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C&EN Dec. 10, 1979
Malcolm Dole, Robert A. Welch Distin guished Professor of Chemistry at Baylor University, received the ACS Southwest Regional Award in Austin, Tex., last week. This award is given annually for out standing contribu tions to chemistry. Among Dole's many contributions to polymer chemistry is the discovery of radiation crosslinking of polyeth ylene—the basis for production of a new type of polymer with many uses such as corrosion-preventing tape for pipes and heat-shrinkable poly meric tubing. Dole was one of the pioneers in the early development of the glass electrode for pH measurements, and his work on the isotopic composition of oxygen in nature was a major factor in the replace ment of oxygen as a standard for atomic weights. Recently, he has shown that high pressures of hydrogen have antitumor activity. In more than 200 publications he has contributed significantly to many areas of chemistry. In 1969, Dole joined the faculty at Baylor University, coming from North western University where he was a mem ber of the faculty from 1930 to 1969. He was chairman of Northwestern Materials Research Center from 1964-68. After re ceiving his Ph.D. from Harvard Univer sity in 1928, Dole did postdoctoral work at Rockefeller Institute and at Physikalisches Institut in Leipzig. From 1941 to 1945 he was involved in national defense research at Northwestern University and became director of the National Defense Research Committee Laboratory at Dugway Proving Grounds; he was also a research physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during this period. Dole has served as a consultant to Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1953-63; chairman, Chemistry Review Committee of Argonne National Laboratory, 1958-63; associate editor, Chemical Reviews, 1956-58; and vice president of the Elec trochemical Society in 1940. David W. Crane of Arcadia High School, Greece, N.Y., has received the ACS Rochester Section annual award for ex emplary teaching of chemistry at the high school level. Roy G. Gordon of Harvard University has received the ACS North Jersey Sec tion's Baekeland Award for outstanding achievement in creative chemistry. The award, which consists of a gold medal and $1000, is given biennially to an American chemist under 40 years of age in recogni tion of accomplishments in pure or in
dustrial chemistry. Gordon was honored for his leadership in theoretical chemistry and his achievements in chemical physics, especially in spectroscopy, statistical and quantum mechanics, and the theory of intermolecular interactions. He is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, and received the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry in 1972. Mortimer M. Labes, Temple University, Philadelphia, has received the 18th ACS Philadelphia Section Award. Labes was honored for his important contributions in the fields of liquid crystals and the or ganic solid state. Kazuo Nakamoto, Wehr Professor of Chemistry at Marquette University, has received the ACS Milwaukee Section Award. The award recognizes Nakamoto for his significant contributions to metal isotope effects on infrared and Raman spectroscopy. Nakamoto has published more than 70 research papers in this area. Harry H. Sisler, Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, has received the 1979 James Flack Norris Award for outstand ing contributions to the teaching of chemistry. The annual award is given by the ACS Northeastern Section. Sisler is known for his research in high-energy nitrogen compounds such as those used for rocket fuels for the U.S. space pro gram. He is the author or coauthor of 18 books and nearly 200 journal articles. Donald E. Smith of Northwestern Uni versity has received the Chemical In strumentation Award cosponsored by the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry and Hamilton Co. of Reno, Nev. The $2000 award recognizes achievement in origination or improvement of analytical instrumentation. Smith is professor of chemistry at Northwestern; his research interests are in electrochemistry and chemical instrumentation. Walter Gilbert, professor of molecular biology at Harvard University, and Frederick Sanger, head of the division of protein chemistry at the Medical Re search Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, St. John's College, Cambridge, U.K., have received the 1979 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. Gilbert and Sanger share the $22,000 prize equally for their research that laid the experimental groundwork for the re cent explosion of knowledge in the field of genetics. The two biochemists devised methods for decoding the chemical structures of proteins and for reading the cell's hereditary blueprints. The Horwitz Prize was established by the late S. Gross Horwitz to honor scientific investigators for outstanding contributions in biology and biochemistry.
