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and on your way to receive the 1967 Anselme Payen Award in Chicago. He arrived there via Japan where he was awarded a medal and certificate of merit from the Japanese Technolog ical Society of Starch. The Anselme Payen Award was given at the ACS meeting in Chicago by the Division of Cellulose, Wood, and Fiber Chemistry. Dr. Whistler is professor of bio chemistry at Purdue University and chairman of the Institute for Agricul tural Utilization Research. Besides re ceiving awards, he does research in carbohydrate chemistry, especially on starch and cellulose materials. His most significant work has been the proposal and later proof of the mecha nism by which cellulose and starch are depolymerized. Also, he developed the theory explaining the bleaching ac tion of chlorine on textiles. For his work, Dr. Whistler has re ceived other honors, including the Hudson Award of the ACS Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry for research in carbohydrate chemistry in 1960. In 1953, he won the Sigma Xi Annual Re search Award for the outstanding research professor at Purdue. The Anselme Payen Award, which includes a $1000 honorarium and bronze medal, is given "to honor and encourage outstanding professional contributions to the science and tech nology of cellulose and its allied prod ucts." It was established in 1962 and was named after the 19th century
French chemist who isolated, named, and analyzed cellulose. Dr. Whistler's general efforts have been to develop methods for deter mining the structure of polysaccha rides and in relating structures to phys ical properties. Also, he is well known for work in establishing mechanisms for polysaccharide reactions and in the synthesis and modification of car bohydrate polymers. Much of this effort has been aimed at finding new applications for agricultural products in industry. By using new and improved analyti cal and synthetic techniques, Dr. Whistler has left his mark on the field of carbohydrate research. With Don ald F. Durso, one of his students, he developed a method separating oligo saccharides in carbon columns, which now has worldwide acceptance. This method has the advantage of being effective on large quantities of ma terial with distinct separation of oligosaccharides. Using carbon col umns, he has isolated many new oligosaccharides. Dr. Whistler was one of the first chemists to do hemicellulose research. He has studied the conversion of plant material to holocellulose, extraction of hemicelluloses, separation into A and B fractions, and the purification of components by fractional precipitation. He also pioneered the use of fragmen tation, a method now widely used in finding the structure of polysaccha rides. For annual plants, he has estab lished the structure of numerous hem icelluloses. By use of radioactive car bon, he proved that the hemicelluloses of plants are structural elements and not reserve metabolites, at least un der normal conditions. His work on the alkaline degrada tion of intermediates has led to a more complete explanation of this re action's mechanism. Alkaline degra dation is used to determine polysac charide structures. Dr. Whistler is author or coauthor of more than 200 scientific articles and nine books. However, he finds time to pursue his hobbies of big-game hunting, hiking, and bird watching. He holds a B.S. from Heidelberg Col lege, an M.S. from Ohio State, and a Ph.D. from Iowa State (1938). After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Bureau of Standards, he was group leader at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Peoria, 1940-45. The next year, he joined the Purdue faculty and was named professor in 1950. He holds an honorary doctorate from Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio.
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