third A. H. W i n h e i m Memorial Award b y the St. Louis Section of the ACS. T h e award is given annually to an outstanding senior chemical engineer at Washington University.
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NEWS-MAKERS Hildebrand Named 1953 Willard Gibbs Medalist J o e l H. Hildebrand will receive the Willard Gibbs Medal for 1953. T h e award is presented annually by the Chicago Sec tion of the ACS. Dr. Hildebrand will b e honored for his work with intermolecular properties of solvents and for his achieve ments as a teacher and administrator during his 40 years at t h e University of California. He will also b e cited for his outstanding talent for teaching and training chemists and other scientists. The essence of his method is his demand for real solutions to real prob lems, changing with the times, and a chal lenge to the teacher as well as the student. He will present his award address before a special meeting of the Chicago Section next Sept. 25, instead of at the customary time in May. H e leaves for Europe in April,, where he will deliver the Spiers Lecture before t h e Faraday Society and the Romanes Lecture in Edinburgh, as well a s other less formal lectures.
EDUCATION M. J. Blish, supervisor of organic and biochemical research for International Minerals & Chemical Corp., announced as recipient of the outstanding achievement award given b y t h e University of Minne sota. The award is reserved for former students of t h e university w h o have at tained high eminence and distinction. T h e National Vitamin Foundation has awarded grants for research to Bacon F . C h o w , Johns Hopkins U n r ^rsity, for studies in' vitamin Bis; William J. Darby, VandLerbilt University, for folic acid, folinic acid, and vitamin B12 studies; N e v i n S. Scrimshaw, Pan American Sanitary Bu reau and Institute of Nutrition, B12 studies; Richard W . Vilter, University of Cincin nati, Β vitamins; H. D . Wallace, A. M . Pearson, and T . J. Cunha, University of Florida, antibiotics and Β vitamins; A. E . Axelrod, Western Reserve University, vita mins and antibodies; and I. L . Chaikoff, University of California, coenzyme A. Grants also w e n t to t h e following for o t h e r vitamin studies: Herbert M. Evans and Marjorie M . Nelson, University of California; B. Connor Johnson, University of Illinois; Reginald F. Krause, West Vir ginia University; and Roberto Funaro, Nutrition Clinics Fund, Italy. W · F. Fair, Jr., former president of the Society of Rheology and former member
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of the board of governors of the American Institute of Physics, elected to a threeyear term on the board of governors of the National Association of Corrosion En gineers. Marshall Fixman of M I T has been named to receive a Frank B. Jewett post doctoral fellowship for 1953—54. l i e has been conducting research o n theoretical and experimental aspects of the behavior of high polymer molecules in solution. The British Columbia Research Council at the University of British Columbia, Van couver, B. C , announces the following new appointments in the chemistry divi sion: H . Friedeberg from Birmingham University; W . F . Gruber, University of Vienna; H. G. Khorana, Cambridge; J. F. Smith, Imperial College of Science and Technology; and J. D . H. Strickland, for merly with the Ministry of Supply in Great Britain. Addison Gulick, professor of physiologi cal chemistry at University of Missouri and for 2 2 years chairman of the biochem istry department of the medical school, retires after 4 0 years on the faculty. He has the title of emeritus professor of physiological chemistry, and now lives at 3 Concord Ave., Cambridge, Mass. L. H. H a n c e elected executive vice president o f the Institute of Textile Technology, and president-elect. He s u c c e e d s J - L. Vaughan, who has been o n leave o £ ab sence for the past two years from the H. Hance University of Vir ginia and will assume duties there next September.
T h e 1952 Progress Medal of Great Britain's Royal Photographic Society will b e presented to C. E . K. Mees, director ol research at Eastman Kodak Co., at an in ternational conference in London in Sep tember. Dr. Mees received the award in 1913 for research contributions to the advancement of the scientific development of photography. Ralph A. Messing named research as sistant in the department of neurology at the school of medicine, University of Ar kansas, Little Rock. Col. F. C. Mortensen, formerly w i t h the armed forces, now a member of the de partment of chemistry, Pan American Col lege, Edinburg, Tex. Maurice Morton named professor of polymer chemistry at the University of Akron. Has b e e n assistant to the director of rubber research. Herman Pines, associate professor of chemistry and associate director of the Ipatieff High Pressure and Catalytic L a b o ratory, Evanston, 111., named as t h e first Ipatieff Research Professor at Northwest ern. T h e professorship, for research in organic chemistry, was established in December b y Universal Oil Products Co. in honor of the late Vladimir N. Ipatieff.
Groggins Retires,
Begins Two New Careers , Philip H . Groggins has joined the staff of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry as consulting editor. H e will conduct a column called "Observation
R. W . Hooker, vp-saies of Hooker Elec trochemical Co., Niagara Falls, reelected president of the Chlorine Institute, Inc., for the fifth consecutive time. Louis Neuberg, v p of Westvaco, elected vice presi dent of the institute, and Robert T. Bald win elected secretary-treasurer. N. A. Khan from Hormel Institute joins chemistry department of the University of Minnesota as research fellow to study emulsion polymerization. Κ. B. McAlpine of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. and J. A. Neubauer, technical director of Columbia-Southern Chemical Corp., named to membership on the tech nical advisory committee of the Graduate Institute of Silicate Chemistry and Related Sciences at the University of Toledo- Ur ban E . Bowes of the Owens-Illinois Glass Co., elected chairman of the corninittee, replacing the late David H . Goodwillie. D a n L. Mcintosh has b e e n given the
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NEWS-MAKERS recently with National Production Authority. Before his government service he worked for several chemical companies, among them Monsanto and D u Pont. He is best known to the chemical profession for his activities as editor-in-chief of "Unit Processes in Organic Synthesis." James C. Ramsey, Jr., leaves Mallinckrodt Chemical Works to become associate research professor in the department of chemical engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville. George V. Vosseller appointed to the staff of the Institute of Gas Technology as a process development engineer. From Mathieson Chemical Corp. Stephen Wythe of chemistry, University a renewed grant by study orange alkaloid
the department of of Michigan, given Eli Lilly & Co. to alstoniline.
Sol Skolnik, associate director of the U. S. Naval Powder Factory research and development laboratories, Indian Head, Md., appointed director of research and development at the laboratories. He was formerly at the Naval Ordnance Test Station at Inyokern, Calif. Benjamin D . Van Evera, coordinator of scientific activities at George Washington University, Washington, D . C , flies to India on a technical mission sponsored by the Committee on International Technologic Assistance of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. The specific purpose of the trip is to gather information needed in plans for expanding manufacture of fertilizer in India.
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