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Allan H. Conney has been selected as the 1993 recipient of the Volwiler Research Achievement Award of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). Conney is the William M. and Myrle W. Garbe Professor of Cancer & Leukemia Research and director of the Laboratory for Cancer Research at Rutgers University College of Pharmacy. His pioneering research in the field of cytochrome P450 enzyme metabolism has been a key factor in the development of knowledge about drug metabolism. His has also done research in the field of cancer causation, including work on carcinogens found in cigarette smoke and cooked foods. The prize consists of a gold medal and a cash award and will be presented July 13 at the AACP annual meeting in San Diego. Richard H. Holm, Higgins Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, has received the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences. The prize, which consists of a bronze medal and $10,000, is awarded for innovative research in the chemical sciences that, in the broadest sense, contributes to a better understanding of the natural sciences and to the benefit of humanity. Holm is being honored "for his contributions to unifying the fields of inorganic and biological chemistry through studies of metal clusters and metalloproteins." Arthur T. Hubbard, Rieveschl Eminent Scholar of Surface Chemistry and director of the Surface Center at the University of Cincinnati, will receive the David C. Grahame Award of the Electrochemical Society's Physical Electrochemistry Division. The award is made for excellence in physical electrochemistry research. It will be presented May 18 in Honolulu. Hubbard's research interests focus on the surface chemistry of solid electrodes, particularly on studies that involve electrochemical methods of investigation combined with surface diffraction spectroscopy. Harold S. Johnston, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, has received the National Academy of Sciences Award for Chemistry in Service to Society. The award consists of $20,000 and is presented for contributions to chemistry, either in fundamental science or its application, that clearly satisfy a societal need. Johnson is being honored for "his pioneering efforts to point out that man-made emissions could affect the chemistry of the stratosphere, in particular, the danger of the depletion by nitrogen oxide of the Earth's critical and fragile ozone layer." 44 MARCH 29,1993 C&EN
Jonathan S. Lindsey, associate professor of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, P i t t s b u r g h , received HewlettPackard's Award for Advances in Automated Sample Preparation. Lindsey was honored for his "outstanding work in developing elegant automation strategies for the study of synthetic chemistry." He received a commemorative plaque and $3000 at the 2nd International Symposium on Automation, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Applied to Analytical Chemistry, held in Montreux, Switzerland. Gordon C. Osbourn of Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., has been selected to receive the American Physical Society's (APS) 1993 International Prize for New Materials. The award was presented March 22 at the APS meeting in Seattle. The award recognizes "Osbourn's theory and Sandia's innovations that have led to a variety of new commercial semiconductor lasers and transistors and have opened u p almost infinite chemical combinations for designing new materials with special electrical and optical properties." The prize committee cited Osbourn for "originating the field of strained-layer superlattice electronics and optoelectronics," as well as for "inventing important new electronic and optical devices." Osbourn made the first theoretical calculations that predicted the unique electrical and optical properties of strained-layer superlattice materials. This theory and the subsequent development of technology have led to the ability to tailor-make a variety of entirely new materials. Strained-layer superlattices are composed of many alternating layers of different types of carefully grown, ultrathin, crystalline compounds (such as aluminum gallium arsenide). The spacing between atoms in the different layers is initially mismatched, but the layers are so thin—it would take 5000 to equal the thickness of a sheet of paper—that they can easily align by elastic strain. This allows a much greater variety of semiconductor compounds with new, tailorable properties. John P. N. Rosazza, professor and head of medicinal and natural p r o d u c t s chemistry at the University of Iowa's College of Pharmacy, was selected by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy to be the first recipient of the Paul Dawson Biotechnology Award. The prize consists of a cash prize and a double helix glass sculpture. Rosazza is engaged in several research projects that include efforts with antibiotics of the aureolic acid family, vinca alkaloids, selected pesticides, terpenes, and byproducts of biotechnology research.
F. Sherwood Rowland, Donald Bren Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, has been selected as the Robertson Memorial Lecturer of the National Academy of Sciences. Rowland is being honored for his "research that shows that mankind's activities, through the release of chlorofluorocarbons, lead to the destruction of the protective ozone layer in the upper atmosphere." The prize consists of $7500. The recipient is invited to lecture on his work and its international aspects. James T. Stewart, professor and head of medicinal chemistry at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, is the 1993 recipient of the Justin L. Powers Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutical Analysis. Stewart is being recognized by the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA) for his research on precolumn and postcolumn derivatization methodology, which has expanded the utility of high-performance liquid chromatography as an analytical tool, as well as for his many other contributions to pharmaceutical analysis and pharmaceutical education. The award was presented at the 140th meeting of APhA this month. Fred W. Stone, president of the chemicals division of Firmenich Inc., was honored as the 1993 recipient of the Eric Bruell Distinguished Service Award of the Fragrance Materials Association of the U.S. (FMA). ed States. During the award ceremony, Stone was recognized for the "unique combination of his scientific expertise, his perspective on regulatory matters, and his unmatched knowledge of the fragrance industry, which has helped him to lead FMA in developing innovative solutions to a wide range of complex issues, and to serve as an effective spokesman on the industry's behalf." Ahmed H. Zewail received the Earle K. Plyler Prize from the American Physical Society at the society's national meeting in Seattle. Zewail is being honored for his "pioneering and seminal contributions in the area of femtosecond spectroscopy." The Plyler Prize, established in 1976 and sponsored by the George E. Crouch Foundation, is given each year to recognize notable contributions by a North American scientist in the study of molecular spectroscopy. Zewail is the first member of the California Institute of Technology faculty to receive the prize. He and his coworkers have devised new methods that allow them to examine the most basic aspects of chemical· reactions using laser beams and molecular beams. His experiments in femtochemistry are widely respected in the scientific community for their originality. •
