Awards
Berlin
Dr. Darrell Berlin, professor of chemis try, Oklahoma State University, Still water, is the 1977 recipient of the Okla homa Chemist Award. This award, given by four ACS sections in Oklahoma, rec ognizes Berlin's work in toxic compounds used in pesticides and his recent discovery of the cyclization of a variety of B-alkenyl-substituted phosphorus com pounds.
Cancer The Outlaw Cell is the theme of the special series starting in the J a n u a r y - F e b r u a r y issue of CHEMISTRY magazine. If you want to read the latest on cancer research, written in terms the non-cancer researcher can understand, you'll want this distinctive issue that carries seven of the cancer series articles. All are written by leading scientists in clear, readable prose and are vividly illus trated. • Cancer — The Outlaw Cell Donald S. Fredrickson • Cancer — An Overview Henry C. Pitot • Tumor Growth and Spread I.J. Fid 1er and M. L. Kripke • Control of Cell Growth in Cancer Arthur Β. Pardee and David S. Schneider • Cancer as a Problem in Development Armin C. Braun • Puzzling Role of Cell Surfaces David I. Meyer and Max M. Burger • Cancer-Causing Chemicals Elizabeth K. Weisburger Fill out the coupon below, mail it back with your $2.00 check and receive this remarkable issue. Add $6.00 to the check and you'll get all TEN issues of this year's CHEMISTRY magazine including all 15 articles in the cancer series. CHEMISTRY American Chemical Society 1155 Sixteenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 January-February issue of CHEMISTRY D $2.00 One Year Subscription (10 issues) starting with the January-February 1977 issue. D $8.00 Name Street Address City State
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Dr. Vladimir Haensel, vice president, science & technology, UOP Inc., Des Plaines, III, was awarded the 1977 Eugene J. Houdry Award in Applied Catalysis for his pioneering work and development of duo-functional catalysts. The $2500 prize is given biennially and is administered by the Catalysis Society of North America. Dr. John D. Hatfield, research chemist at TVA's National Fertilizer Development Center, Muscle Shoals, Ala., has received the 1977 ACS Wilson Dam Section Award. The award recognizes Hatfield for his physicochemical research on new fer tilizers, and development of an under standing of the kinetics and reaction mechanisms of the removal of sulfur dioxide from coal-fired steam-plant flue gases. Dr. William L. M a r s h a l l , research chemist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the 1977 Herty Medal of the ACS Georgia Section. Marshall was awarded the medal for his outstanding research contributions on the properties of aqueous solutions at high temperatures and pressures. His fundamental studies have been applied in nuclear reactor sys tems, water desalination, geothermal systems, and oceanography.
Fulbright-Hays awards in chemistry available About 500 Fulbright-Hays awards will be available in 92 countries for 1978-79; a number have been programed in chem istry. Africa: chemistry; Australia: phys ical chemistry; Cameroon: chemistry (French required); Colombia: any of sev eral specializations (Spanish required); Denmark: biochemistry and nutrition; polymer chemistry and physics; Liberia: chemistry or mathematics; Netherlands:
research in macrocyclic combinations; Portugal: research in organometallic chemistry or thermodynamics; Sudan: biochemical pharmacology, phytochemistry or microbiology; Trinidad-Tobago: soil chemistry; U.S.S.R.: surface chemis try or radiochemistry; Uruguay: theoret ical chemistry; mechanics of reactions (Spanish required); Yugoslavia: fruit and vegetable technology. Those desiring a copy of the 1978-79 announcement of Fulbright-Hays award opportunities for university teaching and advanced research abroad should imme diately send name, address, highest de gree, specialization, and country interest to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 11 Dupont Circle, Washing ton, D.C. 20036. Applications are due for the American Republics, Australia, and New Zealand by June 1 and for Africa, Asia, and Europe by July 1.
Call for nominations The ACS New York Section is seeking nominations for the 1978 William H. Nichols Award. This gold medal award is one of the oldest and most prestigious awards of the society. Nominees for the award shall have published significant and original contributions in chemistry during the five years preceding the pre sentation of the award. Nominations should be submitted by June 1 to: Dr. J. Trygve Jensen, Manhattan College, Riverdale, N.Y. 10471.
People Industry Ethyl Corp., Richmond, Va., has elected four new vice presidents of the com pany—Frank J. McNally, v.p. and trea surer; Roger A. Moser, v.p., industrial chemicals; Stephen B. Rodi, v.p., em ployee relations; Paul E. Weimer, v.p., budget director. Their appointments are effective immediately. FMC Corp. has elected Emiel T. Nielsen Jr., vice chairman, and Raymond C. Tower, president. Both men are directors of the company. They will share respon sibility for company operations and report to Robert H. Malott, chairman and chief executive officer. Norishige Hasegawa, head of Sumitomo Chemical Co. for the past 12 years, has been named chairman; Takeshi Hijikata has been elected company president. Both appointments were effective April 28. William J. Adcock named field sales director for resin products division, Monsanto Co., St. Louis... Carl M. Antrim appointed manager
