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Chemistry Undergraduates Receive Awards from Analytical Division The Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society has awarded 15-month suscriptions of A N A L Y T I C A L C H E M I S T R Y to
3rd Annual FACSS Meeting The 3rd Annual Meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies will take place in our bicentennial year, in our bicentennial city: Nov. 15-19, 1976, Philadelphia, Pa. The 1976 meeting will be cosponsored by the XIX Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale and the Sixth International Conference on Atomic Spectroscopy. The scientific program will include award symposia, plenary lectures, and numerous symposia on specific subtopics of analytical chemistry and spectroscopy. Specific symposia under consideration are trends in teaching analytical chemistry, computers in analytical chemistry, pattern recognition, forensic chemistry, food chemistry, air and/ or waste monitoring, process analysis, instrument calibration, and standards (methods and materials). Both invited and submitted papers will be considered for the program. For consideration three copies of a 250-300-word abstract in English should be sent before May 1, 1976, to E. C. Dunlop, Du Pont Experimental Station, Wilmington, Del. 19898, USA. Upon acceptance, a long abstract of 750-1000 words will be required for publication and distribution at the meeting. The Philadelphia site for this meeting is the Civic Center. A program of social, cultural, travel, and tourist arrangements will be scheduled for meeting participants. Further information on this meeting may be obtained from the general chairman, E. G. Brame, Jr., Du Pont Experimental Station, Wilmington, Del. 19898.
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chemistry students at U.S. colleges and universities in honor of the students' outstanding scholastic records. The recipients were named to receive the awards by the chemistry departments at their respective institutions. Fifteen-month subscriptions will begin with this issue, except in cases where the student is already an ANALYTICAL C H E M I S T R Y subscriber. In these cases, subscriptions will be extended 15 months. In addition, student winners will receive the Analytical Division Directory and Newsletters throughout the year. These awards, which have been given by the Division for the past several years, are designed to recognize excellent scholarship and encourage the recipients' interest in chemistry in general and analytical chemistry in particular. Géraldine M. Huitink, associate professor of chemistry at Indiana University at South Bend, was in charge of this project of the Analytical Division this year.
Analytical Chemistry of Pollutants The Sixth Annual Symposium on Recent Advances in the Analytical Chemistry of Pollutants will be held in Vienna, Austria, April 21-23, 1976. Previous symposia have been held in Halifax, Canada; Athens, Ga.; Basle, Switzerland; and, most recently, Jekyll Island, Ga. Scientists from 10 countries have been invited to speak about their work. For the Vienna meeting, three main lectures on the relations between environmental protection and society, industry and the universities, and 25 specialized lectures on fields of inorganic and organic trace analysis are planned. Late afternoons will be devoted to discussions and introductory reports concerning problems in air and water sampling; transport, distribution, and conversion procedures; and data compilation. Chairmen of the meeting are
H. Malissa, Technische Hochschule Wien, Getreidemarkt 9, A-1060 Vienna, Austria; and R. W. Frei, Postfach 182, CH-4013, Basle, Switzerland. Sponsors of this meeting include the Environmental Protection Agency and the American Chemical Society. The host of the 1976 meeting is the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry and Microchemistry.
Spectrophotometry Standardization Needs The Council for Optical Radiation Measurements (CORM) has formed a Spectrophotometry Applications Group with Fred W. Billmeyer, Jr., as chairman to study the standards and standardization needs of users of both analytical (transmission) and color (reflection) spectrophotometry in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared regions and to work with the National Bureau of Standards in meeting these needs. Currently recognized needs include: absolute reflectance standards, reflectance scale standards for various geometries, optical attenuators, transmittance, wavelength, and colorimetric standards and a variety of standards and techniques associated with fluorescence and spectrofluorimetry. CORM, founded in 1972 in response to the inadequacies of existing radiometric and photometric standards and associated measurement techniques, has directed reports to NBS regarding pressing needs. The CORM Applications Group invites interested persons or organizations to join in their efforts. Contact F. W. Billmeyer, Jr., MRC Rm. 217, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. 12181. 518-2706458
Instrument Leasing A new Frost & Sullivan study of the markets for instrumentation equipment leasing places the current market value of instrumentation on lease in 1974 at $160 million and predicts this value will reach $600 million by 1975 and $1 billion by 1984. Although the study predicts, for instance, increases in the value of analytical instruments on lease from $47 million in 1974 to more than $300 million by 1984, the study goes on to point out the pitfalls and suggests consider-
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News and Views ations to take into account to ensure market success. The study breaks down the market according to categories and predicts major increases in the value of pollution monitoring instrumentation which will rise twelvefold to $40 million by 1984 and in instrument data systems which will rise from $32 million in 1974 to $331 million by 1984. Further information on this study is available from Lucy Hendry, Frost & Sullivan, Inc., 106 Fulton St., New York, N.Y. 10038. 212-2331080
Analytical Chemistry in Mining An international symposium under the aegis of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, titled "Analytical Chemistry in the Exploration, Mining, and Processing of Materials," will be held at Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa, Aug. 23-27,1976. The symposium, designed to highlight the role of analytical chemistry in the exploration for raw materials, their beneficiation and refining, and in the production of materials, should attract analytical chemists, physical chemists, metallurgists, chemical and mining engineers, geochemists and geologists, managers, and persons interested in the quality of materials. The scientific program includes 15 plenary lectures from recognized experts from the U.S., Belgium, UK, W. Germany, Canada, and Australia. Lecturers include Velmer Fassel, J. S. Fritz, J. Gijbels, R. Hagstrom, W. Hook, H. Irving, R. Jenkins, G. Rolling, K. Laqua, R. Michaelis, K. Ohis, S. Smallbone, J. C. van Loon, Alan Walsh, and J. Webb. Parallel sessions of research papers will cover prospecting and mining, metals, coal, instrumental analytical techniques, classical and modern chemical techniques, standard reference materials, automation, and computation. The official language of the symposium will be English. The plenary lectures will be published in the IUPAC journal Pure and Applied Chemistry. Papers are invited on relevant topics. A short summary (max. 300 words) should be submitted before the end of October 1975 to the Conference Division, IUPAC Symposium CSIR, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria, 0001, Republic of South Africa. Further information on this symposium is available also by writing to the above address.
William Horwitz Wins AOAC Wiley Award William Horwitz, deputy associate director for science, Bureau of Foods, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D.C., has been named the 1975 recipient of the 18th Harvey W. Wiley Award of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC). The $750 award is given annually to recognize outstanding achievements in the development and study of analytical methodology connected with products of interest to the Food and Drug Administration and related areas. The award is named in honor of Harvey W. Wiley, so-called "father" of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and a founder of AOAC. Dr. Horwitz has spent his entire professional career with FDA with much of his activities in and out of FDA concerned with various phases of analytical methods development, standardization, and publication. The award committee was particularly impressed with his contributions to the analysis of dairy products and other foods and for his pioneering contributions to the use of gas chromatography. He has been editor of five editions of "Official Methods of Analysis" (1955-75) and is editor of the Chemical Abstracts section on foods. The Wiley Award will be presented to Dr. Horwitz by the president of AOAC, I. Hoffman, at a banquet Monday evening, Oct. 13, 1975, during the annual AOAC meeting in Washington.
Research Grants: Technicon Technicon Instruments Corp. of Tarrytown, N.Y., has announced its first three grants for research in biomedical and industrial instrumentation and has opened its second annual competition for grants. The three awards are to the University of Houston, Houston, Tex., with S. N. Deming as researcher; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., under the direction of R. W. Coughlin; and the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, with S. D. Moss as researcher. The purpose of the program is to support significant academic research on novel ideas and technologies relat-
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ed to areas of interest to the company. The company's primary interests are in automated systems for use in clinical, industrial, and research laboratories. Technicon hopes to have an opportunity to apply the research results to the development of new products. Meritorious proposals are now being considered for grants covering direct and indirect costs. The maximum grant is for $100,000 for a one-year period. In most cases, researchers will be eligible for renewal for a second year and perhaps, in some cases, for a third year. Competition is open to faculty members and scientists from colleges, universities, medical centers, and nonprofit research institutes. Both basic and applied research will be considered. Each submission will be judged for scientific merit as well as its potential for practical utilization. Proposals should first be submitted on a "preproposal" short-form application available from the company. Investigators from the U.S. can obtain information and forms from M. H. Shamos, Technicon Instruments Corp., Tarrytown, N.Y. 10591; investigators from Europe should contact H. W. Holy, Technicon International Div., S.A., 12-14 Chemin Rieu, 1208 Geneva, Switzerland.
Meetings • Fall Meeting Electrochemical Society. Oct. 5-10. Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Tex. Contact: Electrochemical Society, 30 E. 42nd St., New York, N.Y. 10017. 212-8674430 • Water Pollution Control Federation Meeting. Oct. 5-10. Miami Beach Convention Hall. Contact: Robert A. Canham, WPCF, 3900 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016 m Annual Meeting of ASTM on Chromatography. Oct. 6-8. Sheraton-Houston, Houston, Tex. Contact: Jack Stamm, Instrument Products Div., Photo Products Dept., Du Pont Co., Wilmington, Del. 19898 • ISA Industry Oriented Conference and Exhibit. Oct. 6-9. Milwaukee, Wis. Contact: Philip N. Meade, ISA Headquarters, 400 Stanwix St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15222 • Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) 2nd Annual Meeting. Oct. 6-10. Indianapolis, Ind. Contact: I. J. Holcomb, Parke Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. Page 456 A, April • 89th Annual Meeting of Association of Official Analytical Chemists. Oct. 13-16. Marriott Hotel,
