March 20, 1927
INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
Among Chemists Franz D . Abbott has resigned his position as chief chemist of the Thompson Product, Cleveland, Ohio, and is now employed as research physicist with the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. F . M . Dupont is now secretary and chief chemist of the WahlHenius Institute, Chicago, I11. Alfred Eisenstein, of Vienna, Austria, and H. B. Jespersen, of Copenhagen, Denmark, are spending a few weeks with Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., with whom they are associated as European correspondents and consultants. David W. Jayne, Jr., is now located with the American Tea Products Co., Research Laboratories, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa., as research chemist. A. M . Lawson has resigned his position as research chemist for the Victor Chemical Works, Chicago Heights, 111., and has accepted the position of research and development chemist for the Calumet Chemical Company, Joliet, I11. C. L. McArthur, formerly chief technologist for the F . X . Baumert Co., Inc., cheese manufacturers, has joined the staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. Mr. McArthur spent several years in the capacity of research bacteriologist for the Government and was at one time head of the department of bacteriology of the University of Arkansas. Allen M . Varney has left the employ of the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co., Cambridge, Mass., to take charge of the chemical department of the Willoughby Plant of the Ohio Rubber Company, Willoughby, Ohio.
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Adams Receives Nichols Medal Roger Adams, head of the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, was presented with the William H. Nichols Medal a t a meeting of the New York Section of the American Chemical Society (jointly with other New York chemical groups) in Rumford Hall, March 11. Dr. Frank C. Whitmore, Northwestern University, discussed the medallist's early life, bringing out many interesting and amusing incidents on his climb to a place a t the top of his profession, and tracing his history back to the original Adams (but not Adam). Dr. Marston T. Bogert Columbia University, followed with a masterly survey and analysis of the immense volume of the highest type of chemical work done in the past ten years under the medallist's personal super vision. N o less than eighty papers describing original researches carried out by Adams and his co-workers have been published within the past seven years and all of them, according to Dr. Bogert, represent originality and ability of the highest order. In concluding his remarks, Dr. Bogert quoted from letters received from eminent foreign organic chemists to show t h a t Adams 1 ability is recognized abroad as well as in America. Dr. Chas. H. Herty, past president of the American Chemical Society, presented the medal with well-chosen remarks calling attention to the illustrious history of the medal and of its previous recipients. Dr. Adams' address of acceptance, as is required by the Rules of Award, dealt with the subject of the award, "Acids of Chaul moogra Oil and Related Compounds." In discussing this subject, attention was first paid to the history of the disease, leprosy, for the cure of which chaulmoogra oil is used, the un traceable discovery of the potency of the oil by the natives in the F a r East, the improvements effected in its administration by the application of its purified acids and their esters, and finally the synthesis of great numbers of compounds related to these and the comparison of the synthetic with the natural materials in vitro to determine their potency against the Bacillus Leprae. These tests, according to Dr. Adams, offer hope t h a t among the synthetic compounds may be found a more efficient germicide against this scourge possessing lower toxicity to human beings, although the results of clinical experiments, which alone can confirm this, cannot be known for a t least two years in the ordinary course of events. Such clinical data are being collected in the Philippines by Dr. Lara of the Culion leper colony. Dr. Adams was careful to state t h a t it is impossible to say whether a valuable remedy has been found or not until experiments on human beings can be completed as it is impossible to transmit leprosy to the lower animals. By unanimous vote, a committee consisting of Jerome Alexander and Herbert R. Moody was appointed to draft resolutions in the name of the Section on the death of Dr. Ira Remsen. The first volume of Feuerfest, Zeitschrift fiir Gewinnung, Bearbeitung, Priifung und Verwendung feuerfester Stoffe sowie insbesondere fur Ofenbau, has recently appeared. This is a monthly journal, edited by L. Litinsky, Thiemstrasse 6, Leipzig.
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