Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Keywords
Entrepreneur, diabetes, glucose, newsprint, ruminants, fodder, biuret
Abstract
Jonas Kamlet, Ph.D., as a chemist, inventor, and a significant entrepreneur who founded Kamlet Laboratories in New York City that became the model of a successful consulting firm. Among his hundreds of patents and inventions were a tablet that could be used to measure glucose in urine, a treated strip that could detect pregnancy, a fodder for ruminants that used newsprint, and biuret (a self-condensation product of urea) that could be used as a non-protein component of fodder. Following his death in an airplane collision on December 16, 1960, his wife and collaborator (and later a resident of Florida) carried on the work of the firm until her retirement in about 1979.
Rights Information
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Florida Scientist, v. 70, no. 1, p. 40-44.
Scholar Commons Citation
Martin, Dean F. and Martin, Barbara B., "Jonas Kamlet (1914-1960) Chemist/Entrepreneur" (2007). Chemistry Faculty Publications. 1.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/chm_facpub/1
