William A. Foster joins Dow Chemical's technical service and development department.
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CCDA President J. G. Affleck, manager of the rubber chemicals department at American Cyanamid, becomes president of Commercial Chemical Development AsAffleck sociation. The new president-elect is Luther R. Moduli, Jr., of B. F. Goodrich Chemical. W. M. Barnes and A. G. Rossow were re-elected executive secretary and treasurer, respectively. Newly elected directors are James E. Sayre of Allied Chemical and J. Kenneth Craver of Monsanto.
INDUSTRY Dr. Lubertus Bakker joins staff of research department at Standard Oil of Ohio, Cleveland. From Maasniel, Holland. E. F. Batutis from M.S.A. Research Corp. is now with missile and space vehicle department of General Electric, Philadelphia. E. Theodore Beck promoted to sales manager for Vota tor continuous processing equipment at Girdler, Louisville.
C. Bruce Brown and Dr. Ralph Fredrickson named to special projects group at Stepan Chemical, Northfield, 111. Dr. David B. Hatcher, executive v.p., resigns.
Dr. Robin P. Gardner joins Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies as scientist in the special training division. He will teach industrial applications of radioisotopes.
Larrie S. Calvert assigned to cover chemical sales territory in St. Louis and Kansas City for Antara Chemicals Division of GAF. Succeeds J. A. Czerwinski, assigned to West Coast territory.
Dr. Roy N. Giles succeeds Thomas E. Steckdale, retired after more than 38 years of service, as manager of the M an dan, N.D., refinery of American Oil.
Dr. Albert G. Chenicek elected president of Unifilm Corp., Somerville, N.J. From Stoner-Mudge Co. Julian Claitman promoted to Atlantic regional manager for Pfizer Laboratories, Clifton, N.J. Dr. Leland G. Cole named v.p.-research at Beckman Instruments, Inc., Fullerton, Calif. Edward P. Collins, Jr., from American Hard Rubber is now chemist in process development at Arnold, Hoffman & Co., Providence, R.I. Dr. Robert T. Conner has been named director of pharmaceutical research for Wallace & Tiernan, Inc., Belleville, N.J. From Smith Kline & French Laboratories, where he was director of research and development.
Herbert D. Berger named manager of sales services at Maumee Chemical. Bernard R. Meltsner joins as research chemist. Both are at Toledo.
Robert S. Cooper named supervisor of applications research at Victor Chemical Works.
C. J. Bown becomes general manager of industrial chemical sales at Collier Carbon & Chemical, Los Angeles.
A. Blake Cornthwaite named managing engineer for Atlantic-Gulf division of the Asphalt Institute, Washington, D.C. From Virginia Department of Highways.
James R. Brathovde leaves Whitworth College, where he was chemistry department chairman, to become a staff member at Sandia Corp., Albuquerque, N.M. Arthur F. Brown, member of the board at Hercules Powder and general manager of the company's Imperial Color Chemical & Paper Department, retires after 30 years with the company and almost 50 with the industry. 102
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Dr. Philip H. Cray ton and Bruno R. Miccioli from Union Carbide Metals, and Dr. Vlado I. Matkovich from Allis Chalmers Mfg., join research and development division of the Carborundum Co., Niagara Falls, N.Y., as senior chemists. Dr. M. T. I. Cronin joins Woodard Research Corp., Herndon, Va., as pathologist. Dr. Julian DonosoTorres joins as head of agricultural services laboratories for the company.
Mario Gimenez-Huguet, Dr. Manuel Slovinsky, and Dr. Robert W. Stackman join staff of research labs of Celanese Corp. of America, Summit,
N.J. John I. Gmitro joins staff of Shell Development's Emeryville research center as engineer in oil process engineering. William G. Hatton appointed manufacturing superintendent of chemicals production at Monsanto Canada, Ltd. Dr. Otto L. Hoffman named research scientist at Spencer Chemicars research center, Kansas City, Mo. Edmund Horner named research chemist by MacDermid, Inc., Waterbury, Conn. From Oakite Co. Dr. Robert W. Houston appointed laboratory director of the Industrial Reactor Laboratories, Plainsboro, N.J. Kenneth D. Jacob, specialist in fertilizer technology, joins Southwest Potash Corp. as a consultant, New York. Bartlett Johnston promoted to staff engineer in technical division at Humble Oil & Refining, Baytown, Tex. G. R. L. Shepherd named assistant division head in manufacturing research and development. Dr. Robert E. Jones joins Ott Chemical Co., Muskegon, Mich., as vice president and technical director. He was formerly head of the industrial organ ics section, process research department, at Merck Sharp & Dohme research laboratories in Rahway, N.J.
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SARAH RATNER Sixteen men and one woman have been selected to receive ACS awards in 1961. The one woman is Dr. Sarah Ratner of the division of nutrition and physiology at the Public Health Research Institute, New York City. The award is the Garvan Medal, established in 1936 to recognize distinguished service to chemistry by women chemists who are U.S. citizens. Dr. Ratner received the gold medal which honored her classic research on the enzymes that control the body's production of protein, at the ACS meeting last week in St. Louis. She will give the Garvan Award address in September before the Division of Biological Chemistry at the ACS fall meeting in Chicago. It is in the field of amino acids that Dr. Ratner has been most interested and active throughout her career. Her early work was a study of the condensation between cysteine and formaldehyde. This work served as an important model system in helping others determine the structure of penicillin. Her later work, in collaboration with Dr. R. Schoenheimer and Dr. D. Rittenberg on the application of isotopes to the study of amino acid metabolism, has had a profound influence on biological thought. About 1945, Dr. Ratner began studies on the role of enzymes in amino acid metabolism. Her work represents one of the earliest successful attempts to approach amino acid metabolism in cell-free systems. It is these efforts which eventually led to a description of the pathway of urea synthesis on an enzymatic level. She discovered and described the function of several new enzymes which participate in the urea cycle, and isolated
World Famous Quality, Design and Dependability and identified argininosuccinic acid as J a key intermediate in the cycle. I Dr. Ratner developed a very sensi- I tive colorimetric test which enabled I her to study the formation of arginino- I succinate in brain tissue. This proc- I ess is of considerable interest in connection with a mental deficiency found in some children and associated with the presence of large amounts of argininosuccinate in their urine and cere- I brospinal fluid. Dr. Ratner is a member of many scientific societies, is a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, and I serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. In 1959 she received the Carl Neuberg Medal of the Society of European Chemists. A native of New York City, Dr. Ratner studied at Cornell (B.A. '24, M.A. '27) and Columbia (Ph.D. '37). She was an assistant in pediatrics at the Long Island College of Medicine 1926-30. At Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she joined the biochemistry department in 1930, she held various positions and became assistant professor in 1946. That year she went to NYU college of medicine and became adjunct assov^ ate professor of biochemistry in 1954, a position she still holds. In 1954 she joined the Public Health Research Institute staff as an associate member, becoming a full member in 1957. Friends and scientific contemporaries say of Dr. Ratner: "One of her most admirable and endearing qualities is her sympathetic and conscientious devotion to the scientific and personal problems of all her colleagues. She is outstanding for both her human and her scientific qualities." I
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James T. Grady Award DAVID DIETZ This year's winner of the James T. Grady Award has a string of ''firsts" to his credit. He was the first science editor of an American newspaper, a founder and first president of the National Association of Science Writers, and was probably the first American newspaperman to be sent abroad exclusively to cover science. Dr. David Dietz, science editor of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, participated in what he considers the start of professional science writing in America. Working for the Cleveland Press, he, along with Alva Johnston of the New York Times, and Edwin Slosson and Watson Davis of Science Service, covered the 1922 Boston meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Twelve years later, at the American Philosophical Society meeting in Philadelphia, Dr. Dietz, William Laurence of the New York Times, and Robert D. Potter, then of the New York Herald Tribune, "founded" NASW. This informal meeting led to its formal organization in September 1934 at the Cleveland ACS meeting. Dr. Dietz was elected its first president and was re-elected the following year. As science writer and editor for the Scripps-Howard chain, Dr. Dietz has prepared a daily column on science and medicine for the organization's 19 newspapers since 1923. A native of Cleveland, he began writing for the Cleveland papers when he was still in high school and has been on the editorial staff of"'the Cleveland Press continuously for 46 years. In 1937, Dr. Dietz received the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. He has a stable of other honors, including the Albert Lasker Medical Journalism
Award, Westinghouse Distinguished Science Writers Award, B. F. Goodrich Award for Distinguished Public Service, and the Ohioana Career Medal. Apart from his daily column, Dr. Dietz is a distinguished lecturer and has written six popular books on science that have been translated into 16 different languages. One of his latest books, written primarily for young people, "All About Satellites and Space Ships," has already sold more than 250,000 copies. The U.S. Information Agency has arranged to translate it into Chinese and to publish it in Hong Kong. Another, "All About Great Medical Discoveries," came out last October and he is preparing another volume on astronomy. Dr. Dietz, who holds an honorary doctor of letters from his alma mater, Western Reserve University, and an honorary LL.D. from Bowling Green, served as a consultant to the Surgeon General of the Army during World War II and subsequently received the War Department Certificate of Appreciation. After the war, he reported on the atom bomb tests from Bikini atoll through the newspapers and over the NBC network. He also wrote an article on the atom bomb for the Encyclopedia Britannica and a section on atomic energy for the Britannica Book of the Year. An old pro at the business of science writing, Dr. Dietz is now encountering a new generation of scientists. Among them are many who admit to him that his column encouraged them to take up science as a career. In this, Dr. Dietz takes an understandable pride.
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The Kendall Company Award in Colloid Chemistry STEPHEN BRUNAUER Honoring the "B" in the B.E.T. Theory, the Kendall Company Award in Colloid Chemistry goes to Dr. Stephen Brunauer of the Portland Ce ment Association. Dr. Brunauer, with Dr. Paul H. Emmett of Johns Hopkins University and Dr. Edward Teller of the University of California, published the classical paper in 1938 presenting a theory of adsorption and a method for determining the surface areas of finely divided solids, known through out the world as the B.E.T. Method. But the B.E.T. Method has been almost overshadowed by Dr. Brun auer 's book, "The Adsorption of Gases and Vapors," Volume I, "Physical Ad sorption," published in 1943 by the Princeton University Press. At the height of World War II, the book was considered so important that the Ox ford University Press published it in 1944 with the title "Physical Adsorp tion of Gases and Vapors." Dr. Brunauer began his scientific career at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1928. There, among other things, he studied iron catalysts used in ammonia manufacture. Next came work using low tempera ture van der Waals adsorption iso therms to determine surface areas of iron catalysts and other materials. From this research the well known "Point Β Method" of measuring the surface of solids resulted. Attempts at improving the method produced the B.E.T. Theory. At the same time, Dr. Brunauer con tinued his academic work. When he joined the FNRL, he had almost com pleted his work for a Ch.E. degree at
City College of New York after getting his Α.Β. from Columbia. He received his M.S. in 1929 from George Wash ington University and a Ph.D. in 1933 from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Brunauer in 1942 was com missioned a lieutenant in the Navy. His assignment was in administration of research and development on ex plosives. He continued this work after the war as a civilian until 1951. His explosives work was classified so he did not publish on it. However, the work did cause him to be made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.), as well as bringing him the Commendation and Ribbon Bar of the Navy. In 1945, Dr. Brunauer was awarded the Hillebrand Prize of the Chemical Society of Washington. At the Research and Development Laboratories of the Portland Cement Association, Dr. Brunauer has pur sued the complex colloid chemistry of hydration of portland cement. From this work have also come especially important papers on surface energies of substances. Dr. Brunauer was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1903 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1921. Six days after arrival he was employed in a factory and en rolled in a night school for immigrants to learn English. By the following summer, he had enough English to begin night school at CCNY. He earned his A.B. at Columbia ('25). In 1931 Dr. Brunauer married Esther Caukin who died in 1959. They had two daughters. In January of this year, he married Dalma Hunyadi.
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DEATHS Harry L Fisher Dr. Harry L. Fisher, 76, Past President of the ACS (1954) and a member of the Society since 1910, died March 19 at his home in Claremont, Calif. Dr.
Division (1949), and the Chandler Medal (1954). He was also Edgar Marburg Lecturer of the American Society for Testing Materials ( 1941). Dr. Fisher served the ACS as chairman of the Akron and Western Connecticut Sections and of the Division of Rubber Chemistry, Councilor-atLarge of the Society, and secretary of the Division of Organic Chemistry. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Alpha Chi Sigma, AAAS, a past president of the American Institute of Chemists, and also a fellow of the Institute of the Rubber Industry (Great Britain). Dr. Fisher is survived by his wife; his daughers, Helen and Mrs. Francis B. Rosevear; and his son, Robert.
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Fisher was a nationally known authority on the chemistry of vulcanization and the author of about 50 patents in organic chemistry—chiefly rubber technology. Born in Kingston, N.Y., he was educated at Williams College and Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1912. From 1912 to 1919 he was a research chemist at B. F. Goodrich Co. and for the next 10 years was a research chemist at U.S. Rubber Co. From 1936 to 1945 he directed the organic research laboratories of Air Reduction Co. and U.S. Industrial Chemicals. The next five years he directed only USI's laboratory, retiring from this position in January 1950. The next month he came out of retirement to become organizing secretary of the XIIth International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry. From 1953 to 1957 he was professor of rubber technology at the University of Southern California and the first director of the TLARGI Rubber Technology Foundation at USC. Since his retirement from USC he had been vice president of Ocean Minerals, Inc. Dr. Fisher received the Modern Pioneer Award (1940), the Charles Goodyear Medal of the ACS Rubber 106
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Dr. Floyd E. Bartell, 77, professor emeritus at University of Michigan, known for his work in colloid chemistry, died March 5. He had served 43 years on the Michigan faculty before his retirement in 1953. In 1913, Dr. Bartell taught one of the first colloid chemistry courses in the U.S. He was largely responsible for the first national colloid symposium, held at the University of Wisconsin in 1923 and continued annually by the ACS. He published more than 120 scientific papers and was author of the "Laboratory Manual of Colloid and Surface Chemistry." In 1959 he received the Kendall Co. Award in Colloid Chemistry sponsored by the ACS for his studies of particles, fibers, and film of minute dimension. He joined the ACS in 1909. He was chairman of the Division of Paint and Varnish Chemistry, 1932-33. Kenneth W. Brown. Brown & Caldwell, San Francisco, Jan. 2. Joined ACS in 1926. Donald G. Gardner, manager of materials department, U.S. Testing Co., Hoboken, N.J., January. Samuel H. Penny, Jr.. research and development engineer at National Potash Co., Carlsbad, N.M., Feb. 14.
James B. Prendergast appointed to newly created position of executive v.p. of Allied Chemicars Barrett Division. Gerald H. Reifenberg joins General Chemical Division of Allied Chemical & Dye in Morristown, N.J., as a research chemist. Dr. Martin M. Rieger, director of cosmetic development at WarnerLambert Pharmaceutical Co., receives the CIBS Award of Cosmetic Industry Buyers' and Suppliers' Association, jointly with Dr. Stanley Brechner, senior chemist at Warner-Lambert. The award was given for the most meritorious paper delivered at the scientific section of the Toilet Goods Association during 1960. It was entitled Studies on the Adsorption of a Simple Dyestuff by Hair. The award will be presented May 11. G. W. Robinson promoted to engineering associate in the technical division at Humble Oil & Refining's Baytown, Tex., refinery. Ralph C. Schaeffer appointed district sales manager in Salt Lake City for Pennsalt Chemicals industrial chemicals division. Robert F. Shreve from General Mills joins Spencer Products Co., Inc., Ridgewood, N.J., as head of R&D. Edward E. Slowter, v.p. of Battelle Memorial Institute, named Technical Man of the Year by the Columbus Technical Council. The award is given to one man each year chosen from the more than 20 technical societies in the central Ohio area, and is based on outstanding technical, professional, and community service. Michael N. Soltys joins analytical laboratories of Dow Chemical, Midland. E r n e s t-John Solvay of Belgium will receive the first International Palladium Medal of the American Section of Société de Chimie Industrie 11 e. Presentation will be made April 20 in New York City. He will be cited for "untiring efforts to promote freer exchange of both technical information and products of chemistry." Continued on page 117
