INDUSTRIAL andENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
NEWS EDITION Vol. 1 5 , No. 2 0
OCTOBER 20, 1937
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Candidates Proposed b y Local Sections
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OCAL· SECTIONS of t h e C H E M I C A L SOCIETY, in
AMERICAN accordance
with t h e Constitution a n d By-laws governing o u r elections, have proposed or nomination t h e following members for President-Elect a n d t h e Councilors-atLarge. Additional members were pro posed, b u t declined t o permit their names t o be presented on t h e ballot which will shortly go t o all members of t h e S O CIETY.
T h e following information is based upon records t o b e found in American M e n of Science, Who's W h o in America, a n d Chemical Who's Who. T h e names are arranged in alphabetical order.
delegate t o t h e T e n t h Congress of t h e International Union of Chemistry, Councilor-at-Large of t h e AMERICAN C H E M I C A L
SOCIETY (1937-39), Chairman of t h e Divi sion of Organic Chemistry in 1928, a n d member of t h e AMERICAN C H E M I C A L S O
CIETY since 1907. He is also a member of several fraternities, including the honorary professional groups. H i s special interest has been t h e dissociation phenomena in aromatic carbinols, oxidation of organic compounds, a n d t h e mechanism of carbo hydrate oxidation a n d drying oils.
P e r K. Frolich, di rector of the Chemical Laboratories of t h e Standard Oil Devel opment Co. Born in 1899, he was educated a t t h e Norwegian I n stitute of Technology, William Lloyd Evans, professor of where h e graduated chemistry a n d chairman of t h e Depart in 1921, followed by a m e n t of Chemistry, master's degree a t t h e Ohio S t a t e Univer Massachusetts Instisity, Columbus, Ohio. „ _ t u t e of Technology Born in 1870, Evans graduated from Ohio PER K. FBOLICH a n d d o c t o r o f science S t a t e a n d took his from t h e same institution in 1925. H e master of science de served a s laboratory assistant a t t h e gree in 1896 a n d his Norwegian Institute of Technology, was P h . D . from t h e Uni a student a t Kristiansand Business Col versity of Chicago lege, a n d became research assistant a t in 1905. H e was Μ . Ι. Τ . in t h e Research Laboratory of chemist with t h e Applied Chemistry in 1923. H e occupied several posts a t M . I. T . , becoming asso American Encaustic ciate professor in chemical engineering in WILLIAM LLOYD EVANS T i | e QQ f r o m 1 8 9 2 1929, a n d assistant director of t h e R e to 1894, becoming a University Fellow t h e search Laboratory of Applied Chemistry. following year a t Ohio State, then assisted H e became associated with t h e Standard in t h e D e p a r t m e n t of Ceramics, a n d Oil Development Co. in 1929, where h e afterward was a n instructor in chemistry was first research chemist, then assistant a t t h e Colorado Springs High School. director, a n d director of t h e B a y w a y R e Then followed t h e Loewenthal Fellowship search Laboratories. in Chemistry a t t h e University of Chicago, and t h e advanced degree. H e lectured He h a s contributed m a n y technical in chemistry a t Starling-Ohio Medical papers t o t h e literature, h a s obtained College from 1911 t o 1915. H e became numerous patents, a n d was t h e Grasselli assistant professor of chemistry a t Ohio Medalist in 1930. H e has been Associate S t a t e University in 1905 a n d advanced Editor of Chemical Reviews. His ac through t h e various grades, becoming tivities in scientific societies include t h e a full professor in 1911 a n d chairman chairmanship of t h e N o r t h Jersey Section of t h e department in 1928. H e en of t h e A M E R I C A N C H E M I C A L SOCIETY, tered t h e World W a r a s a Captain a n d chairman of symposia i n t h e Division of a t i t s close was Major in t h e Chemical Petroleum Chemistry of t h e SOCIETY, Warfare Service. H e was head of Labora Vice Chairman of t h a t division, a n d Coun tories a n d Inspection Division a t Edgecilor. H e has been a member of t h e wood Arsenal, being honorably discharged SOCIETY since 1925 and in his chosen field December 30, 1918. is perhaps best known for his work on t h e transformation a n d chemical utilization H e h a s been active i n m a n y chemical of hydrocarbons, high-pressure g a s reacand other scientific projects, being a
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tions, catalysis, and applied colloid chem istry. Harry N . Holmes, professor of chem istry and head of the department a t Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Born in 1879, he graduated from Westminster College, N e w Wil mington, Pa., in 1899, took hie master of science degree in 1907, and in the same H A B B T N . HOLMES year the P h . D . from Johns Hopkins University. H e became professor of chemistry a t Earlham College in the same year and in 1914 left to assume his duties a t Oberlin. He has been a member of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY since 1908, a Coun-
cilor-at-Large of t h e SOCIETY, and active in the committee work of t h e National Research Council. H e has served a s Secretary and then Chairman of t h e Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry
of
the
AMERICAN
CHEMICAL
SOCIETY, and is a t present a Councilor. Besides being the author of several wellknown texts in chemistry, he has written popular books and articles. His special interest is general and colloid chemistry and vitamins. Charles A. Kraus was born in 1875. H e is a graduate of t h e University of Kansas, where he also did pos tgraduate work. H e was a Fellow in Phys ics at Johns Hopkins, a Research Fellow at the University of Kansas, and took his Ph.D. at the Massa chusetts Institute of CSABLBS A. KRAUB Technology in 1908. H e was instructor a t the University of California, then a research assistant and associate in physical chemistry, later becoming an assistant professor at Μ . Ι. Τ . H e was professor of chemistry and director of the Chemical Laboratories at Clark University from 1914 to 1924, when h e became professor and director of research in chemistry a t Brown University. H e has given courses of summer lectures a t the University of Chicago, Western Re-
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serve University, and Harvard, and has been Visiting Lecturer at Ohio State Uni versity. He has been quite active in the work of the National Research Council, being vice chairman of the Division of Chem istry and Chemical Technology, chairman of that division, and field secretary of the Fellowship Board in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. He has done much consulting work for the Bureau of Mines, as well as for various technical develop ments. He has also been consulting chemist of the Bureau of Mines, the Chemical Warfare Service, and the Fixed Nitrogen Laboratory. He is a member of a number of scientific societies and professional fraternities, has been a mem ber of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
since 1923, and of the National Academy of Sciences. He was the Nichols Medal ist in 1923. He has made inventions relating to electrical apparatus, vacuum seals, gases, and chemical processes. He has been a frequent contributor to the scientific literature, and his work has been in electrically conducting systems, critical phenomena, liquid ammonia, free radi cals, phase rule, electrical apparatus, gases, and chemical processes—to give a partial list. Samuel C. Lind, dean of the Institute of Technology of the University of Minne sota. Born in 1879, Dr. L i n d g r a d u ated from Washing ton and Lee Univer sity, then the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, took his Ph.D. at Leipzig in 1905, was a stu SAMcBL C. LIND dent at the University of Paris in 1910-11, and at the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna in 1911. He was assistant in chemistry at M. I. T., instructor and later assistant professor at the University of Michigan, chemist in radioactivity and physical chemist at the Bureau of Mines. He was then pro moted t o be chief chemist a t the U. S. Bureau of Mines, 1923 t o 1925. He was associate director of the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory in 1925 and 1926. leaving to become director of the School of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, where he remained until becoming dean of the Institute of Technology of the same university in 1935. Dr. Lind has been a member of the SOCIETY since 1908, and Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry since 1933. He has also been a member of the Board of Editors of Scientific Monographs and Chemical Reviews. He was president of the Electrochemical Society in 1927, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and of other scientific organi zations. H e is the author of many articles in the field of his special interest, and the inventor of the Lind interchange able electroscope for radium measure ments. He originated the ionization theory of the chemical effects of radium rays. His work has been in t h e field of radioactivity, radium extraction and meas urement, influence of radiation on chemi cal action, kinetics, and chemical re actions, photochemistry, and chemical effects in electrical discharge.
Carl S. Miner, consulting chemist. Born in 1878, he attended Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and graduated a t the University of Chicago in 1903. He was re s e a r c h c h e m i s t of the Corn Products Co. 1903 to 1906, when he entered the consulting business, CARL S. M I N E R operating under the title of Miner Laboratories since 1908. He has been prominently identified with the development of several manufacturing processes and has been active in the SoCIETV, of which he became a member in 1904. He was Chairman of the Chicago Section, 1922, has been Editor of the Chicago Chemical Bulletin, and a Coun cilor representing the Chicago Section. Among his accomplishments should be noted the manufacture of furfural and derivatives, although he specializes in many branches of industrial chemistry. Hobart H . Willard, professor of chem istry a t the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Born in 1886, a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he also received his master's degree, followed in 1909 b y the Ph.D. from Harvard. He has been a member of the faculty of the uni versity since 1905. During the World War h e served as director of the Chemical and Metallurgical Laboratory, Bureau of Aircraft Production, Detroit. He has been a mem ber of the AMERICAN* CHEMICAL SOCIETY
since 1902 and is a t resent serving as a director. H e has been active in other scien tific organizations, in cluding the National R e s e a r c h Council. He has been Associate Editor of the Journal of the American HOBART H. WILLARD Chemical Society and his work has been in the field of atomic weights, perchloric and periodic acids and their salts, vanadium in steel, thermal de composition of mixed sulfates, and re search on many problems in the field of quantitative analysis.
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Councilore-at-Large William Mansfield Clark, professor of physiological chemistry, Johns Hopkins University. H e graduated and took his master's degree at Williams, which college bestowed o n him the degree of doctor of science in 1935. His Ph.D. is from Johns Hopkins. He was research chemist of the United States Department of Agri culture from 1910 t o 1920, when he joined the United States Public Health Service as chief of the Chemical Division, remainiag there until 1927, in which year he took up his present work at Johns Hop kins University. H e is best known for his work on t h e determination of hydrogen ions and his studies on oxidation and re duction. His scientific memberships in clude that of the National Academy of Sciences and the
AMERICAN
CHEMICAL
SOCIETY, of which he became a member in 1913.
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A. C. Fieldner, chief of the Technical Branch and chief engineer of the Coal Division of the U. S. Bureau of Mines; immediate past president of the American Society for Testing Materials, and member of many scientific and technical societies; well known for his major contributions to the study of fuels. H e is a graduate of Ohio State University and in 1936 the University of Alabama bestowed on him the honorary degree of doctor of science. Before joining the government service in 1907 he had been fuel engineer for the Denver Gas and Electric Co. and chemist and assayer for the American Zinc and Chemical Co. One of his most interesting pieces of work was designing the ventilat ing system of the Holland Tunnel under . the Hudson River. He is largely re sponsible for the inauguration of many programs of research of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, and has long been active in the affairs of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL S O
CIETY, of which he became a member in 1907. He is just completing a term as Councilor-at-Large ( 1935-37). Ivan Gubelmann, chemical director of the Organic Chemistry Division of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Wil mington, Del. He was educated in the Federal Technical University of Switzer land, from which he also received the degree of doctor of technical science in 1912. He was research chemist for the Monsanto Chemical Works from 1912 t o 1916; chief chemist, Newport Co., 1916 to 1919, advancing t o vice president and technical director from 1924 to 1931; with the acquisition of the Newport Co. by the du Pont company he became manager of the Carroll ville plant in 1932, and assist ant production manager of the Organic Chemistry Division in 1933, since which time he has occupied his present post of chemical director. He became a member of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
in
1915. Β Smith Hopkins, professor of inorganic chemistry, University of Illinois. He is a graduate of Albion College, where he also received the honorary doctor of science degree; was a student at Columbia University and obtained his doctor's degree at Johns Hopkins University. His professional life has been devoted to teaching. He has been a member of the faculty at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Carroll College, and the University of Illinois. He is the author of several books and is perhaps best known for his brilliant research on the element illinium, which he discovered. H e is just complet ing a term as Councilor- at-Large (1935-37) of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.
In
addition to his membership in the AMERI CAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, which he joined
in 1901, he belongs t o a number of scien tific societies and in 1934 served as presi dent of the Illinois Academy of Sciences. G. E. F. Lundell, chief of the Chemistry Division, National Bureau of Standards, is a graduate of Cornell University, where he took hie Ph.D. in 1909. After serving as a member of the faculty of Northwestern University and a t CorneU he joined the staff of the National Bureau of Standards in 1917. His contributions in the field of precise quantitative analysis are well known, his principal interest being research on applied inorganic analysis. He is the author of several books, is a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the
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OCTOBER 20, 1937 Analytical Edition of INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING
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LANS for t h e Fourth Chemical Engi neering Symposium on Drying and Air Conditioning t o be held a t t h e University of Pennsylvania December 27 and 28,1937, are practically complete. T h e program will follow closely t h a t of previous sym John H . Nair, assistant director of Research laboratories of t h e Borden Co. posia, providing two full days of technical sessions, group luncheons, a n d an evening He is a graduate of Beloit College, also dinner. studied a t Syracuse University, has taught I t is a particularly appropriate time t o in t h e high schools of Wausau, Wis., a n d was a-teaching fellow a t Syracuse Uni- meet in Philadelphia. T h e University of Pennsylvania is t o celebrate its 200th versitv. H e w a s research chemist for anniversary in 1940 a n d begins this month Merrell-Soule Co. from 1919 t o 1928, when he became a member of t h e Borden organi an elaborate series of meetings leading u p sation. H e has been active in t h e AMERI to t h a t event. I t is anticipated t h a t many visitors will find t h e symposium and t h e CAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, of which h e be came a member in 1926, serving as Secre celebration a double attraction t o Phila t a r y a n d Chairman of t h e Syracuse delphia in December. I t is of interest t o recall that t h e Uni Section, and h a s guided t h e work of a number of important committees a p versity of Pennsylvania h a s had a n under graduate curriculum in chemical engineer pointed b y t h e national SOCIETY; he ing continuously in its catalog for a has also been on t h e Council and has been period longer than a n y other school. As Secretary and Chairman of t h e Division a result of reorganization in t h e fall of of Agricultural a n d Food Chemistry. His 1936, graduate work leading to t h e P h . D . research has been on t h e chemistry of milk degree in chemical engineering is now in roducts, desiccation of food materials, progress· Laboratory space and facilities (cithin, fruit juices, food chemistry, a n d have been greatly improved during t h e dairy chemistry. past year. All meetings will b e held in Houston A. S. Richardson, director of chemical Hail, first student university building in research, Procter & Gamble Co., Ivorydale, Ohio. H e is a graduate of Prince t h e United States. Luncheons and dinner will be served in t h a t building. A further ton University, where he also received detailed announcement of plans will be his P h . D . in 1927. H e was research printed in t h e N E W S EDITION and will in chemist for t h e d u Pont company during clude a list of hotel accommodations a n d 1920-21, leaving t o assume his present rates. Further information m a y be o b duties in 1921. His scientific society tained by addressing N . W . Krase, Room memberships include several foreign 112, Engineering Building, University of organizations, a n d h e is active in t h e Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, of which he became a member in 1919. H e was resident of t h e American Oil Chemists ociety in 1931. His principal work has been in t h e field of soap, fats, and catalysis.
a
m e m b e r of t h e AMERICAN C H E M I C A L
SOCIETY since 1914, a n d is a t present serving a s a Councilor.
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A CIRCULAR bearing t h e s t a m p AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. DALLAS, TEXAS, April 18 t o 22, 1938. AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Special Convention Train Service through St. Louis having t h e appearance of an official circular issued b y the Dallas-Fort Worth Section a n d bearing no railroad trade mark was circulated a t t h e Rochester meeting
of
the
AMERICAN
CHEMICAL
SOCIETY. I t w a s in fact a pamphlet of the "Frisco" a n d " K a t y " lines. T h e General Eastern Passenger Agent of t h e Missouri-Kansas-Texas Lines had been reviously informed in person t h a t t h e OCIETT could n o t consent to advertising circulars being circulated a t our meetings t o or from SOCIETY headquarters. Never theless, these circulars were placed on t h e registration desk and on chairs in some of t h e divisional rooms. They were n o t confiscated because of their official appear ance a n d deceived many, including t h e Business Manager a n d his assistant. This notice is inserted t h a t members may know that no official train h a s been arranged, nor will such a train over these roads be authorized b y the SOCIETY.
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L. B . BROUGHTON, professor of chemistry a t t h e University of Maryland, College Park, Md., h a s been appointed s t a t e chemist and head of the Department of Chemistry a t t h e university.
News of the Society
H . A. Shonle, research organic chemist with Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, Ind. H e is a graduate of t h e University of Illinois and took his master of science degree in 1917. H e served in t h e United States Department of Agriculture, leaving to take u p his present work in 1919. H e has made a number of important investi gations in t h e fields of synthetic sedatives and hypnotics and metallo-organic m e · dicinals. He h a s been very active in t h e Indiana Section of t h e AMERICAN C H E M I CAL SOCIETY a n d in t h e SOCIETY itself,
of which h e became a member in 1916.
Members Elected September 1 t o October 1 AKRON SECTION. non K. Hitch.
Michael Golben,1 Ver
CHICAGO SECTION.
Arthur M. Wagner,
William C. Winokur.» Ruth E. Corbet,
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Clifford Charles Ehle. Albert C. Workman. COLUMBUS SECTION.
Κ. Β . Nordstrom.
CORNELL
Hugo
SECTION.
Dobb,
Jr.,
Ernest V. Staker. DELAWARE SECTION.
Emma M . Dietz,
Memberships
P CIETY memberships presented a s scholar
HI LAMBDA U P S I L O N announces t h e following AMERICAN C H E M I C A L S O
ship awards to outstanding students: Xi Chapter, University of Pittsburgh, to the sophomore chemistry or chemical engineering major who makes the highest scholastic average during hie first two years. This year it was awarded t o JAMES ALEX ANDER MILLER.
Upsilon Chapter, University of Iowa, t o the senior chemistry major with the highest scholarship average during his four years in college. Awarded this year to EDWARD J. KINO.
H. H . Bliss.
LEHIGH VALLEY SECTION.
Jesse B. Bron-
stein, Jr. LOUISIANA SECTION.
Robert C Hills.
MIDLAND SECTION.
Francis Nelson Al-
quist. MILWAUKEE SECTION.
goeb. 1
Rosalia Λ. Leut-
MINNESOTA SECTION.
S. Arthur Harris.
N E W YORK SECTION.
C Francis Beatty,
Albert S. Keston, Charles F . McKenna, Jr., James Tracy Manion, John A. Minning, Abby Ware Nies, 1 J. Alan Schade, W. F. Spikes. NORTH CAROLINA SECTION.
Bridgers. 1
NORTH JERSEY SECTION.
William A.
Carl R. Byers,
Eduard Farber, Morton Welge. NORTHEASTERN SECTION. John Burnham,
Mark Capuano, 1 Goldner F . Lipsey, Ray P. Rossxnan.1
Law
Charles M. Loucke. Edward S. Bar-
nitz, W. Ralph Giles, J . L. Howe, Jr., Sanford A. Moss, Jr., Paul A. Reeves, Albert G . Ryan. PITTSBURGH SECTION.
son, 1 B. Garrison Wilkes. PUGET SOUND SECTION. ROCHESTER
M. R. Lytton.
A· C. S. S t u d e n t
OKLAHOMA SECTION.
PHILADELPHIA SECTION.
CLEVELAND SECTION.
DETROIT SECTION.
NORTHWESTERN UTAH SECTION.
rence J. E . Hofer. 1
SECTION.
Adolph G. Ander Marjorie Nelson. George
S.
Bab-
cock, Elmer Arthur Beavens, Robert C. Houck, John H . Howard, 1 L. L. McGrady, John J. Pittman, Raymond F. Quirk, Charles G. Rittenhouse,1 Ralph H. Talbot, Richard Harold Wilcox. ST.
JOSEPH
VALLEY SECTION.
Brother
Columba Curran. SYRACUSE SECTION.
John A. Crowder,
Stuart M. Rogers, William Donald J . Smith.
R. Schuler.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SECTION.
J. T .
Carriel.» VIRGINIA SECTION.
Edward M. Fry. 1
WASHINGTON SECTION.
J. S. Abbott.
WESTERN N E W YORK SECTION.
Michael
G. Kelakos, 1 Harry N . Tatomer, 1 John E . Weiler. No SECTION. John Fessier H aller, Henry C. Keteham, D . J. Pelletier, Gurth W„ Schulz,1 C. F. B. Stevens. 1
Junior member.
