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Formation of a Scientists' Committee on Loyalty Problems has been announced by the Federation of American Scientists. This committee, with offices at 14 Battle Rd., Princeton, N. J., will provide information and legal advice to individual scientists faced with clearance problems and will try to bring about a clearer public understanding of the issues involved. The committee will not "defend" scientists under investigation, it is stated, but will seek to obtain full and fair hearings by government agencies and Congressional committees and fair treatment in the press. The committee plans to study clearance procedures and criteria for judging loyalty so as to contribute toward establishing a sound national policy. It plans also to make available information on the issues that underlie security and clearance problems and will attempt to combat unsubstantiated public defamation of scientists. Officers of the committee are: W. A. Higinbotham, Brookhaven National Laboratory, chairman; A. S. Wightman, Princeton University, secretary; and D. R. Hamilton, Princeton University, treasurer.
South Texas AIChE Holds Technical Meeting Approximately 200 chemical engineers from the Gulf Coast region attended the annual technical meeting of the South Texas section, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, at the Galvez Hotel, Galveston, Oct. 22. The program, prepared under the direction of W. A. Cunningham, chairman of the department of chemical engineering, University of Texas, consisted of five papers of which one was a symposium type presentation from the University of Texas on the production of acetylene by various processes, with particular emphasis on the Schoch "glow" method using electrical discharge. In connection with extractive distillation processes using furfural for purification of butènes and butadiene, M. E. Klccka of the University of Texas presented initial results of work in determining conjugate liquid phase equilibria data for the system furfural-water-C4 hydrocarbons under pressure, using equipment basically new in design. Paul Crawford, Magnolia Petroleum Co., proposed methods of prediction of the effect of liquid hourly space velocity, process period, and temperature on the amount of CHEMICAL
carbon formed on the catalyst in the catalytic cracking of gas oils, and for the effect of process period and temperature on gasoline conversion. Using infrared absorption data, E. J. Claassen of the University of Texas showed a method for calculating heat transmission from nonluminous gases. Data were presented for carbon dioxide, acetylene, and methane.
Conference on Electronic Instrumentation A comprehensive display of radiation detection instruments will be presented at a conference on electronic instrumentation in nucleonics and medicine in New York, Nov. 29 through Dec. 1. The conference will be sponsored by the Institute of Radio Engineers and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Chairmen of the three-day program will include "W. A. Geohegan, Cornell University Medical College; G. W. Dunlap, General Electric Co.; and H. H. Goldsmith, Brookhaven National Laboratory. The exhibit of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission will include 22 types of basic instruments and exhibits showing other instrument techniques which will be demonstrated by means of models. The program will include more than a score of papers on various phases of research and development of atomic energy for commercial and scientific application.
Pan-American Pharmacy Congress The first Pan-American Pharmacy Congress, supported by scientific associations in nearly all the countries of the -western hemisphere, is to take place in Havana, Cuba, from Dec. 1 through 8. The cooperating group in the U. S. is the American Pharmaceutical Association. Hector Zayas-Bazân y Perdomo, Malecon No. 307, La Habana, Republica de Cuba, is general secretary for the event.
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The first two days of the annual meeting of the Textile Research Institute, Nov. 18 and 19, are to be held at the WaldorfAstoria, New York, with the first devoted to scientific reports and the second to a program portraying the part the institute plays in the textile industry. An exhibit will run concurrently. Maurice Holland AND
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T h e Georgia Section, ACS, h a s com pleted arrangements for i t s fourth a n nual meeting-in-miniature on £Ίον. 19. Location will b e the Church School Build ing, E m o r y University, Atlanta. Papers will b e presented during t w o sessions, one on organic chemistry and one a, general session, beginning a t 2 : 3 0 P.M. After t h e b a n q u e t , a brief business meeting will t a k e place, a n d a second general session will last from 8:00 to 10:00 P.M. C. T . Lester a n d H . L. Edwards are to preside over t h e organic a n d general sessions, respectively.
Conference on Bunsen Burners A conference on t h e subject o f labora t o r y Bunsen burners will b e held a t t h e N a t i o n a l Bureau of Standards on Nov. 15, C h e m i s t r y Lecture Room, a t 10 A.M. T h e conference will b e concerned with t h e problem of performance of l a b o r a t o r y B u n s e n burners where natural, gas h a s replaced manufactured g a s or combina tions of natural a n d manufactured g a s . P a r t i c i p a n t s should notify J . II. Eiseman. N a t i o n a l Bureau of Standards, Washing t o n 25, D . C , of their desire to a t t e n d t h e meeting.
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