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ACS-PRF grants reach $60 million mark ACS-run program is providing $3 million to $4 million per year for wide range of basic research projects The 111 research grants listed at the end of this article represent the latest additions to the large total of such grants made over the past 22 years by the Petroleum Research Fund. In fact, the cash involved in such grants will pass the $60 million mark this year. This grant program, which is admin istered by the American Chemical So ciety, is providing between $3 million and $4 million per year for support of a wide variety of chemical and other re search projects throughout the country. Currently there are more than 878 ac tive PRF grants at about 237 colleges and universities in the U.S. and in sev eral foreign countries. The aim of the program since its in ception in 1944 has been to assist "ad vanced scientific education and funda mental research in the 'petroleum field' "—a term that for grant purposes is quite widely interpreted. Essentially all the money goes to support funda mental research projects. This is seen as a way simultaneously to advance scientific education and research by providing support for postdoctoral fel lows, for graduate students, and, to a lesser extent, for advanced undergrad uates. Another basic philosophy is to direct the funds into the support of such re search personnel themselves—not to provide capital for new facilities and instrumentation. And in the early 1970's, during the worst of the employ ment crisis in the chemical profession, a special effort was made to tilt the weight of support more heavily toward postdoctorals and away from graduate students. Today the balance has moved back somewhat, but the num ber of new PRF grants supporting post doctorals still exceeds that supporting graduate students. Another trend that has been noted in the program in recent years has been a sharp decline in the number of propos als submitted. It fell from 973 in 1973 to 674 in 1975. There is no ready expla nation for this decline. But the volume of proposals is still adequate to provide ample opportunities to use the funds
available. Currently about 30% of pro posals are approved and funded. Today essentially all PRF awards fall into four categories. Most are so-called Type AC grants. These are made to nonprofit institutions, generally uni versities, to aid faculty scientists en gaged in research appropriate to the aims of the fund. In 1975, 120 such grants were made for a total of $2.7 million. Type G awards represent the second largest category and they have been taking about 15% of the available funds. These are starter grants and they are made to young faculty mem bers with the Ph.D. degree who are within their first three years on a fac ulty and who have not received major outside research support. Last year there were 54 of these grants each of $9000 for a total of $486,000. Type Β awards are made to encour age research in undergraduate depart ments. Last year there were 35 of these for a total of $365,000. In 1972 a new program of special ed ucation opportunities grants (Type SEO) was initiated. These are intend ed to assist appropriate activities that do not fit into, other grant programs —for instance, covering the expenses of invited conference speakers. Originally such grants were limited to a maxi mum of 1% of PRF's income for the year. This has been boosted to a maxi mum of 3% for 1976. Last year 18 such grants were made for a total of $51,000.
PRF was founded as a charitable, scientific, and educational trust by six initial donor companies—Shell Oil, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil (Ind.), Standard Oil (N.J.), Texas Co., and N.V. de Bataafsche Petrole um Maatschappij—who were later joined by Phillips Petroleum. The orig inal contributions were in the form of all the outstanding securities of Uni versal Oil Products. Guaranty Trust Co. of New York was named trustee. In 1959 the trustee received court permission to sell the UOP stock and invest the proceeds in a diversified portfolio. Today, Morgan Guaranty Trust manages the fund, which has a book value of $90 million. ACS is the sole recipient of the income and must use it all for the purposes spelled out by the fund. From 1944 through 1953 income was insufficient to start the grant program. The first grants were made in 1954 and by 1962 the program had grown to about the present size. The ACS Board Committee on Grants and Awards, chaired by Dr. Pauline Newman, is responsible for overall policy direction for the fund and for the final commitment of the income. Day-to-day administration is in the hands of the ACS Department of Research Grants and Awards. Dr. Jus tin W. Collât is PRF program administrator. The basic task of selecting proposals for funding falls to the 21-member PRF
PRF grants averaged $3.6 million annually since 1960
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advisory board. This is chaired by Dr. Charles A. Walker and its members are appointed by the chairman of the ACS Board of Directors. The advisory board meets three times per academic year. At each of these gatherings it considers from 200 to 300 proposals. The board is divided into nine committees—seven on separate subject areas, one on undergraduate research, and one on policy. Each proposal is examined by up to four outside reviewers and these written reviews are then submitted, along with the proposal itself, to the appropriate committee of the advisory board. The final selection of proposals is made by the full advisory board, which passes its recommendations to the Committee on Grants and Awards. This committee, in turn, passes the list on to the ACS Board of Directors for final ratification. This system of combining mail review with selection by an advisory panel apparently has met with acceptance by the scientific community. However, there has, at times, been controversy. A perennial question is just what legitimately falls within the "petroleum field"—a term that, according to the trust agreement, "may include any field of pure science which in the judgment of the recipient [ACS] may afford a basis for subsequent research directly connected with the petroleum field." Some ACS members have called for a greater commitment of funds to problem areas closely identified with the petroleum industry, such as catalysis and the composition, exploration, and recovery of petroleum. ACS general counsel gave an opinion in 1973 that "the sole purpose of the trust remains that of promoting basic and pure research as defined by the trust agreement and as distinguished from applied research into current industrial and commercial problems in the petroleum field." Some critics have expressed disappointment at the amount of PRF support to certain areas of fundamental research, such as polymer science. To get a better insight into just where PRF grants are going the ACS staff last year carried out a limited survey of grants made during the 1974-75 academic year. An effort was made to find out if there are correlations between grant success and certain characteristics of applicants and their institutions. It must be stressed that the PRF Advisory Board has no policies concerning the parameters examined—for instance, there is no quota system for the geographic areas of the country. As it turned out, of the nine major geographic areas, most proposals came from the Middle Atlantic region, 19.3%; the East North Central region, 16.3%; and the South Atlantic region, 13.2%. The highest success ratio, 41%, was for the Pacific region; the lowest, 19%, for the South Atlantic. 26 C&ENJan. 26, 1976
No meaningful overall trend was observed in attempting to correlate grant application success with the reputation of applicant institutions, except that schools enjoying the greatest reputation among academic scientists did somewhat better than average. Proposals prepared by investigators receiving their Ph.D. degrees from institutions of greater reputation appeared to fare significantly better than average. As to the age of the investigators, those who received their Ph.D.'s in 1950 or earlier had the highest success ratio. However, because of sheer numbers of applications, 65% of the grants were made to investigators receiving their Ph.D.'s between 1961 and 1970. The analysis also revealed that success with a previous proposal to PRF is no guarantee of success in a subsequent proposal. For instance, only 21% of proposals from applicants who had had starter grants were successful. And for those asking for a continuation of PRF support for ongoing projects, 33% were successful—not greatly higher than the 28% overall success ratio for all the proposals in the sample used for this particular study. ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in petroleum field (type AC) George Blyholder, U of Arkansas. Theoretical Model of Chemisorption and Its Correlation with Catalytic Reactions of Hydrocarbons. $24,000 Conrad D. Gebelein, U of California, Santa Barbara. Geochemistry and Petrography of Waters and Carbonate Sediments, Southwest Andros Island, Bahamas. $20,000 Philip M. Johnson, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Multiphoton Ionization Spectroscopy. $24,000 L M. Stephenson, Case Western Reserve U. Mechanisms in Metal-Catalyzed Reactions of Butadiene. $24,000 Jack R. Norton, Princeton U. Chiral Polynuclear Metal Complexes: Synthesis, Resolution, Racemization, and Catalytic Activity. $16,000 Larry L Miller, Colorado State U. Anodic Synthesis. $36,000 Daniel D. Reneau, Louisiana Tech U. Chemical Engineering Analysis of Mass Transport in Brain. $24,000 R. H. Marchessault, U of Montreal. Synthesis of Submicron-Sized Polyethylene Particles. $23,000 John C. Wright, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Selective Laser Excitation Studies of Energy Transfer Between Dimerized Ions in Charge Compensated Crystals. $16,000 Eugene N. Cameron, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Concentration of Heavy Metals in Evaporite Sequences. $12,300 Robert L. Burwell Jr., Northwestern U. Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogénation. $34,000 Gideon Fraenkel, Ohio State U. Tetrahedral Adducts of Amides: Dynamics of Ion-Pair Exchange. $22,000 James R. Maxwell, U of Bristol. Origin of Sedimentary Pentacyclic Triterpenoid Compounds. $23,000 Edwin N. Lassettre, Carnegie-Mellon U. Theory of Electron Impact Spectroscopy. $24,000 W. M. Jones, U of Florida. Transition Metal Complexes of Aromatic Carbenes. $36,000 Richard L. Lintvedt, Wayne State U. Polynuclear Transition Metal Complexes as Homogeneous
Catalysts. Reactivity of Polynuclear Metal Centers. $24,000 Paul J. Kropp, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Photochemistry of Alkyl Halides. $24,000 John P. Simons, U of Utah. Negative-Ion Chemistry. $24,000 Jerome A. Berson, Yale U. Thermal Stereomutation of Cyclopropanes. $24,000 Michael Szwarc, State U of New York, Coll. of Environmental Science & Forestry. ESR Studies of Flexibility of Molecular Chains. $12,000 Peter E. Siska, U of Pittsburgh. Reactions of Excited Hydrogen Molecules and Hydrogen Atoms with Unsaturated Hydrocarbons in Crossed Molecular Beams. $30,000 William C. Kaska, U of California, Santa Barbara. Ylide Transition Metal Complexes. $24,000 L. B. Sand, Worcester Polytechnic Inst. Metastable Phase Transformation Approach on Selected Zeolite Problems. $18,000 John A. Tossell, U of Maryland. Molecular Quantum Mechanical Studies of the Electronic and Geometric Structure of Minerals. $16,000 J. J. Carberry, G. C. Kuczynski, U of Notre Dame. Heterogeneous Catalytic Sintering. $24,000 Bernhard Wunderlich, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Study of the Simultaneous Polymerization and Crystallization by Chemical Transport Reaction. $24,000 Paul G. Gassman, U of Minnesota. Anhydrous Hydroxide—a Powerful Reagent in Organic Chemistry. $24,000 James Wei, U of Delaware. Multiple SteadyStates in CO Oxidation over Platinum. $20,000 George A. Eadon, State U of New York, Albany. Conformations of Ions in the Gas Phase. $24,000 Charles E. Strouse, U of California, Los Angeles. Identification and Structural Characterization of the Photosynthetic Pigments from Green Sulfur Bacteria. $24,000 Leo A. Paquette, Ohio State U. Alicyclic Molecules with Potential Homoaromatic and ThreeDimensional Aromatic Ground States. $24,000 H. Lawrence Clever, Emory U. Preparation of a Critical Compilation of Gas Solubility Values in Aqueous, Organic, and Biological Solutions up to a Gas Pressure of 2 Atm. $24,000 Yoshito Kishi, Harvard U. Synthetic Studies Towards a Biomimetic Total Synthesis of Lysergic Acid, Teleocidin B, and Austamides. $24,000 Harold C. Helgeson, U of California, Berkeley. Calculation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions at High Pressures and Temperatures. $16,000 Robert N. Ginsburg, U of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science. Fades Anatomy and Early Diagenesis of Holocene Prograding Mud Flats, Surinam. $24,000 Russell A. Bonham, Indiana U. High-Energy Electron Impact Spectroscopy (HEEIS): Investigations of Molecular Energy Loss Spectra at High Momentum Transfers. $24,000 Richard A. Kretchmer, Illinois Inst, of Technology. Organomercury Compounds as Synthetic Intermediates. $20,000 Clyde A. Hutchinson Jr., U of Chicago. Proton Electron Double Resonance and the Structures of Metal-Organic Complexes and Enzymes in Single Crystals. $24,000 Charles H. DePuy, U of Colorado. Acid-Catalyzed cis-trans Isomerization of 1,2-Diarycyclopropanes. $20,000 Karl Barry Sharpless, Massachusetts Inst, of Technology. New Synthetic Transformations with Imido-metal Reagents. $24,000 Albert I. Meyers, Colorado State U. Enantiospecific Alkylations. $16,000 Daniel L. Reger, U of South Carolina. Investigation into the Effect of Micelles on Reactions Catalyzed by Homogeneous Transition Metal Complexes. $16,000
ACS picks second public affairs fellow Dr. Bodo Diehn is ACS's second Chemistry and Public Affairs fellow. Starting this month he will spend one year in Washington working with the executive and legislative branches of government under the direction of the society's Department of Chemistry and Public Affairs. Diehn, 41, is a professor of chemistry at the University of Toledo and he will be on leave from the school during the appointment. He received his B.S. at the University of Hamburg and he came to the U.S. to the University of Kansas in 1960 where he received his Ph.D. under Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland in 1964. After two years as postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona, he joined the Toledo faculty in 1966. He is a citizen of West Germany with permanent resident status in the U.S. He has an active program of research in biochemistry, which he will maintain. His particular interest is the role of light in biochemical reactions. Diehn will succeed Dr. Renee Naves, who is the society's first fellow. She will complete her appointment this March. She recently has been working with the Subcommittee on the Environment & the Atmosphere of the House Committee on Science & Technology. Earlier she spent time with the
National Science Foundation and in the office of Rep. Gilbert Gude (R.-Md.). The primary aims of this ACS fellowship program are to provide an opportunity for a scientist to gain firsthand knowledge of some of the workings of government and to assist in the formation of public policy by making available to government decision-makers expert technical information. It somewhat parallels similar programs of other scientific organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The ACS Board of Directors last month approved funds for a third ACS fellow, and the society soon will be seeking applicants. Diehn has been concerned for some years with the status and public image of science. For instance, he participated in a radio talk show in Toledo answering phoned-in questions on science. And he has been concerned with the problems of motivating bright high school students into taking science in college. In this regard he has been working up to 10 hours per week with high school chemistry departments in Toledo. He feels that an effective contribution toward improving recognition of both the value and the limitations of science can be made at the government level—particularly the federal govern-
Eric Block, U of Missouri, St. Louis. Diheterocyclobutanes. $24,000 Steven A. Adelman, Purdue U. Many-Body Collision Theory with Application to Gas/Solid Scattering. $24,000 Otto Vogl, U of Massachusetts. Preparation, Properties, and Degradation of Head-to-Head Polymers. $24,000 John S. Swenton, Ohio State U. Regioselectivity Control in Photochemical Additions. $14,000 Robert L. Void, U of California, San Diego. Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation and Molecular Dynamics of Liquids. $24,000 Philip M. Orville, Yale U. Kinetics, Mass Transport, and Exchanges During Recrystallization of Limestone. $24,000 George Stell, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Theory of Polar, Polarizable, and Ionic Systems. $24,000 Norman O. Smith, Fordham U. Selective Clathration of Isotopomers. $16,000 Edward M. Arnett, U of Pittsburgh. Energies of Formation and Solvation of Saturated Carbonium Ions. $8000 Donald H. Levy, U of Chicago. Spectroscopy of Supersonic Molecular Beams. $24,000
Mechanism of Reductive Coupling of Cyclic Ketones by Magnesium Vapors. $10,100 Howard C. Knachel, U of Dayton. Phosphorus Pentachloride-Lewis Base Adducts. $11,000 Richard F. Smith, State U of New York, Coll. at Geneseo. Amidrazone Ylid Studies. $11,000 Peter M. Jeffers, State U of New York, Coll. at Cortland. Laser Pyrolysis Studies. $10,040 Robert S. McQuate, Willamette U. Reduction of Schiff Base Complexes. $6750 James N. Spencer, Lebanon Valley Coll. Studies of the Hydrogen Bond. $10,200 Larry G. Bauer, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Contact Nucleation of Paradichlorobenzene. $5500 Robert J. Palma Sr., Midwestern State U. Optically Active Metal Chelates. $11,000
ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in petroleum field (type B) Robert L. Hall, William Paterson College of New Jersey. Proteins in Photosynthetic Membranes. $10,661 Eric Herbst, College of William and Mary. Interstellar Chemistry. $11,000 Paul G. Seybold, Wright State U. Adsorbed Dye Luminescence. $11,000 Gary L. Gard, Portland State U. Oxidizing Chromium Compounds. $11,000 Lyle D. Wescott Jr., Christian Brothers Coll.
ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in petroleum field (type G) (Starter Grants) Steven L. Bernasek, Princeton U. Studies of Hydrocarbon Adsorption on Well-Characterized Cobalt and Molybdenum Surfaces. $9000 Kenneth J. Kaufmann, U of Illinois. Picosecond Photochemistry. $9000 Charles Milton Grisham, U of Virginia. Magnetic Resonance Studies of Catalysis and Transport in Membrane Systems. $9000 Melanie lannuzzi, Manhattan Coll. Thermodynamic and Kinetic Study of Axial Ligation of Mn(lll) Porphyrin Complexes in Aqueous Solution. $9000 Laurence Allen Nafie, Syracuse U. Vibrational Optical Activity. $9000 Robert R. Birge, U of California, Riverside. Laser Excitation Vibrational-Electronic Spectroscopy of the Visual Chromophores and Other Polyenes. $9000
Diehn: image of science has improved ment. He opines that the image of science has improved since the worst days of the Vietnam war and of the intense concern over the environment. But science never will return to its earlier stature, when, in the eyes of the public, it could do no wrong. Diehn believes that working scientists have not interacted sufficiently with government—particularly in terms of providing their technical expertise. And he is concerned that many scientific decisions are having to be made based largely on nonscientific inputs. G
Henry C. Brenner, New York U. Energy Transfer in Organic Solids. $9000 Kelly Ray O'Keefe, Colorado State U. Laser Probes for Reaction Rate Investigations. $9000 John Sterling Winn, U of California, Berkeley. Photodissociation and Ionization of Molecular Clusters. $9000 Jay A. Labinger, U of Notre Dame. Systematic Synthesis and Study of Potentially Catalytic Organometallic Complexes Containing Metal.Metal Bonds. $9000 Stanley Raucher, U of Washington. New Method for the Synthesis of Oxindoles. $9000 Donald M. Friedrich, Hope Coll. Multiphoton Laser Studies of Excited States of Organic Molecules. $9000 M. Mark Midland, U of California, Riverside. Chemistry of Unsaturated Organoborates. $9000 Benjamin A. Feinberg, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Oxidation-Reduction Mechanism of Cytochrome c. $9000 Edward I. Solomon, Massachusetts Inst, of Technology. Spectral and Magnetic Studies on Binuclear Copper Proteins and Related Complexes. $9000 Joseph W. Lauher, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Synthesis and Catalytic Applications of Transition Metal Cluster Compounds. $9000 Kenneth T. Douglas, Duquesne U. Design of Intra-Active Site Released Enzyme Inhibitors. $9000 David R. Herrick, U of Oregon. Quantum Corrections to Statistical Lattice Gases with Application to Hydrogen-Bonded Dimers. $9000 Kristin S. Bowman, U of Kansas. StructureReactivity Relationships of Macrocyclic Transition Metal Complexes. $9000 Michael D. Kluetz, U of Idaho. Magnetic Resonance Studies of Histaminase and Related Systems. $9000
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Thomas T. Coburn, Boston U. Synthesis of Strained Enamines. $9000 Kenneth L. Brown, U of Texas, Arlington. BaseCatalyzed Electrophilic Cleavage of Organocobalt Complexes by Disulfide. $9000 Sherry Owen Farwell, Washington State U. Nonflame Chemiluminescent Detector for Atmospheric Sulfur Compounds. $9000 Michael C. Cann, U of Scranton. Synthesis of Aromatic, Nitrogen Containing, Heterocyclic Cations. $9000 Larry D. Byers, Tulane U. Transition-State Analogs for Multi-Subunit Enzymes. $9000 Walter H. Waddell, Carnegie-Mellon U. 13 C NMR Analysis of the Sensitized Photooxidations of Polymers. $9000 James M. Bailey, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale. Development of Techniques for Gel Electrophoresis of Nucleic Acids. $9000 Stuart M. Rosenfeld, U of Rhode Island. Nonconjugated Enols: Isolation and Study at Low Temperatures. $9000 Duncan Sibley, Michigan State U. Dolomitization of Plio-Pleistocene Carbonates, Bonaire, N.A. $9000 Harold W. Pinnick, U of Georgia. Mild Oxidation of Alcohols. $9000 G. Stephen Kelsey, U of Missouri, Columbia. Anodic Behavior of Group VA Metals in Nonaqueous Solvents. $9000 John P. Ferraris, U of Texas, Dallas. New Organic Electrical Conductors. $9000 Charles Doubleday Jr., State U of New York, Buffalo. CIDNP of Compounds Derived from Biradical Intermediates. $9000 Willie L. Hinze, Wake Forest U. Micellar Systems in Analytical Chemistry—Their Application to Spectrofluorimetric Methods of Analysis. $9000
ACS-PRF special educational opportunities grants (SEO) Nina I. McClelland, on behalf of the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry. Symposia at ACS Centennial Meeting. $3000 Robert G. Parr, on behalf of the Second International Congress of Quantum Chemistry. Symposium entitled "Surface Quantum Chemistry and Catalysis." $5000 Robert S. Levine, on behalf of the Combustion Inst. 16th (International) Symposium on Combustion, Cambridge, Mass. $1000 Henry A. Resing, on behalf of the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry. "Magnetic Resonance in Colloid and Interface Science." $3500 John H. Wotiz, on behalf of the ACS Division of Chemical Education and the ACS Committee on International Activities. "The Education of Foreign Chemists in America." $3125 Cynthia H. O'Donohue, on behalf of the ACS Division of Chemical Information and the ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. "Computer-Assisted Organic Synthesis—Methods and Techniques Symposium." $1600 W. J. Middleton, J. M. Shreeve, on behalf of the ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry and the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. "Symposium on the Introduction of Fluorine into Inorganic and Organic Compounds." $4370 Jack H. Lunsford, on behalf of 1976 Gordon Research Conference on Catalysis. $2910 Norbert Platzer, on behalf of the ACS Division on Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. "Symposium: New Processes and Technology of the Overseas Chemical Industries." $6000 O. Bertrand Ramsay, on behalf of the ACS Division of The History of Chemistry. "Review of
Chemical Education Since 1776 and a Look into the Future." $836 Jett C. Arthur Jr., on behalf of the ACS Cellulose, Paper and Textile Division. Symposia at ACS Centennial Meeting. $3000 James Perkins, on behalf of Jackson State U. Special Educational Opportunity Planning Conference. $9500 Robert E. Harmon, on behalf of the ACS Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry. "Modern Research Related to Asymmetry in Carbohydrates." $5216
ACS offers help on visas for its 1976 meetings Members and subscribers abroad who are planning to attend either the New York (April 4 to 9) or San Francisco (Aug. 29 to Sept. 3) ACS Centennial meetings this year are urged to apply to their nearest U.S. consulate or embassy at least two months prior to departing for the U.S. Should an applicant encounter any problems, the ACS meetings office will try to assist. For such assistance contact: Mrs. Barbara R. Hodsdon, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Telephone (202) 872-4399. Telex 440159. Cable address JIECHEM.
Awards Pauling Award Dr. Paul D. Bartlett, Robert Welch Foundation Lecturer at Texas Christian University, has added yet another prestigious ACS award to his list—the Linus Pauling Medal of the Oregon and Puget Sound Sections. The presentation was made last week in Seattle at the section's annual award banquet. Bartlett is well known for his research in reaction mechanisms. He has received acclaim for his investigations establishing the details of the molecular structure of reactive intermediates in chemical reactions. Some of Bartlett's areas of research and specialization include: reaction mechanisms of bridgeheads, hydride transfer from hydrocarbons to unstable carbonium ions, concerted decomposition of peresters, cage effects, and triplet radical pairs and their significance in reaction mechanisms. Born in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1907, Bartlett received a B.A. from Amherst College in 1928. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1931. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1934 where he re28
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mained until last year. Notable among his many ACS awards over the years are: Award in Pure Chemistry (1938), Willard Gibbs Medal of the Chicago Section (1963), Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry (1963), James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry of the Northeastern Section (1969); the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Gold Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker in 1962. The awardee's published works have appeared worldwide in numerous publications, books, and journals. He holds 17 patents in insecticides and fungicides and in various details of chemical manufacture. He has fulfilled some 20 lectureships here and abroad prior to his present lectureship at Texas Christian. Dr. Herbert C. Brown, professor of chemistry, Purdue University, has received the 11th Madison Marshall Award from the ACS North Alabama Section. Brown was cited for his "outstanding contributions toward understanding steric effects, his development of organic synthesis based upon boron chemistry, and his stimulating influence in the area of nonclassical ions." Dr. John P. McTague will receive the ACS California Section Award for 1975 this spring for his "excellent work aimed at a better understanding of the biodynamical modes in condensed phases
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in their relation to intermolecular interaction." McTague is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently on sabbatical leave at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer, University of California, Berkeley, has been selected as this year's recipient of the Willard Gibbs Medal of the ACS Chicago Section. The award will be presented to Pitzer in June, during the Great Lakes Regional Meeting in Evanston, 111. Dr. Benjamin Witten, acting chief of the chemical research division, Edgewood Arsenal, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., has received the Award of Merit from the ACS Maryland Section. Witten was selected for the award for his outstanding contributions to chemistry, related biological sciences and their applications to problems of national defense.
