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Goodyear medalist Dr. Norman Bekkedahl, deputy chief of the polymers division at Institute for Materials Research, National Bureau of Standards, will receive the 1967 Charles Goodyear Medal. It will be presented in May at the spring meeting of the ACS Division of Rubber Chemistry in Montreal. The award is given (in commemoration of the discoverer of vulcanization) to a person who has made a valuable contribution to the science or technology of rubber. Dr. Bekkedahl initiated work on the application of thermodynamics to the chemistry of rubber more than 30 years ago and also pioneered in the testing and grading of wild and plantation rubber.
EDUCATION Dr. Jack E. Baldwin named assistant professor of chemistry at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Robert M. Bock, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at University of Wisconsin, becomes dean of the graduate school. He succeeds Dr. Robert A. Alberty, who will be come dean of sciences at MIT. Dr. Alan J. Brainard joins faculty of University of Pittsburgh as assistant professor in the chemical and petroleum engineering department.
Edwin C. Jahn named executive dean of State University College of Forestry at Syracuse University. Dr. George Mueller, professor and head of department of geology and geochemistry at University of Concepcion, Chile, joins University of Miami Institute of Molecular Evolution as visiting professor. Sir William Penney will leave next October as chairman of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority to become rector of Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. He has been in nuclear R&D for the past 23 years, including wartime nuclear weapons work in the U.S. He was on the U.S. atomic weapons project at Los Alamos in 1944 and after the war played a major part in developing British fission and fusion weapons. Dr. Isidor I. Rabi of Columbia University elected to the board of directors of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc., Troy, Mich. Dr. Gert |G. Schlessinger joins Newark College of Engineering as assistant professor of chemistry. INDUSTRY Robert A. Carr named chairman and chief executive officer of Dearborn
Dr. George D. Halsey from University of Washington is serving as SeydelWoolley Visiting Professor of Chemistry at Georgia Tech during the) winter quarter. 80 C&EN FEB. 13, 1967
Robert C. Clement named assistant director of Shell Development's patent division, Emeryville, Calif. He succeeds C. J. Ott, retiring. William M. Cooper joins materials science research staff of Celanese Research Co., Summit, N.J. Joseph M. Culotta appointed manager of project engineering sales for Pfaudler Co., Rochester, N.Y. Richard Pike named project manager of chlorine dioxide and polymerization systems. Morris E. Gruver, Jr., named project manager of rendering systems, and Walter F. Swan ton, of waste recovery systems. H. David Cummings named manager of marketing research for Schenectady Chemicals, Inc. Robert E. Davis named assistant manager of New York merchandising office of Du Pont dyes and chemicals. Richard M. Knee named sales supervisor in eastern sales district, Clifton,
N.J. New research associates at Tennessee Eastman, Kingsport, Tenn.: Edward U. Elam, Dr. John G. Fisher, Dr. Russell Gilkey, David G. Hedberg, Jr., Dr. Frederick B. Joyner, James C. Martin, Dr. Louis D. Moore, Jr., Roger Schulken, Jr., and Dr. William H. Seaton. J. Robert Fisher, president of Fisher Chemical, elected a director of Ashland Oil & Refining.
Dr. Jerry W. Ellis joins chemistry staff of Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, 111. Also joining the staff are Dr. Robert W. Jordan and Giles Henderson. Dr. Norman N. Greenwood, head of inorganic chemistry department of the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, will serve as distinguished visiting professor in the department of chemistry at Michigan State University, East Lansing, March 20 to Sept. 20, under a National Science Foundation Senior Foreign Scientist Fellowship.
Chemical. Robert F. Carr elevated to president. William F. Johnson becomes executive v.p. and Donald H. Plumb, v.p.-finance. Mr. Carr will also be president of Dearborn AquaServ, Inc.
Richard H. Gilmore appointed district manager in upper state New York for Barnstead Still & Sterilizer Co., with headquarters in Lima.
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William H. Harrington named manager of international industrial relations for Bristol-Myers, New York City. Newly promoted to research scientists at Goodyear Tire & Rubber: J. Neil Henderson, Carl R. Parks, and Max H. Keck. Stanley Hesse named director of research at Columbia Organic Chemicals Co., Columbia, S.C. Paul G. Horecka named regional manager of chemicals for Union Carbide with headquarters in Chicago. Paul A. Hiznay assumes a similar post in Moorestown, N.J. W. E. Howell named director of programs and contract administration in chemical propulsion division at Hercules, Inc. Dr. N. F. LeBlanc transfers to Wilmington as assistant director of that administration. Terrence M. Hurley named marketing specialist of fibers and fabrics division at Union Carbide Corp. Dr. Byron E. Johnston and Dr. Benjamin Weinstein named senior research chemists in oxidation and catalyst section at Mobil Chemical research labs, Metuchen, N.J. Robert N. Josey joins Valchem, chemical division of United Merchants & Manufacturers, Inc., as technical representative. Louis A. Karman named manager of olefin fibers plant under construction for Hercules at Oxford, Ga. Louis J. Provost named assistant manager of olefin fibers plant at Covington, Va. Lloyd L. Lavely, Jr., named assistant sales manager of Pritchard Products Corp., Kansas City, Mo. Rexford A. Maugans joins Dow Chemical's special assignment program, Midland, Mich. Lewis E. Mitchell, supervisor of toxicology, named supervisor of labels and petitions at Shell Chemicals. John S. Leary, Jr., succeeds him. Howard W. Morgan, executive v.p. for pulp and paper at Weyerhaeuser Co., Tacoma, Wash., retires after 20 years with the company. Edmund J. Piasek promoted to senior project chemist at Whiting, Ind., labs of Amoco Chemical. 82 C&EN FEB. 13, 1967
American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry sponsored by Witco Chemical Company Inc. Foundation
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Dr. Frank R. Mayo, scientific fellow at Stanford Research Institute, will be recipient of the 1967 ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry at the ACS meeting in Miami Beach. The award, sponsored by Witco Chemical Co., Inc., Foundation, consists of $1500 and a certificate. Dr. Mayo attributes his scientific contributions to polymer chemistry as arising largely from being in the right places at the right times. His first success came while he was working toward his Ph.D. under the late Dr. Morris Khar as ch at the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1931. His problem was to resolve discrepancies in previous studies of addition of hydrogen bromide to allyl bromide. In a classical series of experiments, Dr. Mayo traced the abnormal (antiMarkownikov) HBr addition to yield 1,3-dibromopropane to the presence of oxygen or peroxides which are freeradical initiators. When antioxidants or free-radical traps are added to the olefin, the addition follows the conventional Markownikov reaction path to give 1,2-dibromopropane. His was the first definitive proof of the peroxide effect in the addition of unsymmetrical reagents to unsaturated compounds. At U.S. Rubber Co/s general laboratory in Passaic, N.J., in 1942, Dr. Mayo headed a group that carried out several fundamental studies of freeradical polymerizations. Copolymerization work was based initially on an equation developed earlier by Dr. Frederick T. Wall. In essence, the Wall equation states that the relative rates of reaction of two monomers are proportional to their relative concentrations in the feed. Using the styrene-methyl methacrylate system, Dr. Mayo and Dr. Frederick M. Lewis soon discovered that the Wall equation didn't fit their findings. Instead, two proportionality
constants are involved, one for each kind of participating radical. Dr. Mayo developed the well-known copolymerization equation which shows how the relative reactivities of monomers depend on which of the radicals is making the choice in the copolymerization. Next, Dr. Mayo, with the help of Dr. Cheves Walling, Dr. K. W. Doak, and Dr. Lewis, set up a series of copolymerizations from which they compiled relative reactivities of many unsaturated compounds toward a series of free radicals. In collaboration with Dr. Robert A. Gregg, Dr. Mayo also studied the reactivities of solvents in chain transfer. Concentrating mainly on styrene polymerizations, they found that many solvents affect the molecular weight of the polystyrene without affecting the overall polymerization rate. The relations between copolymerizations and chain transfer permit direct comparisons of reactivities of both saturated and unsaturated compounds. These fundamental data on structure and reactivity are an important basis for modern ideas of resonance stabilization, steric hindrance, and polar effects in free-radical processes. At General Electric research laboratory in Schenectady, between 1950 and 1956, Dr. Mayo launched a study of the copolymerization of vinyl monomers with oxygen. Discovery of unexpected effects of oxygen pressure led to a change in objective and eventually to utilization of the principles of chain transfer and copolymerization to advance our knowledge of the oxidation of hydrocarbons. Since moving to SRI in 1956, Dr. Mayo has extended this oxidation work to gas-phase as well as liquid-phase oxidations, to cooxidations, catalysis of oxidation, and, more recently, to oxidations of polymers.
Charles R. Pollack joins Mapico synthetic iron oxides unit of Columbian Carbon as a technical service representative, Trenton, N.J. J. B. Reid, director of olefins R&D at Union Carbide, named market area manager for soap and detergent industries. Dr. S. W. Tinsley, Jr., associate director in chemicals R&D, to be responsible for new chemicals.
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W. T. Rhodes named laboratory manager and F. W. Smith, Jr., and D. A. Torrence, sales managers for the southern district at Ciba Chemical & Dye. Charles Riley named production manager at National Poly chemicals, Inc., Wilmington, Mass. A. Richard Ross appointed director of corporate development at Philadelphia Quartz. Robert C. Schmidt named director of purchasing at Atlas Chemical Industries, Wilmington.
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led to a better understanding of the solid CF^ (polycarbon monofluoride) formed by fluorination of graphite, and of other perfluorocarbons. At present, one of his major projects concerns the chemistry of silicon difluoride. This free radical, with a half-life of about two minutes, has special interest to Dr. Margrave and his coworkers because it is the silicon analog of a carbene, and leads to many new silicon-fluorine compounds (often quite different from those predicted by carbon analogies). While some of his group are moving more deeply into silicon difluoride chemistry, Dr. Margrave and others are continuing to measure and to calculate thermodynamic properties. As a result of his and others' work, the available data on inorganic compounds, as presented in the JANAF table (for which Dr. Margrave has been an adviser since its inception) begin to make extrapolation and interpolation of thermodynamic properties for unstudied compounds fairly reliable. His calorimetric measurements on certain decalin derivatives (with Dr. W. S. Johnson of Stanford University) led to a precise value for the energy difference between the boat and chair forms of cyclohexane; with cubane, his work (with Dr. P. Eaton, University of Chicago) yielded a quantitative value for the strain energy; and work on selected polynuclear hydrocarbons (with Dr. M. Newman, Ohio State University) led to numerical values for methyl-methyl and methyl-hydrogen interaction energies and a quantitative evaluation of the buttressing effect. Much, but not all, of Dr. Margrave's recent work has been conducted in a new high-temperature laboratory which he established when he went to Rice in 1963. The previous decade was spent at Wisconsin. He obtained a Ph.D. (under Dr. P. Wr. Gilles) from University of Kansas in 1948.
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L F. Audrieth Dr. Ludwig F. Audrieth, 66, professor emeritus of inorganic chemistry at University of Illinois, Urbana, died Jan. 28. Dr. Audrieth was born in Vienna, Austria, and became an American citizen in 1912. He was educated at Colgate and Cornell, taking a Ph.D. from the latter in 1926 and remaining there as a fellow for two years. He joined the Illinois faculty in 1928. He was coinventor, with Dr. Michael Sveda, of the artificial nonnutritive sweetener, sodium cyclamate. He was editor of Inorganic Syntheses for many years. Dr. Audrieth went on leave from Illinois in 1959 to serve at the American Embassy in Bonn, Germany, as scientific attache. In 1963 he became a visiting professor of science affairs at the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State in Washington, D.C. He was planning to teach a new course at Illinois this semester on the impact of science and technology on national and international affairs. He was given the Prechtly Medal in Vienna in 1965 for his work in promoting closer relationships between American and Austrian science. He joined ACS in 1924.
Dr. John C. Andrews, 63, consultant, New Plymouth, New Zealand, Oct. 23, 1966. Dr. Edward P. Beachum, senior research engineer, Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, Pa., Nov. 11, 1966. Morris D. Berman, 42, biochemist in market quality research division, USDA, Beltsville, Md., Nov. 28, 1966. Paul H. M. P. Brinton, owner of Madre Del Oro Mine, Green Valley, Ariz., Nov. 16, 1966. Joined ACS in 1909; emeritus member.
Dr. Nathan Weiner, 56, director of research for Endo Laboratories, Garden City, L.I., N.Y., died Dec. 2, 1966. Dr. Weiner studied at Harvard and received a Ph.D. there in 1933. His career began as a research associate in chemistry at Harvard. Later he became a consultant to Polaroid Corp., and contributed to the production of dyes to polarize light for three-dimensional color photography. He joined the staff at Endo in 1940 and directed research on the syntheses of medicinals and pharmaceuticals. His work led to patents and publications in the chemistry of synthetic antimalarials, morphine chemistry, purine derivatives, mercurial diuretics, and synthetic antispasmodics. Dr. Weiner was very active in the ACS, which he joined in 1933. He had been chairman of the New York Section, its Metropolitan Subsection, and its organic group.
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Dr. Walter P. Ericks, v.p.-research, Upson Co. and Upson Chemical Corp., Lockport, N.Y., Dec. 7, 1966. Joined ACS in 1932. Dr. Mario Giordani, 67, professor and chief of Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Rome, Italy, Nov. 16, 1966. George F. Hand, 58, chemist at Montgomery Ward, Chicago, Oct. 20, 1966. Joined ACS in 1931. Leon E. Hunter, 59, assistant supervisor, Socony Mobil Oil, Paulsboro, N.J., Nov. 7, 1966. Joined ACS in 1931. Dr. Loren T. Jones, 61, professor of chemistry at Purdue, Indianapolis Dec. 9, 1966. Joined ACS in 1931. Raymond W. Kent, 85, retired, formerly of Rayon Processing Co., Newton Highlands, Mass., Dec. 29, 1966. Joined ACS in 1905. David W. Kirkpatrick, 49, v.p., Chase Walter Elastomers, Hudson, Me.
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