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PRESENTATION. Dr. Earl A. Gulbransen (left), Westinghouse research laboratories, receives the 1961 Pittsburgh Award of the ACS Pittsburgh Section from Dr. George W. Gerhart, research director for Stoner-Mudge
Pittsburgh Award Goes to Gulbransen Dr. Earl A. Gulbransen, winner of the 1961 Pittsburgh Award of the ACS Pittsburgh Section, was born in Seattle, Wash., but he's been active in Pittsburgh chemical circles for the past 20 years. As an advisory chemist at the Westinghouse research labs in Pittsburgh, he currently serves as consult-
ant on topics such as stress corrosion cracking, thermodynamics of high temperature metals and metallic compounds, solid phase reactions in metaloxygen and metal-carbon systems, reactions of metals with gases, surface reactions and films, and structural materials for nuclear applications.
The Pittsburgh Section makes its award each year for outstanding contributions to the advancement of chemistry in its area. Dr. Gulbransen has been chairman of the Pittsburgh Section's physical-inorganic group and president of the Pittsburgh Chemists Club. In 1959-60 he took on the big job of chairman of the Pittsburgh Section, which, with some 2200 members, is the 10th largest local section of the ACS. The Pittsburgh Section last year won the Society's local section member relations award for its accomplishments during Dr. Gulbransen's term of office. Dr. Gulbransen started his association with Pittsburgh in 1931, arriving that year at the University of Pittsburgh to become a graduate assistant. He took his Ph.D. at Pittsburgh (his B.S. is from the State College of Washington), but left in 1934 to do postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, on a National Research Council fellowship. Then he joined the faculty at Tufts College in Boston as chemistry and chemical engineering instructor. Returning to Pittsburgh in 1940 as a research chemist for Westinghouse, Dr. Gulbransen was assigned to a research program on the reactions of metals, alloys, and other materials with reducing and oxidizing atmospheres, especially at high temperatures. Until that time, Dr. Gulbransen's research interest had been in the thermodynamic properties of solutions, and, while at Tufts, he had been working on geochemical and geophysical processes occurring in nature as in-
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terpreted through the abundance ratios of isotopes in carbon and carbon compounds. To accomplish his assignment at Westinghouse, Dr. Gulbransen found it necessary to devise some unusual pieces of apparatus. One is the Gulbransen microbalance for studying reactions at high temperatures. It is so sensitive that it can detect a single layer of atoms on a surface no larger than a postage stamp. Another is a special electron diffraction camera for studying the structure of surfaces at temperatures as high as 1000° C. Dr. Gulbransen has written more than 100 scientific papers. In 1960, he spent six months in Oslo, Norway, lecturing, writing, and doing research at the Central Institute for industrial research. He holds the Institute of Metals Award (1949) the Whitney Award of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (1952). As the 1961 Pittsburgh Award winner, Dr. Gulbransen joins a distinguished group of 28 previous recipients. Among them are the nationally known Pittsburgh chemists Dr. Edward R. Weidlein, Dr. Frederick D. Rossini, and Dr. John C. Warner.
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Simon L. Goren and Dr. David J. Yates join products research division of Esso Research & Engineering Co. Dr. William C. Baird, Jr., joins the central basic research lab. Frank K. Greenwall, chairman of National Starch & Chemical, re-elected president of Corn Industries Research Foundation. New v.p/s are Theo dore Sander, Jr., president of Ameri can Maize-Products Co., and Marion J. Martin, president of Penick & Ford, Ltd. Werner Grether joins Ciba Co. as dye chemist, Fair Lawn, N.J. M. J. Guillory promoted to ager of the Baton Rouge plant, solidated Chemical Industries sion, Stauffer Chemical Co.
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