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Pebrnaru 1851
WALTER J. MURPHY, EDITOR
The World
Chemical Conclave
World Chemical Conclave, to he held in New York T” City and Washington, D. C., September to in connection with the Diamond Jubilee of the AMEFSCAN
International Congress will have direct interest for industrial chemists and chemicalengineers. Too much emphasis cannot be placed on the time element. Those desiring to present CHEMICAL SOCIETY,offers a great challenge to American papers before the Congreas must send two copies of all titlea chemists and chemical engineers and will he momentous in and abstracts (400 words or less written in English) to reach manv ways. It undouhtedlv will be the lamest m e e t i i of the office of Harm L. Fisher. National Academv of Science the ihe$cal profeasion ever held and will b$g to our s h k a Building, 2101Corkitution AGe., N.W., Washing& 25,D. C., chemists and chemical engineers from more than thirty connby March 1, 1951. Two copies of all completed manuscripta tries. The AMERICANCHEMICAL SOCIETYwill celebrate its must he in Dr. Fisher’s hands hy May 1,1951. Papers must seventy-fifth anniversary September 3 to 7 in New York, be written in either English or French, but English is p r p where it was o r g a n i d in 1876. The International Union of femd. Pure and Applied Chemistry will hold its XVIth conference, We call attention to the fact that deadlines for presentation September 8 to 9, also in New York, and will sponsor the of titles, ahstracta, and papers for the Congress are earlier XIIth International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry, than the dateg set for papers for the AMERICANCHEMICAL September 10 to 13, with four days given over to the presentaSOCIETY meetmg. Complete details of the Congress meeting tion of scientific and technical papers and discusaions. The were given in C h m i d and En&ee+ng Nms, October 2, 1951, page 3415, including a complete llet of the sections. Union will continue its conference in Washington, September 14 and 15, and will join with the chemistry division of the One evidence of the year of celebration marking the seventyNational Bureau of Standards in celebrating the fiftieth annififth anniversary of the AMERICAN CKEMCAL Socrnry w i l l he ANQ ENQIfound within the following pages of INDUSTRIAL versary of the founding of that hureau. It bas not often been our privilege to entertain these foreign NEERING CHEMISTRY.Serially we are presenting historiea groups in the United States and we must make the most of of the divisionswithparticular emphasisplaced on the scientific this great opportunity to acquaint the world with the signal and technological advancea in chemistry and chemical engiachievements of the chemical profession. The International neering which are so closely associated with the Society Congreas of Pure and Applied Chemistry has not met here programs and publications. This issue contains four divisince 1912, and the International Union of Pure and Applied sional histories: “Physical ahd Inorganic,” written by L. F. Chemistry since September 1926. The survey of world Audrieth and Farrington Daniels; “Organic,” by H. L.fisher; chemical progress to be presented at the AMERICAN CHEMICAL “Fertilizer,” by F. S. Lodge; and “Industrial and Engineering SOCIETY Diamond Jubilee meeting and the meeting of the ConChemistry,” with W. A. Pardee as coordinator. Three or gress will provide a great stimulus for research and technology AND fourhistories will be published in each issue of INDUSTRIAL in the United S t a h . The National W h Council of the ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY through June 1951. Progreas in the United Statea in fundamental chemical United States is spone~ringthe Union and Congress meetings. research and technology has been closely allied to the activiThe chemical societies of all countries in the Western HemisSOCIETY.Ita breadth and phere are collaborating withthe National Research Council to ties of the AMERICANCHEMICAL make these meetings memorable. scope have encompaased practically every facet of fundamental Only symposia will be presented at the Diamond Jubilee research and technology. We are proud to say that during meeting of the Society in September. A number of the divithe 75 years of the Society’s existence it has demonstrated a progressive attitude and has met the needs of American chemsions serving industrial chemists and chemical engineers are ists, chemical engineers, and the chemical and chemical p m preparing outstanding programs. The Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, for example, is scheduling six ess industries. The Society has stimulated the growth of symposia, including “New Methods for Materials Randling,” American chemical industry by r a i s i i the standards of tesching in ow colleges and universities through ita scientific and “Resources for the Chemical Industry-Pacific Area, Washington, Oregon, and California-,” “Fluorine Chemistry,” technical meetings and hy providing outstsnding wientific “Nickel,” and is co-spomring one on “Corrosion” with the and technical publications for the diesemination of informaDivision of Water, Sewage, and Sanitation Chemistry. In tion eesential to the chemist and engineer. The g m t conaddition, the division is sponsoring’s.symposium on “Science tributions that have been and will continue to he made by the AMERICANCHEMICAL SOCIETY are due entirely to the intense and Society,” with top-Ilight spokesmen for the physical and social sciences, education, government, and religion, aa interest of chemist, and engineers in the Society and in the speakers. Divisions such gs Petroleum and Rubber will financial support they have given to it. feature symposia of great interest to industrial chemists and It is not without significancethat the Dismond Jubilee year chemical engineers. of the Society occurs at a time when there is general recogniThe Sessions of the Congress will be devoted entirely to tion that the twentieth century is indeed “The Chemical Century.” g e n d papers. At least ten of the sixteen sections of the 3
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