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301 scientists honored by admission to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, March 15. Dr. Maass has made many con tributions dealing with scientific prin ciples in the manufacture of paper end pulp.
S· Β. Applebaum, vice president and secre tary of The Permutit Co., New York, N. V., has been elected a director of the company. Mr. Applebaum ha* been with the company more than 25 years, during many of which he wa* technical manager.
Charles E. Mayette has been appointed to the sales engineering staff of the Under ground Steam Construction Co., Boaton, Mass., a subsidiary of £ . B. Badger à Sons Co.
Hugh M. Corrough Products Division of the company, New York, Ν. Υ. H. E. Dralle, since 1930 gearing represen tative in the northwestern and south western districts for Westinghouse's Nut tall Works, has been af pointed manager of the petroleum and chemical section of the Industry Engineering Department, Westinghouse Klectric and Manufacturing Co., Kast Pittsburgh, Penna.
Albert B. Newman, chairman of the Department of Chemical Kngineering, College of the City of New York, has been ap|Mjintcd acting dean of the School of Technology, replacing Dean Frederick Skene, who retired at the end of January.
Claire C. Balke
Claire C. Balke, until recently a member of the scientific staff of Fansteel Metal lurgical Corp., is now assistant professor of powder metallurgy at Stevens In stitute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J. There, in association with Gregory Comstock, associate professor, a new laboratory is being equipped and courses, sponsored by a number of in dustries, are to be given in this newest branch of metallurgy. William J. Boyer has accepted a position as research chemist with the Rustless Iron and Steel Corp., Baltimore, Md., having resigned from his previous posi tion as assistant chief chemist with the Carpenter Steel Co., Reading, Penna. Mr. Boyer had also been acting as in structor in an extension course in ferrous metallurgy for the Pennsylvania State College. Charles I I . Chapman is now representing the Cochrane Corp. on flowmeters in the Cincinnati territory, with offices in the Schmidt Bklg., Cincinnati, Ohio. Hugh M. Co/rough, who has been con nected with the American Locomotive Co. since June, 1036, as chief mechanical engineer, assistant manager of engineer ing, and manager of engineering, has been appointed manager of the Alco
Albert B. Newman
Frank M. Nolan, who had been associated with the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., for more than 10 yeans became patent attorney for Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, lnd., effective January 1, 1940. H. E. Dralle Robert H. Heyer, formerly research metal lurgist with the American Rolling Mill Co. and American Society for Testing Materials Dudley Medalist in 1938, has been appointed to the staff of the Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio. William Krurnbhaar has announced the formation of Krurnbhaar Chemicals, Inc., Jacobus Ave., South Kearny, N. J., to engage in the manufacture of syn thetic resins and oils. William B. Lawaon, formerly of the Harshaw Chemical Co. and the Interna tional Nickel Co., announces the forma tion of W. B. Lawaon, Inc., with offices in the Union Commerce Bldg.. Cleveland, Ohio. The new company will deal in industrial chemicals, oils, and nonferrous metate. Otto Manas, head of McGill University's chemistry department, was one of 20
Ian D. Patterson has been appointed general superintendent of the St. Marys Manufacturing Co., St. Marys, Ohio, manufacturing division of the Goodyear Tire A Rubber Co. The new factory manufactures rubber-molded goods and Pliofilm.
*** Bernard Medal Awarded to Joliot-Curies The Barnard Medal, bestowed every 6 years by Columbia University, has been awarded to Frédéric Joliot and Mme. Irène Joliot-Curie, his wife, for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. The Laniard Medal was established by the will of the late Frederick A. P. Barnard, president of Columbia from 1864 to 1880, and is awarded for discovery in physical or astronomical sciences "or such novel application of science to purposes beneficial to the human race, as in the judgment of the National Academy of Sciences is esteemed most worthy of such honor".
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Swietoslawski to Lecture at University of Pittsburgh WOJCIECH
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arrived from Poland as visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh, gave an introductory public lecture on March 25, which will be followed by seven illustrated talks on ebulliometry on consecutive Mondays beginning April 15. During the university's summer session, Professor Swtrtoslawski will deliver 20 lecture- on "Ebulliometry and Calonmetry" from July 2 to 23. He is chairman of the Committee on Physicochemical Standards of the International Union of Chemistry, and one of its vice presidents, Until the University of Warsaw was closed, Professor Swictoslswhki was profeesor of physical chemistry and director of the Physicochemical Institute. He is the author of more than 350 publications, an authority on ebulliometry, and designer of ingenious apparatus for the study of liquids and solution.
THE Department of Chemistry, Western Reserve University, realizing the need for help and inspiration for the isolated high school teacher of chemistry is offering in the summer session for 1940, beginning June 17, in cooperation with the Division of Chemical Education of
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two special graduate courses, given by Rufus D. Reed of the New Jersey State Teacher's College. The first course, called "Work Shop in Chemistry", attacks the problem of the minimum and optimum essentials in high school chemistry, which the average normal pupil can accomplish. The second course, "Demonstrations and Projects in High School Chemistry", is a seminar course to develop experiments and projects suitable for extra laboratory work for the brighter student and for science programs and assemblies. Teachers will have the opportunity to attend sixteen lectures on "The Major Issues of 1940" in the Summer Institute on Current Affairs. The usual college summer courses are offered. For further information, write the Summer Session, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Du Pont Fellowship Plan A PAMPHLET, "fellowship Plan," describing the purpose and organization of du Pont's award for postgraduate and post· doctorate fellowships in organic chemistry, has been published by the company. The plan was begun in 1918, and since then about $400,000 have been awarded to 450 individual holders. The booklet can be obtained on inquiry to the Personnel Division, E. I. du Pont de Nemours 4 Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del.
qualified to undertake research work. Preference will be given to men who have had one year of graduate work and ex perience in research work. Applications, with a certified copy oi college record, applicant's photograph, statement of technical and ' practical experience (if any), and letters from three persons, covering specifically the appli cant's character, ability, education, and experience, will be received up to June 1, 1940. Applications should be addressed to Fellowship Committee, Technological laboratories, Bureau of Fisheries, Depart ment of the Interior, College Park, Md.
Bureau of Mines Research Fellowships R.
E. GIBSON, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, is the recipient of the Hillebrand Prize Award for 1939, an award given each year by the Washington Section of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY to a member of
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that section for the most outstanding original contribution to the science of chemistry during the three years preceding. The award was made on the basis of his work, "The Behavior of Solutions under High Pressures", most of which was published in the Scientific Monthly [46, 103 ( 1938)). The prize was presented at the annual banquet of the section on March 14, when 119 members and guests celebrated the event. R. M. Hann, president of the Chemical Society of Washington, acted as toastmaster. L. H. Adams discussed "Some Significant Aspects of Research at High Pressures". Following this, F. C. Kracck, president of the section for 1939, introduced the recipient of the award. After the presentation of the certificate by Dr. Hann, Dr. Gibson gave an excellent résumé of his work in the field of the behavior of solutions under high pressures.
Research Fellowships in Fishery Technology TΗΕ University of Maryland, in co operation with the Bureau of Fisheries, offers six fellowships in the field of fishery food research, including the ap plied sciences of chemistry, bacteriology, pharmacology, and engineering. Fellows enter upon their duties on September 15, and receive $540 for the year. Fellows register as students in the graduate school of the University of Maryland, and be come candidates for the degree of doctor of philosophy. The fellowships will be known as Bureau of Fisheries Technological Re search Fellowships. The recipients will undertake the solution of definite prob lems confronting the fishery industries. Fellowships are open to postgraduates of universities and technical colleges who have the proper training in. engineering or applied physical science, and who are
T H E University of Maryland in coopera tion with the Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior, offers three fellowships for research in the field of engineering and applied science. Fellows are appointed for 12 months, beginning July 1, and receive S600 for the year. They will be assigned to research projects in the Metallurgical, Νonmetals, and Coal Divisions of the Bureau of Mines, and may become candidates for the Ph.D. degree. Applications with certified copy of col lege record, photograph, statement of ex perience, and letters from three persons, should be sent prior to May 1, 1940, to Fellowship Committee, Eastern Experi ment Station, Bureau of Mines, Depart ment of the Interior, College Park, Md.
Ethyl Gasoline Decision T H E United States Supreme Court on March 25 handed down a decision in the Ethyl Gasoline Corp, suit finding the corporation guilty of violating the anti trust laws through its system of licensing jobbers under its patents to sell and dis tribute gasoline treated with tetraethyllead. There was no question of price fixing involved, but instead the system of licensing jobbers which has been the cor poration's policy. It has a direct bearing on the further restrictions on private control of protected inventions. In substance, to quote the Wall Street Journal, the high court's de cision held that the "holder of a legal patent monopoly cannot utilize the patent to acquire some other monopoly, not em braced in the patent, either for himself or for another; nor can the holder use his patent to achieve controls over sec ondary distribution markets which, if achieved by other means, would be in violation of the federal antitrust laws." The case was started 3 years ago. While the decision requires the company to abandon its practice of licensing job bers, the right of the corporation to re strict the use of the Ethyl fluid to such refiners as it may choose to license was not impaired. It is said that but one of the 124 leading oil refineries in the coun try is licensed to use tetraethyllead.
