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Robert J. Milano, chairman of Millmaster Onyx Corp. and founder of the firm as Millmaster Chemical Corp. in 1936, has been named the first recipient of the Winthrop-Sears Award of the Chemical Industry Association. He will be honored for "personal perception, fore sight, and perseverance . . . from which derived accomplishments that contributed to the chemical industry's vitality and yielded societal benefits of noteworthy dimensions."
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Dr. Robert D. Void, professor of chem istry at University of Southern California, has received the 11th annual Tolman Medal from the ACS Southern California Section. He was cited for his dis tinguished contributions in chemistry over a period of 35 years, especially his studies of colloidal systems, gels, emulsions, and surface films. He was also cited "for ex emplifying the academic scientist with the integration of his talents for teaching, research, and administration, and for his service to the chemistry profession na tionally and abroad."
HERBERT WEISSBACH ACS Award in Enzyme Chemistry sponsored by Chas. Pfizer ir Co., Inc. The Award in Enzyme Chemistry, one of six national ACS awards specifically designed to honor young chemists, goes this year to a man who has be come known internationally in the past decade for research in vitamin B 1 2 . The biochemist, Dr. Herbert Weissbach, 38, has recently become associ ate director of the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, N.J., which is headed by Dr. Sidney Udenfriend. Dr. Weissbach previously spent many years working with Dr. Udenfriend at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Upon receiving his Ph.D. at George Washington University 13 years ago, Dr. Weissbach traveled to Berkeley for a year of study with Dr. H. A.
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INDUSTRY Em il Alter appointed manager of techni cal service at Stein, Hall & Co. . . . Vernon J. Baarman named operations manager of chemicals group manufactur ing division of Chemetron Corp. Nor man C. Weichmann named production manager for plants serving pigments di vision, succeeding him . . . C. S. L. Baker, D. Barnard, and M. Porter of Natural Rubber Producers' Research As sociation, Welwyn Garden City, England, were named for the Best Paper Award by the ACS Division of Rubber ChemBarker. There he was involved in the key observations that led to recogni tion and isolation of the first coenzyme forms of vitamin B 1 2 , the predominant biologically active form of the vitamin within the cell. Since then Dr. Weissbach has be come a recognized leader in biochem ical research through extensions of the work begun in California and through projects in other areas involving en zymes. For example, in the past few years he has studied the biosynthesis of the antibiotic acrinomycin, in col laboration with Dr. Edward Katz. Recently Dr. Weissbach and asso ciates have been investigating the mechanism of protein synthesis. His group has obtained highly purified preparations of the soluble transfer factors required for chain elongation with the hope of elucidating their function in the complex process of peptide bond formation. The award winner was also involved in studies on the enzymic conversion of vitamin B 1 2 to its coenzyme form. Later, he investigated the role of the vitamin in the synthesis of methionine, an essential sulfur-containing amino acid. Studies with Dr. Robert Taylor have shown that methyl B 1 2 , a deriva tive of the vitamin, is an enzymebound intermediate in the reaction. A native New Yorker, Dr. Weiss bach is a member of five professional societies, including ACS, and is ad junct professor at Columbia Univer sity.
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istry. Their paper on new reactions for the vulcanization of natural rubber was given last fall in Buffalo . . . Jack E. Crawford appointed v.p. for planning and operating services in plastics division of Mobil Chemical . . . Dr. Kenneth D. Detling named manager of government research at Shell Development's Emeryville research center . . . Gerald E. Eby named production section supervisor of polyols at Atlas Chemical Industries, Wilmington. Kenneth A. Christian named process engineer. James H. Cox joins analytical section as senior chemist . . . C. Austin Gafney named president of McKesson Chemical Co., New York City. Has been executive v.p. . . . John D. Gile joins Hilton-Davis Chemical as technical assistant in marketing department, Cincinnati . . . Dr. Robert L. Hamill, Dr. Bill G. Jackson, and Dr. Robert C. Rathbun promoted to research associates at Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis . . . Centa Isermann elected chairman of the board at Van Dyk & Co., Inc., Belleville, NJ. Howard Isermann elected president and Herbert M. Levetown elected to newly created position of v.p.-sales . . . William J. Knapp, director of engineering for FMC Corp.'s chemical group, appointed a v.p. of the group. Dr. Loren K. Gibbons promoted to senior research chem-
ist in the Niagara chemical division R&D department, Middleport, N.Y. . . . R. G. Krueger named market manager for chemical process industries at BarberColman Co., Rockford, 111. . . . Katsu Kurihara, feed specialist, named staff member of National Renderers Association Far East office in Tokyo . . . Gerard R. Lawrence named v.p. and general manager of sales of Lummus Co., Bloomfield, NJ. . . . Dr. James E. Lewis named director of R&D for Ashland Oil, Inc., Ashland, Ky. Dr. Norman L. Smith named administrative head of research facility in Houston.. Gerald C. Miller promoted to district manager for industrial chemical and solvents division of Ashland Chemical Co., Midland, Tex. James W. Sparks becomes manufacturing manager at foundry products division, Cleveland. A. Norman Thorrat named technical manager; Robert J. Mulligan, administrative assistant; Dr. Lawrence I. Toriello, technical service representative; and Michael J. Skubon, project manager . . . GAF Corp. has appointed Thomas G. Mann manager of manufacturing for textile chemical department, Chattanooga . . . Richard P. Mazzur promoted to senior research scientist at Armstrong Cork Co. R&D center, Lancaster, Pa. . . . Don McKinney named southern regional
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To a man known equally for public and professional contributions to chemistry comes the 1970 James Flack Norris Award, which honors outstanding work in physical organic chemistry. Dr. Frank H. Westheimer of Harvard is receiving the award for 35 years of pioneering throughout his field. Commanding, as a colleague states, "a catholic knowledge of thermodynamics, kinetics, and chemistry" as well as a special ability to combine theory and experiment, Dr. Westheimer has reduced complex problems to precise solutions. The award specifically cites his work in "aromatic nitration, chromic acid oxidation, direct hydrogen transfer, decarboxylation, and pseudo-rotation. He has put a firm chemical
basis to many enzymatic reactions, and many people have followed in his footsteps." Sometimes the award winner has dealt with existing problems, as in his early work with J. G. Kirkwood clearing up electrostatic interactions in the ionization of organic compounds. The key was taking into account both molecule and solvent. However, in much of his research, Dr. Westheimer has extended physical organic chemistry into new realms of subject and technique. In recent years he has unraveled mechanisms in phosphate ester reactions, an area important in life processes and largely neglected by physical organic chemists. Earlier, Dr. Westheimer introduced the powerful experimental tool of hydrogen-isotope substitution in studying catalysis and enzymic reactions. Dr. Westheimer chaired the Harvard chemistry department from 1959 to 1962 and later headed the project resulting in the comprehensive 1965 National Academy of Sciences survey of chemistry (the Westheimer Report). Since 1967 Dr. Westheimer has served on the President's Science Advisory Committee. He has also taken part in public discussions of science policy at local and national meetings. Dr. Westheimer went to Harvard in 1953 after a decade and a half at University of Chicago. The chemist, originally from Baltimore, had lived in Cambridge once before, gaining his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1935.
manager for HumKo Products chemical division, Memphis . . . Dr. Gordon L. Nelson joins General Electric R&D center as organic chemist, Schenectady . . . Dr. Frank L Padgitt appointed v.p. of chemical processing division for South Coast Industries, Dallas . . . Marvin M. Ramer named to newly created post of senior v.p. at Lummus Co., Bloomfield, NJ. . . . Franklin M. Shanahan named manager of Pennwalt Corp.'s Wyandotte, Mich., chemicals manufacturing plant . . . William J. Stout named manager for R&D coordination at Sun Oil. Paul E. Hagstrom named manager of product line coordination and Paul H. Hertel, manager of operations research . . . Kevin G. Woelflein promoted to v.p. in commercial banking department of First National Bank of Chicago . . . C. Harold Wool I elected president and chief executive officer of Hart-Carter Co., Minneapolis . . . Albert H. Sigmund appointed chemical engineer at Morton Chemical, Woodstock, 111. . . . Dr. A. Eugene Vandegrift named head of environmental pollution section at Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, Mo. . . . Richard J. Walton appointed regional sales manager in Pittsburgh for industrial chemical division of PPG Industries . . . Ross 0. Watson named assistant general manager of Hercules, Inc/s new enterprise department . . . John G. K. Brookhuis named president of American Hoechst Corp., Bridgewater, N.J. He formerly headed Hoechst companies in Holland and now succeeds Dr. H. B. Kramer, who returns to Farbwerke Hoechst, A.G., in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, on special assignment. Dr. William O. Goulden becomes general manager of dyes and pigments division, Mountainside, N.J. He succeeds Carl W. Kuhl, II, who retires as president of that division after 33 years of service . . . Emil Buongiomo joins soap, detergent, and allied products lab of Givaudan Corp. as perfumer and assistant administrator . . . Richard E. Elliott named director of rubber chemical division of Phillips Petroleum, Bartlesville, Okla. . . . C. R. Griswold becomes manager of operations staff for refining division of Cities Service Oil, Tulsa. I. W. Scroggin becomes plant manager in East Chicago . . . John Kurilla named group director for health and medical products R&D for International Paper Co., Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
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Elected to National Academy of Engineering National Academy of Engineering has elected 51 American engineers to membership, among them the following in the field of chemistry or related profession: Neal Russell Amundson, University of Minnesota; Philip M. Arnold, Phillips Petroleum Co.; Willard K. Davis, Bechtel Corp.; Humboldt W. Leverenz, RCA Corp.; John J. McKetta, University of Texas; Robert B. Richards, General Electric Co.; Paul Rosenberg, Paul Rosenberg Associates; Karl SchwartzwaIder, General Motors Corp.; Mott Souders, consultant. APRIL 20, 1970 C&EN 61
