GLYCERINE RESEARCH AWARDS
First Award... for outstanding research accomplishment in the application of Glycerine or Glycerine derivatives
1956 GLYCERINE PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION
Announcing the 1956 Glycerine Research Awards FIRST AWARD
Honor Plaque
$1,000
SECOND AWARD Honor Certificate
$300
THIRD AWARD
$200
Honor Certificate
The purpose of this group of awards, established in 1952 by the Glycerine Pro ducers' Association, is to recognize and encourage research leading to new and improved applications of glycerine or glycerine derivatives to products or proc esses. The work may concern itself with the chemical, physical or physiological properties of glycerine, or with proper ties of glycerine-containing or glycerinederived materials. It may deal with appli cations which of themselves are currently or potentially of value to industry or the general public, or it may deal with sci entific principles or procedures likely to stimulate future application. Originality in extending the application of glycerine into new fields of usefulness will receive special consideration for awards.
BASIS O F ENTRY These awards are open to any individual in the United States and Canada engaged in research, whether employed in indus try or affiliated with a governmental or educational institution (faculty or col lege student) except those connected with member companies of the Glycerine Division, Association of American Soap & Glycerine Producers, Inc., or labora tories which they employ. (Joint entries by research teams or associates of two or three individuals are also eligible.) PERIOD OF AWARD First consideration for the 1956 Award will be given to work which has come to a successful conclusion or clear-cut point of accomplishment during the current
year, regardless of the date at which the work was initiated. Work carried on in previous years, but the significance of which has been confirmed by commercial application in 1956. will be eligible. JUDGES Selection of award winners will be made by a committee of three judges of out standing reputation and appropriate sci entific background, having no connection with the Association or its members. DATE FOR NOMINATIONS All nominations for the 1956 awards must be received by November 1, 1956. METHOD O F NOMINATION Only nominations made on the official entry blank will be eligible for awards. For a copy of this official entry blank, write t o : Awards Committee, Glycerine Producers' Association, 295 Madison Avenue, New York 17, Ν. Y.
For further information, circle number 123 A on Readers' Service Card, page 139 A
VOL. 48, NO. 9 ·
SEPTEMBER 1956
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