Ferenc Szabadvary Receives 1970 Dexter Award I k . Fereno Ssah.badv&ry, the 1970 Dext,er Award recipient, is presently Professor of Chemistry a t the Technical University of Budapest where he received his degree in chemical engineering in 1046. Born in Kiisseg, Hungary on September 1, 1023, he was assistant to Professor LiLsn16 Erdey. He received his Dr. teehn. degree in 1965 and his 11.S~.degree in 1970. The author of some 9.5 papers (6.5 in the history of chemislry, 30 in analytical chemistry) published in Hmgarian, German, French, English, American (including the J ~ W R N A L OF CIII:MICAL EDuC.%TION), and Spanish periodicals, he is probably best known in this cuunbry for his monumental "History of Analytical Chemistry" (Pergnmon Press, 1966). He has presented more than one hundred lectures in Hungary, Austria, Caechosluvnkia, Poland, Ilomnnia, Switzerland, France, and West and East Germany, among them a series on "Grei~t Moments in the History of Chemistry" on Hungarian radio and television, parts of which have . is ltlvo editor of several international been published in the ACS journal C h m ~ i s l r ? ~IIe journals. The Dexter Awmd, established in 195.5 by the Dexter Chemical Corporation and ndministered by the ACS llivision of History of Chemistry, includes a $1,000 prize and a plaque and in given each year "to recognize outstanding contributions to the history of chemist,ryH and "to generate further interest in historical chemistry." Inasmuch as Professor Sznhadv&ry was un;d,le to xt,tend tho 160th Nabianal Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, Illinois, hi8 awmd address, translated by George B. Kauffman, 1970 Chairman of tho Division of History of Chemistry, and reproduced here, was read by Dr. Kaulfman before the division on September 16, 1970. Professor Aaron J. Ihde, Professor of Chemistry and History of Science nt the Universit,~of Wisconin and 1968 Dexter Award laureate, accepted the award on Dr. Szahadvhy's behalf.
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