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The 1965 ACS Award for Nuclear Applications in Chemistry, sponsored by Nuclear-Chicago Corp., goes to Dr. Stanley G. Thompson, senior staff member of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif. Dr. H. A. Leedy, president of Nuclear-Chicago, will present the award next month at the ACS Detroit meeting. Dr. Thompson's career has ranged from conceiving essential parts of the first successful separation process for plutonium to participating in the discoveries of berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, and mendelevium, plus more than 40 isotopes. Dr. Thompson was born in Los Angeles. In 1934 he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. From then until 1942 he was a chemist with Standard Oil Co. of California, working in his spare time on radiochemistry at the University of California. In 1942 Dr. Thompson joined the metallurgical laboratory at the University of Chicago. Here he conceived the use of phosphates and, in particular, bismuth phosphate, in the plutonium separation process. He worked out, as well, the experimental groundwork for its large-scale use. This process first produced plutonium on a large scale at Hanford, Wash., late in 1944. In mid-1945, Dr. Thompson returned to the University of Chicago to begin work on the chemistry of the heavier elements. In 1946 he returned to Lawrence Radiation Laboratory as a graduate student, and there received his Ph.D., working out the tracer chemistry of americium and curium and studying properties of the transuranium isotopes. This work resulted in an understanding of the relationships between the transcurium elements on the basis of their similarity
to the rare earths, and led to the design of methods of separation (primarily ion exchange) used in the discovery of berkelium (element 97) and californium (element 98) in 1949 and 1950. In 1953, some new and very heavy isotopes of plutonium were discovered in the debris of the Pacific thermonuclear test Mike. This led the California workers to search for other isotopes in the Mike debris. Dr. Thompson's earlier work was again instrumental in uncovering einsteinium (element 99) and fermium (element 100) in the Mike debris. By the time Dr. Thompson and his co-workers at the Lawrence lab discovered mendelevium (element 101) in 1955, the problem of the fission of heavy nuclei, which had been present throughout his research on the transuranium elements, began to capture Dr. Thompson's attention. Then, as now, scientists did not understand why a heavy nucleus splits into fragments of unequal size. Part of the problem is determining the characteristics of fragments from a splitting nucleus and deciding at what stages the masses and energies are determined which lead to particles of unequal size. Over the past 10 years, working with californium-252 and using solidstate counters and advanced electronic techniques, Dr. Thompson and his co-workers have measured and interpreted many of the prompt radiations from spontaneous fission. Among other things, Dr. Thompson and his group have determined many of the mass and energy relations which hold during this process. They have accounted for most of the neutrons emitted from the separated fragments and have studied gamma rays and their conversion to electrons and x-rays.
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ACS Award in Chemical Education sponsored by the Scientific Apparatus Makers Association
Dr. Theodore A. Ashford
Dr. Theodore Askounes Ashford, director of the division of natural sciences and mathematics at the University of South Florida, will receive the 1965 ACS Award in Chemical Education at the ACS 149th National Meeting in Detroit next month. The $1000 award, which is sponsored by the Scientific Apparatus Makers Association, will be presented by R. E. Ohaus, chairman-elect, laboratory apparatus section of SAMA. Dr. Ashford is chairman of the Examinations Committee of the ACS Division of Chemical Education. A member of the committee since 1940, Dr. Ashford took over chairmanship from the original founder, Dr. Otto Smith (an early SAMA award winner), in 1946. Under Dr. Ashford's leadership the program has progressively expanded and now includes tests for high school, college, and graduate school students. The tests are designed as achievement tests for end-of-semester and/or endof-year; thus they provide teachers with objective measures of individual and group achievement. They are given to about 320,000 students each year in more than 800 colleges and junior colleges, 1600 high schools, and 46 graduate schools. One or more tests are available for all courses in undergraduate chemistry. On the graduate level, tests are available in analytical, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. The tests have been used in many foreign countries and have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Indonesian. Dr. Ashford was born in Greece in 1908 and came to the U.S. in 1922. He attended Crane Junior College and the Central YMCA College, both in Chicago. He received a B.S. in chem-
istry in 1932 from University of Chicago, took an M.S. there in 1934, and a Ph.D. in 1936, for work on organoplatinum compounds. He began his teaching career at Chicago and also began his work on preparing examinations. In 1939 he was appointed a member of the board of examiners and of the department of chemistry of the University of Chicago. During World War II he was appointed a member of the examinations staff of the U.S. Armed Forces Institute and was responsible for the exams used for chemistry courses, as well as other tests with science content. In 1950, with the idea of building up an institute for chemistry teachers, he moved to St. Louis University as an associate professor; he was promoted to full professor in 1953. He established there the first summer chemistry institute, this in the days prior to the National Science Foundation's Summer and Academic Year Institutes. Ih fact, he trained a number of people who later were to lead the NSF Institute programs. At St. Louis, three programs, in all, were organized—a B.S. teachingdegree, M.S. teaching-degree, and the summer institutes. In 1960 he left St. Louis to assume his present position, with the responsibility of building the science division of the newly established University of South Florida. The division now has seven science departments with a faculty of 49. The chemistry department has 13 staff members and plans a master's degree program in the fall. In addition to numerous articles and published tests, Dr. Ashford is the author of "From Atoms to Stars," a successful and widely used text for general education in the physical sciences. He is a fellow of A AAS.
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