April if). 1924
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A m o n g Chemists L. K. Biach is now employed in the capacity of consulting chemist with the Greenville Finishing Co., Inc., a t Green ville, R. I. For t h e past three years he has been acting in a similar capacity for the Southbridge Printing Co., Southbridge, Mass. M a r s t o n T . Bogert, professor of organic chemistry a t Columbia University, has been elected chairman of the National Research Council committee on chemical research on medicinal substances. D . B. B r a d n e r has resigned as director of research of the Chemical Warfare Service a t Kdgewood Arsenal. E m m e t Carver, formerly on t h e faculty of t h e d e p a r t m e n t of physical chemistry, University of Illinois, h a s joined t h e re search staff of the E a s t m a n Kodak Com pany, Rochester, Ν . Υ. Milo R . D a u g h t e r s , research chemist for t h e Polk Company a t Haines City, Fla., gave an address on " C i t r u s P r o d u c t s " a t t h e monthly meeting of t h e Florida Section of the American Chemical Society held in Lakeland, Fla., March 16. R . W . Flory, formerly connected with t h e American T r o n a Corporation, Trona, Calif., is now teaching mathematics and physics a t t h e H u n t c r t o w n High School, H u n t e r t o w n , Ind. H a r r y N . H o l m e s , professor of chem istry at Oberlin College, gave a lecture on " T h e Formation and Precipitation of Gels" a t t h e Harrison Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania under t h e auspices of the Priestley Club o n t h e afternoon of Tuesday, March 18, 1924. Prof. Holmes' lecture was illustrated by m a n y highly interesting and successful experiments. John Johnston, Sterling Professor of Chemistry, Yale University, lectured be fore the Franklin I n s t i t u t e at Philadelphia o n the evening of M a r c h 27, 1924. His subject w a s : "Solubility Relations of Organic C o m p o u n d s . " Paul E . Klopsteg, director in charge of manufacturing and development of t h e Central Scientific Company, addressed t h e members οι the Society of Chemical I n d u s t r y a t Toronto, Canada, o n t h e subject of " M e a s u r e m e n t of Hydrogen Ion C o n c e n t r a t i o n s " on April 4th.
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M . F. Le D u c , who recently graduated Co., located a t Amcelle, near Cumberland from t h e University of Nevada, is now Md. engaged in work toward the master's Ronald Reamer has taken a position degree in chemical engineering a t the as oil research chemist with t h e De Ι/*val Massachusetts I n s t i t u t e of Technology. Separator Co. at Poughkeepsie, N. *'., Victor Lenher, professor of chemistry in its experimental d e p a r t m e n t . in t h e University of Wisconsin, addressed L. V. R e d m a n of the Redmanol Com five mid-west sections, March 17 t o 21 pany, Chicago, has moved to Caldwell, inclusive, on t h e chemistry of selenium New Jersey. His time will he largely oxychloride. His itinerary included visits spent a t the main laboratories of t h e on successive evenings, t o t h e Cincin Bakélite Division a t Bloomficld, N. J., nati, Lexington, Nashville, St. Louis and and also at the New York office of t h e Chicago Sections. company. Gilbert N. Lewis, professor of physical H e r b e r t W. Rice, of Providence, R. I. chemistry in t h e University of California, is the donor of a scholarship t o Brown has been elected b y the j u r y of awards University which will yield annually $700 to receive the Willard Gibbs medal, the for graduate work in chemistry. presentation of which and address by Dr. F r a n k E . Rupert has become associated Lewis will t a k e place a t t h e April meeting with t h e Fisk R u b b e r Co., Chicopee Falls, of t h e Chicago Section of the American Mass., as research chemist. He was Chemical Society. previously connected with the physical J o s h u a S. Logan, formerly plant chem chemistry department of t h e Chemical ist for t h e National L u m b e r a n d CreosotWarfare Service a t Kdgewood Arsenal, ing Co. a t H o u s t o n , has been transferred Md. to t h e K a n s a s City office of t h a t firm William S e a m a n h a s been transferred where he is assistant t o the manager. to the New York Station of the Bureau Ο . Ε. Lowman, formerly an instructor of Chemistry where he will b e engaged in in the d e p a r t m e n t of chemistry and food analysis. H e w a s formerly in the physics at Upper Iowa University, is carbohydrate laboratory of the bureau, now engaged in g r a d u a t e work at Iowa at Washington, D . C. S t a t e College. Maximilian Toch h a s sailed for China, Arno B . L u c k h a r d l , professor of phys where he will give a series of lectures on iology in the University of Chicago, has the chemistry a n d technology of China been granted leave of absence t o enable wood and other n a t u r a l oils used in t h e him to accept the invitation of t h e General paint and vaniish industry. He goes by Education Board t o go abroad for a year invitation of the Chinese Government of travel and research. and will give the principal course of lecJ . E . Lyles h a s recently accepted a tures in the Pekin Technical College, which position as chemist and bacteriologist for is a government institution. t h e Birmingham W a t e r Works Co. L. M . Tolman is now vice-president D o n a l d W . MacCorquodale received the of the Central Chemical Company, manubachelor's degree in chemistry from the facturers of sulfuric, hydrochloric and University of Illinois last J a n u a r y and is nitric acids. now an instructor in chemistry a t the C. H . Turner h a s resigned as president University of Tennessee. of the Newport Chemical W o r k s , Inc., to Van H . M a n n i n g has become associated assume the position of sales director of with t h e Pan-American Petroleum and the National Enameling and Stamping Co. Transport C o m p a n y , having resigned as Frederick W . Willard h a s been elected director of t h e American Petroleum In president of the Chemists' Club of Chistitute. He was formerly director of cago, succeeding A. V . H. M o r y , who ret h e U. S. Bureau of Mines. signed because he is n o longer located in E . L. Orndorff h a s been appointed chief Chicago. chemist of Wilson and Company, Chi^ cago. W . Courtney W i l s o n , formerly research chemist for the C u t l e r - H a m m e r Co. of Richard Penfield, formerly with the Milwaukee, Wis., has joined the research research and development department of staff of the Miner Laboratories, where t h e Grasselii Chemical Co., Cleveland, he will be engaged in the development of is now chemical engineer with t h e Ameri derivatives of furfural. c a n Cellulose & Chemical Manufacturing
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