Hec«4-'7?ùi6e>ui Chemists Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Eric G. Ball
J. R. Johnson
Gerty Cart
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Karl Folkers
II. / . Sclilesinger
E. R. Gilliland
G. T. Seaborg
Gerty T . Cori is the fourth woman to be elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. The Henry Draper Medal for 1947 was conferred by the academy on Hans Albrecht Bethe, professor of physics at Cornell University in recognition of his contributions to astronomical physics, more especially his researches on the générât ion of energy in the sun and stars. J. B. Stimner
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The National Academy of Sciences at its annual meeting held in Washington April 26 to 28, elected 30 new members and two foreign associates. Members of the chemical profession added to the academy were: Eric G . Ball, professor of biological chemistry, Harvard Medical School; Gerty T . Cori, fellow and research associate in pharmacology and biochemistry, Washington University School of Medicine; Karl Folkers, assistant director of research, Merck and Co.; Edwin R. Gilliland, professor of chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John R . Johnson, professor of chemistry, Cornell University; Cyril Ν . Η - Long, chairman of the department of physiological chemistry, Vale University School of Medicine. Hermann I. Schlesinger, professor of chemistry, University of Chicago; Glenn T . Seaborg, professor of chemistry, University of California; James B . S u m ner, professor of biochemistry, Cornell Uni versity; and Charles A . Thomas, execu tive vice president, Monsanto Chemical Co.,
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Christian H . Aall has been promoted to the newly created position offieldresearch technologist for Monsanto Chemical Co/s plant at Monsanto, Tenn. J. Robert Bonnar has been appointed representative for the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists to attend a meeting of the Committee on Textiles of the International Organization for Standardization June 7 to 12 at Buxton, England. H . A . Bonyun, Jr., has been appointed general sales manager of Publicker Industries, Inc. H e succeeds the late John H . Griffin, and was formerly assistant sales manager. Curt Burns has been appointed manager of the human biological department at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif. H e has been supervisor in the biological control division. J. T . Chesnutt, Jr., from the spectrographic laboratory of the J. T . Baker Chemical Co., has been employed by the research division of the Lion Oil Co., El Dorado, Ark., to take charge of the analytical section of the laboratory.
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George Oliver Curme, Jr., has been elected vice president in charge of chemical research at Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., N e w York. H e has been for many years a vice president and director of Bakélite Corp. and of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. Charles W . Deane has been appointed chief engineer of E . R . Squibb & Sons, NTew York. He was formerly head of the chemical engineering department and principal process engineer with Colgate-Pal mol ive-Peet C o . In his new position he will head all Squibb engineering activities, domestic and foreign, with responsibility for engineering, maintenance, construction, and engineering aspects in the development of new processes and products. Richard W . Eddy, who recently received a master's degree in organic chemistry from M I T , has joined the fine chemical sales group of Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corp., N e w York. Isidor Fankuchen has been appointed professor of applied physics as the first incumbent of the new chair, at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, lie was previously associate professor of crystal chemistry and is an outstanding authority on x-ray diffraction. Collins F. Fuller has joined the staff of the Quartermaster Food and Container Institute for the Armed Forces, Chicago. He will be chief of the container analysis division, Container Laboratories. lie comes from Fuller Box C o . Albert E . Goldstein, associate professor of chemistry at Washington University, St. Louis, M o . , has been appointed assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Lawrence T . Haugen has been appointed construction superintendent of Stanolind Oil and Gas C o / s manufacturing department, Tulsa, Okla. Edward P . Killackey has been named an assistant treasurer of Celanese Corp. of America. H e has been recently transferred to the N e w York office after serving since 1941 at the Cumberland, M d . , plant. Russell E . jCoons, who comes from Copolymer Corp., has accepted a position in the research division of Lion Oil Co., El Dorado, Ark.
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Ni E W S - M Λ Κ Ε R S George Marks, for the past nine years N e w England sales manager for the insec ticide division of Innis, Speiden & Co., in N e w York, has been transferred to San Francisco to be West Coast manager of insecticide sales. Paul C . Miller has left Stein Hall & Co., Inc., and is n o w with the Herbert Chemi cal Co., Cincinnati, as vice president. Harold R . Murdock, forest economist and head of the Pulp and Paper Branch, Forestry Division, Natural Resources Section, General MacArthur's Head quarters, has been honored by the Japa nese for his work in reorganizing their pulp and paper industry. A n award was established in August 1947 and named Murdock Medal of Award, to be presented on occasions for outstanding services to the Japanese pulp and paper industry. It was presented to M r . Murdock in Tokyo on March 17, and among his accomplish ments cited was the establishment of the Japanese T A P P I . M r . Murdock was formerly a contributing editor of I&EC. K . K . S . Nair, chemist with the Travancore government in India, has joined the staff of the Northern Regional R e search Laboratory, Peoria, 111., to spend nine months working in the agricultural residues division on analytical methods
used for plant materials and on the produc tion of synthetic fuels from agricultural sources. Basil O'Connor, national chairman of the American R e d Cross, has been re elected president of the National Vitamin Foundation, N e w York. R a y m o n d E . Horn, Abbott Laboratories, has been named vice president. Steve L . Pappas, from the Continental Gin Co., has joined the engineering divi sion of Southern Research Institute, Bir mingham, Ala. Melvin G . Payne, has left the Solvay Process Co. research laboratory to become chief chemist at Carolina Giant C e m e n t Co., St. George, S. C . This company has purchased and is converting to Portland cement manufacture the W a r Assets A d ministration clay-alumina plant which w a s operated by the Ancor Corp. during the war. T . Robert Sandberg, superintendent of penicillin production at Cutter Labora tories, Berkeley, Calif., has been promoted to works manager of the organization. John D . Schofield, III, has joined the Mathieson Chemical Corp. as heavy chemical sales representative, to cover central N e w Jersey, southern N e w York,
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