1992Add to your cart.
Folder 45: NMR's on Oxidized Product from HHHBC (HBC), 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 46: Experimental Research Data, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 47: HMHPB-HHHBC, 1974, 1978-1979, 1982, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 48: Dimethoxytolane, Dianisyl acetylene, 1970-1976, 1983-1988, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 49: Anisoin - Anisil, 1967, 1980-1985, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 50: Ideas for Oxidation of HHHBC's (HBC), Methoxy cpds etc, 1981, 1989, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 51: Di p-tolyl acetone and Dimethyoxy dibenzyl ketone, 1982, 1988, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 52: DMHBC and precursors, 1982, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 53: TMHPB - TMHBC, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 54: Oxidation Product of Benzil bis Hydrazone, 1987, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 55: Ethoxy-series NMR's and Mass Specs, 1986, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 56: Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) on oxidized hydrabenzocoronenes (HBC), 1992, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 3: Mass Spec on 9,10-Dimethyl TPB and cyclized rearranged product from U of MN, October 1984Add to your cart.
Folder 57: Hexaphenylbenzene (HPB) and Hexabenzocoronene (HBC), 1967, 1976, 1986, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 58: Hydrabenzocoronenes (HBC) with N- Cation plus +, 1987-1988Add to your cart.
Folder 59: Hexamethoxyhexabenzocoronene (HBC) precursors spectra, etc., undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 60: Transparencies on hexabenzocoronene (HBC) Project - Ethoxy Series, 1986, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 61: Hexabenzocoronene (HBC) Project - Miscellaneous, 1976-1994, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 62: Hexabenzocoronene (HBC) Project - Miscellaneous, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 63: Hexabenzocoronene (HBC) Project, 1986-1998, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 64: Hexabenzocoronenes (HBCs) Transparencies and Worksheets, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 65: Ideas for further work, 1973-1978, 1992-1998, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 66: Cyanocarbons Experimental Research Data, 1973, 1979-1980, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 67: Preparation of Vossen's Salt - Chloralidene Dimethylmalonate (DMM), 1978-1979, 1995, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 68: "Red" Salt from Vossen's, undatedAdd to your cart.

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[Box 1: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1955-2000, n.d.],
[Box 2: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1910-2000, n.d.],
[Box 3: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1942-1996, n.d.],
[Box 4: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1938-1997, n.d.],
[Box 5: Papers of Adrian Docken, 1973-2003, n.d.],
[All]