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Robert D. Coghill, director of research at Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago. 111., has been announced the winner of the 1949 Midwest Award. Given annually by the St. Louis Section of the ACS, this award will be presented in St. Louis on Oct. 3. Recipients are selected from among residents of the midwest area who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of pure or applied chemistry or chemical education. Dr. Coghill, who was born in Providence, R. I., received his A.B. and M.S. degrees at the University of Kansas and his Ph.D. from Yale University where he was trained as an organic chemist with a minor in bacteriology. During 13 years of teaching at Yale he became interested in the chemistry of bacteria and in immunochemistry. In 1939 he became chief of the fermentation division of the Northern Regional Research Laboratory of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Here he was in charge of the work on penicillin for which the laboratory became famous. Other fields in which he led work were the production of 2,3-butanediol and itaconic acid by fermentation methods. In November 1945 he joined Abbott Laboratories as associate director of research, becoming director a year later.
with connecting limousine service tu Atlantic City. The driving time between Philadelphia and Atlantic City is approximately two hours, and the charge is S3.50, including tax. A typical example would be departing Chicago at 8:15 A.M. Central Standard Ti:ne via United Air Lines, arrive Atlantic City 3:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, using the connecting limousine which meets the plane at the Philadelphia airport. Under the family plan offered by United Air Lines and many others, families may be taken along at half fare on Mondays, Tuesdays, or Wednesdays of ;jny week.
Voice of America Covers ACS Meeting Portions of the ACS 116th national meeting will be heard throughout the world when a recording crew of the Voice of America, headed by special events director Sidney Berry, arrives in Atlantic City. The Voice of America is owned and operated by the State Department.
The Atlantic City Rotary Club, which will meet at 12:30 P.M. Sept. 20 at Hackney's Restaurant, 215 North Maine Ave. (and will adjourn promptly at 1:45 P.M.) welcomes all Rotarian chemists at the 116th national meeting. Father Eugene A. Gisel of St. Peter's College will address the club on "Chemical Technology under the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines."
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Correction Last week we announced in these columns *hat James J. Doheny, who is to be the nvw manager of the Chicago Section of ACS, has been on the Staff of the Executive Secretary since 1948. This should have read "since 1946."
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The Voice . of America, the most powerful radio station in the world, will subsequently carry recorded programs featuring papers delivered at S3rmposia of the ACS rubber, agricultural and food, and biological divisions. Members appearing on the Industrial and Engineering Division's Symposium on Titanium will be heard in a recorded forum. The broadcasts will be beamed throughout the English-speaking world during future programs of the "American Journal" and "University of the Air" series. The Voice of America crew will also record papers translated into foreign languages for broadcasts beamed to France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the Far East. Arrangements are made in cooperation with ACi"5 Vows Sprvice.
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