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ACS Division Awards BIOL The Division of Biological Chemistry will present three 1990 awards at the 199th ACS national meeting in Boston. George McLendon is the winner of the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, Harold Scheraga wins the Repligen Award for Chemistry of Biological Processes, and James Wells is the recipient of the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry. McLendon, professor of chemistry, University of Rochester, is being recognized for his major contributions to electron transfer reactions in metalloproteins and model systems. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry magna cum laude at the University of Texas, El Paso. His Ph.D. with A. E. Martell at Texas A&M University focused on inorganic models for biological oxygen carriers. In 1976 he joined the faculty at the University of Rochester, where he began research in inorganic biochemistry. His primary focus for the past decade has been on electron transfer reactions, particularly of proteins. He has also worked on related problems in bioinorganic chemistry, including the thermodynamics of metalloprotein folding and the molecular basis for hemoglobin cooperativity. McLendon's research has b e e n r e c o g n i z e d by p r e v i o u s awards, including a Sloan fellowship in 1980 and the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry in 1987. For Scheraga, Todd Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University, the Repligen award is his second award this year from ACS. He is also the recipient of the 1990 ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry. He is being cited as a leader in developing and applying physicochemical methods and theories to the study of protein structures. By using statistical mechanics, Scheraga has contributed to the understanding of the structure of water and hydrophobic interactions in proteins. This work illuminates some of his other research,
such as studies on the influence of side-chain interactions on the helixcoil transitions of polypeptides, the hydrodynamic properties of proteins, the mechanism of the thrombin-fibrinogen interaction and polymerization of the fibrin monomer, and the folding pathway of ribonuclease. Scheraga has been a visiting professor at numerous institutions during periods of leave from Cornell, including Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, Kyoto University in Japan, and the University of San Luis in Argentina. Wells, protein engineer, Genentech, is being recognized for his contributions to enzyme engineering and catalysis by site-directed mutagenesis. He received a B.A. degree in biochemistry in 1973 at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. at Washington State University in 1979. In postdoctoral work at Stanford University, Wells recognized the potential of sitedirected mutagenesis in the elucidation of structure-function relationships, and this was the approach he developed at Genentech. More recently, his interests have expand-
ed to include the chemistry of hormone-receptor interactions. Along with other strategies, he has developed scanning mutagenesis methods for the efficient identification of antibody and receptor epitopes in human growth hormone.
ONF. Ernst Meyer, formerly of BASF A.G., West Germany, has been named the recipient of the Division of Chemical Information's 1990 Herman Skolnik Award. The award was established in 1976 to recognize outs t a n d i n g c o n t r i b u t i o n s to a n d achievements in the theory and practice of chemical information science. Meyer is being honored for his pioneering role in revolutionizing chemical information handling using computer methodology. He is cited as being a leader in the development of input and searching techniques for topological and fragment representations of chemical subs t a n c e s , i n c l u d i n g g e n e r i c or Markush representations, intended for use in large-scale operations. In recent years, Meyer has broadened his area of research into structureactivity correlations.
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The Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering's 1990 Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings is being awarded to Walter K. Asbeck, retired Corporate Research Fellow, Union Carbide. The award is given " i n r e c o g n i t i o n of o u t s t a n d i n g achievement in the areas of coatings science, technology, and engineer-
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Awards ing." Asbek is being honored for his achievements in a variety of areas, including his landmark introduction of the concept of critical pigment volume concentration (CPVC), as well as his basic contributions to coatings rheology and adhesion. His work led to the development of sev eral major types of testing equip ment, including the CPVC cell, the band viscometer, the brushometer, and the hesiometer. Asbeck has 19 journal and book publications to his credit as well as nine Gordon con ference papers and some 100 invited lectures. PROF Attila Ε. Pavlath is the winner of the 1989 Henry Hill Award from the Di vision of Professional Relations. Pavlath is a research leader at the Western Regional Research Center, Department of Agriculture, Albany, Calif., where his group is involved in research on the utilization of ag ricultural products as chemical re sources. The Hill award is given to ACS members who have performed "consistent and exemplary service on behalf of the professional wellbeing of chemists and chemical en gineers." An ACS Councilor from the California Section since 1973, Pavlath has been active in the Divi sion of Professional Relations for the past 15 years. He has also served in various capacities in ACS gover nance, including chairmanships of the Council Committee on Local Section Activities, the Joint BoardCouncil Committee on Economic Status, a n d , m o r e recently, t h e Council Committee on Membership Affairs. He has taken part in several ACS presidential task forces and conferences dealing with profes sional and m e m b e r s h i p matters. Pavlath's many interests include pension portability, sabbaticals for nonacademic scientists, and greater professional recognition for chem ists with bachelor and master's de grees. RUBB The Rubber Division has selected four men to receive awards for their outstanding scientific and academic contributions to the rubber industry. The aim of the division's science and technology awards program is 54
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to "encourage distinguished work in the rubber and polymer sciences." Accompanied by payments of $3000 to $5000 each, the awards will be presented at the division's 137th meeting in Las Vegas. Alan N. Gent, professor of poly mer physics, Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron, is the w i n n e r of the Charles Goodyear Medal, sponsored by the division. He is being recognized for his work in adhesion, fracture mechanics, stress analysis of bonded rubber cyl inder/block, rubber elasticity, and mechanics of elastic foams. The M e l v i n M o o n e y A w a r d , sponsored by Uniroyal Chemical Co., goes to Gerard Kraus, retired, Phillips Petroleum Co., for his ap plied polymer research on structure and properties of czs-polybutadiene, block polymers, and thermoplastic rubber. Kraus also introduced the CTAB surface area test for carbon black. Howard L. Stephens, professor emeritus, University of Akron, is be ing honored with the George Staf ford Whitby Award for Distin guished Teaching and Academic Re search, sponsored by Nova Corp. Stephens, who worked closely with Whitby, is being cited for his many years at the university serving as both a research chemist and instruc tor of rubber chemistry. The Sparks-Thomas Award, spon sored by Exxon Chemical Co., goes to Robert P. Lattimer, senior re search and development associate, B. F. Goodrich. He is being recog nized for his accomplishments in the development of a theory of the mechanism of antiozonant protec tion in elastomers, and methods for direct analysis of rubber com pounds. D
Special recognition to... Daniel W. Armstrong, chairman of ana lytical chemistry, department of chemis try, University of Missouri, Rolla, is the 1990 recipient of the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award in Chromatography. EAS has also named Allen J. Bard, Hackerman/Welch Regents Professor of Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin, winner of the 1990 EAS Award for Out standing Achievement in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry.
Thomas J. Barton, director of Ames Lab oratory and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University, and Sina Ijadi-Maghsoodi, associate chemist, Ames Laboratory, are the winners of the Department of Energy's 1989 Materials Research Competition for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Materials Chemistry. Barton's program has been awarded an additional $50,000 in incre mental equipment funding for materials science research. F. A. Cotton, Welch Professor of Chem istry, Texas A&M University, is the 1990 winner of the National Academy of Sci ences Award in the Chemical Sciences. The $10,000 prize and bronze medal are being awarded to Cotton for "broad con tributions to modern inorganic chemis try, and in particular for having estab lished the existence and importance of multiple metal-to-metal bonding." Franklin A. Long, adjunct professor of chemistry, University of California, Irv ine, is the winner of the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science's Philip Hauge Abelson Prize. Long is be ing honored for his "distinguished con tributions to both basic research in phys ical chemistry and science policy— particularly international security, arms control, and Third World develop ment." D
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Glenn T. Seaborg lectureship established The University of California, Berke ley, has established an annual Glenn T. Seaborg lectureship in inorganic chemistry. The first lecture in the se ries was delivered earlier this year by Stanford University chemistry professor Edward I. Solomon. Seaborg, who shared the 1951 No bel Prize in Chemistry with Edwin M. McMillan, is University Profes sor of Chemistry, an associate direc tor of Lawrence Berkeley Laborato ry, and director of the Lawrence Hall of Science. He is the codiscoverer of plutonium and nine other transuranium elements. The lectureship is being spon sored by Exxon Research & Develop ment Laboratories, Baton Rouge, La. The company has made an award of $15,000 over three years to support the lecture. G
