Kamlet attended City College of New York where he majored in chemistry and minored in biology.
Edna Yadven majored in biology and minored in chemistry at the City University of New York.
[1] With encouragement from his wife, Jonas Kamlet went to graduate school and got his Ph.D. from New York University in 1944 for his dissertation on the topic “The Synthesis of 5-Dialkylamino, 2-chloropentanes.
An investigation into the Mechanism of Olefine Formation by the Alkaline Scission of N, N-Dialkylpiperdinium Salts” (Proquest, 2005).
Here he worked with Walter Ames Compton and together they searched for a method to put reagents in an effervescent tablet that could detect the quantity of sugar in a test tube of urine.
[2] The scientists succeeded, and in 1941 Miles introduced the effervescent tablet Clinitest and they obtained a patent for it using a Chicago law firm.
[3] This method utilized a pill containing compounds that dissolved with a strong exothermic reaction without the use of an external heat source.
The pill consisted primarily of citric acid monohydrate, sodium hydroxide, and copper sulfate, and a color change (cuprous oxide) was used to identify glucose.
He was one of the 134 people who were killed in the 1960 New York mid-air collision between a TWA Lockheed Constellation and a United Air Lines DC-8 near Idlewild (now JFK) airport.
The United Airlines plane remained in the air for 8.5 miles and crashed onto Sterling Place and Seventh Avenue, igniting more than a dozen buildings.
In addition to the families of the deceased passengers and crew, local residents received settlements from United Airlines.