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AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY HARRISON E. HOWE, Editor
OCTOBER 20,1938
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A. C. S. Candidates for 1 9 3 9 N ACCORDANCE with the constitution IAMERICAN and bylaws governing elections in the CHEMICAL SOCIETY, local sec
tions have proposed for nomination the following members for President-Elect and for Councilors-at-Large. As usual, additional members were proposed but declined to permit their names to be pre sented on the ballot, which will soon go to all members of the SOCIETY.
The following information is based upon records to be found in "American Men of Science," "Who's Who," and "Chemical Who's Who." The names are arranged in alphabetical order.
President-Elect Erie M. Billings, business and technical personnel director of the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, Ν. Υ., since 1934, began his professional career as vice principal of the Lowville Academy, later taught in the high schools of New York State, and be came organic research chemist for the East man Kodak Co. in 1918. Since that time he has been secretary of the Re Erie M. Billings search Laboratory, assistant, business manager of the Teaching Film Department at Eastman Teaching Films, Inc., and head of the Department of Mens' Training, from which post he was promoted to his present activities. He was born in Can ton, Ν. Υ., in 1889 and received his higher education at St. Lawrence and the Uni versity of Rochester. He has served as business manager of the Journal of Chemical Education, has long been a mem ber of the Council Policy Committee, and is a director of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL
SOCIETY. He served for 10 years as secre tary-treasurer of the Rochester local sec tion and has been active in many capaci ties in the Division of Industrial and En gineering Chemistry of the SOCIETY. He has made important contributions through service to local sections and to the Divisional Officers' Group, of which he has been secretary and chairman. As a member of the New York Teachers' Asso ciation he organized the Science Section and was its president in 1916. He is widely known for his personnel work and specializes in business chemistry. He is also a major in the Reserve Corps.
ties and physical cons t a n t e of g a s e s , atomic weights, and beryllium. He has served as secretarytreasurer of the Cornell Section and of the Cleveland Sec tion and chairman of the latter in 1925. He has just com pleted a term as chairman of the Di HaroldS. Booth vision of Physical and Inorganic Chem istry. He edited "Inorganic Syntheses" and has lectured before many of our local sections. Gustavl [off, director of research, Universai OU 'roducts Co., Chicago, 111., since 1917, was born in 1886 in New York City, and attended Cornell and Colum bia Universities. He was Barnard Fellow in 1914-15 and re ceived his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1916. He was a member of the staff of the United States Bureau of Mines and hydrocarbon e n g i n e e r Underwood and chief chemist of Aetna Chemical Gustav Egloff Co., leaving t h a t position to become affiliated with his present company. He has been a lecturer at Columbia, Princeton, Chicago. Har vard, Northwestern, California, and Stan ford and a delegate to many important world conferences and congresses, includ ing president of the American delega tion to the World Petroleum Congress in Paris in 1937. He has been Councilorat-Large of
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SOCIETY since 1936 and was president of the Chicago Chemists Club in 1934. He is a member of many scientific societies and institutes and has been a frequent contributor to the literature. His special field is petroleum and its many aspects but he has also conducted research on coal tar, shale, and vegetable and fatty oils.
Gustavus J. Esselen, president and treasurer, Gustavus J. Esselen, Inc., since 1933, was born in Roxbury, Mass., in 1888. A graduate of Harvard, receiving his Ph.D. in 1912, he became research H. S. Booth, professor of chemistry. c h e m i s t for t h e Western Reserve University, Cleveland, General Electric Co., Ohio, and head of the Division of Physical then assistant Sciences, Cleveland College, was born in manager and man Cleveland in 1891. A graduate of West ager of the Chemical ern Reserve, Sage Fellow at Cornell Uni Products Co., and versity, and Du Pont Fellow, he was joined the Research awarded his Ph.D. at Cornell in 1919, and D e p a r t m e n t of has since been teaching at Western Re Arthur D. Little, serve. His specialty is inorganic chemis Inc., in 1918, leaving try, particularly electrochemistry, chemi Baehrach in 1921 to become cal microscopy, fluoride gases, gas densivice president and G. J. Εη·1·η 549
director of research of Skinner, Sherman, and Esselen, Inc. In 1930 he became an independent consulting chemist, later or ganizing his present firm. He has been Appleton Lecturer at Brown University, a member of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the National Re search Council, and a representative of the council and the National Academy of Sciences at several meetings of the Inter national Union of Pure and Applied Chemis try.
Long active in the AMERICAN CHEMI
CAL SOCIETY, he has served as chairman of the Cellulose Division, chairman of the Northeastern Section, Councilor, and now Director. He was a major in the Chemical Warfare Service, is a member of numerous scientific societies, and has served as di rector of the American Institute of Chemi cal Engineers. He specializes in celluilose and its compounds. Francis C. Frary, director of research, Aluminum Co. of America, since 1919, was born in Minneapolis, Minn., in 1884. A graduate of the University of Minne sota, Ph.D. in 1912, and a student at the University of Berlin 1906-07, he began his professional career as a teacher at the Uni versity of Minnesota, becoming assistant professor in 1911, and resigned in 1915 to be come research chem ist at the Oldbury Electrochemical Co. He has served as Baehrach Councilor of the Francis C. Frary AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY and has been
of the Electrochemical Society, gresident [e was captain in the Ordnance Depart
ment and major in the Chemical Warfare Service. He is a member of several scien tific organizations. His specialty in indus trial chemistry is electrochemistry and aluminum. Per K. Frolich, director of the Chemical Laboratories of the Standard Oil Develop ment Co. Born in 1899, he was educated at the Norwegian Instituteof Technology, where he graduated in 1921, followed by a master's degree at the Massachusetts I n s t i t u t e of Tech nology and doctor of science from the same institution in 1925. He served as laboratory assistant Per K. Frolich at the Norwegian Institute of Tech nology, was a student at Kristiansand Business College, and became research as sistant at Μ. Γ Τ. in the Research Labora tory of Applied Chemistry in 1923. He occupied several posts at M. I. T., becoming associate professor of chemical engineering in 1929, and assistant director of the Re-
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search Laboratory of Applied Chemistry. He became associated with the Standard Oil Development Co. in 1029, where he was first research chemist, then assistant director, and director of the Bayway Research Laboratories. He has contributed many technical papers to the literature, has obtained numerous patents, and was the Grasselli Medalist in 1030. He has been associate editor of Chemical Reviews. His activities in scientific societies include the chairmanship of the North Jersey Section of
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chairman of symposia in the Division of Petroleum Chemistry of the SOCIETY, vice chairman of that division, and Councilor. He has been a member of the SOCIETY since 1925 and in his chosen field is perhaps best known for his work on the transformation and chemical utilisation of hydrocarbons, high-pressure gas reactions, catalysis, and applied colloid chemistry.
Harrison Hale» professor of chemistry and head of the department at the University of Arkansas since 1918, was born at Columbus, Miss., in 1879. He was educated at Emory University and the University of Chicago, received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania where he was Harrison Fellow in 1908, and the honorary LL.D. from Drury College in 1928. His professional career Harrison Hale has been as a teacher in the public schools of Georgia, at Drury College, and at the University of Arkansas where he became assistant professor in 1903. He has also served as city chemist at Springfield, Mo., and as consultant to that city and to the Fort Smith Water Department and the same department of the city of Fayetteville. He has been chairman of the Division of Chemical Education and a Councilor of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.
He specializes in boiler water problems, zinc ores, and in the use of chlorine as a milk preservative and a preventative of influenza. Chemical history is another major interest.
W. D. Harkins, Andrew Macl^eish Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, since 1935, was born in TitusviUe, Pa., in 1873, and attended Stanford, receiving his Ph.D. in 1908, also the Universities of Chicago and K a r l s r u h e . He taught at Stanford W. D. Harkins and the University of Montana, leaving that institution to become instructor in chemistry at the University of Chicago in 1912, where he has since remained. He has been research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lecturer, and George Fisher Baker NonResident Lecturer at Cornell. He has served as special agent on smelter smoke investigations, U. S. Department of
Justice, consulting chemist, U. S. Bureau of Mines, consultant to the Chemical Warfare Service, and on the Chicago Commission on Ventilation. He received the Willard Gibbs Medal in 1928. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and has been vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His work has been in numerous fields of inorganic chemistry including isotopes, polymolecular and monomolecular films, radioactivity, emulsions, and Raman spectra. Samuel C. Lind, dean of the Institute of Technology of the University of Minnesota. Born in 1879, Dr. Lind graduated from Washington and Lee University, then the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, took his Ph.D. at Leipzig in 1905, and was a Samuel C. Lind student at the University of Paris in 1910-11 and at the Institute of Radium Research in Vienna in 1911. He was assistant in chemistry at M. I. T., instructor and later assistant professor at the University of Michigan, chemist in radioactivity, physical chemist, and in 192325 chief chemist at the U. S. Bureau of Mines. He was associate director of the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory in 1925 and 1926, leaving to become director of the School of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, where he remained until becoming dean of the Institute of Technology of the same university in 1935. Dr. Lind has been a member of the SOCIETY since 1908, and editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry since 1933. He has also been a member of the board of editors of Scientific Monographs and Chemical Reviews. He was president of the Electrochemical Society in 1927, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and of other scientific organizations. He is the author of many articles in the field of his special interest, and the inventor of the Lind interchangeable electroscope for radium measurements. He originated the ionization theory of the chemical effects of radium rays. His work has been in the field of radioactivity, radium extraction and measurement, influence of radiation on chemical action, kinetics, and chemical reactions, photochemistry, and chemical effects in electrical discharge.
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1911-14. He returned to Hopkins and was advanced to the rank of professor of organic chemistry in 1016, remaining at the position until his retirement in 1937. He has been consultant for important chemical companies and research adviser to a group of southern educational institutions. He also served as visiting professor, University of Chicago, summer of 1930, and has rendered important service as consultant to the Chemical Warfare Service, U. S. Bureau of Mines, and the War Department. He has been chairman of the Division of Organic Chemistry of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY and
was Director 1934-37. His numerous contributions in the field of organic chemistry, his specialty, are too well known to require special mention. Walter A. Schmidt, president and general manager, Western Precipitation Co., president, Precipitation Co. of Canada, Ltd., and International Precipitation Co., official and director of the Westwell Chemical Co., and president, Allied Process Corp. Born in Los Angeles in W. A. Schmidt 188a, a graduate of the * University of California, he became engineer of the Western Precipitation Co. in 1908 and is well known for his pioneering in the electrical precipitation of suspended particles from gases, which has long been his specialty. He has served the AMERICAN CHEMICAL
SOCIETY in many capacities, including Director, member of the Council, and of its Policy Committee. He is a member of many other scientific organizations in his special field.
Hugh S. Taylor, David B. Jones Professor, Princeton University, since 1927, was born in Lancashire, England, in 1890. A graduate of the University of Liverpool where he received his doctor of science degree in 1914, h e s t u d i e d at the Nobel Institute in Stockholm H. S. Taylor in 1912-13, at the Technische Hochschule in Hanover in E. Emmet Reid, 1913-14, and in 1937 was awarded an emeritus professor of honorary doctor of science degree by chemistry, Johns Louvain. He became instructor in physiHopkins University, cal chemistry at Princeton in 1914 where was born in Fincastle, he progressed to professor in 1922, chairVa., in 1872. He man in 1926, and received his present was educated at appointment in 1927. He has been lecRichmond, where he turer at the University of California, received an honorary professor at the University of Manchester LL.D. in 1917, and and at Louvain, and chairman of comwas fellow at Johns mittees of the National Research Council Hopkins University, and of the Central Petroleum Committee. receiving his Ph.D. He has received the Nichols Medal of in 1898. He became the New York Section of the AMERICAN E. Emmet Reid professor of chemistry CHEMICAL SOCIETY, the Mendel Medal at t h e College of of Villanova, and the Cross of the Order Charleston in that year, and was later at of Leopold. He has served as research Baylor, Carnegie, assistant at Hopkins, chemist of the Munitions Department in Johnston Scholar at the same institution, England, has been Councilor of the AMERIand research chemist at the Colgate Co., CAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, vice president
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OCTOBER 20, 1938 of the Electrochemical Society, and is a member of numerous other societies, including honorary membership in the Société Chimique de Belgique. He is also a member of the Pontifical Academy. He is known bestvfor his work in catalysis, thermodynamics, photochemistry, atomic hydrogen, and activated absorption. Ernest H.Volwiler, vice p r e s i d e n t in charge of research and d e v e l o p m e n t , Abbott Laboratories, since 1933, was born in Hamilton, Ohio, in 1893. A graduate of Miami University, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1918, and began his professional work as instructor of chemistry E. H. Volwiler at Miami. Later he was assistant at Illinois, began research at the Abbott Laboratories in 1918, and was promoted to chief chemist in 1921, director of research in 1930, and member of the board of directors the same year. He has been chairman of the Chicago
NEWS EDITION He has served with the national conferences of pharmaceutical research, on the revision committee of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, has beer* director of the College of Pharmacy in Pittsburgh, and trustee of the Philadelphia, College of Pharmacy, and received tine Ebert Prise of the Pharmaceutical Association. He has been secretary of Section C of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, secretary of the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of
the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, and
member of the research committee of the American Pharmaceutical Association, being first vice president, then president, of this association. He is a member of numerous other scientific and technical organizations.
551 in 1907, and taught at Hopkins and Earlham College before removing to Oberlin. He has served on committees of the National Research Council and participated as a member of the faculty in the Institutes of Chemistry of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL· SOCIETY in 1927 and 1928.
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has served as secretary and as chairman of the Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, and as chairman and councilor of the Cleveland Section. His field is colloid chemistry and the study of vita-
John R. Johnson, professor of organic chemistry, Cornell University, since 1930. He was born in Chicago in 1900, educated at the University of Illinois, where he received his Ph.D. in 1922, was American Field Service Fellow, Collège de France, George H. Coleman» professor of and taught at the University of Illinois chemistry, University of Iowa, since 1930. prior to joining the faculty at Cornell. Born in Evansville, Wis., in 1891, he He has been on the editorial board of graduated from Greenville College, taking "Organic Syntheses." advanced work at the University of IlCarl S. Marvel* professor of organic linois, where h e received the Ph.D. in 1921. He taught at the University of chemistry, University of Illinois, since 1930. He was born in Waynesville, 111., Illinois, removing to the University of Iowa in 1921. He was a Guggenheim in 1894, graduated from Illinois Wesleyan, and received his Ph.D. from the UniverMemorial Foundation Fellow in France sity of Illinois in 1920. His professional and Germany, and has been editor of the Section of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL Iowa Academy of Science, his specialty career has been as a member of the faculty SOCIETY and of the Division of Medicinal being at the University of Illinois, and he has organic chemistry. Chemistry, as well as Councilor-at-Large. been on the editorial board of 'Organic He edited the Chemical Bulletin in 1922Frank B. Daums, professor of chemistry, Syntheses." 24, was president of the Association of University of Kansas, since 1914. Born Illinois Chemists and of the Chicago in Gouverneur, Si. Y., 1869, he graduated Jack P. Montgomery» professor of orChemists Club, and has been major in the from Wesleyan, and was a fellow at the ganic chemistry at the University of Chemical Warfare Service since 1925. University of Chicago, receiving his Ph.D. Alabama since 1911. He was born at His specialty is medicinal chemistry. in 1898. He was a student of the Uni- Columbia, Miss., in 1877, graduated from versities . of Berlin and Freiburg, and Southern Presbyterian College, and reHobart H. Willard, taught at Wesleyan, Northwestern, and ceived the Ph.D. from the University of professor of chemis- at Washburn College. He has served on Virginia in 1903. He has taught in the at the University committees of the National Research Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical Michigan, Ann and as chairman of the Divisions College, been assistant state chemist to Arbor, was born in Council, of the History of Chemistry and of the State of Mississippi, and has been con1886. He was gradu- Organic of the AMERICAN tributing editor of the Journal of Chemical ated from the Uni- CHEMICALChemistry Education. His work has been in colloid SOCIETY. He has been presiversity of Michigan, of the Kansas Academy of Science. and cellulose chemistry and certain phases where he also re- dent of organic chemistry. ceived his master's He has specialized in several branches of degree, followed in organic chemistry. R. Norris Shreve, professor of chemical 1909 by the Ph.D. engineering, in charge of organic techHenry Gilman, professor of chemistry from Harvard. He Iowa State College since 1923. He was nology at Purdue University since 1931, has been a member of at born in Boston in 1893, and is a graduate was born in St. Louis in 1885. After H. H. Willard the faculty of the uni- of Harvard where he received his Ph.D. graduating summa cum louée from Harversit.v ainro» 1 QOfv vard University, he was in charge of the in 1918. He taught at Harvard and at the manufacture of chemicals, MalTinckrodt During the World War he served as direc- University of Illinois before joining the tor of the Chemical and Metallurgical staff at Iowa State College in 1919. Chemical Works, later Lamar Chemical Laboratory, Bureau of Aircraft Produc- His specialty is organic chemistry and he Works, and operating chemist for plants Marden, Orth and Hastings Corp. tion, Detroit. was editor-in-chief of a recent text on this of He operated his own chemical company for He has been a member of the AMERI- subject. some time and later joined the Calco CAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY since 1902 and is at present serving as a Director. He has Arthur M. Hizson, professor of chemi- Chemical Co. In 1919 he became conbeen active in other scientific organiza- 'cal engineering, Columbia University, sulting chemical engineer practicing both tions, including the National Research since 1927. He was born in Miffiinburg, here and abroad and became associate Council. He has been associate editor Pa., in 1880, and graduated from the professor of chemical engineering at of the Journal of the American Chemical University of Ksvnsas where he received his Purdue University in 1930. He organized Society and his work has been in the field master's degree. He took his Ph.D. at and was secretary of the Division of of atomic weights, perchloric and periodic Columbia in 1918, was chemist and metal- Dye Chemistry of the SOCIETY, has served acids and their salts, vanadium in steel, lurgist of the Detroit Copper Mining as chairman of the Division of Medicinal thermal decomposition of mixed sulfates, Co., chemist at the experiment station of Chemistry, and Councilor-at-Large. He and research on many problems in the field the University of Illinois, taught at the is the author of several books, and a memof quantitative analysis. University of Iowa, and has been at ber of numerous scientific societies and Columbia since 1919. He was chairman fraternities. of the American Chemical Industries Harold C. Urey, professor of chemistry, Tercentenary Committee, chairman of Councilors-at-Large the Chandler Medal Committee and the Columbia University, since 1934. He George D. Beal, assistant director, Nichols Medal Jury, chemical engineer was born at Walkerton, Ind., in 1893. Mellon Institute, since 1926. Born at of the Ordnance Department from 1918 He graduated from the University of Scio, Ohio, 1887, he graduated in phar- to 1919, chairman of the New York Section Montana, and received an honorary Docmacy from Scio College and took further of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, tor of Science degree in 1935, took his work at Columbia, receiving his A.M. and is a member of several scientific Ph.D. at the University of California degree in 1910, Ph.D. in 1911. He has organizations. His work has been in in 1923, received an honorary Sc.D. at also received honorary degrees in phar- several fields of applied chemistry and Princeton in 1935. He was an instructor at the University of Montana, Americanmacy, and the honorary Doctor of Science chemical engineering. Scandinavian Foundation Fellow, and a from Mount Union College in 1933. His Hany N. Holmes, professor and head member of the faculty at Hopkins until professional career includes teaching at Scio College and at the University of of the Department of Chemistry, Oberlin 1929 when he joined the faculty at ColumIllinois, where he was prof essor of analyti- College, since 1914. He was born in Fay, bia. He is editor of the Journal of cal and food chemistry from 1924 to Pa., in 1879. graduated from Westminster Chemical Physics, a Willard Gibbs Medal1926, leaving to accept his present post. College, took his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins ist, Nobel Prize Laureate, member of the
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National Academy of Sciences and other important scientific bodies, discoverer of deuterium, and specialist in several branches of physical chemistry. "Fit a n d Fifty" L years ago, dedicated a new research A building on October 7 with distinguished BBOTT
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chairman of the board, extended greetings. The editor of INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEER
ING CHEMISTRY spoke on "The Contribu tions of Organized Chemistry." George D. Beal, assistant director of Mellon Insti tute, spoke on "The Scientific Development of Drug Standards," and Morris Fisnbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, on "The Contribu tions of Medicine to Public Welfare." The addresses are to be prepared in book form. The dedication was carried out with meticulous attention to every detail and gave to all the impression that such a de gree of perfection in a relatively minor matter evidences equally keen and care ful service in the discharge of the labora tories' heavy responsibilities to medicine.
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formation may be secured from Warren L. McCabe, Carnegie Institute of Tech nology, Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pa.
l u n d i s Awarded Perkin Medal AT A MEETING of the Perkin Medal guests who filled the auditorium, which is Λ Committee Walter S. Landis, of the a part of the new unit. The high esteem American Cyanamid & Chemical Corp., in which the laboratories and those conwas selected to receive the medal for 1939. nected with the organization are held was It will be presented at a meeting at The shown in some measure by the list of those Chemists' Club, New York, Ν. Υ., on who were willing to turn aside from reJanuary 6, 1939. sponsibilities and work of their own to Dr. Landis has long been prominent in join in making this a long-remembered chemical industry, fie is a native of event. Indeed, the exercises took on more Pottstown, Pa., received his advanced the character of a scientific meeting than education at Lehigh University, and Fifth Chemical Engineering a milestone in the progress of a successful studied at Heidelberg and Aachen. He Symposium industry. also taught at Lehigh University, becom LANS are developing rapidly for the ing an associate professor in 1910, but left Details of the research building itself are Fifth Chemical Engineering Sym in 1912 to become chief technologist of to appear in our Analytical Edition. Here it may be recorded that a t the afternoon posium to be held at the Carnegie Institute the American Cyanamid Co. He be of Technology on December 27 and 28, came a vice president of that organization session, following an inspection of the manufacturing laboratories and the re- 1938, under the auspices of the Division in 1922, a position he still fills. search building, Ernest H. Volwiler, vice of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry He was the recipient of the Chemical president and research director, presided of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. The Industry Medal of the American Section of over a program which began with a word meeting this year will be concerned with the Society of Chemical Industry in 1936. of welcome from S. DeWitt Clough, presi- hydromechanics, and two days of tech He is a member of the American Institute dent of Abbott Laboratories. Karl T. nical sessions have been planned as well as of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Compton, president of the Massachusetts a dinner on the evening of thefirstday. the American Institute of Chemical En Institute of Technology, spoke on "The All meetings will be held in the Little gineers, was chairman of the New York University and the Public Welfare." Theatre in the College of Fine Arts. Section of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL Herbert M. Evans, professor of anatomy Carnegie Tech's campus is located in the SOCIETY in 1932, chairman of the New and director of experimental biology at the Oakland district of Pittsburgh, the civic York Section of the Electrochemical So University of California, spoke on "The center of the city. Nearby are the famous ciety in 1919, and president of that society Spirit and Task of Research," and Thomas Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, in 1920. His work has been in the field Parran, Surgeon General, U. S. Public the Cathedral of Learning, and the Pitts of nitrogen fixation, electric smelting, and Health Service, on "Research and Public burgh Experiment Station of the U. S. heavy chemicals. Health." The guests were presented with Bureau of Mines. On the Tech campus a handsome brochure illustrated in color, there are several points of interest to the historical and descriptive of the company. chemical engineer and chemist—the Coal This brochure shows a çreat deal of Research Laboratory devoted to funda New Fellowship a t Mellon thought and care exercised m its prepara- mental studies on the thermal decomposi Institute tion and is very informative. tion of bituminous coal, the extensive The dinner guests were presented with a laboratories for both graduate and under HE Pittsburgh Equitable Meter Co. medal commemorating the fiftieth anni- graduate studies of the Department of has established an industrial fellow* versary of the founding of Abbott Labora- Chemistry and of the Department of ship on meter technology at the Mellon Chemical Engineering, and the Metals Re tories. Designed by Raymond Loewy, it Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. R. L. Wakeis executed largely in horizontal and search Laboratory—all located within a man is to be the incumbent, and among angling planes; one half in silver, the other few steps of the Little Theatre. the first projects to be investigated are the in gold. The representation of Life is Announcements of the program of the adaptation of synthetic plastics as struc necessarily abstract. tural material for Against a single liquid meters }and nucleated cell, the the development of common denominaasatisfactory substi tor of Life, are portute for the present trayed monocellular leather diaphragm organisms and three in gas meters. of the vertebrates, the highest organiz a t i o n s of living m a t t e r . The alchemical symbols Highway'Re* euggestScience'β at Hectors tempt to synthesize the essentials of Life HE U.S. BUREAU t h r o u g h organic of Public Roads chemistry and rep has installed more resent seven of the than two hundred essential elements reflectors made of of protoplasm—car lucite, a trans bon, iron, sulfur, parent synthetic phosphorus, nitro material, to test gen, and hydrogen their effectiveness and oxygen which after dark in are r e p r e s e n t e d hazardous locations here by the symbol such as c u r v e s . for a i r (see page These reflectors 662). have a reflecting power that is many The after-dinner times greater than speakers were pre that of ordinary in· sided over by Roger st allât ions and are Adams, head of the clearly visible a D e p a r t m e n t of mile ahead of an Chemistry, Univer approaching autosity of Illinois. E . Photographer. L. H. Miller mobile. H. R a v e n s c r o f t , College ol Fine A r t · , Carnegie Institute of Technology
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