News American Chemical Society 1980 Award Winners J. Calvin Giddings and James E. Lovelock Win the ACS Awards in Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography T h e winners of the 1980 American Chemical Society awards were announced at the 178th ACS National Meeting, held in Washington, D.C. in September. T h e recipient of the ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry is J. Calvin Giddings of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. T h e Analytical Chemistry Award has been sponsored by Fisher Scientific Co. since 1947, and consists of a $2000 honorarium and an etching. James E. Lovelock, Coombe Mill, St. Giles on the Heath, Launceston, Cornwall, England, has been selected to receive the 1980 ACS Award in Chromatography. T h e Chromatography Award is sponsored by Supelco, Inc., and consists of $2000 and a certificate. T h e awards will actually be presented to the two men at the General Meeting on Monday, March 24,1980, at the 179th ACS National Meeting in Houston, Tex. J. Calvin Giddings is professor of chemistry at the University of Utah. He was born in American Fork, Utah, on Sept. 26, 1930. He received a BS degree from Brigham Young University in 1952 and a P h D from the University of U t a h in 1954 under the direction of Henry Eyring. His thesis research dealt with topics in chemical kinetics, q u a n t u m chemistry, and chromatography. He subsequently did postdoctoral work on the theory of flames with J. O. Hirshfelder at the University of Wisconsin. In 1957 Dr. Giddings joined the staff of the University of U t a h as assistant professor of chemistry. He became associate professor in 1959, research professor in 1962, and professor in 1966. His principal area of research has been chromatography, where he has been especially active in relating chromatographic separability to the underlying molecular processes. He has also worked on general separation theory and methods; new separation methodology; macromolecular separation; development of techniques for diffusion coefficient measurements; the theory of diffusion; chemical ki-
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netics; and snow and avalanche physics. He is inventor of the field-flow fractionation method for chemical separations. He is also active in research and education dealing with the chemistry of environmental and population problems. Giddings is author or coauthor of over 190 publications, and editor of 18 books. He is the sole author of the book "Dynamics of Chromatography" (1965), and of the textbook entitled "Chemistry, Man, and Environmental Change" (1973). Among the awards Giddings has won are the 1967 ACS Award in Chromatography and Electrophoresis, a 1974 Fulbright Grant, the 1978 Tswett Medal in Chromatography, and the 1979 Steven Dal Nogare Award in Chromatography. Giddings is interested in conservation, and enjoys river running, ski mountaineering, skiing, and hiking in his spare time. J a m e s E. Lovelock was born on July 19, 1919, in Letchworth Garden City, United Kingdom. He graduated as a chemist from Manchester University in 1941; in 1948 he obtained a P h D in Medicine at the London School of Hygiene, and was later honored with a D.Sc. in Biophysics at London University. After finishing his university studies he worked for nearly 20 years for the British Medical Research Council, both at the Common Cold Research Unit in Salisbury, and
at the National Institute for Medical Research in London. In 1954, he was at Harvard Medical School on a Rockefeller traveling fellowship and in the late 1950's was a visiting scientist a t Yale University Medical School. Between 1961 and 1964 he was professor at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Houston, in Houston, Tex. Since 1964, he has been serving as a consultant to various companies and institutions, with a continuing academic connection as professor of chemistry at the University of Reading. Dr. Lovelock is the author and coauthor of more t h a n 150 scientific papers distributed more or less equally among topics in medicine and biology, gas chromatography and atmospheric science. In 1974 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and, in 1975, he received the M. S. Tswett Chromatography Medal. His cooperation in the space program was honored by NASA with a Certificate of Recognition "for the creative development of a scientific contribution which has been determined to be of signal value in the advancement of the aerospace technology program." Dr. Lovelock's first interest is in the life sciences, originally in medical research, but in recent years he has studied the role of the biosphere in maintaining the surface conditions of the Earth as an optimal habitat for life. His second interest, t h a t of instrument design and development, has often interacted with the first to their mutual benefit. Dr. Lovelock's involvement in gas chromatography dates back to his days at the National Institute for Medical Research where, in 1956, he collaborated with A. T. James on the gas chromatographic analysis of fatty acids found in lipids from lipoproteins and blood cells. In the course of this work, he developed the argon ionization detector which proved to be the first of a family of detectors. T h e most important member of this family was the electron capture detector which revolutionized environmental analysis.
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News ACS Analytical Division Summer Internship Program Seeks Applications T h e ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry will once again operate a program aimed a t introducing talented undergraduates to the modern analytical chemistry area by a program of "Summer Internships." Students chosen to participate in the program will be employed by industrial, governmental, or academic analytical laboratories, where they will carry out various phases of research or applied programs in the analytical area. Laboratories participating agree to hire one or more students during the summer. Applicants are screened and evaluated, and those most qualified have their applications and reference letters sent to several of the participating laboratories. These organizations then select those they deem most suited for their particular needs and, via t h e Professional Status Committee of the Analytical Chemistry Division, make contact with the students. Salary and detail of employment are between t h e organization and the student, t h e Professional Status Committee acting as a broker and soliciting applications from both students and organizations. During the summer of 1979,17 organizations participated in the program, and 20 students were employed. This compares to 11 organizations and 13 students during the summer of 1978. Student qualifications for the program should include completion of a t least the second year of college, preferably including an instrumental analysis course or its equivalent, and interest in analytical chemistry. Ideally, students should be between their junior and senior year a t the start of the summer of 1980. This year, for the first time, we are also seeking applications from students who, by the summer of 1980, will be graduating seniors who have demonstrated their interest in analytical chemistry by application to graduate school with an indication of majoring in t h a t area. Graduate students in analytical chemistry will be also considered for the program, since it can provide a means of broadening their backgrounds. A list of students participating in the program, their undergraduate institutions, and t h e organizations employing them follows:
Arthur D. Little Cambridge, Mass. Steven Jungerwirth Queens College, CUNY
Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, N.Y. Sharon Tomaski Rutgers University, Camden
University of Denver Denver, Colo. Mary DeBello St. Mary College
E. I. du Pont de Nemours Experiment Station Wilmington, Del. Mary E. Jones Winona State University Steven Rich Hofstra University
University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Alice Chen University of California, San Diego
Eastman Kodak Rochester, N.Y. John Stults College of Wooster Energy and Mineral Resources Research Institute Iowa State University, A m e s , Iowa Phillip Kongshaug Mankato State University Exxon Research & Development Laboratories Baton Rouge, La. Michael DeKrey Northwestern College IBM Essex Junction, Vt. James Katancik Washington & Jefferson College Bernadette Curry Fairfield University Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute Albuquerque, N.M. Randi Kubrick Pennsylvania State University Jonathan Lowrey Denison University Monsanto Research Laboratory Dayton, Ohio John McCarthy University of Notre Dame Ohio University Athens, Ohio Christine Conroy Miami University, Ohio Phillips Petroleum Bartlesville, Okla. Mark Listemann Colorado College Purdue University West Lafayette, Ind. Nick J . Reina Wayne State University Rancho Los Amigos Hospital Downey, Calif. Norma McGuire Buena Vista College Stauffer Chemical Company Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Susan Thompson Seton Hall University
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University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wis. Thomas E. Froke South Dakota State University
T h e Division of Analytical Chemistry, via the Professional Status Committee, is seeking applications from interested students and the participation of interested industrial, governmental, and academic laboratories for the 1980 program. Deadline for student applications will be Feb. 15, 1980. Information regarding the program and student application forms may be obtained from Dr. R. A. Osteryoung, Professional Status Committee, Division of Analytical Chemistry, ACS, c/o Department of Chemistry, Acheson Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y. 14214.
Undergraduate Awardees Receive ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY T h e Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society has named the winners of the 1979 Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry. T h e award, consisting of a 15-month subscription to ANALYTICAL C H E M I S T R Y , is given annually to
chemistry students a t U.S. colleges and universities in recognition of outstanding scholastic achievements. This year 447 awardees were chosen by the chemistry departments of their respective institutions. Fifteen-month subscriptions will begin with this issue, except when t h e student is already a subscriber, in which case subscriptions will be extended 15 months. In addition, student awardees will receive the Analytical Division Newsletter throughout the year. These awards, given by the Division in t h e last several years, are designed to encourage the recipients' interest in chemistry in general and analytical chemistry in particular. Géraldine M. Huitink, associate professor of chemistry a t Indiana University a t South Bend, is in charge of this program for the ACS Analytical Division.
News George Russell Harrison, Noted Spectroscopist, Is Dead at 81 George Russell Harrison, 81, Dean of the School of Science at M I T from 1942 to 1964 and a noted experimental physicist who made landmark contributions to the development of optical spectroscopy as a tool for the study of atomic structures, died on Friday,
July 27,1979. M I T President Jerome B. Wiesner, who succeeded Harrison as Dean of the School of Science in 1964, described Harrison as one of the "giants of 20th century spectroscopy." Although he had retired as Dean of the School of Science in 1964, Harrison had continued working in his laboratory at M I T until the mid-1970's, making still further improvements in the machines—called "ruling en-
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gines"—that use diamond styluses to cut exactly parallel and precisely spaced grooves on mirrored glass surfaces and produce the ultra-precise diffraction gratings t h a t separate light emitted by excited atoms into the rainbow-like spectra scientists use in studying and identifying matter. T h e last ruling engine developed by Harrison was sent to Kitt Peak Observatory, Socorro, N.M. in 1974, where astronomers use gratings to record and study the spectra of light coming from the stars. Harrison continued to maintain offices at M I T until 1977. Harrison became famous in the 1930's for his recording and compiling of what are called the MIT Wavelength Tables, published in 1939 by J o h n Wiley and Sons and the M I T Press and still used worldwide as a basic spectrographic reference. T h e atoms of all elements, when excited by a spark, arc, or other electrical discharge, emit light at hundreds of different wavelengths, and the precise wavelengths emitted by any one specific element are always characteristic of t h a t particular element. T h u s , scientists use the spectra of wavelengths to identify unknown materials and to study the electronic properties of the atom itself. In the 1930's Harrison developed a series of automatic computing and recording comparators t h a t made it possible for nontechnical personnel to measure and record the spectral lines associated with each of the elements. Using clerical help provided by the depression era Works Progress Administration, Harrison compiled tables of more than 109 000 wavelengths showing the element with which each is associated. These spectral data were recorded in various forms on what ultimately grew to 500 000 index cards in what was considered a major scientific tour de force of the time. Harrison first turned his attention to ruling engines after World War II, beginning with acquisition from the University of Chicago of an incomplete ruling engine, built by the late Professor A. A. Michelson in the 1920's, which had been planned to employ a Michelson interferometer as a part of its stabilization and control system. Harrison completely rebuilt and modified the Michelson engine through the 1950's, incorporating a mercury arc as a light source for the interferometer and electronic servo controls, the technology for which he obtained from engineering colleagues at M I T . By 1958, he was able to rule the most perfect diffraction gratings made to that time. This " A " engine was followed in the early 1960's by the
News M I T " Β " engine which used light from a helium-neon laser as part of its con trol system and which ultimately was able to rule diffraction gratings 8 X 1 2 inches. He began work on the final " C " machine, also laser-assisted, in 1966, achieving with it gratings u p to 16 X 24 inches. Harrison was the author or coauthor of more than 100 professional papers and was coauthor in 1948 of the text book, "Practical Spectroscopy," with Richard C. Lord. Harrison also wrote several books for laymen t h a t sought to explain changes being brought about in the world by scientific prog ress. These included "Atoms in Ac tion" (1939) and a simplified version of it for children called "How Things Work"; " W h a t Man May B e " (1956); and " T h e Conquest of Energy" (1968).
many awards, including the Fritz Pregl Plaque by the Austrian Micro chemical Society in 1961.
The M. S. Tswett Chromatography Medal 1979 T h e M. S. Tswett Chromatography Medals were awarded to P. Flodin and J. 0 . Porath for their pioneering work in gel permeation chromatography.
T h e presentation was made at the 14th International Symposium on Ad vances in Chromatography held in Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 24-28, 1979. P e r Flodin was born in 1924 in Ljushult, Sweden and studied at the University of Uppsala where he re ceived his P h D . in 1962. Between 1950 and 1953, he worked with Professor Tiselius at the Department of Bio chemistry and obtained a licentiate
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degree in 1953. Between 1954 and 1962, he was a research scientist at the pharmaceutical company Pharmacia AB, in Uppsala. In 1962, he was appointed research director of Perstorp AB, a chemicals and plastics manufacturing company. In 1972, he was appointed docent (associate professor) at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and in 1977, professor of polymer technology at Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg. Flodin is the author and coauthor of a number of scientific publications and patents. In 1962, his book on "Dextran Gels and Their Application to Gel Filtration" was published by Pharmacia. He is vice-president of the Swedish Chemical Society and a committee member of the Swedish Board for Technical Development. He was actively engaged in tbe foundation of the Swedish Plastics and Rubber Institute and is now a member of its Board. He is a recipient of the Arrhenius medal of the Swedish Chemical Society (1963) and of the gold medal of the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (1968). Flodin's major activities in chromatography started in 1956, when he and Professor J. Porath made the fundamental observations leading to the gel filtration method. Flodin developed the Sephadex range of dextran gels, the Sephadex ion exchangers, and various other derivatives of dextran gels. In methodological studies, he developed experimental techniques and gel types for various applications, such as the separation of small molecules from macromolecules, fractionation of water-soluble oligomers and polymers, and preparative separation of proteins. A qualitative theory of gel filtration and the development of a method
for industrial gel filtration are among his achievements. He also has made major contributions to biochemistry and polymer technology. Jerker Olof Porath was born in 1921 in Sala, Sweden. He entered the University of Uppsala in 1942, passed his "filosofie kandidatexamen" (BS) in 1946, and after studies at Stockholm's Hôgskola, the "filosofie magisterexamen" (MS). He obtained the licentiate degree (PhD) at the University of Uppsala in 1950. He also studied at the Institut fur Krebsforschung in Heidelberg (1950), and at the Hormone Research Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley (1951-52). In 1957, he received the Swedish doctor's degree (D.Sc). Porath was appointed assistant professor at Uppsala University in 1957, a research fellow at the Swedish Natural Science Research Council in 1960, and obtained a personal professorship in 1964. He succeeded Arne Tiselius as Jacobsonian Professor in Biochemistry in 1968. Professor Porath is the author of a large number of papers in biochemistry and chromatography. He has been visiting professor at San Francisco Medical School and at the Canadian Medical Research Council in Montreal. He is a member of a number of academies and scientific societies, among them the Royal Swedish Society of Science and the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. Professor Porath was awarded the Sixten Heyman's Prize, the Arrhenius Plaquette (together with P. Flodin), the Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, the Honorary Plaquette of the French Society of Biochemistry, the Bjôrken's Prize and the 1978 Prize Biochemical Analysis of
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1st International Workshop on T r a c e Element Analytical Chemistry in Medicine and Biology Neuherberg, Germany. April 27-29, 1980. T h e general theme of the 1st Workshop is "the essential trace elem e n t s . " T h e Workshop will consist of a series of invited papers on specific problem areas each followed by an extended discussion period in which all participants will be invited to take part. Short contributed papers are also solicited. T h e 1st Workshop will share a joint session on April 29 with the conference on "Biochemische Analytik." Abstracts of papers intended as contributions to the discussions must be submitted in English to the Organizing Committee by Nov. 30. T h e y must not exceed one typed page, double spaced. T h e abstracts will be subjected to refereeing. Full manuscripts of accepted papers must be submitted by March 30, 1980. For more information, contact: Dr. P. Schramel, Gesellschaft fuer Strahlenund Umweltforschung PhysikalischTechnische Abteilung, Ingolstadter Landstrasse 1, D-8042 Neuherberg, F.R. Germany
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