Talk:Victor LaMer#rfc B7259A6

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There's disagreement between User:PamD and myself regarding the spelling of the subject's last name. There seem to be plenty of WP:RS for either version, including a [http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/la-mer-victor.pdf PNAS biography] that spells his name both ways. Suggestions or additional comments are welcome! -- bender235 (talk) 19:19, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

• In my opinion we should adopt the version commonly used in library catalogues and by the subject himself, as for instance here in [https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/1933002 his doctoral thesis]. -- bender235 (talk) 19:19, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
• Note: {{ping|Bender235}}, I moved part of your comment from the RFC statement to here just to ensure strict compliance with WP:RFCNEUTRAL. Hope that's okay! Obviously feel free to revert.--Jerome Frank Disciple 21:19, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

File:Lamer thesis 1921.jpg

• LaMer: We should use the spelling used in the sources in our article: the NAS biographical memoir (which uses "La Mer" in its title but "LaMer" consistently in its text), the APS membership list, the chair named for him, and the American National Biography article. I suggest that library systems, and perhaps publishers, have struggled to handle this "Camel case" surname, with the capital in the middle. Given that both forms of his name seem to have been used, I've added the other spelling to the lead, and created redirects from every variation, but the article title should be the one our sources support. PamD 22:14, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
• The [http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001620.html NAS membership list] spells his name 'La Mer'. Also, the spelling of 'La Mer' is not just in the library catalog entry of his doctoral thesis, but also in [https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.7.9.279 the published PNAS version] of it. You'd have to assume that this was his preferred spelling. --bender235 (talk) 05:09, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
• :@Bender235 Not unless we saw a copy of his typescript as submitted: again, we can't know whether publication systems couldn't cope with the "camel case" and added the space. PamD 16:30, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
• :{{Ping|PamD}} I was able to find a copy of his 1921 doctoral thesis, and it appears you're right after all. He spells his name LaMer. --bender235 (talk) 20:48, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
• ::@Bender235 Thanks for that, and well done for finding it! Given that [https://www.chem.columbia.edu/content/history the uni] where he taught for 40 years, and [https://www.clarkson.edu/news/clarkson-university-receives-15-million-gift-create-lamer-chair the other one] where they've got a chair in his name, and [https://www.colloidssurfaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2021-LaMer-flyer.pdf his professional society] in naming an award for him, all used "LaMer", I'd have continued arguing against any proposal to move him back to "La Mer", but it's great to see that thesis. Interesting how many systems, over the years, have mangled his name, perhaps because they think a capital letter ought always to be preceded by a space! PamD 20:58, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
• ::{{Ping|Bender235}} - His first peer-reviewed journal article (1918) was La Mer. His death certificate from the State Department (1966) is La Mer. And Columbia University et al; the overwhelming majority of contemporary sources spelled his name La Mer. In my opinion, this is no different than Mayor La Guardia having his name "mangled" when they named an airport after him — LaGuardia Airport. Other people who have had their names bastardized by sources — John La Farge, Robert M. La Follette, Henri La Fontaine, Lynda La Plante, Eriq La Salle. Isaidnoway (talk) 06:13, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

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A Few Collections

• [https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog?f%5Bauthor_facet%5D%5B%5D=La+Mer%2C+Victor+K.+%28Victor+Kuhn%29%2C+1895-1966 La Mer, Victor K. (Victor Kuhn), 1895-1966] at Columbia University Libraries
• [https://kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=creator,exact,%20La%20Mer,%20Victor%20K,AND&tab=default_tab&search_scope=QUICK&vid=KU&mode=advanced&offset=0 La Mer, Victor K] at University of Kansas Libraries
• [https://searchworks.stanford.edu/articles?q=%22La+Mer%2C+Victor+K.%22&search_field=author La Mer, Victor K] at Stanford University Libraries
• [https://eds.s.ebscohost.com/eds/resultsadvanced?vid=2&sid=e5538c2c-88dc-46b0-a331-346f73916e9c%40redis&bquery=%22La+Mer%2c+Victor+K%22&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPXNzbyZjbGkwPUZUMSZjbHYwPVkmdHlwZT0xJnNlYXJjaE1vZGU9QW5kJnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d La Mer, Victor K] at University of Missouri Libraries
• [https://search.lib.umich.edu/articles?query=author%3ALa+Mer%2C+Victor+K La Mer, Victor K] at University of Michigan Libraries
• [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=La+Mer+VK&cauthor_id=17757876 La Mer, VK] at PubMed
• [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/837299 La Mer, Victor K. (Victor Kuhn), 1895-] at National Library of Australia
• [https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83827170.html La Mer, Victor K. (Victor Kuhn), 1895-1966] at Library of Congress
• [https://soeg.kb.dk/discovery/search?query=any,contains,%22La%20Mer,%20Victor%20K%22&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=45KBDK_KGL:KGL&mfacet=rtype,include,book_chapters,1&lang=en&offset=0 La mer, Victor K] at Royal Library, Denmark
• [https://www.pnas.org/action/doSearch?AllField=%22La+Mer%2C+Victor+K%22 La Mer, Victor K] at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
• [https://pubs.acs.org/action/doSearch?AllField=%22La%20Mer,%20Victor%20K%22 La Mer, Victor K] at American Chemical Society
• [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=author%3A%22La%20Mer%2C%20Victor%20K.%22&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc&p_=0 La Mer, Victor K] at The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
• [https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22La+Mer%2C+Victor+K%22 La Mer, Victor K] at JSTOR
• [https://www.science.org/action/doSearch?AllField=%22La+Mer%2C+Victor%22 La Mer, Victor K] at Science (journal)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3D%22La+Mer%2C+Victor+K.%22&itemSubType=book-printbook&itemSubTypeModified=book-printbook Victor K La Mer] at WorldCat
• [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C26&q=author%3A%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&oq=%22 Victor K La Mer] at Google Scholar
• [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?type%5B%5D=all&lookfor%5B%5D=%22La%20Mer%2C%20Victor%20K%22&page=1&pagesize=20&ft= La Mer, Victor K] at HathiTrust

Small selection from textbooks

• {{cite book | title=The '14 Jayhawker: A Tour on Mount Oread with the Seniors | year=1914 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c5JAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA221&dq=%22Victor+La+Mer%22 }}
• {{cite book | author=American Chemical Society | title=Journal of the American Chemical Society | publisher=American Chemical Society | issue=v. 38, pp. 2219-2841 | year=1916 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iD__SWlGoMQC&pg=PA121 }}
• {{cite book | author=American Chemical Society | title=Proceedings of the American Chemical Society | publisher=Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company | year=1916 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UbbqXGQIhuYC&pg=PA121}}
• {{cite book | author=American Eugenics Society | author2=Eugenics Research Association | title=Eugenical News | publisher=American Eugenics Society. | issue=v. 1-5 | year=1916 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mJE1AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA53}}
• {{cite book | title=Zoology Reprints and Separata, Etc | series=Zoology Reprints and Separata, Etc | issue=v. 146 | year=1916 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HcNJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA106 }}
• {{cite book | author=Washington Institute of Medicine | title=International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics | publisher=MD Publications | issue=v. 106 | year=1917 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVFQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA850}}
• {{cite book | title=Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times | issue=v. 62 | year=1917 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lVQ-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA565}}
• {{cite book | author=Phi Chi Medical Fraternity | title=Baird Fraternity Collection | issue=v. 15 | year=1917 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3O8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA142}}
• {{cite book | author=Columbia University. Teachers College | title=Announcement of Teachers College, Columbia University | publisher=Teachers College, Columbia University. | year=1917 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uMk5AQAAMAAJ }}
• {{cite book | author=University of Chicago | title=The President's Report | publisher=University of Chicago | series=Decennial publications | year=1917 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tr8mAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA176}}
• {{cite journal | last=Riddle | first=Oscar | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K. | title=POST-MORTEM MELANIN PIGMENT FORMATION IN PIGMENTLESS RETINAS AND CHOROIDS OF WHITE RING-DOVES | journal=American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content | publisher=American Physiological Society | volume=47 | issue=1 | date=September 1, 1918 | issn=0002-9513 | doi=10.1152/ajplegacy.1918.47.1.103 | pages=103–123}}
• {{cite book | author=Carnegie Institution of Washington | title=Year Book - Carnegie Institution of Washington | publisher=Carnegie Institution of Washington | issue=v. 16-17 | year=1918 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNgijb-r10QC&pg=RA1-PA37}}
• {{cite book | author=Columbia University. Extension Teaching | title=Announcement: Afternoon, Evening and Saturday Classes, Morningside Heights | series=Columbia University bulletin of information | year=1918 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dddHAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PR10}}
• {{cite book | author=Carnegie Institution of Washington | title=Year Book | publisher=Carnegie Institution of Washington | year=1919 | issn=0069-066X | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P6sLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA37 }}
• {{cite book | author=Columbia University | title=Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees ... | year=1919 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g1k9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP385}}
• {{cite book | last=Lockyer | first=N. | title=Nature | publisher=Macmillan Journals Limited | series=Recent scientific and technical books | issue=v. 103 | year=1919 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8N8uW7YjYYC&pg=PA437 }}
• {{cite book | title=American Journal of Physiology | publisher=American Physiological Society | issue=v. 47 | year=1919 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bnVNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA103 }}
• {{cite book | author=International Institute of Agriculture | title=Bulletin of the Bureau of Agricultural Intelligence and of Plant-Diseases | issue=v. 10 | year=1919 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=drpDAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1202 }}
• {{cite book | title=American Medicine | publisher=American-Medicine Publishing Company | issue=v. 27 | year=1921 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtI0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA154 }}
• {{cite book | last=Alden | first=H.M. | last2=Wells | first2=T.B. | last3=Hartman | first3=L.F. | last4=Allen | first4=F.L. | title=Harper's Magazine | publisher=Harper & Brothers | issue=v. 142 | year=1921 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2gCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA497 }}
• {{cite book | title=The Lancet | publisher=J. Onwhyn | issue=v. 1 | year=1921 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLI1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA395 }}
• {{cite book | author=Columbia University. Summer Session | title=Announcement | year=1922 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_R2zLNLK1VIC&pg=RA2-PR14 }}
• {{cite book | title=Ice Cream Review | publisher=Miller Publishing Company | issue=v. 6 | year=1922 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aEpPAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA112}}
• {{cite book | author=American Chemical Society | title=Journal of the American Chemical Society | publisher=American Chemical Society | issue=v. 46 | year=1924 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcfyAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA224 }}
• {{cite book | author=Columbia University | title=Columbia University Bulletin | publisher=Columbia University Press | year=1925 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LcHOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR14 }}
• {{cite book | title=The Graduate Magazine of the University of Kansas | issue=v. 24 | year=1925 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4XOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA19}}
• {{cite book | title=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science | issue=v. 62 | year=1925 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzkDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA292-IA2}}
• {{cite book | author=American Chemical Society | title=Industrial & Engineering Chemistry | publisher=American Chemical Society | issue=v. 5-6 | year=1927 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k37mAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA29-PA18 }}
• {{cite book | title=Daily Digest | publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office | issue=v. 45 | year=1932 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xPk8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PT11 }}
• {{cite book | author=United States. Patent Office | title=Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office | publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce. | issue=v. 496 | year=1938 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FmydWBmKpLUC&pg=PA634 }}
• {{cite book | title=Papers Honoring Professor Victor K. La Mer on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday and His Retirement as Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Colloid Science | publisher=Academic Press | series=Journal of colloid and interface science | year=1966 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-JuvQEACAAJ }}
• {{cite book | author=National Science Foundation (U.S.) | title=Annual Report for Fiscal Year ... | publisher=The Foundation | year=1961 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RZ-kQamMkX4C&pg=PA180 | page=180}}
• {{cite book | last=Finkelstein | first=L. | title=History of Research and Development of the Chemical Warfare Service in World War II: (1 July 1940 - 31 December 1945) Screening Smokes | publisher=U. S. Army Edgewood Arsenal, Chemical Research and Development Laboratories | series=CRDL special publication | issue=v. 2 | year=1964 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nksAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55 | page=55}}
• {{cite book | title=Hearings | publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office | year=1962 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkRJC0RdYVsC&pg=RA1-PA62 |page=62}}
• {{cite book | title=NIH Library Booklist | publisher=Division of Research Services, National Institutes of Health. | issue=v. 2-3 | year=1961 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fVfYfVSQ8J0C&pg=RA15-PA13 |page=13}}
• {{cite book | title=Journal of Colloid and Interface Science | publisher=Academic Press | series=Journal of Colloid and Interface Science | issue=v. 20 | year=1965 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Journal_of_Colloid_and_Interface_Science/Nj4aAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover }}
• {{cite book | author=American Association of Physics Teachers | author2=American Institute of Physics | title=American Journal of Physics | publisher=American Association of Physics Teachers | issue=v. 21-30 | year=1962 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Journal_of_Physics/QGsOAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover| page=191}}
• {{cite book | author=American Chemical Society. Meeting | author2=American Chemical Society | title=Book of Abstracts | publisher=American Chemical Society. | issue=v. 147 | year=1964 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Book_of_Abstracts/y6A0AQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover| pages=16-17}}
• {{cite book | author=Columbia University | title=Proceedings: Technical Papers Presented September 20-24, 1964 | publisher=Gordon and Breach Science Publishers | series=Proceedings: Technical Papers Presented September 20-24, 1964 | issue=v. 1 | year=1965 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Proceedings/DKrgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover}}
• {{cite book | author=Optical Society of America | author2=American Institute of Physics | title=Applied Optics | publisher=Optical Society of America | issue=v. 2, pp. 1-656 | year=1963 | url= https://www.google.com/books/edition/Applied_Optics/94YOAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover| page=502}}
• {{cite book | author=American Chemical Society | title=Journal of the American Chemical Society | publisher=American Chemical Society | series=Journal of the American Chemical Society | issue=v. 84, nos. 19-24 | year=1962 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Journal_of_the_American_Chemical_Society/fn1wU77NAAcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover }}
• {{cite news | title=New Scientist | publisher=Reed Business Information | issn=0262-4079 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d4r0LFY0Az4C&pg=PA425 |page=425|volume=15|issue=301}}
• {{cite book | author=University Microfilms | author2=University Microfilms Library Service | author3=University Microfilms International | author4=Association of Research Libraries | title=American Doctoral Dissertations | publisher=University Microfilms | series=Dissertation abstracts | year=1962 | url= https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Doctoral_Dissertations/CdYyAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover|page=24}}

Books authored by La Mer

• {{cite web |author= La Mer, Victor K.| title=Catalog Record: Toxicity of DDT to mosquitoes. Effect of particle size on the efficiency of oil aerosols bearing DDT|date=1944 | website=HathiTrust | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010848117 | publisher=United States Council of National Defense}}
• {{cite book |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K. |title=STUDIES ON FILTRATION OF MONODISPERSE AEROSOLS |date=March 31, 1951 |publisher=Central Aerosol Labs., Columbia University |url=https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4407671}}

Foreign language sources

• {{cite book | title=Zentralblatt für Biochemie und Biophysik: mit Einschluss der theoretischen Immunitätsforschung | publisher=Gebrü der Borntraeger | issue=v. 22-23 | year=1920 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXpMAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA230 | language=de }}
• {{cite book | title=Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiet der Physiologie der Pflanzen und der Tiere | publisher=J. Springer | series=Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiet der Physiologie der Pflanzen und der Tiere | issue=v. 1 | year=1922 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cu8bAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA266-IA2 | language=de }}
• {{cite book | author=Carlsberg laboratoriet | title=Résumé du compte rendu des travaux | publisher=Danish Science Press | issue=v. 15 | year=1923 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4yQ9AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA5-PA24 | language=fr }}
• {{cite book | author=Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft | title=Pharmaceutisches Central-Blatt | publisher=Akademie-Verlag | issue=v. 95, pt. 2 | year=1924 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MAozH_JUbhQC&pg=PA2570 | language=de }}
• {{cite book | title=Chemische novitäten: Bibliographie für die neuerscheinende literatur auf dem gesamtgebiet der reinen und angewandten chemie und der chemischen technologie... | publisher=Buchandlung G. Fock, g.m.b.h. | issue=v. 18-21 | year=1926 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Communications_pr%C3%A9sent%C3%A9es/Sps7AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover | language=de }}
• {{cite book | title=Communications présentées | issue=v. 7 | year=1928 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sps7AAAAMAAJ | language=fr }}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | last2=Foss | first2=Olav | last3=Reiss | first3=Howard | last4=Hakala | first4=Maire | title=Some New Procedures in Thermodynamic Theory Inspired by the Recent Work of J. N. Brønsted. | journal=Acta Chemica Scandinavica | publisher=Danish Chemical Society | volume=3 | year=1949 | issn=0904-213X | doi=10.3891/acta.chem.scand.03-1238 | pages=1238–1262}}
• {{cite web | title=Victor Kuhn La Mer (1895-1966) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France | website=Bibliothèque nationale de France | url=https://data.bnf.fr/17243369/victor_kuhn_la_mer/ | language=fr }}
• {{cite book | author=Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft | author2=Verein Deutscher Chemiker | title=Chemisches Zentralblatt | publisher=Akademie-Verlag | issue=v. 137 | year=1966 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chemisches_Zentralblatt/je_nAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover| language=de |page=155}}
• {{cite book | title=Boletín de adquisiciónes | issue=nos. 10-16 | year=1966 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d-cvAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA89 | language=es }}
• {{cite book | title=Indice bibliográfico del Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México | publisher=Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N. | issue=v. 3, nos. 7-12 | year=1964 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kPCJOojIEKQC&pg=RA1-PA281 | language=es }}
• {{cite book | title=Notiziario de La Ricerca scientifica | publisher=Il Consiglio | issue=v. 2 | year=1962 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Notiziario_de_La_Ricerca_scientifica/ceX1Eu8UcokC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover | language=it |page=782}}
• {{cite book | author=Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | title=Revista da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | publisher=A Universidade. | year=1964 | url= https://www.google.com/books/edition/Revista_da_Universidade_Federal_de_Minas/Pfc1AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover| language=pt | page=78}}
• {{cite book | last=Dietrich | first=F. | title=Bibliographie der fremdsprachigen Zeitschriftenliteratur | publisher=F. Dietrich | issue=v. 51 | year=1962 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_AUAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA428 | language=de |page=428}}
• {{cite book | title=Chemisch weekblad | publisher=Stichting Uitgeverij Sigma Chemie | issue=v. 59 | year=1963 | url= https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chemisch_weekblad/nmXmAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover| language=de |page=356}}
• {{cite book | author=Nippon Kōygyōkai | title=Nippon kōgyō kaishi | issue=v. 80, nos. 907-919 | year=1964 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XgvyAAAAMAAJ | language=lt }}
• {{cite book | title=Physikalische Berichte | publisher=F. Vieweg and Sohn | issue=v. 45 | year=1966 | issn=0031-9260 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a_0LAQAAIAAJ | language=de|page=1921}}
• {{cite book | last=Matignon | first=C. | author2=Société de chimie industrielle (France) | title=Chimie & industrie | publisher=Société de chimie industrielle. | issue=v. 86 | year=1961 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chimie_industrie/hgYkAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover | language=pl |page=498}}
• {{cite book | last=Zeller | first=O. | title=IBZ (kombinierte Folge): | publisher=F. Dietrich. | issue=v. 2, no. 1 | year=1966 | url= https://www.google.com/books/edition/IBZ_kombinierte_Folge/p5Y1AQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover| language=de | page=2838}}

A few newspapers

• {{cite news |title=PHI LAMBA UPSILON |url=https://ibb.co/0r7MKLP |work=Columbia Spectator |date=December 2, 1919 |location=New York |page=5}}
• {{cite news |title=Chemists To Hold Annual Convention |url= |work=Columbia Spectator |date=April 11, 1927 |location=New York |page=4}}
• {{cite news|last=Haskin|first=Frederic J. |title=The Institue Of Chemistry |url= |work=Appleton Post-Crescent |date=May 8, 1928 |page=6}}
• {{cite news |title=Scientists Plan To Measure Molecule |url= |work=The Amarillo Globe |date=May 1, 1929 |page=5}}
• {{cite news |title=Columbia Proffesor Here Next Quarter |url= |work=The Stanford Daily |date=January 8, 1931 |location=California |page=3}}
• {{cite news |title=A Longer Life Through Diet |url= |work=Tipton Daily Tribune |date=June 25, 1932 |page=3}}
• {{cite news |title=Wins Chemistry Medal |url= |work=The New York Times |date=November 15, 1937 |page=9}}
• {{cite news |title=U.S. May Get Uranium From Fertilizer |url= |work=Winnipeg Free Press |date=September 15, 1954 |location=Canada |page=10}}
• {{cite news |title=Oil Spray To Cut Dam Loss |url= |work=Melbourne Herald |date=November 15, 1954 |location=Australia |page=14}}
• {{cite news |title=U.S. Proffesor of Chemistry Visits Canberra |url= |work=The Canberra Times|volume=34 |issue=9462|location=Australia |date=December 2, 1959 |page=1}}
• {{cite news |title=Human Life Span May be increased With Proper Diet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YP8tAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA18&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&article_id=6080,3599293&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7kePyxsv_AhXPk4kEHWsuC4cQ6wF6BAgJEAE#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20K%20La%20Mer%22&f=false |work=The Montreal Gazette |volume=161 |issue=152 |date=June 25, 1932|location=Canada |page=18}}
• {{cite news |title=US Professor To Work Here |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bdBVAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA3&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&article_id=1025,2360753&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7kePyxsv_AhXPk4kEHWsuC4cQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20K%20La%20Mer%22&f=false |work=The Age |date=June 16, 1959 |location=Australia |page=3}}
• {{cite news |last1=Powell |first1=W.W. |title=La Quimica Moderna Logra Prolongar La Vida Humana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShUcAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&article_id=4544,2542863&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7kePyxsv_AhXPk4kEHWsuC4cQ6wF6BAgFEAE#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20K%20La%20Mer%22&f=false |work=El Tiempo |date=August 29, 1932 |location=Mexico |page=2 |language=es}}
• {{cite news |title=Potato May Up Supply of Uranium |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38YtAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA9&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&article_id=966,1783314&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7kePyxsv_AhXPk4kEHWsuC4cQ6wF6BAgOEAE#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20K%20La%20Mer%22&f=false |work=Schenectady Gazette |agency=UP |date=September 13, 1954 |page=17}}
• {{cite news |title=Phosphate Rock Waste Yields Uranium By New Treatment |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QTpHAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&article_id=863,1226019&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7kePyxsv_AhXPk4kEHWsuC4cQ6wF6BAgLEAE#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20K%20La%20Mer%22&f=false |work=Lewiston Evening Journal |agency=AP |date=September 13, 1954 |page=6}}
• {{cite news |title=Cloud Test By US Expert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=btBVAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA9&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&article_id=4069,2527952&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7kePyxsv_AhXPk4kEHWsuC4cQ6wF6BAgHEAE#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20K%20La%20Mer%22&f=false |work=The Age |date=June 17, 1959 |location=Australia |page=16}}
• {{cite news |title=Scientists Cite Dangers In Use of New DDT Insecticide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ypMiAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA6&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&article_id=1164,2424827&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7kePyxsv_AhXPk4kEHWsuC4cQ6wF6BAgMEAE#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20K%20La%20Mer%22&f=false |work=The Daily Times |agency=UP |date=October 27, 1945 |page=6}}
• {{cite news |title=Scientists Meet To Study Tough Common Problem |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6KMoAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&article_id=1526,1755884&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKsJW7zcv_AhWhkIkEHV8aDi84ChDrAXoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20K%20La%20Mer%22&f=false |work=Berkeley Daily Gazette |date=March 19, 1938 |page=3}}
• {{cite news |title=Secrets of Cold Bared By Science |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFkbAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA46&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&article_id=1591,2673402&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKsJW7zcv_AhWhkIkEHV8aDi84ChDrAXoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20K%20La%20Mer%22&f=false |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=November 22, 1946 |page=46}}
• {{cite news |title=Bricks May Be Safe Atomic 'Garbage Can' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NcVQAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA14&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&article_id=3875,2852388&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKsJW7zcv_AhWhkIkEHV8aDi84ChDrAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20K%20La%20Mer%22&f=false |work=The Portsmouth Times |date=September 17, 1955 |page=14}}

Small selection of peer-reviewed journals

• {{cite journal | last=Riddle | first=Oscar | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K. | title=POST-MORTEM MELANIN PIGMENT FORMATION IN PIGMENTLESS RETINAS AND CHOROIDS OF WHITE RING-DOVES | journal=American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content | publisher=American Physiological Society | volume=47 | issue=1 | date=September 1, 1918 | issn=0002-9513 | doi=10.1152/ajplegacy.1918.47.1.103 | pages=103–123}}
• {{cite journal | last=Sherman | first=H. C. | last2=La Mer | first2=V K. | last3=Campbell | first3=H. L. | title=The Effect of Temperature and of the Concentration of Hydrogen Ions upon the Rate of Destruction of Antiscorbutic Vitamin (Vitamin C) | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | publisher=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | volume=7 | issue=9 | year=1921 | issn=0027-8424 | doi=10.1073/pnas.7.9.279 | pages=279–281}}
• {{cite journal | last=Brönsted | first=J. N. | last2=Mer | first2=Victor K. La | title=THE ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS OF IONS IN VERY DILUTE SOLUTIONS1 | journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=46 | issue=3 | year=1924 | issn=0002-7863 | doi=10.1021/ja01668a006 | pages=555–573}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | last2=Temple | first2=J. W. | title=THE AUTOXIDATION OF HYDROQUINONES CATALYZED BY MANGANOUS SALTS IN ACID SOLUTIONS. A REACTION WHOSE VELOCITY IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE DRIVING FORCE | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | publisher=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | volume=15 | issue=3 | date=March 15, 1929 | issn=0027-8424 | doi=10.1073/pnas.15.3.191 | pages=191–194}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | title=Reaction Velocity in Ionic Systems. | journal=Chemical Reviews | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=10 | issue=1 | date=February 1, 1932 | issn=0009-2665 | doi=10.1021/cr60035a010 | pages=179–212}}
• {{cite journal |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K. |title=Chemical Kinetics. The Temperature Dependence of the Energy of Activation. The Entropy and Free Energy of Activation |journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics |date=May 1933 |volume=1 |issue=5 |pages=289–296 |doi=10.1063/1.1749291}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | last2=Korman | first2=Samuel | title=The Determination of Acidity in Heavy Water Mixtures | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=83 | issue=2165 | date=June 26, 1936 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.83.2165.624 | pages=624–626}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | last2=Greenspan | first2=Joseph | title=Kinetics of the solvent decomposition of nitramid in H2O—D2O mixtures | journal=Transactions of the Faraday Society | publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | volume=33 | issue=0 | year=1937 | issn=0014-7672 | doi=10.1039/tf9373301266 | pages=1266–1272}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | title=The Energy of Activation of Protein Denaturations | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=86 | issue=2244 | date=December 31, 1937 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.86.2244.614 | pages=614–616}}
• {{cite journal | last=Amis | first=Edward S. | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K | title=The Entropies and Energies of Activation of Ionic Reactions. The Kinetics of the Alkaline Fading of Brom Phenol Blue in Isodielectric Media | journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=61 | issue=4 | year=1939 | issn=0002-7863 | doi=10.1021/ja01873a040 | pages=905–913}}
• {{cite journal | last=Johnson | first=Irving | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K. | title=The Determination of the Particle Size of Monodispersed Systems by the Scattering of Light1 | journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=69 | issue=5 | year=1947 | issn=0002-7863 | doi=10.1021/ja01197a058 | pages=1184–1192}}
• {{cite journal | last= LA MER | first=V K |date=November 28, 1947 | title=Influence of ultrasonic irradiation upon the phase transition in the formation of colloidal sulfur | journal=Science (New York, N.Y.) | publisher=Science | volume=106 | issue=2761 | issn=0036-8075 | pmid=20340837 | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20340837/ }}
• {{cite journal | last=Zaiser | first=Ethel M | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K | title=The kinetics of the formation and growth of monodispersed sulfur hydrosols | journal=Journal of Colloid Science | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=3 | issue=6 | year=1948 | issn=0095-8522 | doi=10.1016/s0095-8522(48)90050-6 | pages=571–598}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | title=Monodisperse Colloids and Higher-Order Tyndall Spectra | journal=The Journal of Physical and Colloid Chemistry | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=52 | issue=1 | year=1948 | issn=0092-7023 | doi=10.1021/j150457a008 | pages=65–76}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=V. K. | last2=Hochberg | first2=Seymore. | title=The Laws of Deposition and the Effectiveness of Insecticidal Aerosols. | journal=Chemical Reviews | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=44 | issue=2 | date=April 1, 1949 | issn=0009-2665 | doi=10.1021/cr60138a007 | pages=341–352}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | title=Some Current Misconceptions of N. L. Sadi Carnot's Memoir and Cycle | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=109 | issue=2841 | date=June 10, 1949 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.109.2841.598 | pages=598–598}}
• {{cite journal | last=Sinclair | first=David. | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K. | title=Light Scattering as a Measure of Particle Size in Aerosols. The Production of Monodisperse Aerosols. | journal=Chemical Reviews | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=44 | issue=2 | date=April 1, 1949 | issn=0009-2665 | doi=10.1021/cr60138a001 | pages=245–267}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K.| title=Nucleation in Phase Transitions. | journal=Industrial & Engineering Chemistry | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=44 | issue=6 | year=1952 | issn=0019-7866 | doi=10.1021/ie50510a027 | pages=1270–1277}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | last2=Cotson | first2=Sydney | title=The Growth and Shrinkage of Aerosols | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=118 | issue=3070 | date=October 30, 1953 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.118.3070.516 | pages=516–517}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=V. K. | last2=Healy | first2=T. W. | title=Specification of Materials for Retarding Water Evaporation-- Spreading Hexadecanol Monolayers | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=144 | issue=3618 | date=May 1, 1964 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.144.3618.564-a | pages=564–564}}
• {{cite journal | last=Smellie | first=Robert H | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K | title=Flocculation, subsidence and filtration of phosphate slimes | journal=Journal of Colloid Science | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=13 | issue=6 | year=1958 | issn=0095-8522 | doi=10.1016/0095-8522(58)90071-0 | pages=589–599}}
• {{cite journal | last=Healy | first=Thomas W | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K | title=The energetics of flocculation and redispersion by polymers | journal=Journal of Colloid Science | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=19 | issue=4 | year=1964 | issn=0095-8522 | doi=10.1016/0095-8522(64)90034-0 | pages=323–332}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | last2=Healy | first2=Thomas W. | title=Evaporation of Water: Its Retardation by Monolayers | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=148 | issue=3666 | date=April 2, 1965 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.148.3666.36 | pages=36–42}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | title=Filtration of colloidal dispersions flocculated by anionic and cationic polyelectrolytes | journal=Discussions of the Faraday Society | publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | volume=42 | year=1966 | issn=0366-9033 | doi=10.1039/df9664200248 | page=248}}
• {{cite journal | last=JK | first=Dixon | last2=VK | first2=La Mer | last3=HB | first3=Linford | title=Factors affecting filtration rates of flocculaed silica | journal=Journal - Water Pollution Control Federation | publisher=J Water Pollut Control Fed | volume=39 | issue=4 | issn=0043-1303 | pmid=4292617 | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4292617/ | date=1967}}

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• LaMer. Assuming there aren't two people with either of these names, then we have these two google searches ([https://www.google.com/search?q=%2B%22Victor+LaMer%22+-%22Victor+La+Mer%22 1], [https://www.google.com/search?q=-%22Victor+LaMer%22+%2B%22Victor+La+Mer%22 2]) with a 100:1 preference for "LaMer" over "La Mer". This is a web search, and a better test involving a higher percentage of reliable sources would be in books or scholar, but this result is likely indicative. Mathglot (talk) 22:20, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
• : As a post-script: this RFC fails the required preparation step of WP:RFCBEFORE, as there is no apparent discussion of the question at all—let alone extensive, deadlocked discussion requiring a formal Rfc process to resolve. Please review WP:RFC first, next time you are considering opening one. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 16:09, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
• ::@Mathglot There was a bit of WP:BRD - bender moved the page, I objected, asked them to move it back, then found I could do so myself so did so - discussion on their talk page at User_talk:Bender235#Victor_La_Mer, perhaps not quite "extensive", but certainly a discussion. PamD 16:22, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
• ::: Aha. That isn't the right venue of course, exactly for this reason, but I know that it does happen. Thanks for the good faith kind word for your interlocutor wrt this issue. Mathglot (talk) 19:32, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
• La Mer — my preference is La Mer.

:Google Scholar search results —[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C26&q=-%22Victor+LaMer%22+%2B%22Victor+La+Mer%22&btnG= about 177 results] for Victor La Mer —and— [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C26&q=%2B%22Victor+LaMer%22+-%22Victor+La+Mer%22&btnG= about 131 results] for Victor LaMer

:—[https://www.nytimes.com/1966/09/28/archives/victor-k-la-mer-colloid-chemist-excolumbia-professor-71-dies-during.html New York Times obit] 1966, Dr. Victor Kuhn La Mer

:—[https://fulbrightscholars.org/grantee/victor-la-mer Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program] Victor La Mer

:—[https://www.science.org/authored-by/La+Mer/Victor+K AAAS] Victor K. La Mer at Science (journal)

:—[https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1932-38-11/S0002-9904-1932-05492-1/S0002-9904-1932-05492-1.pdf Memoriam for Thomas Hakon Gronwall] at American Mathematical Society, 1932, (Professor Victor K. La Mer, p. 776)

:—[https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/medicine/medicine-biographies/detlev-wulf-bronk Detlev Wulf Bronk Bio] at Encyclopedia.com (Victor La Mer)

:—[https://history.aip.org/phn/11906004.html Advisors & Collaborators] at American Institute of Physics, La Mer, Victor K. (Victor Kuhn), 1895-1966, Advisor

:—{{cite journal |last1=Riddle |first1=Oscar |last2=La Mer |first2=Victor K. |date=1918 |title=Post-Mortem Melanin Pigment Formation in Pigmentless Retinas and Choroids of White Ring-Doves |url= |journal=The American Journal of Physiology |volume= 46|issue= 1|pages=103-123 |doi=10.1152/ajplegacy.1918.47.1.103 |access-date=}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer|first1=Victor K |last2= Foss|first2=Olav|last3=Reiss |first3=Howard |date=1949 |title=Some New Procedures in Thermodynamic Theory Inspired by the Recent Work of J. N. Brønsted |url= http://actachemscand.org/pdf/acta_vol_03_p1238-1262.pdf|journal=Acta Chemica Scandinavica

|volume=3 |issue= |pages=1238-1262 |doi=10.3891/acta.chem.scand.03-1238 |access-date=}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=Baker |first1=Weldon N. |last2=La Mer |first2=Victor K. |title=The Conductance of Potassium Chloride and of Hydrochloric‐Deuterochloric Acid H 2 O—D 2 O Mixtures. The Viscosity of H 2 O—D 2 O |journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics |date=July 1935 |volume=3 |issue=7 |pages=406–410 |doi=10.1063/1.1749689}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=Hamill |first1=W. H. |last2=La Mer |first2=Victor K. |title=The Acid‐Base Catalysis of the Mutarotation of Glucose in Protium Oxide‐Deuterium Oxide Mixtures |journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics |date=July 1936 |volume=4 |issue=7 |pages=395–401 |doi=10.1063/1.1749868}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K. |title=The Energy of Activation of Protein Denaturations |journal=Science |date=31 December 1937 |volume=86 |issue=2244 |pages=614–616 |doi=10.1126/science.86.2244.614 |url=https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.86.2244.614 |language=en |issn=0036-8075}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K. |last2=Downes |first2=Harold C. |title=Indicator Studies of Acids and Bases in Benzene. |journal=Chemical Reviews |date=1 August 1933 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=47–60 |doi=10.1021/cr60044a004}}

:—{{Cite book |title=Studies on Filtration of Monodisperse Aerosols |last=La Mer |first=Victor K. |publisher=Columbia University |year=1951 |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=G9CqVQ3DIioC&oi=fnd&pg=PA5&dq=-%22Victor+LaMer%22+%2B%22Victor+La+Mer%22&ots=PKbJSBr5Rn&sig=3vNR-lzxIEP24eK-5e4vTKp4cOc#v=onepage&q=-%22Victor%20LaMer%22%20%2B%22Victor%20La%20Mer%22&f=false}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=Hochberg |first1=Seymore |last2=La Mer |first2=Victor K. |title=Microdetermination of Density by the Falling-Drop Method |journal=Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Analytical Edition |date=1 June 1937 |volume=9 |issue=6 |pages=291–292 |doi=10.1021/ac50110a015}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K. |last2=Korman |first2=Samuel |title=The Determination of Acidity in Heavy Water Mixtures |journal=Science |date=26 June 1936 |volume=83 |issue=2165 |pages=624–626 |doi=10.1126/science.83.2165.624 |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.83.2165.624 |language=en |issn=0036-8075}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=Holt |first1=L.Emmett |last2=La Mer |first2=Victor K. |last3=Chown |first3=H.Bruce |title=STUDIES IN CALCIFICATION |journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry |date=July 1925 |volume=64 |issue=3 |pages=509–565 |doi=10.1016/S0021-9258(18)84895-5}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer|first1=Victor K |last2=Temple |first2=J.W. |date=March 15, 1929 |title=The Autoxidation of Hydroquinones Catalyzed by Manganous Salts in Acid Solutions|url= |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=15 |issue= 3|pages=191-194 |doi=10.1073/pnas.15.3.191 |access-date=}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K. |last2=Kerker |first2=Milton |date=1953 |title=Light Scattered By Particles |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24944132 |journal=Scientific American |volume=188 |issue= 2|pages=69-77 |doi= |access-date=}}

:—{{cite journal |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=1931 |title=Comments pertinent to the coming revisions of the U. S. P. and N. F. |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jps.3080200411 |journal=The Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association |volume=20 |issue= 4|page= 360|doi=10.1002/jps.3080200411 |access-date=}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K. |last2=Campbell |first2=H.L. |date=1920 |title=

Changes in Organ Weight produced by Diets Deficient in Anti-Scorbutic Vitamine |url=https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19212900388 |journal= Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine |volume=18 |issue=1 |page=32 |issn=0037-9727|access-date=}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K. |title=Reaction Velocity in Ionic Systems. |journal=Chemical Reviews |date=1 February 1932 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=179–212 |doi=10.1021/cr60035a010}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K. |title=Some Current Misinterpretations of N. L. Sadi Carnot's Memoir and Cycle |journal=American Journal of Physics |date=January 1954 |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=20–27 |doi=10.1119/1.1933600}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K |last2=Smellie |first2=Robert H |last3=Lee |first3=Pui-Kum |title=Flocculation, subsidence, and filtration of phosphate slimes |journal=Journal of Colloid Science |date=April 1957 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=230–239 |doi=10.1016/0095-8522(57)90008-9}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=Robbins |first1=Max L |last2=La Mer |first2=Victor K |title=The effect of the spreading solvent on the properties of monolayers |journal=Journal of Colloid Science |date=April 1960 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=123–154 |doi=10.1016/0095-8522(60)90013-1}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=Zaiser |first1=Ethel M |last2=La Mer |first2=Victor K |title=The kinetics of the formation and growth of monodispersed sulfur hydrosols |journal=Journal of Colloid Science |date=1948 |volume=3 |issue=6 |pages=571-598 |doi=10.1016/S0095-8522(48)90050-6 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0095852248900506}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K |last2=Healy |first2=Thomas W |last3=Aylmore |first3=L. A. G |title=The transport of water through monolayers of long-chain n-paraffinic alcohols |journal=Journal of Colloid Science |date=1 October 1964 |volume=19 |issue=8 |pages=673–684 |doi=10.1016/0095-8522(64)90075-3 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0095852264900753?via%3Dihub |language=en |issn=0095-8522}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=Sinclair |first1=David. |last2=La Mer |first2=Victor K. |title=Light Scattering as a Measure of Particle Size in Aerosols. The Production of Monodisperse Aerosols. |journal=Chemical Reviews |date=1 April 1949 |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=245–267 |doi=10.1021/cr60138a001 |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/cr60138a001 |language=en |issn=0009-2665}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=Reiss |first1=Howard |last2=La Mer |first2=Victor K. |title=Diffusional Boundary Value Problems Involving Moving Boundaries, Connected with the Growth of Colloidal Particles |journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics |date=January 1950 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=1–12 |doi=10.1063/1.1747422 |url=https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article-abstract/18/1/1/201592/Diffusional-Boundary-Value-Problems-Involving?redirectedFrom=fulltext}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K. |last2=Gruen |first2=Ruth |title=A direct test of Kelvin's equation connecting vapour pressure and radius of curvature |journal=Transactions of the Faraday Society |date=1 January 1952 |volume=48 |issue=0 |pages=410–415 |doi=10.1039/TF9524800410 |url=https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/1952/tf/tf9524800410/unauth |language=en |issn=0014-7672}}

:—{{cite journal |last1=La Mer |first1=Victor K. |title=Chemical Kinetics. The Temperature Dependence of the Energy of Activation. The Entropy and Free Energy of Activation |journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics |date=May 1933 |volume=1 |issue=5 |pages=289–296 |doi=10.1063/1.1749291}}

:—[https://findingaids.loc.gov/exist_collections/ead3pdf/mss/2012/ms012142.pdf Charles Albert Browne Papers] at Library of Congress, La Mer, Victor K., 1933-1934

:—{{cite journal |last1=Luckhardt |first1=A.B. |last2=Keeton |first2=R.W.|last3=Koch|first3=F.C.|last4=La Mer|first4=Victor |date=1920 |title=Gastrin Studies |url=https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/ajplegacy.1920.50.4.527 |journal=American Journal of Physiology |volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=527-543 |doi=10.1152/ajplegacy.1920.50.4.527 |access-date=}}

:—[https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ua/ldpd_4202606/dsc/1 Columbia University in World War II collection, 1933-1975] La Mer, Victor K., 1942-1944

:—Wikipedia article Nanoengineering 1950: Victor La Mer and Robert Dinegar

• Select search results from Google Books and Google Newspaper Archives (early years)

:—{{Google books|c5JAAAAAYAAJ|The '14 Jayhawker: A Tour on Mount Oread with the Seniors|page=221|keywords=|text=Victor La Mer}}, 1914, Victor La Mer

:—{{Google books|KODOAAAAMAAJ|Bulletin of the University of Kansas|page=194|keywords=|text=}} 1922, Fathers name, Joseph Secondule La Mer

:—{{Google books|TU9EAQAAMAAJ|Chemical Abstracts: Patent index, Volume 16, Issue 2|page=1799|keywords=|text=|plainurl=}}, 1922, La Mer, Victor K.

:—{{Google books|sRkhAQAAIAAJ|Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series|page=1150|keywords=|text=|plainurl=}}, 1926, Victor La Mer

:—[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Chemistry_Leaflet/aAzoAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover The Chemistry Leaflet], 1935, Victor Le Mar

:—{{cite news |last= |first= |date=October 23, 1945 |title=DDT Can Be as Dangerous As A-Bomb, Expert Warns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D1MbAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA3&dq=%22Victor+La+Mer%22&article_id=2529,5064386&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiF9JTj5Lv_AhWslIkEHfW4BHgQ6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20La%20Mer%22&f=false |work=The Pittsburgh Press|location=New York |agency=UP|page=4|quote=Dr. Victor K. La Mer}}

:—{{cite news |last= |first= |date=December 29, 1959 |title=Resources For Tomorrow |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=3tMxAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA6&dq=%22Victor+La+Mer%22&article_id=5477,2718172&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiF9JTj5Lv_AhWslIkEHfW4BHgQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20La%20Mer%22&f=false|work=The Ottawa Citizen |location= |quote=Prof. Victor La Mer of Columbia University

}}

:—{{Google books|mFXwRAUMFFEC|The National Conference on Water Pollution|page=444|keywords=|text=|plainurl=}} 1961, Victor La Mer of Columbia

• In my opinion, his signature looks like there is a distinct space between La and Mer, [http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/la-mer-victor.pdf Signature under his pic, 2nd page]
• Note: I'm seeing different results from Mathglot's two Google searches, I see a preference for La Mer over LaMer, by a huge margin. There is also a significant preference in Google searches for "La Mer, Victor K." over "LaMer, Victor K." Isaidnoway (talk) 09:51, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
• : {{talk quote|I'm seeing different results from Mathglot's two Google searches, I see a preference for La Mer over LaMer, by a huge margin.}} Truly? When I do them, I get: #1 = 5,130 and #2 = 48, two orders of magnitude difference in favor of "LaMer". Can you please state your exact results from those two searches when you try them? Mathglot (talk) 23:08, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
• Comment What a vast amount of energy we've collectively spent over a man whose name has been spelled in two different ways. Two of his departments believed he was "LaMer": [https://web.stanford.edu/group/swain/history/hutchinson/faculty.html Stanford] and [https://www.chem.columbia.edu/content/history Columbia], but in the end it doesn't matter as long as we have both versions in the lead (we do now), and redirects from all combinations of his name with both spellings (we do, now I've added a few). I moved the article back to the spelling used in all the sources (the NAS biographical memoir, although it uses "La Mer" in the title, uses "LaMer" consistently in the text). I just suggest that if anyone moves it back to "La Mer" they please add a source or two which supports this spelling. PamD 11:50, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
• :And I stick with my suggestion that both libraries and publishers may have been sometimes incapable of correctly handling a "CamelCase" name so that the space has been added by them for consistency with other names.
• :If anyone wants to go further - are US birth or death registration records available online? (I've already looked at Find-a-grave hoping to find a photo of his gravestone, without success!) PamD 11:53, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
• ::Ah no, forget birth records etc. It's how he's referred to in reliable English language sources that counts. And the items which mention him individually by name (as opposed to catalogues and publications), including the chair named for him, seem, to me, to favour "LaMer". PamD 12:44, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
• :::I think publishing companies and libraries are completely capable of handling a camelcase, and since this RfC is really about the title of the article, WP:TITLE, doesn't stipulate the sources must be in the article. Article titles are based on how reliable English-language sources refer to the article's subject. There is often more than one appropriate title for an article. In that case, editors choose the best title by consensus... The [https://books.google.com/books?id=c5JAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA221&dq=%22Victor+La+Mer%22 1914 cite], and this 1915 cite below (both are earliest known spelling), and the [https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83827170.html Library of Congress], convince me it is spelled La Mer.
• :::*{{cite book|author= University of Kansas |title=Annual Catalogue of the University of Kansas |date=1915 |publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant. |page=436 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ip_OAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA436&lpg=PA436&dq=%22Victor+Kuhn+La+Mer%22&source=bl&ots=tD57087Bjk&sig=ACfU3U0KSDQ5wgSzhSreDtNHwFyifG3XYA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv6u3x7r3_AhWLlYkEHa-pCJI4FBDoAXoECAcQAw#v=onepage&q=%22Victor%20Kuhn%20La%20Mer%22&f=false}} (Bachelor of Arts, Victor Kuhn La Mer) Isaidnoway (talk) 14:26, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
• Comment Googling "professor victor k. lamer" and "professor victor k. la mer" is interesting. These are hits which are talking about the man, rather than listing his publications. The hit numbers are very similar (68 reducing on page 2 of the hits to 18 for LaMer, 84 reducing to 12 for La Mer). His colleagues and successors, in reliable English language sources, used both versions. That said, I'm unimpressed at the idea that we need no sources in an article which justify the choice of title: astonishing. But the article title should probably include the "K.", as the hits for the same searches without it are 5 and 4 respectively. PamD 08:40, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Clicking on the links provided above by {{Ping|Mathglot}}

• 1 — About 5,160 results (0.39 seconds)
• 2 — About 74,100 results (0.54 seconds)

Google search

• "La Mer, Victor K." — About 830 results (0.36 seconds)
• "LaMer, Victor K." — About 694 results (0.39 seconds)

From Google Scholar

• "Victor K. La Mer" — About 497 results (0.06 sec)
• "Victor K. LaMer" — About 478 results (0.05 sec)

• "La Mer, Victor K." — About 217 results (0.08 sec)
• "LaMer, Victor K." — About 110 results (0.07 sec)

From Ancestry.com (via The Wikipedia Library)

• Victor Kuhn La Mer

in the Pennsylvania, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1845-1963;

Name: Victor Kuhn La Mer, Gender: Male,

Race: White,

Age: 23,

Birth Date: 1895,

Birth Place: Leavenworth Kansas,

Marriage Date: 31 Jul 1918,

Marriage Place: Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, USA,

Father: Joseph S. La Mer,

Mother: Anna Pauline Kuhn La Mer,

Spouse: Ethel Agatha Mc Greevy,

Certificate Number 9072,

Source Citation,

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania County Marriages, 1852-1973; County: Adams; Year Range: 1917 - 1920; Roll Number: 549789

• Name Victor Kuhn La MER

Yearbook Date 1915

School University of Kansas

School Location Lawrence, Kansas, USA

:(Note: all the official government documents I viewed, marriage, passport, military, etc. showed his signature as La Mer)

From NewspaperARCHIVE.com (via The Wikipedia Library)

• 107 records for Victor K La Mer from 1919 - 1983 (US Newspapers)
• 156 records for Victor K Lamer from 1918 - 1995 (US Newspapers)

Refined to New York only

• 0 records for Victor K Lamer from 1918 - 1995, published in New York, United States Of America
• 24 records for Victor K La Mer from 1918 - 1995, published in New York, United States Of America

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times 1923- (via The Wikipedia Library)

• 16 results, for Victor K. La Mer
• 19 results, for Victor K. LaMer

Google Newspaper Archives

• 16 results for "Victor K. La Mer"
• 14 results for "Victor K. LaMer"

Highlights from his 1966 obit in NYT (Victor K. La Mer)

• World War II - invented for the Army and Navy an aerosol-generator fog spray machine that killed malaria bearing mosquitoes with DDT within a half mile radius.
• received a Presidential Certificate of Merit for his contributions to defense by research on aerosols.
• chairman of the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Scientific Rainmaking in NYC in 1950.
• 1960 - reported on the practicability of spreading blankets of chemicals over reservoirs and lakes in order to prevent evaporation
• 1954 - reported a new filtration process that promised to increase production of uranium by tapping uranium bearing waste materials
• 1915 - graduated from the University of Kansas
• 1921 - received a Ph.D. degree from Columbia
• World War I - served as a first lieutenant in the Army Sanitary Corps.
• 1919 - joined the Columbia faculty, was professor from 1935 to 1961
• After that, was senior researcher in mineral technology at Columbia School of Mines
• World War II - member of National Defense Research Council. Consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission
• 1948 - elected president of New York Academy of Sciences
• 1953 - Fulbright professor at the University of Copenhagen
• 1959 - Fulbright professor in Australia
• Honorary professor at San Marcus University in Lima, Peru
• Edited the Journal of Colloid Science from 1946 to 1965.{{cite news |date=September 28, 1966 |title=VICTOR K. LA MER, COLLOID CHEMIST; Ex-Columbia Professor, 71, Dies During Visit in Britain |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/117249612/fulltextPDF/EE1DFBCE8CF84172PQ/1?accountid=196403

|url-status=|page=47 |language= |work=The New York Times|via=ProQuest|url-access=subscription |quote=}} Isaidnoway (talk) 06:01, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

• : I'm sorry, but I believe that all of the tallies from your Google searches above are invalid, due to Google search query rewrite rules which will absorb what they consider equivalent or variant spellings into the original query you gave. To exclude these, you have to double-quote your search, and use the unary minus operator to exclude the variant you don't want. For example, contrary to your claim that web search on "Victor La Mer" gives 74,100 results, it [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Victor+La+Mer%22+-%22Victor+LaMer%22 actually gives 49 results] when you phrase the query correctly by using the unary operator to exclude the unwanted variant. You haven't shown your work, so I can't see exactly what you have done, but this is very likely the source of all of the search hit tallies you have listed above, all of which are subject to this same problem. Secondly, the "hit count" listed at the top cannot be relied upon, and you have to scroll to the bottom (if you have requested 100 results by default) or you have to "Next" through the continuation pages, and then you will find the more accurate count. For example, if you use the AND operator to search "Victor La Mer" AND {{nowrap|-"Victor LaMer"}} you will get a page that [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Victor+La+Mer%22+AND+-%22Victor+LaMer%22 estimates 71,500 results] in the hit tally at the top, but if you scroll down/"Next" through, you will get the following buttnote at the end: "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 40 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included." I'm afraid that all of your searches will have to be redone if you wish to support the claim you are making, because your numbers are wildly off. Please show your work this time. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 18:30, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
• :: I should perhaps add that I totally don't care which way this comes out, and probably way too much digital ink has been spilled on it already. I do care about search engine usage, though, and to the extent that decisions at discussions are based on search results, I think it's important to ensure they are used correctly, and interpreted correctly. This is no mean feat, as both parts of that are more complicated than most casual search users believe, and in particular, the "search hits tally" at the top doesn't at all mean what people think it does; maybe grist for a future discussion in a different venue, perhaps. Mathglot (talk) 22:36, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
• :::As far as I'm concerned, contemporary sources, peer-reviewed journals (when available, academic and peer-reviewed publications...and textbooks are usually the most reliable sources), and government documents indicate to me that La Mer is the preferred spelling. In my opinion, this is no different than Mayor La Guardia having his name bastardized as well when they named an airport after him — LaGuardia Airport. Other people who have had their names bastardized by sources — John La Farge, Robert M. La Follette, Henri La Fontaine, Lynda La Plante, Eriq La Salle. Isaidnoway (talk) 03:14, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

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Small selection from textbooks

• {{cite book | title=The '14 Jayhawker: A Tour on Mount Oread with the Seniors | year=1914 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c5JAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA221&dq=%22Victor+La+Mer%22 }}
• {{cite book | author=American Chemical Society | title=Journal of the American Chemical Society | publisher=American Chemical Society | issue=v. 38, pp. 2219-2841 | year=1916 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iD__SWlGoMQC&pg=PA121 }}
• {{cite book | author=American Chemical Society | title=Proceedings of the American Chemical Society | publisher=Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company | year=1916 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UbbqXGQIhuYC&pg=PA121}}
• {{cite book | author=American Eugenics Society | author2=Eugenics Research Association | title=Eugenical News | publisher=American Eugenics Society. | issue=v. 1-5 | year=1916 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mJE1AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA53}}
• {{cite book | title=Zoology Reprints and Separata, Etc | series=Zoology Reprints and Separata, Etc | issue=v. 146 | year=1916 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HcNJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA106 }}
• {{cite book | author=Washington Institute of Medicine | title=International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics | publisher=MD Publications | issue=v. 106 | year=1917 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVFQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA850}}
• {{cite book | title=Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times | issue=v. 62 | year=1917 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lVQ-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA565}}
• {{cite book | author=Phi Chi Medical Fraternity | title=Baird Fraternity Collection | issue=v. 15 | year=1917 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3O8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA142}}
• {{cite book | author=Columbia University. Teachers College | title=Announcement of Teachers College, Columbia University | publisher=Teachers College, Columbia University. | year=1917 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uMk5AQAAMAAJ }}
• {{cite book | author=University of Chicago | title=The President's Report | publisher=University of Chicago | series=Decennial publications | year=1917 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tr8mAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA176}}
• {{cite journal | last=Riddle | first=Oscar | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K. | title=POST-MORTEM MELANIN PIGMENT FORMATION IN PIGMENTLESS RETINAS AND CHOROIDS OF WHITE RING-DOVES | journal=American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content | publisher=American Physiological Society | volume=47 | issue=1 | date=September 1, 1918 | issn=0002-9513 | doi=10.1152/ajplegacy.1918.47.1.103 | pages=103–123}}
• {{cite book | author=Carnegie Institution of Washington | title=Year Book - Carnegie Institution of Washington | publisher=Carnegie Institution of Washington | issue=v. 16-17 | year=1918 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNgijb-r10QC&pg=RA1-PA37}}
• {{cite book | author=Columbia University. Extension Teaching | title=Announcement: Afternoon, Evening and Saturday Classes, Morningside Heights | series=Columbia University bulletin of information | year=1918 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dddHAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PR10}}
• {{cite book | author=Carnegie Institution of Washington | title=Year Book | publisher=Carnegie Institution of Washington | year=1919 | issn=0069-066X | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P6sLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA37 }}
• {{cite book | author=Columbia University | title=Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees ... | year=1919 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g1k9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP385}}
• {{cite book | last=Lockyer | first=N. | title=Nature | publisher=Macmillan Journals Limited | series=Recent scientific and technical books | issue=v. 103 | year=1919 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8N8uW7YjYYC&pg=PA437 }}
• {{cite book | title=American Journal of Physiology | publisher=American Physiological Society | issue=v. 47 | year=1919 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bnVNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA103 }}
• {{cite book | author=International Institute of Agriculture | title=Bulletin of the Bureau of Agricultural Intelligence and of Plant-Diseases | issue=v. 10 | year=1919 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=drpDAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1202 }}
• {{cite book | title=American Medicine | publisher=American-Medicine Publishing Company | issue=v. 27 | year=1921 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtI0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA154 }}
• {{cite book | last=Alden | first=H.M. | last2=Wells | first2=T.B. | last3=Hartman | first3=L.F. | last4=Allen | first4=F.L. | title=Harper's Magazine | publisher=Harper & Brothers | issue=v. 142 | year=1921 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2gCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA497 }}
• {{cite book | title=The Lancet | publisher=J. Onwhyn | issue=v. 1 | year=1921 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLI1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA395 }}
• {{cite book | author=Columbia University. Summer Session | title=Announcement | year=1922 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_R2zLNLK1VIC&pg=RA2-PR14 }}
• {{cite book | title=Ice Cream Review | publisher=Miller Publishing Company | issue=v. 6 | year=1922 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aEpPAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA112}}
• {{cite book | author=American Chemical Society | title=Journal of the American Chemical Society | publisher=American Chemical Society | issue=v. 46 | year=1924 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcfyAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA224 }}
• {{cite book | author=Columbia University | title=Columbia University Bulletin | publisher=Columbia University Press | year=1925 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LcHOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR14 }}
• {{cite book | title=The Graduate Magazine of the University of Kansas | issue=v. 24 | year=1925 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4XOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA19}}
• {{cite book | title=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science | issue=v. 62 | year=1925 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzkDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA292-IA2}}
• {{cite book | author=American Chemical Society | title=Industrial & Engineering Chemistry | publisher=American Chemical Society | issue=v. 5-6 | year=1927 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k37mAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA29-PA18 }}
• {{cite book | title=Daily Digest | publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office | issue=v. 45 | year=1932 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xPk8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PT11 }}
• {{cite book | author=United States. Patent Office | title=Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office | publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce. | issue=v. 496 | year=1938 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FmydWBmKpLUC&pg=PA634 }}

Foreign language sources

• {{cite book | title=Zentralblatt für Biochemie und Biophysik: mit Einschluss der theoretischen Immunitätsforschung | publisher=Gebrü der Borntraeger | issue=v. 22-23 | year=1920 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXpMAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA230 | language=de }}
• {{cite book | title=Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiet der Physiologie der Pflanzen und der Tiere | publisher=J. Springer | series=Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiet der Physiologie der Pflanzen und der Tiere | issue=v. 1 | year=1922 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cu8bAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA266-IA2 | language=de }}
• {{cite book | author=Carlsberg laboratoriet | title=Résumé du compte rendu des travaux | publisher=Danish Science Press | issue=v. 15 | year=1923 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4yQ9AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA5-PA24 | language=fr }}
• {{cite book | author=Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft | title=Pharmaceutisches Central-Blatt | publisher=Akademie-Verlag | issue=v. 95, pt. 2 | year=1924 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MAozH_JUbhQC&pg=PA2570 | language=de }}
• {{cite book | title=Chemische novitäten: Bibliographie für die neuerscheinende literatur auf dem gesamtgebiet der reinen und angewandten chemie und der chemischen technologie... | publisher=Buchandlung G. Fock, g.m.b.h. | issue=v. 18-21 | year=1926 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Communications_pr%C3%A9sent%C3%A9es/Sps7AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&dq=%22Victor+K+La+Mer%22&printsec=frontcover | language=de }}
• {{cite book | title=Communications présentées | issue=v. 7 | year=1928 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sps7AAAAMAAJ | language=fr }}

A few newspapers

• {{cite news |title=PHI LAMBA UPSILON |url=https://ibb.co/0r7MKLP |work=Columbia Spectator |date=December 2, 1919 |location=New York |page=5}}
• {{cite news |title=Chemists To Hold Annual Convention |url= |work=Columbia Spectator |date=April 11, 1927 |location=New York |page=4}}
• {{cite news|last=Haskin|first=Frederic J. |title=The Institue Of Chemistry |url= |work=Appleton Post-Crescent |date=May 8, 1928 |page=6}}
• {{cite news |title=Scientists Plan To Measure Molecule |url= |work=The Amarillo Globe |date=May 1, 1929 |page=5}}
• {{cite news |title=Columbia Proffesor Here Next Quarter |url= |work=The Stanford Daily |date=January 8, 1931 |location=California |page=3}}
• {{cite news |title=A Longer Life Through Diet |url= |work=Tipton Daily Tribune |date=June 25, 1932 |page=3}}
• {{cite news |title=Wins Chemistry Medal |url= |work=The New York Times |date=November 15, 1937 |page=9}}
• {{cite news |title=U.S. May Get Uranium From Fertilizer |url= |work=Winnipeg Free Press |date=September 15, 1954 |location=Canada |page=10}}
• {{cite news |title=Oil Spray To Cut Dam Loss |url= |work=Melbourne Herald |date=November 15, 1954 |location=Australia |page=14}}
• {{cite news |title=U.S. Proffesor of Chemistry Visits Canberra |url= |work=The Canberra Times|volume=34 |issue=9462|location=Australia |date=December 2, 1959 |page=1}}

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Small selection

• {{cite journal | last=Riddle | first=Oscar | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K. | title=POST-MORTEM MELANIN PIGMENT FORMATION IN PIGMENTLESS RETINAS AND CHOROIDS OF WHITE RING-DOVES | journal=American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content | publisher=American Physiological Society | volume=47 | issue=1 | date=September 1, 1918 | issn=0002-9513 | doi=10.1152/ajplegacy.1918.47.1.103 | pages=103–123}}
• {{cite journal | last=Sherman | first=H. C. | last2=La Mer | first2=V K. | last3=Campbell | first3=H. L. | title=The Effect of Temperature and of the Concentration of Hydrogen Ions upon the Rate of Destruction of Antiscorbutic Vitamin (Vitamin C) | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | publisher=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | volume=7 | issue=9 | year=1921 | issn=0027-8424 | doi=10.1073/pnas.7.9.279 | pages=279–281}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | last2=Temple | first2=J. W. | title=THE AUTOXIDATION OF HYDROQUINONES CATALYZED BY MANGANOUS SALTS IN ACID SOLUTIONS. A REACTION WHOSE VELOCITY IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE DRIVING FORCE | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | publisher=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | volume=15 | issue=3 | date=March 15, 1929 | issn=0027-8424 | doi=10.1073/pnas.15.3.191 | pages=191–194}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | last2=Korman | first2=Samuel | title=The Determination of Acidity in Heavy Water Mixtures | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=83 | issue=2165 | date=June 26, 1936 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.83.2165.624 | pages=624–626}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | title=The Energy of Activation of Protein Denaturations | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=86 | issue=2244 | date=December 31, 1937 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.86.2244.614 | pages=614–616}}
• {{cite journal | last=Johnson | first=Irving | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K. | title=The Determination of the Particle Size of Monodispersed Systems by the Scattering of Light1 | journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=69 | issue=5 | year=1947 | issn=0002-7863 | doi=10.1021/ja01197a058 | pages=1184–1192}}
• {{cite journal | last= LA MER | first=V K |date=November 28, 1947 | title=Influence of ultrasonic irradiation upon the phase transition in the formation of colloidal sulfur | journal=Science (New York, N.Y.) | publisher=Science | volume=106 | issue=2761 | issn=0036-8075 | pmid=20340837 | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20340837/ }}
• {{cite journal | last=Zaiser | first=Ethel M | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K | title=The kinetics of the formation and growth of monodispersed sulfur hydrosols | journal=Journal of Colloid Science | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=3 | issue=6 | year=1948 | issn=0095-8522 | doi=10.1016/s0095-8522(48)90050-6 | pages=571–598}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | title=Monodisperse Colloids and Higher-Order Tyndall Spectra | journal=The Journal of Physical and Colloid Chemistry | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=52 | issue=1 | year=1948 | issn=0092-7023 | doi=10.1021/j150457a008 | pages=65–76}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=V. K. | last2=Hochberg | first2=Seymore. | title=The Laws of Deposition and the Effectiveness of Insecticidal Aerosols. | journal=Chemical Reviews | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=44 | issue=2 | date=April 1, 1949 | issn=0009-2665 | doi=10.1021/cr60138a007 | pages=341–352}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | title=Some Current Misconceptions of N. L. Sadi Carnot's Memoir and Cycle | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=109 | issue=2841 | date=June 10, 1949 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.109.2841.598 | pages=598–598}}
• {{cite journal | last=Sinclair | first=David. | last2=La Mer | first2=Victor K. | title=Light Scattering as a Measure of Particle Size in Aerosols. The Production of Monodisperse Aerosols. | journal=Chemical Reviews | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=44 | issue=2 | date=April 1, 1949 | issn=0009-2665 | doi=10.1021/cr60138a001 | pages=245–267}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | last2=Cotson | first2=Sydney | title=The Growth and Shrinkage of Aerosols | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=118 | issue=3070 | date=October 30, 1953 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.118.3070.516 | pages=516–517}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=V. K. | last2=Healy | first2=T. W. | title=Specification of Materials for Retarding Water Evaporation-- Spreading Hexadecanol Monolayers | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=144 | issue=3618 | date=May 1, 1964 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.144.3618.564-a | pages=564–564}}
• {{cite journal | last=La Mer | first=Victor K. | last2=Healy | first2=Thomas W. | title=Evaporation of Water: Its Retardation by Monolayers | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=148 | issue=3666 | date=April 2, 1965 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.148.3666.36 | pages=36–42}}
• {{cite journal | last=JK | first=Dixon | last2=VK | first2=La Mer | last3=HB | first3=Linford | title=Factors affecting filtration rates of flocculaed silica | journal=Journal - Water Pollution Control Federation | publisher=J Water Pollut Control Fed | volume=39 | issue=4 | issn=0043-1303 | pmid=4292617 | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4292617/ | date=1967}}

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• La Mer, based on above analysis it looks like it's the slightly more commonly used variant. As long as both are mentioned in the lede, then I'm not that fussed either way.--Ortizesp (talk) 06:19, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
• Comment If as much time had been spent on writing his article as on arguing about his name, we'd have a much better encyclopedia. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_LaMer&oldid=607121835 original stub] was one of many created by later-blocked sockpuppet Novonium, and it wasn't a lot better by [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_LaMer&oldid=1159021632 last week] when we started discussing his name. I've now expanded it somewhat from our various sources (including [https://www.colloidssurfaces.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2021-LaMer-flyer.pdf this] which strongly supports the "LaMer" spelling), but it's still pretty light on his actual chemistry achievements. PamD 07:48, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

::Out of curiosity, {{ping|Bender235}}, what brought him to your attention? When you moved him it showed on my watchlist because I'd done some tidying up as part of the cleanup of Novonium articles a long time back and he was still on my (ridiculously large) watchlist. PamD 07:51, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

:::{{Ping|PamD}} It was just a coincidence. I'm spending most of my time adding authority control information on Wikidata, and that's how I notice we seem to spell his name differently than any library catalogue. --bender235 (talk) 16:32, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

::There are multiple sources that also strongly support the La Mer spelling. And according to WP:RS, When available, academic and peer-reviewed publications, scholarly monographs, and textbooks are usually the most reliable sources. His peer-reviewed publications and textbook sources overwhelmingly support La Mer. Additionally, there is no deadline on improving articles, speaking for myself, I like to research and gather information and work in my sandbox first (due to my impaired vision), before I add content to articles. In other words, I'm an old man, and I will get around to it. Isaidnoway (talk) 16:12, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

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{{ping|Headbomb}} Please revert your change to my reference: I don't want to edit war. The catalog is my source for the information about his thesis title. I have consulted the catalog. I have not consulted the thesis. Therefore the catalog is the appropriate reference. PamD 22:11, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

:And I've upgraded the reference to the thesis, which can be consulted directly. There's no need to reference OCLC directly. The OCLC link is still there, with the addition of the LCCN and Open Library links. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:14, 27 June 2023 (UTC)