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The winners of 20 ACS awards were named last week at the 140th national meeting, in Chicago. The awards will be presented next spring at the 141st national meeting, in Washington, D.C. Three of the awards—the American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry sponsored by Texas Instruments Incorporated, The Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry sponsored by Humble Oil & Refining Company, and the Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Organosilicon Chemistry sponsored by Dow Corning Corporation—are given for the first time. Not included here are the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award and the Priestley Medal, recipients of which will be announced later. The Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry is scheduled to be announced next in 1962. The awards were established to provide a means of recognition for outstanding contributions to chemistry and chemical engineering. Recipients are nominated by fellow members of their profession.
DR. JACK L. STROMINGER, Pharmacology Department, Washington University Paul-Lewis Laboratories Award in Enzyme Chemistry DR. HELEN M. DYER, National Cancer Institute
Fisher Award in Analytical Chemistry Garvan Medal
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DR. JOHN F. BAXTER, Chemistry Department, University of Florida
DR. CHARLES KEMBALL, Chemistry Department, Queens University of Belfast
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EUGENE J. HOUDRY, Chairman of the Board, Oxy-Catalyst, Inc.
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American Chemical Society Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry sponsored by the Esso Research and Engineering Company
Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos named assistant director of research at Monsanto's organic chemicals division, Nitro, W.Va. Sidney P. Thomas assigned to Chocolate Bayou project. Loren R. Yoder joins Dayton lab of Monsanto.
DR. HARDEN M. McCONNELL, Chemistry Department, California Institute of Technology
American Chemical Society Award in the Chemistry of Milk sponsored by the Borden Company Foundation, Inc.
American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry sponsored by Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity
DR. GEORGE SCATCHARD, Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DR. WILLIAM G. YOUNG, Vice Chancellor, University of California (Los Angeles)
The Kendall Company Award in Colloid Chemistry
American Chemical Society Award in Chemical Education sponsored by the Scientific Apparatus Makers Association
DR. TRUMAN P. KOHMAN, Chemistry Department, Carnegie Institute of Technology American Chemical Society Award for Nuclear Applications in Chemistry sponsored by the Nuclear-Chicago Corporation DR. E. BRIGHT WILSON, Jr., Chemistry Department, Harvard University The Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry sponsored by Humble Oil & Refining Company DR. HOWARD K. SCHACHMAN, Biochemistry and Virus Laboratory, University of California (Berkeley) American Chemical Society Award in Chemical Instrumentation sponsored by E. H. Sargent & Co.
DR. LASZLO ZECHMEISTER, Professor Emeritus, California Institute of Technology American Chemical Society Award in Chromatography and Electrophoresis sponsored by Labline, Inc. DR. HAROLD HART, Chemistry Department, Michigan State University American Chemical Society Award in Petroleum Chemistry sponsored by Precision Scientific Company DR. E. R. H. JONES, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry, Oxford University Fritzsche Award
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American Chemical Society Award in Biological Chemistry sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company DR. CHARLES R. HAUSER, Chemistry Department, Duke University American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry sponsored by the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association
DR. F. A. COTTON, Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry sponsored by Texas Instruments Incorporated
New sales office managers for Allied Chemical's General Chemical Division: Arthur H. Baker, New York Metropolitan; Albert B. Connelly, Houston; Harold E. Donaldson, St. Louis; Wiliam P. Doyle, Buffalo; Edmund R. Lett, Birmingham; and Wesley G. Webster, Denver. Assistant sales managers: Lester I. Adams, New York; Joseph M. Byouk, Chicago; Stephen J. Muller, Los Angeles; Richard J. Regan, Philadelphia; and James E. Strader, Chicago. Dr. Jacob Block joins central analytical section of Olin Mathieson Chemical, New Haven, Conn., as senior research analyst. From Case Institute of Technology. Richard H. Braunlich appointed manager of research and development for fibers division of American Viscose, Marcus Hook, Pa. Claudine Carlton appointed a patent searcher at Emeryville research center of Shell Development. Dr. C. R. Castor named manager of crystal products by Linde Co., East Chicago, Ind. Succeeds Malcolm H. Barnes, promoted to assistant general manager of new products department. New chemists on staff of U.S. Rubber research center, Wayne, N.J.: Dr. Chester T. Chmiel, Dr. Haruto P. Kato, Dr. Gerald J. Klender, Dr. James E. Owen, Dr. John D. Skewis, Louis D. Esposito, and Lawrence D. McCory. William F. Christie named eastern representative for market research and development for Amoco Chemicals, New York City.
DR. HENRY GILMAN, Iowa State University
Dr. James A. Cote appointed" to polymer research department of W. R. Grace & Co.'s Washington Research Center, Clarksville, Md. Dr. John J. Vill joins staff of organic research department.
Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Organosilicon Chemistry sponsored by Dow Corning Corporation
Robert G. Cunningham joins Procter & Gamble as technical brand manager in foods division, Cincinnati. SEPT. 11, 1961 C&EN
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Robert L. Eichenseer from Du Pont is now associate engineer in materials and process unit, the Boeing Co., Renton, Wash. Frank G. Fanning joins Millmaster Chemical as v.p. of Fanning chemical division. Dr. Edward J. Fetter from National Institutes of Health, is now organic chemist at American Cyanamid, Stam ford. Ronald A. Graham named assistant to director of research at Wyandotte Chemicals. Robert L. Granger named director of nylon manufacturing at Chemstrand Corp.'s Greenwood, S.C., plant. A. Becker Habighurst, group leader in industrial products lab of National Dairy Research Center, Glenview, 111., receives the Research Merit Award in recognition of outstanding service to the company.
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Dr. Robert Marchisotto leaves Johnson & Johnson to become director of Bristol-Myers International Laboratories, Hillside, N.J. J. R. McCoy named technical director at the Azusa, Calif., plant of American Cyanamid. Dean E. McCrory appointed assistant district sales manager at Tacoma, Wash., for Pennsalt Chemicals. Leo Michael Meyer, Jr., joins staff of Portland Cement Association, Skokie, 111., as assistant research chemist in physical chemistry division. From Quaker Oats. Dr. Nicholas Michaels and Dr. Merrill Lynn, chemists, and Robert A. Britton and Barry R. Okin, chemical engineers, join staff of chemicals research division, Esso Research & Engineering, Linden, N.J. Robert M. Koros joins process research division as chemical engineer. Robert A. Miller named sales manager for specialty plastic films at Allied Chemical's General Chemical Division. Joseph P. Monteleone named regional sales manager for industrial chemicals division at Stauffer Chemical, Huntsville, Ala. Henry Moore joins West End Chemical, San Francisco, as glass technologist and glass furnace engineer. Dr. Maurice L. Moore, director of new product development o f Sterling Drug, Inc., has been appointed executive vice president of Winthrop Laboratories. He is a member of the Sterling research board. He joined the Sterling group in 1943 as assistant director of research of Frederick Stearns & Co. Harley E. Mortenson joins Benger laboratory staff of Du Pont at Waynesboro, Va. B. Ross Nason named director of manufacturing and engineering for Mobay Chemical, Pittsburgh. New personnel at Monsanto: James C. Holland and Dr. Lawrence H. Holmes, Jr., Texas City; and Dr. Yoon-Chai Lee and Dr. Robert Toggenburger, Springfield, Mass.
Raymond Olsen and Jack H. Be from Commercial Filters Corp. ha set up a n e w firm, Service Filtrati Corp., in Chicago. They will ser as filtration consultants and speciali in the sale of filters for chemicals exclusive representatives of the Filti ite Corp. Joseph A. Paciello named manag of paper and leather division at Bet shire Color & Chemical, Reading, 1 D . F. Percival appointed group s pervisor, chemicals sales technic service section of Richmond lab, Ca fornia Research Corp. Dr. Ronald Macdonald named research associal Walter H. Peterson named ma ager of butyl sales development at E jay Chemical, N e w York City. G. L. Phaling from the Londc derry plant of D u Pont ( U . K . ) , Lfc transfers to D u Pont's elastomer chei icals plant, Beaumont, Tex., as an lytical chemist. N e w personnel on research staff Standard Oil (Ohio) at Clevelan Mary Picken, chemist, and Je Konyha and Martha Blue, junior chei ists. Miles Powell, Jr., appointed genei sales manager at Chemplast, Ei Newark, N.J. Milton Richlin joins Corp. supplies division, N.J., as research chemist.
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Park, N J . Henry J. Roux, research chemist Armstrong Cork, named to newly c ated position of manager of techni sales services, building products di sion, Lancaster, Pa.
Glenn D . Rucker assigned to Ch< olate Bayou plant of Monsanto n< Alvin, Tex. R. D . Updegrove 1 comes general supervisor of hydroc bons department at the plant. N< personnel at Monsanto include 1 Chin H . L u , Springfield, Mass., a Charles F. O'Brien, Monsanto, Dr. Charles P. Rader joins orgai chemicals division, St. Louis. SEPT.
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U. G. Stoeffler promoted to process development manager at Allied Paper Corp. Charles A. Suter elected president of Geigy Chemical Corp., Ardsley, N.Y. Succeeds William F. Zipse, who becomes chairman of the executive committee. Dr. Frederick Tishler joins Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Summit, N.J., as senior research analyst. Dr. Theodore L. Treitler joins research staff of Thomas Edison Laboratories, West Orange, N.J. From Colgate-Palmolive Co. Harold Vogel, counsel for chemical divisions at FMC Corp., appointed to the National Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. He will be available to serve in disputes over the performance of commercial contracts. William T. Walling, formerly a field electrochemist with Hanson-Van Winkle-Munning, rejoins the company in that capacity in Chicago. Dr. Richard E. Warner, assistant to v.p. and technical director of energy division at Olin Mathieson Chemical, named a v.p. of Techno Fund, Inc. H. Warson named development manager for polymers at Dunlop Chemical Products Division, Birmingham, England. From Vinyl Products, Ltd. Dr. Reginald F . Webb appointed director of research in plastics division of Allied Chemical, Morris Township,
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GOVERNMENT Dr. Ian R. Bartky appointed to physical chemistry division of National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. Donald A. Becker joins textile section of National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D . C , as research chemist. James A. Kime, physical science administrator at U.S. Army Chemical Corps Biological Laboratories, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md., receives t h e Department of Army Sustained Superior Performance Award. H e was honored for his contributions in studies involving laboratory operations, collection and evaluation of scientific information, and for his assistance in establishing a cooperative agreement between the Biological Laboratories and the Food and Drug Administration. Allan M. Labowitz, who has been assistant to A E C director of reactor development, has been appointed Atomic Energy Commission scientific representative in t h e U.S. Mission to the European Community, Brussels. He will be the chief technical adviser to t h e senior AEC representative and will act as his deputy.
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Frank J. Rizzo, chief of textile dyeing laboratory at Quartermaster Research and Engineering Comm a n d, N a t i ck, Mass., wins the first annual Army Research and Dev e l o p m e n t Achievement Award. He was honored for guiding development of a fully automated instrument which measures and records color differences numerically with a degree of accuracy never before met.
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Dr. Gordon Atkinson of University of Michigan and Dr. James M. Stewart of University of Washington join physical chemistry faculty at University of Maryland. Dr. Samuel Grim of inorganic faculty at Maryland is on a year's leave of absence to work at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. Dr. Ernest J. Baldwin retires after 34 years of service. He has been head of the chemistry department and acting executive dean of the southern branch at University of Idaho and dean of the college of liberal arts, Idaho State College. Dr. C. Paul Bianchi, formerly an assistant member of the Institute for Muscle Disease, is now associate in pharmacology department at University of Pennsylvania schools of medicine. Curtis E. Borchers joins University of Arkansas Graduate Institute of Technology, Little Rock, as associate professor in department of electronics and instrumentation. From Jamestown College. Clark E. Bricker resigns as professor of chemistry at Princeton to become dean of the college and professor of chemistry at College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Dr. Max S. Dunn, associate dean of the graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles, will be honored as Food Man of the Year by the Southern California section of the Institute of Food Technologists. His acceptance address on Sept. 20 will be on Fifty Years of Amino Acid Research.
Nominated to honorary fellowship in The Chemical Society (London) are Sir Howard Florey, Oxford, and president of the Royal Society; Dr. Henry Gilman, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Dr. Alexander Nicolai Nesmeyanov, president of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.; and Dr. Vlado Prelog, Technische Hochschule, Zurich. Dr. Isaiah Gellman, West Coast regional engineer for National Council for Stream Improvement, transfers to South Central region to direct the new National Council research project at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. John W. McFarland leaves Du Pont to join chemistry department at DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind., as associate professor. Dr. Lester A. Michel, chairman of chemistry department at Colorado College, will go on sabbatical leave for 1961-62. Dr. Milton K. Snyder will serve as acting chairman. Dr. James M. Short from University of Pennsylvania appointed assistant professor of chemistry. Dr. Milton J. Polissar, recently retired from City College of San Francisco chemistry department, appointed professor of theoretical biology at Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland. Dr. J. Robert Snyder becomes associate professor of chemical engineering at Penn State University, University Park. Has been associate professor of chemical engineering at Villanova. Dr. James S. Swinehart named associate professor in chemistry department at American University, Washington, D.C. From Wagner College faculty. Dr. Michael M. Szwarc, research professor of physical and polymer chemistry and director of the molecular biology institute at the Syracuse University forestry college, will give a course on anionic polymerization this month at Varenna, Italy. Thomas D. Terry, S.J., formerly enologist and viticulturist for the Novitiate of Los Gatos, is now dean of the college of arts and sciences at the University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, Calif. Dr. Gordon Wilson, Jr., joins staff of Western Kentucky State College as associate professor of chemistry. From Dow Chemical.
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DEATHS Oscar N . Anderson, chemical supervisor, Procter & Gamble, Sacramento, Calif., August. Joined ACS in 1929.
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Robert M. Aude, 47, president of Heyden Chemical Division of Heyden Newport Chemical Corp., Aug. 20, Upper Saddle River, N.J.
PLASTICIZER
John F. Cosgrove, chief bacteriologist, Hoffmann-La Roche, Nutley, N.J., April 30. Harold W. Coward, president of Alliance Color & Chemical, Newark, N.J.,Aug. 11. Martin L. Degavre, retired since 1952 as plant chemist at Colgate-Palmolive, July 30. He had joined the ACS in 1926. A. J. Fisher, Jr., 47, executive v.p., Metal & Thermit Corp., Aug. 11 at Nor walk, Conn. George F. Garnatz, 63, director of Kroger Food Foundation, Cincinnati, May 18. George R. Gilbert, chemist at Esso Research & Engineering, Linden, N.J. Aug. 2.
PENN-DRAKE
WHITE
OILS
CAN REDUCE COSTS
while
Providing o Essential Properties!
Dr. Victor C. Hamister, 71, associate director of National Carbon Research Laboratory of Union Carbide in Parma, Ohio, Aug. 16. J. Erskine Hawkins, professor of chemistry and director of naval stores research at University of Florida, July 22. Joined ACS in 1928. Jack W. Jespersen, chief chemist, Northam Warren Corp., Stamford, Conn., July 18.
ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS INCLUDE: high purity (well within latest "food grade" standards) . . . outstanding stability to light and heat . . . freedom from odor, taste and color . . . wide range of viscosities . . . non-reactivity.
R. Henry Morris III, 64, recently retired special assistant for industrial liaison to USDA's Eastern Utilization Research and Development Division, Aug. 22.
These non-polar, hydrocarbon oils excel as media for chemical reactions and for the dispersion of highly reactive compounds such as sodium hydride . . . as primary or secondary plasticizers for polystyrene, hydrocarbon resins and ethyl cellulose.
Albert S. Orr, 58, director of product quality coordination in refining department of Gulf Oil, Aug. 13 at Long Beach, N.J.
Ask for specifications, additional information or samples,
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Francis R. Scholl, research chemist for International Harvester, Chicago, Aug. 5. I. Sanford Yaffe, 38, physical chemist at Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calif., May 10.
