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ACS 1994 Award Winners ollowing is the fourth installment of His stance is clearly presented in the vignettes of recipients of awards ad- 1983 landmark report "A Nation at ministered by the American Chemi- Risk," which focused the national decal Society. Winners will receive their bate on reform in scientific education. awards during the spring 1994 207th ACS This document was issued by the Nanational meeting in San Diego, with the tional Commission on Excellence in Edexception of the Cope Medalist and the ucation, on which Seaborg served. Since Cope Scholars, who will receive their then, he has been cochairman of the awards at the fall 1994 208th ACS nation- Task Force on Math-Science Education al meeting in Washington, D.C., at the (1983) and the Triangle Coalition for SciArthur C. Cope Symposium. The awards ence & Technology Education (1985-91). in San Diego will be presented at a banquetHe has also served on the California on Tuesday, March 15, 1994. Vignettes of State Science Curriculum Advisory Comthe Cope awardees will appear in the next mittee since 1984. issue of C&EN. Seaborg was instrumental in setting up the Science for Science Teachers program for junior high science teachhe is on the advisory committee George C. Pimentel Award in ers; and he has, since 1985, given the proChemical Education gram's graduation speech. During the program, Seaborg frequently visits the sponsored by Union Carbide Corp. laboratory activities, just to "get to The name GLENN T. SEABORG im- know the folks," he says. He also conceived and played a key mediately brings to mind nuclear chemistry and his Nobel Prize-winning work role in founding the Lawrence Hall of on the chemistry of transuranium ele- Science at UC Berkeley and served as ments. However, Seaborg has also had a its director from 1982 to 1984. The hall strong, decades-long involvement in im- is open to the public as a place to learn proving chemical education. He is Uni- about science; it also is a home for nuversity Professor of Chemistry, associate merous scientific and mathematical eddirector of the Lawrence Berkeley Labo- ucational programs. Seaborg actively ratory, and chairman of the Lawrence participates in hall programs and in Hall of Science at the University of Cali- fundraising efforts for them. fornia, Berkeley. The award winner earned his chemThe award winner's interest in sci- istry degrees at the University of Calience education goes back to the 1950s, fornia: an A.B. in 1934 at the Los Anwhen the lack of technically trained geles campus and a Ph.D. in 1937 at people was viewed as a security risk. Berkeley. He joined the faculty of UC In 1959, Seaborg assumed responsibili- Berkeley's chemistry department in ty for development of a new high 1939, and served as chancellor of the school chemistry course, which became Berkeley campus of the university the Chem Study project that changed from 1958 to 1961. Seaborg was in the teaching of high school chemistry charge of plutonium chemistry during the Manhattan Project (1942-46). He is worldwide. As chairman of the Atomic Energy credited with discovering many isoCommission (1961-71), he initiated topes and transuranium elements. Seamany of the science education pro- borg has authored more than 400 grams now administered by the De- books and publications, and he holds partment of Energy. During those 43 patents. years, Seaborg spoke out forcefully on Seaborg's list of awards includes the * the critical need for a more scientifical- Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1951), the ly and technically literate population American Institute of Chemists' Gold that could make more knowledgeable Medal Award (1973), ACS's Priestley choices on the many technology-based Medal (1979), and the National Medal policy issues that face society. of Science (1991).
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Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry sponsored by Occidental Petroleum Corp. Since 1965, GABOR A. SOMORJAI, chemistry professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has proposed, planned, and administered a program to build a fundamental molecular basis for the surface science of heterogeneous catalysis. Concurrent with his academic appointment, he is a faculty senior scientist in the materials sciences division and the group leader of the catalysis program of the Center for Advanced Materials at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Somorjai was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1935. When the Hungarian Revolution broke out in 1956, he was a fourth-year student of chemical engineering at the Technical University in Budapest. He immigrated to the U.S. where he received a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960. After graduation, the award winner joined the IBM research staff in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., where he remained until 1964 when he was appointed assistant professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley. In 1972, he became full professor. Somorjai's achievements during the past 25 years have led to the growth of the fields of fundamental surface science and molecular heterogeneous catalysis. He has authored more than 600 scientific papers and has written three textbooks and a monograph on surface chemistry. Of the more than 70 Ph.D. candidates and over 100 postdoctoral workers he has trained, 45 are in faculty positions all over the world. Somorjai has characterized clean single-crystal surfaces, studied the structure and bonding of adsorbed molecules, and carried out catalytic reactions on these crystal surfaces. He developed much of the instrumentation necessary for studies of the molecular surface chemistry and catalysis on these small-area crysNOVEMBER 1,1993 C&EN
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Seaborg tals, including low-energy electron diffraction-surface crystallography. In addition, he discovered the relationship between the atomic structure of surface sites and catalytic activity, uncovering many new concepts of chemical bonding of adsorbed monolayers and of heterogeneous catalysis. His application of adsorbate-induced restructuring to catalysis studies led to the finding that this restructuring of catalyst surfaces can occur on different time scales (adsorption, catalytic turnover, or longer times) and may be an event that controls catalytic site activity. This work has led to the possibility of utilizing the molecular ingredients of catalysis to design new catalysts with tailored activity and selectivity. Somorjai won the ACS Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry in 1989. He chaired the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry in 1975, and received the ACS Colloid or Surface Chemistry Award in 1981. He received the Emmett Award from the American Catalysis Society in 1977. Somorjai is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Award in Colloid or Surface Chemistry sponsored by Procter & Gamble Co. In a research career spanning more than three decades, J. KERRY THOMAS has been a leader in the use of pulsed laser and pulsed radiolysis techniques to investigate the structure and dynamics of colloidal systems and other microheterogeneous systems. He pioneered and developed nano- and picosecond spectro48
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scopic methods to measure ultrafast reactions of solvated electrons, radical ions, and excited states and free radicals in colloidal systems. The studies have made photochemists more aware of the utility of colloidal systems as hosts for photochemical reactions and have provided colloid chemists with new insights into the nature of the classical field of colloid chemistry. In 1970, Thomas originated these investigations of colloidal systems when he came to Notre Dame, where he is now Julius A. Nieuwland C.S.C. Professor of Chemistry. Through this research with students at Notre Dame and through the research of many former students, Thomas' style of interdisciplinary explorations of colloids has been employed by many laboratories throughout the world. His research accomplishments, says colleague Nicholas J. Turro, William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, New York City, can be divided into both the use of radiolysis and photolysis techniques and in more complex microheterogeneous systems such as micelles, polyelectrolytes, biomolecules, clays, and zeolites. Turro notes that 'Thomas' contributions to our knowledge of the dynamics of micellar and colloidal systems have been very substantial and impressive. Prime examples include the use of the fine structure of pyrene fluorescence to elucidate solubilization in micelles and transport between water pools in inverted micelles/' Thomas' development of the conduction technique for measuring fast reactions led to the first measurements of the rate constants for electron reac-s tions in nonpolar liquids and to the important development of reactions of quasi free electrons. In related studies, films have been used to investigate details of photoinduced electron tunnel-
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ing and the effect of phonon coupling on these reactions. A native of Wales, Thomas attended the University of Manchester in England, where he received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry in 1951 and 1957, respectively. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada, before joining Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, where he remained until 1970. At Argonne, he developed the short pulsed nanosecond laser and pulse radiolysis techniques which are so popular in physical chemistry today. For his work at Argonne, he received the Research Award of the Radiation Research Society in 1974. Thomas is the author of more than 300 research papers and review articles.
Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry JOHANNES F. G. VLIEGENTHART's contributions to the field of carbohydrate chemistry have been outstanding and have had a major impact on the development of carbohydrate structural biology and biochemistry. Of particular note is his pioneering work in the development and application of stateof-the-art nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods to research on complex carbohydrate structures. Vliegenthart is professor and chairman of the department of bioorganic chemistry, research director of the Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, and director of the Graduate Research School on Biomolecular Chemistry at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Vliegenthart received his training in chemistry at Utrecht (1953-60), with a major in organic chemistry and a minor
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His work has received worldwide in cell biology. In 1967 he obtained a doctorate in natural sciences, and in recognition. For example, he has re1968 he joined the faculty at the univer- ceived honorary doctorates from the L. sity as assistant professor of bioorganic Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary (1992) and the University of Lille, chemistry. His early work on the isolation of a France (1993). He was elected honorary glycopeptide from the neurohypophy- member of the American Society for sis served in 1969 as the starting point Biochemistry & Molecular Biology for a research program on carbohydrates (1988), foreign member of the Royal and glycoconjugates. His main focus Swedish Academy of Sciences (1987), was, and still is, studying the structure and member of the Royal Netherlands of such compounds in relation to bio- Academy of Arts & Sciences (1990). activity. Initially, VTiegenthart employed mass spectrometry to identify relatively simple oligosaccharide derivatives. With the Frederic Stanley Kipping advent of high-resolution NMR instru- Award in Organosilicon ments, he began using ] H- and 13C- Chemistry NMR to define primary structures of complex carbohydrates. This led to the sponsored by Dow Corning Corp. most important of his many contributions: the development of the concept of ROBIN WALSH, a reader in physical structural reporter groups in ^ - N M R chemistry in the department of chemisspectroscopy. Under this approach, such try at the University of Reading, U.K., spectra are used to establish the primary has pioneered investigations that have structure of N- and O-linked carbohy- increased understanding of the mechadrate chains of glycoproteins. Today this nisms of thermal and photochemical concept is widely used by carbohydrate breakdown of silicon and organosilicon chemists and glycobiologists and has compounds. His research continues to led to a better understanding of the bio- provide new insights into the details of logical and physicochemical properties complex processes. of protein-bound carbohydrate chains. The award winner learned kinetics The concept also has been of great value under Howard Purnell at Cambridge in the analysis of plant polysaccharide University. He then extended his knowlfragments. edge and interests with Sidney Benson Vliegenthart also is professionally in- during postdoctoral work in the U.S., volved outside his laboratory. For exam- where he helped develop the iodination ple, he is currently chairman of the method of determining bond dissociaNetherlands Society for the Study of tion energies. Returning to the UniversiGlycoconjugates. He is a member of ty of Reading as a Science Research ACS, the Royal Netherlands Chemical Council research fellow, Walsh collaboSociety, and the American Association rated with Monty Frey on the chemistry. for the Advancement of Science. He is of methylene reactions. managing editor of the European Journal Walsh's interest in silicon chemistry of Biochemistry and is a member of the began about 30 years ago with a study of editorial boards of five other journals. the pyrolysis of monosilane. He recogHe has published more than 300 papers. nized the need for much more kinetic
and thermochemical information if progress was to be made in understanding the remarkably complex breakdown chemistry of this apparently simple molecule. He therefore began a series of measurements of bond dissociation energies in silanes and organosilanes using the iodination method. This work culminated in 1981 in a review that is still regarded as one of the best critical compilations available. More recently, Walsh has turned his attention to the kinetics of reactions of silyenes, the key intermediates in organosilicon compound breakdown. He has applied the powerful laser flash photolysis method to their direct time-resolved investigation. These studies have produced a wealth of new information on silyenes, some of which were directly monitored for the first time. In all of his research, Walsh has demonstrated original thinking combined with a disciplined approach in trying to unravel the fundamentals of the subject. He also communicates the relevance of his findings to applications such as chemical vapor deposition. In addition to organosilicon chemistry, the award winner continues to be active in the field of hydrocarbon chemistry where he is recognized as an expert on the reactions of methylene and small ring systems. Walsh obtained both bachelor's (1961) and doctoral (1964) degrees from Cambridge University. Following postdoctoral positions at Stanford Research Institute and Reading University, he joined the chemistry faculty at Reading University. He has more than 120 published articles and book chapters to his credit. Walsh is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the European Photochemistry Association.
ACS Award in Separations Science & Technology sponsored by Rohm & Haas Co. PHILLIP C. WANKAT, head of freshman engineering and professor of chemical engineering at Purdue University, is a dedicated scientist, a prolific author, and a gifted educator who has made significant contributions to separations research and technology and to engineering education. Since 1970, Wankat has been interested in a variety of cyclic operating proceNOVEMBER 1,1993 C&EN 49
AWARDS dures for sorption processes. These have included parametric pumping, cycling zone adsorption, and pressure swing adsorption and extension of these techniques to two-dimensional separations. He has published extensive review articles on each of these four areas. These research interests coalesced in his 1986 monograph, "Large-Scale Adsorption and Chromatography/' Wankat has taught separation techniques at Purdue for more than 20 years. Chemical engineering courses on separations are often divided into three areas: standard equilibrium-staged separations; mass transfer-limited or more novel separations; and mechanical separations, which include centrifugation, filtration, and settling. Wankat has worked to develop courses in the first two areas. His 1988 textbook, "Equilibrium-Staged Separations,,/ is a modern treatment of the field, including distillation, adsorption, extraction, washing, and leaching. Although there is not a lot of research on these separations, they are industry workhorses. In his book, Wankat integrated classical graphical and modern computer methods with both binary and multicomponent systems. Wankat's interests include diffusional separation processes such as crystallization, adsorption, chromatography, ion exchange, and membrane separators. "Rate-Controlled Separations," a textbook on these topics, was published in 1990. This book covers both solution and melt crystallizations. In it, population balances and crystal size distributions are developed in detail, and Wankat applies a unified mathematical treatment to study adsorption, chromatography, and ion exchange. Wankat's current goal is to intensify adsorption and chromatography processes. His two major contributions in this area are chromatographic systems that utilize port switching (for example, moving-port, moving-feed, and moving-withdrawal chromatography) and methods for scaling both adsorption and chromatography to use highly efficient small-diameter packings without the usual pressure-drop penalty. Wankat received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Purdue University in 1966, a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University in 1970, and an M.S.Ed, degree in counseling from Purdue in 1982. He has been honored with a number of awards, including a Chemical Manufacturers As50
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sociation Catalyst Award (1993); the American Society of Engineering Education's Chester F. Carlson Award (1990), George Westinghouse Award (1984), and Western Electric Award (1984); and several Best Teacher Awards from Purdue. Wankat has coauthored another book, 'Teaching Engineering," that was published by McGraw-Hill this year.
eration, enzyme stabilization, and enzyme immobilization—developing insitu regeneration methods and novel polymers that have extended the useful lifetimes of enzyme catalysts by many orders of magnitude. He then moved to multienzyme systems and demonstrated (with Chi-Huey Wong), for the first time, the practical utility of the Leloir pathway for the synthesis of complex carbohydrates. His studies of the enzyme-assisted synJames Flack Norris Award in thesis of both the standard building Physical Organic Chemistry blocks for the C-8 and C-9 sugars and the assembly of these sugars into the sponsored by ACS Northeastern Section oligosaccharides themselves have also GEORGE M. WHITESIDES, Mallin- contributed to glycobiology. ckrodt Professor of Chemistry at HarWhitesides received an A.B. degree vard University, has made important from Harvard University in 1960 and a and original contributions to the mech- Ph.D. degree from California Institute anisms of organometallic reactions, to of Technology in 1964 under the directhe study of dynamic stereochemical tion of J. D. Roberts. From 1963 until problems by nuclear magnetic reso- 1982, he was a member of the faculty of nance (NMR) spectroscopy, to the use Massachusetts Institute of Technology. and mechanisms of organometallic re- He joined the department of chemistry agents, to the nature of heterogeneous of Harvard University in 1982. reactions, and to the exploitation and The award winner held an Alfred P. use of enzymes in synthesis. He contin- Sloan Fellowship in 1968; he received the ues to uncover important problems in ACS Award in Pure Chemistry in 1975, mechanistic chemistry and to take imag- and an Arthur C Cope Scholar Award inative and bold approaches toward from ACS in 1989. He is a member of their solutions. the American Academy of Arts & SciWhitesides was one of the first re- ences and the National Academy of searchers to recognize the power of Sciences, and a fellow of the American NMR spectroscopy for the study of dy- Association for the Advancement of namic problems and stereochemistry. Science. He also has served on a range He completed the first dynamic line of National Research Council boards and shape analysis on a coupled spin sys- committees. tem and provided the first experimental demonstration for the mechanism of pseudorotation in the analysis of the spectra derived from such molecules as ACS Award in Petroleum Chemistry SF4 and (CH3)2NPF4. In transition-metal organometallic chemistry, Whitesides has studied ele- sponsored by Amoco Foundation mentary reactions that are representative The contributions of TEH FU YEN, of those that occur in homogeneous ca- professor of environmental and civil talysis using organoplatinum and orga- engineering at the University of Southnocopper compounds. He demonstrated ern California, Los Angeles, to petrofor the first time the activation of car- leum chemistry can be summarized in bon-hydrogen bonds by homogeneous two categories. The first is his establishPt[0] complexes and he synthesized ment of the structure and chemistry of the first well-characterized alkyl transi- asphaltenes in heavy crude oils and petion-metal metallocycle and demon- troleum. The second is his search for strated the relevance of metallocycles environmentally acceptable methods of in catalysis. petroleum production and refining. The past several years have wit-,, Yen was the first to apply polymer nessed Whitesides' successful foray concepts to the investigation of high into the use of enzymes as reagents for molecular weight fractions of fossil fularge-scale synthesis. He identified and els and to recognize the importance of sequentially attacked the fundamental polar molecules in fossil fuels and their problems in this area—cofactor regen- related products.
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His pioneering work on the structure of petroleum asphaltenes includes adopting the concept of monomelic, oligomeric, and polymeric units. And his original investigation of fossil porphyrins and other metal complexes using electron spin resonance has earned him the honor of being the first reseacher to employ vanadyl complexes as a spin probe for examination of carbonaceous matrices. Domestic and international refineries have adopted his analytical methods as refinery procedures. He holds 15 U.S. patents, and one each in England, Canada, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia. His early research work on the bioleaching of oil shale involves the use of Thiobacillus for dissolution of carbonate minerals and the increase of porosity in order to enhance the mass and heat transport for the subsequent recovery of the organics. Yen pioneered the use of microorganisms in the extraction, production, and environmental control of fossil fuels based on the idea that the biological approach is mild. Recently he performed petroleum upgrading by sonochemical and microwave approaches. He has also investigated the asphaltenes derived from fossil fuel sources other than petroleum. The award winner received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Huachung (Central China) University in 1947, an M.S. degree from West Virginia University in 1953, and a Ph.D. degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in 1956. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemists, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Society for the Advancement of Materials & Process Engineering. He has over 400 technical publications. 52
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Insightful,/ is the term used frequently by colleagues to describe the achievements of EDWARD S. YEUNG, distinguished professor in sciences and humanities at Iowa State University. His ability to mix physical and analytical chemistry, spectroscopy and chromatography, and more recently, biology and chemistry has allowed him to achieve major breakthroughs that otherwise may have been impossible. Yeung and his colleagues Barry L. Hogan and Thomas T. Lee developed a procedure for studying the contents of a single human red blood cell. This technique is considered a milestone in ultramicro techniques, surpassing all previous attempts at characterizing small samples. Three distinct detection schemes were used to determine intracellular cations, glutathione, and native proteins. This represents the world record in ultramicroanalysis—at least 30 times smaller an amount than in previous single-cell studies. This development opened up new possibilities in early disease diagnosis, understanding aging, and drug design. Yeung has 10 U.S. patents and several inventions; one invention in the most mature stage of development is a micropolarimeter for measuring optical activity. This device promises to affect even college textbooks, where certain chiral molecules are listed as showing negligible optical activity. His work has shown applicability inchmeal and biological sciences including the determination of the enantiomeric purity of pharmaceuticals, the determination of cholesterol and its
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ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution sponsored by Research Corp.
CLAUDE H. YODER, Charles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., has, throughout his entire academic career, maintained a balance between teaching and research efforts. Yoder investigates the reactivity of main-group organometallics and applies nuclear magnetic resonance analysis (NMR) to study the structure of silylamides and to evaluate equilibrium con-
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AWARDS stants for Lewis acid-base interactions in gestive & Kidney Diseases, part of the organometallic derivatives of the group National Institutes of Health, has, over the past four decades, made numerous IV elements. While his record of publications, 86 contributions to the theory of liquids, since 1963, reveals a strong research pro- polymer physics, disordered systems, gram, perusal of the titles also indicates and hydrodynamics. In 1954, Zwanzig produced the perthat Yoder is a committed educator. More than 80 undergraduates are listed turbation theory as a route to obtain the as coauthors of these research papers. thermodynamic properties of gases and Yoder is a founding member of the liquids. This has had a profound influence on workers in equilibrium statistiCouncil on Undergraduate Research. In addition, Yoder has coauthored cal mechanics. Many of the modern detwo textbooks, one in general chemistry velopments in the equilibrium theory of and one in NMR analysis, and is cur- simple liquids can be traced back to rently working on a third, an intermedi- this contribution. The perturbation theate-level inorganic text on the principles ory of liquids has received renewed prominence through its use for numerof main-group chemistry. Yoder has performed numerous qual- ical computations of free energies, paritative and numerical analyses with ticularly in the context of biopolymer James N. Spencer to determine the vari- simulations. In 1960, Zwanzig developed the proables that influence students' postcollege paths; most of these studies have been jection operator method, which has since published in the Journal of Chemical Edu- become the cornerstone in the statistical cation. Of his former students, 16 have mechanics of irreversible processes. In received M.D. degrees, 21 have received this work, Zwanzig presented for the Ph.D. degrees in chemistry, and eight first time a formalism to calculate dyhave other advanced degrees. Two of his namical quantities without recourse to students received National Science perturbation theory. This method proFoundation Graduate Fellowships in vides the clearest exposition of a general theoretical scheme for the calculation of Chemistry. Yoder has been the recipient of numer- dynamic correlation function in conous research grants, four from Research densed media. In the three decades that Corp., four from the Petroleum Research have passed since this work was done, Fund, and six from NSF. With Marcus W. the number of applications of this methThompson and Kenneth R. Hess, he has od has grown dramatically. Zwanzig applied this method to the developed "ChemGuide," a hypertext computer-assisted instruction program for exposition of memory effects in irreversible thermodynamics and to the use in general chemistry courses. Yoder received a B.A. degree from justification of the Rouse-Zimm model Franklin & Marshall College in 1962 and in polymer solution dynamics. It is a Ph.D. degree from Cornell University widely accepted that this is a landmark in 1966. He joined the faculty at Franklin in the history of irreversible statistical & Marshall in 1966. Among his honors mechanics. Zwanzig has also introduced many are a Dreyfus Teacher/Scholar grant (1971), a Lindback Teaching Award other ideas that have become sources (1974), a Catalyst Award from the Chem- of research problems for several generical Manufacturers Association (1983), and ations of students. Some of these are in the theory of surface tension, the theoa Dreyfus Teacher/Fellow grant (1990). ry of polymer crystallization, and excitation transfer in disordered media. Zwanzig received a B.S. degree from Joel Henry Hildebrand Award Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1948, an M.S. degree from the Univerin the Theoretical & sity of Southern California in 1950, Experimental Chemistry of and a Ph.D. degree from California Liquids Institute of Technology in 1952. He was sponsored by Exxon Research & Engineer-elected to the National Academy of Sci-^ ences in 1972. Zwanzig received the ing Co. and Exxon Chemical Co. ACS Peter Debye Award in Physical ROBERT W. ZWANZIG, section chief Chemistry in 1976 and the ACS Irving in the laboratory of chemical physics at Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics • the National Institute of Diabetes, Di- in 1984. 54
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Peter Schultz to receive Harrison Howe Award
The ACS Rochester Section will honor Peter G. Schultz of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory as the recipient of the 49th Harrison Howe Award. The award, to be presented Nov. 9 at the University of Rochester, recognizes Schultz's creativity and breadth of research in biological chemistry, including the development of catalytic antibodies and new methods in site-directed mutagenesis of proteins. His award address is entitled "New Opportunities at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology." Schultz has made pioneering contributions to both fields. Among his major accomplishments are the development of catalytic antibodies (simultaneously with Richard A. Lerner); the development of a technique that expands sitedirected mutagenesis to include nonnatural amino acids; and the creation of DNA- and RNA-cleaving enzymes, which are chemically modified to behave as artificial restriction enzymes. Schultz did undergraduate work at California Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1979. He stayed at Caltech to pursue graduate work as a National Science Foundation predoctoral fellow with Peter Dervan. While there, he studied both the thermal chemistry and photochemistry of 1,1,-diazenes and also the design of some of the earliest sequence-specific DNA-cleaving molecules. In recognition of his graduate work, he received the 1985 Nobel Laureate Signature Award
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AWARDS from ACS. After receiving a Ph.D. degree in 1984, he worked as a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Christopher Walsh at Harvard University. There, he used site-directed mutagenesis to probe the mechanism of mercuric ion reductase. Schultz joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1985 and rose to the rank of professor in 1989. For his work, Schultz has received a number of awards, including an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award, the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, and the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry. In 1993, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. •
Daniel Armstrong is Midwest Award winner Daniel W. Armstrong, Curator's Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and director of the Center for Environmental Science & Technology at the University of Missouri, Rolla, will receive the 49th Midwest Award on Nov. 11, at the 28th ACS Midwest Regional Meeting. Armstrong is well known for his theoretical and applied work on the separation of optical isomers of organic compounds, specifically compounds of biological interest. He has not only come up with separation schemes of such compounds, but has delved deeply into the chemistry of the separations and the intermolecular attractions involved in the differential affinities. He has published over 180 papers on a variety of topics in analytical chemistry and 10 book chapters on special topics in chromatography. Armstrong received a B.S. degree in
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1972 from Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Va.; an M.S. degree in oceanography in 1974 from Texas A&M University; and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 1977, also from Texas A&M. He joined the UM Rolla faculty in 1987. In the past three years, Armstrong has won several major awards, including Europe's Martin Medal; he is one of the few U.S. scientists to be honored with this medal. •
Darryl DesMarteau wins Stone Award The ACS Carolina Piedmont Section has selected Darryl D. DesMarteau, TobeyBeaudrot Professor of Chemistry at Clemson University, Clemson, S.C., as the 1993 recipient of the Charles H. Stone Award. The award, which is presented annually, consists of an engraved plaque and $1000.
Herty Award nominations sought The ACS Georgia Section is soliciting nominations for the 1994 Charles Holmes Herty Medal, which is presented annually to recognize the work and service of outstanding chemists from the southeastern section of the U.S. Nominees are accepted from academic, government, or industrial laboratories. The award consists of a gold medal designed to commemorate Hetty's work. The deadline for submission of nominations is Nov. 30. Send all nominations or inquiries to Theresa Chamblee, TEC 4B, P.O. Drawer 1734, Atlanta, Ga. 30301; phone (404) 676-4926, fax (404) 515-5112. •
Nominations sought for Thieme-IUPAC prize
Thieme Publishers and the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) solicit nominations for the 1994 Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. The prize, which consists of 10,000 deutsche marks, will be presented at the joint IUPAC-International Conference on Organic Synthesis to be held in Bangalore, India, Dec. 1116,1994. The award will be presented to a scientist under 40 years of age as of Jan. 1, 1994, whose research has had a major impact on synthetic organic chemistry. Nominees will be judged on the basis of scientific merit of independent reBy selecting DesMarteau for this search dealing with synthesis in the award, the section recognizes the signifi- broadest context of organic chemistry, cant contributions he has made to the including organometallic chemistry, field of fluorochemical research, includ- medicinal and biological chemistry, deing xenon-nitrogen compounds, novel signed molecules, and materials. Profluorocarbon derivatives of nonmetals, posals must be accompanied by a biosuperacids, and selective fluorination re- graphical sketch of the nominee, a list agents. After graduating from Washing- of the candidate's 10 most significant ton State University, DesMarteau pur- publications, and a statement of how sued graduate studies at the University the candidate's research has influenced of Washington with the late G. H. Cady. synthetic organic chemistry. He began his academic career at the UniSend nominations (8 copies) by versity of Washington and then served April 15, 1994, to Executive Secretary, on the faculties of Northeastern Univer- IUPAC Secretariat, Bank Court Chamsity and Kansas State University, before. bers, 2-3 Pound Way, Templars Square, joining Clemson in 1982. DesMarteau Cowley, Oxford OX4 3YF, England; has received several other awards, in- phone 44 (865) 747744, fax 44(865) cluding the 1983 ACS Award for Cre- 747510. • ative Work in Fluorine Chemistry. • Continued on page 71
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