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FOREWORD y h e announcement that Stephen Brunauer was the recipient of the Kendall Award in Colloid Chemistry for 1961 was made at the meeting of the American Chemical Society in New York in September 1960. Donald Graham, who was then Chairman of the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, asked Dr. Brunauer to choose someone to organize the symposium that is held traditionally to honor the recipient of the award, and he chose me. I considered it a great honor to be so chosen, but it was not without trepidation that I accepted the assignment. However, my worries soon proved to be baseless. Dr. Brunauers many friends responded enthusiastically, and in ever-increasing numbers. We soon saw that we could plan on three sessions, then four, and finally five full sessions. The symposium was held during the 139th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in St. Louis on March 27 to 29, 1961. I held the chair during the first session, and the chairmen of the four subsequent sessions were A. C. Zettlemoyer, W . A. Zisman, R. A. Beebe, and Donald Graham. The quality of the papers and the excellence of the presentations made the symposium highly successful. W . A. Zisman suggested that the papers presented at the symposium be published as a volume in the ADVANCES IN CHEMISTRY SERIES. Robert Gould welcomed the idea, and the contributors willingly consented. The chairmen of the five sessions assumed the responsibility of reviewing the papers presented at their sessions for technical content, and Gould and his staff performed the editorial reviewing. The order of the papers in the book is the same as the order of their presentation at the symposium. That order was chosen for the symposium partly on the basis of subject matter, and partly to prevent the presentation of too many theoretical papers in any one session. A n attempt to classify the papers in a more logical arrangement for the book proved fruitless, because so many of the papers could not logically be placed in any single class. With deep gratitude I acknowledge the wonderful cooperation of each contributor, and the invaluable aid and advice I received from the four chairmen and Mr. Gould. Without their help, the publication of this book would have been impossible. L. E. COPELAND
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Copeland et al.; SOLID SURFACES Advances in Chemistry; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1961.
