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Instrument Symposium and Research Equipment Exhibit at National Institutes of Health T h e Ninth Annual I n s t r u m e n t Symposium and Research E q u i p m e n t Exhibit, will be held September 28 through October 1 a t t h e National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, M a r y land, a suburb of Washington, D . C. I t is sponsored by nationally known research equipment manufacturers and the Washington sections of six scientific societies. Sponsors are the Washington Sections of the American Chemical Society, American Association of Clinical Chemists, I n s t r u m e n t Society of America, Professional Group on Medical Electronics of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Society of American Bacteriologists, and the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. This year's equipment display, valued at more than $800,000, will feature the newest developments in electronics, laboratory glassware, and surgical, optical, radiation, and gassampling instruments. T h e products of 103 manufacturers will be exhibited. The exhibits will be open daily, in Building 22 on the N I H campus from 11:30 A . M . to 6:00 P . M . , except September 29, when they will be open until 9:00 P . M . Demonstrations in gas chromatogr a p h y will be staged by engineering representatives of six manufacturers. T h e demonstrations, followed by question-and-answer periods, are scheduled at 9:00 and 11:00 A.M., September 29, September 30, and October 1, in Wilson Hall, Building 1 (Administration Building). Gas chromatography will also be discussed at a symposium session on September 29 at 8:00 P . M . in the Clinical Center Auditorium. E v a n C. Horning, chief of t h e Laboratory of Chemistry of N a t u r a l Products, N a tional H e a r t Institute, is chairman of the session. James A. Shannon, director of the National Institutes of Health, will open the symposium, September 28, at 8:00 P . M . A panel discussion of pressing topics in instrumentation will be led b y Ralph H . Miiller, in charge of special instrumentation problems at

the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Van Zandt Williams, director of research, Perkin-Elmer Corp., Norwalk, Conn., and Lawrence T. Hallett, editor of Analytical Chemistry, Washington, D . C , will also participate. A well known speaker on biophysics, Alexander Kolin, of the University of California at Los Angeles, will lecture on electromagnetophorcsis at 2:00 P.M., September 29. A demonstration of the phenomenon will be given. T h e other symposium topics are scheduled for September 30, at 2:00 and 8:00 P . M . and October 1, at 2:00

Capillary Columns, R. A. Landowne, Yale University School of Medicine. Biochemical Applications in Lipid Studies, J. W. Farquhar, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Wednesday, September 3 0 — 2 P.M. Serum A g a r Methods

An outstanding group of speakers, all specialists in their fields, have been invited to present papers on serum agar methods, irradiation of cells in tissue culture, and on nuclear and electronic magnetic resonance. T h e preliminary program appears below:

W. G. Glenn, Randolph Air Force Base, Chairman Precipitin Reactions in Agar with Special Reference to Reactions in Tubes, E. L. Becker, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Double Diffusion in Gels and Immunolelectrophoresis, C. A. Williams, Jr., Rockefeller Institute. Use of Agar Gel Methods for Immunochemical Analyses Illustrated by a Study of Isoantigens and Isoantibodies in Rabbit Serum. Sheldon Dray, National Institutes of Health. Quantitation of Agar Precipitin Reactions. W. G. Glenn, Randolph Air Force Base.

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Research in Instrumentation, Ralph H. Miiller, Chairman, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. The Instrument Manufacturer Looks at Future Trends, Van Zandt Williams, Perkin-Elmer Corp. The Analytical Chemist and His Instruments, L. T. Hallett, Editor, Analytical Chemistry.

Tuesday, September 29—2 P.M. Biophysical Methods Based on Electromagnetic and Electrokinetic Effects Alexander Kolin and assistants, University of California

8 P.M. Gas Chromatography E. C. Horning, National Institutes of Health, Chairman Electronic Detection Systems, Arthur Karmen, National Institutes of Health. Packed Columns, C. C. Sweeley, National Institutes of Health.

William Bloom, University of Chicago, Chairman Designs for Partial-Cell Irradiation with Special Attention to Ionizing Radiations, R. E . Zirkle, University of Chicago. Microbeams of Ultraviolet Light, R. B. Uretz, University of Chicago. Electron Microscopic Study of a P a r tially Irradiated Cell, William Bloom, University of Chicago.

Thursday, O c t o b e r 1—2 P.M. Nuclear and Electronic Magnetic Resonance C. K. Jen, The Johns Hopkins University, Chairman Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Magnetic Crystals, V. Jaccarino, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Spin Resonance Studies of Certain Sapphires, Chihiro Kikuchi, University of Michigan. Electron Spin Resonance of Trapped Free Radicals, S. N. Foner, The Johns Hopkins University. VOL. 3 1 , NO. 9, SEPTEMBER

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Basic Practices in X-Ray Fluores cence, L. S. Birks, TJ. S. Naval Research Laboratory. Future of X-Ray Fluorescence, J . W. Kemp, Applied Research Laboratories. Applications of X-Ray Spectroscopy to Unsolved Problems in Geochemistry, Isidore Adler, TJ. S. Geological Survey. Quantitative Light Element Analysis, Fe to Mg, for Portland Cement by X Ray Spectroscopy, E . A. Curley, River side Cement Co.

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy, J . N . Shoolery, Varian As sociates. The Unpaired Electron via E P R , R. H. Sands, University of Michigan. E P R of Heterocyclic Compounds, L. D. Tuck, University of California Medical Center. Maser Applications and TravelingWave Techniques for Magnetic Reso nance Spectroscopy, A. E . Siegman, Stanford University. Band Nomenclature for Ultraviolet Absorption Spectra of Conjugated Sys tems, W. F . Forbes, University of New foundland (to be read by J . Guffy). Thursday, O c t . 15, 9 a . m .

An added paper is: Sample Handling i n Infrared Spec troscopy, L. A. Strait, University of Cali fornia Medical Center.

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Added papers are : Molecular Spectroscopy in the TJ.S.S.R., D. G. Rea, California Research Corp. Topic in Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, R. A. Friedel, U. S. Bureau of Mines.

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Introductory Remarks, S. Siggia. OIIL Mathieson Chemical Corp. Continuous Analysis—Advantages and Pitfalls, H . J. Noebels, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Optical Absorption Methods for Continuous Analysis. R. L. Chapman, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Recess. Methods for Continuous Monitoring of Trace Oxygen, J. G. Cohn, Engelhard Industries, Inc. Mass Spectrometry as Applied to Continuous Analysis, W. Bailey and R. Howard, Consolidated Electrodynamics. Afternoon Session

Vapor Fractometry as Applied to Continuous Analysis, J. Maier, Perkin-Elmer Corp. Continuous Monitoring of Viscosity, R. A. Minard, Brookfield Engineering Labs. Recess. Automatic Colorimetric and Volumetric Analysis, S. P . Dodd, Chicago Apparatus Co. Electrical Measurement as Applied to Continuous Analysis, R. M. Greene, The Foxboro Co.

Radioisotope Training Program T h e Atomic Energy Commission has a new program t o provide students of small undergraduate colleges with an opportunity for specialized training in the techniques of using radioisotopes. T h e program will utilize a 35-foot, bus-type, mobile training laboratory which can be moved t o t h e college campus for presentation of a short (two-week), concentrated course on the basic techniques of handling radioisotopes. T h e mobile laboratory will be similar to one presented last year to the International Atomic Energy Agency b y t h e United States. T h e new program is expected to start in t h e fall of 1959, a n d initially will be available to colleges in t h e South and Southeast. I t is particularly intended to serve the smaller colleges whose nuclear facilities are limited. Scientists and technicians from t h e Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, which will administer t h e program for the Commission, will accompany t h e mobile radioisotope laboratory to t h e colleges to lecture and direct laboratory experimentation. T h e course t o be presented will be a condensed version of a basic course which has beer, conducted in Oak Ridge by the Institute since 1948, training several thousand research personnel irom the (Continued on page 68 A',

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Highlights of the program of the Division of Ana lytical Chemistry to be held at the 136th Na tional Meeting of the ACS at Atlantic City, Sep tember 13 to 18, appear below: Symposium on E d u c a t i o n a l T r e n d s in A n a l y t i cal Chemistry ( J o i n t w i t h Division of Chemical Education). Monday morning and afternoon. M i c r o c h e m i c a l Symposium. I n d u s t r i a l As p e c t s of M i c r o c h e m i s t r y . T u e s d a y m o r n i n g and afternoon. U t i l i z a t i o n of A n a l y t i c a l Chemists in I n d u s t r y . Panel discussion. W e d n e s d a y m o r n i n g .

Symposium on Radiochemical Analysis. Thursday and Friday morning and afternoon. I n f o r m a l Discussion on G a s C h r o m a t o g r a p h y . Thursday morning.

General Papers. Monday morning and after noon, Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning and afternoon. Divisional Business Meeting. Wednesday after noon, 3:50 P.M. Divisional Dinner. Informal buffet. Wednesday evening, 6:30 P.M. Hotel Dennis. Speaker: Van Zandt Williams, Perkin-Elmer Corp. Microchemical Apparatus Exhibit. Tuesday morning and afternoon. All apparatus studied for standardization purposes by the ACS Com mittee on Microchemical Apparatus will be exhibited.

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Several topics of interest to analyt ical chemists are included in the agenda of the 33rd fall meeting of the Ameri can Oil Chemists' Society. The meet ing will be held at the Statler Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, September 28 to 30. The technical sessions will be held on Monday and Wednesday in the morning and afternoon and on Tuesday morning. Plant tours, including Beckman Instrument Co. are scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. Further details are available from the American Oil Chemists' Society, 35 East Wacker Dr., Chicago 1, 111. Papers of possible interest to analyt ical chemists include : An Ultramicro Technique for the Measurement of Peroxides in Lipids, M. I. Peterson, Rockefeller Institute. Quantitative Determination of ShortChain (C 3 -C) Fatty Acids by GasLiquid Chromatography, Β. Μ. Craig, Prairie Regional Laboratory Saskatoon, Saskatoon, Canada. Effect of Relative Concentrations on the Efficiency of Separation of Polar and Nonpolar Lipids by Alumina-Column Chromatography, R. P. A. Sims, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, On tario. Intensity, Stability, and Absorption Spectra of Heteropoly Blue Prepared by Various Reduction Procedures, R. P. A. Sims, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario. Quantitative Analysis of Fatty Al cohols by Gas Chromatography, K. P. Dimick and Tao-Zuen Chu, Wilkens In strument and Research Co. Separation of Hydroxy Acid Methyl Esters by Gas Chromatography, K. P. Dimick, Wilkens Instrument and Re search. Co. Gas Chromatography as a Means of Quantitatively Estimating Mono-, Di-, and Triglycerides Derived from Coconut Oil, V. R. Huebner, Armour & Co. Analysis of Surfactant Mixtures, L. E. Weeks, J. T. Lewis, and T. C. Tesdahl, Monsanto Chemical Co. Isolation and Analysis of Polyunsatu rated Fatty Acids, 0. S. Privett, E. Christense Nickell, and W. O. Lundberg, Hormel Institute. Methods of Detection and Estimation of Natural Epoxy Acids and Esters, L. J. Morris and R. T. Holman, Hormel Insti tute. NMR-EPR W o r k s h o p The Third Annual NMR-EPR Work shop will be held in the Instrument Division laboratories of Varian Asso ciates, Palo Alto, Calif., October 19th through 23, 1959. This year's com prehensive lecture and laboratory course will again be given without charge to participants, except for their assumption of transportation costs to,

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ANALYST'S CALENDAR Aug. 30) to Sept. 11

Chemical Institute of Canada, Physical Chemistry Division Sym posium on Mass Spectrometry in Chemistry. McMaster Uni versity, Hamilton, Ont. Contact: Chemical Institute of Canada, 18 Rideau St., Ottawa, 2, Can.

Aug. 30 Sept. 6

X V I I t h International Congress of P u r e and Applied Chemistry. Munich, Western Germany. .Contact: Generalsekretariat des XVII Internationalen Kongress fur reine und angewandte Chemie, Munchen 2, Meiserstrasse 1, Germany. Page 46 A, August.

Sept. 1 to 8

International Conference on Analytical Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Contact: Prof. Dr. Ing. Vaclav Hovorka, Praha-Dejvice, Technicka ul. 1905, Czechoslovakia. Page 46 A, March.

Sept. 2 to 4

F a r a d a y Society, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Subject: Crystal Imperfections and t h e Chemical Reactivity of Solids. Contact: J. A. Morrison, National Research Council, Ottawa 2, Can.

Sept. 6

European Molecular Spectroscopy Group, 4th Biennial Meeting. Bologna, Italy. Contact: Reinhard Mecke, University of Frei burg, Freiburg, Germany.

Sept. 9 to 12

Electron Microscope Society. 17th Annual Meeting. Ohio State University. Contact: S. S. Breese, Jr., Plum Island Animal Dis ease Laboratory, Greenpoint, L. I., N . Y. (re papers) ; W. J. Frajola, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (re exhibits). Page 46 A, June.

Sept. 13 to 18

American Chemical Society, 136th National Meeting, Atlantic City, N. J. Page 33 A, August, page 56 A, Sept.

Sept. 14 to 16

Sixth Ottawa Symposium on Applied Spectroscopy. Canadian Association for Applied Spectroscopy. Ottawa, Canada .Contact: W. O. Taylor, Ontario Department of Mines, Parliament Build ings, Toronto, Ont., Can. Page 42 A, April I .

Sept. 14 to 19

VIII Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale, Lucerne, Switzer land. Contact: H . Guyer, V l l l t h Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale, P . O. Box, Schaff Hausen, Switzerland. Page 42 A, April I.

Sept. 21 to 25

14th Annual Instrument-Automation Conference and Exhibit. I n ternational Amphitheater, Chicago, 111. Instrument Society of America. Contact: H . S. Kindler, ISA, 313 Sixth Ave., Pitts burgh 22, Pa., re program, and F . J. Tabnry, 3443 South Hill St., Los Angeles 7, Calif., re exhibits. Page 52 A.

Sept. 28 to 30

33rd Fall Meeting, American Oil Chemists' Society, Statler-Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles. Contact: American Oil Chemists' Societv, 35 E . Waeker Drive, Chicago 1, 111. Page 66 A.

Sept. 28 to Oct. 1

Ninth Annual Instrument Symposium and Research Equipment Exhibit, National Institutes of Health. Contact: J. B. Davis, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda 14, Md. Page 49 A. (Continued

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October 1—American Chemical Society. Analytical and Microchemical Group, Philadelphia Section. Philadelphia Textile Institute. Topic: Determination of Molecular Coming Events Weights. Speakers: Henry Mason, Rohm & Haas, and C. L Ogg, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Contact: Sidney Alpert, National Drug Co., Haines & McCallum Sts., Philadelphia 44, Pa. Oct. 2—Gulf Coast Spectroscopic Group, Fall Meeting, Ben Milam Hotel, Houston, Tex. Contact: Albert Xlatkis, University of Houston, Houston 4, Tex. Page 58 A. October 12 to 15—ASTM Spectroscopy Symposium, ASTM Committees E-2 and E-13, San Francisco. Contact: R. J. Wirshing, General Motors Corp., Box 188, North End Station, Detroit 2, Mich. Page 44 A, August and page 50 A, Sept. Oct. 18 to 22—Electrochemical Society, Columbus, Ohio. Contact : Electrochemical Society, Inc., 216 West 102nd St., New York 25, Ν. Υ. October 26 to 28—Third Conference on Analytical Chemistry in Nuclear Reactor Technology. Gatlinburg, Tenn. Sponsor: Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Con tact: C. D. Susano, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P . O. Box Y, Oak Ridge, Tenn. Page 57 A, May. Oct. 26 to 28—Anachem Conference. Assn. of Analytical Chemists. WTayne State University, Detroit. Contact: S. O. Roe, Ethyl Corporation, 1600 W. Eight Mile Rd., Ferndale 20, Detroit, Mich. See page 32 A, July, and page 56 A, Sept. Nov. 4 to 6—Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition. Hotel New Yorker, New York. Sponsors: Local sections of Society of Applied Spectroscopy, analytical groups of ACS, and Metropolitan Microchemical Society. Page 46 A, August. Nov. 10 to 15—International Congress and Exhibition of Laboratory Measurement and Automation Techniques in Chemistry. Association of Swiss Chemists and Swiss Federation of Automatic Control. Contact: ILMAC, Clarastrasse 61, Basle 21, Switzerland. Page 58 A. Nov. 16 to 20—Fifth International Automation Congress and Exposition, New Y'ork Trade Show Building, New York. Contact: James Emge, 845 Ridge Ave., Pitts burgh 12, Pa. (Now postponed until 1961). Page 70 A. Nov. 19—American Chemical Society, Analytical and Microchemical Group. Phil adelphia Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum. Topic: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Speaker: Harlan Foster, Du Pont. Contact: Sidney Alpert, National Drug Co., Haines & McCallum Sts., Philadelphia 44, Pa. Nov. 23 to 24—Instrument Society of America. Philadelphia Section. Ben Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia. Topic: Symposium on Solid State. Contact: G. L. Eberlv, Harris D. McKinney, Inc., 12 South 12th St., Philadelphia 7, Pa. Nov. 30 to Dec. 4—27th Biennial Chemical Industries Exposition, New York Coliseum, New York. Contact: Ε. Κ. Stevens, Manager, International Exposition Co., 480 Lexington Ave., New Y'ork 17, Ν. Υ. Page 42 A, July. Dec. 3 to 5—Southwest Regional Meeting (ACS), Capital House, Baton Rouge, La. Contact: Ε. Β. Claiborne, Esso Research Laboratories, P . O. Box 551, Baton Rouge 1, La. See page 44 A, July. Feb. 29 to March 4, 1960—Eleventh Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy and Exposition of Modern Laboratory Equipment. PennSheraton Hotel, Pittsburgh. Contact: J. E. Patcrson, Program Chairman, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Pittsburgh 30, Pa. Page 52 A. April 5 to 14, 1960—137th National Meeting, American Chemical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. June 8 to 10, 1960—Third Symposium on Gas Chromatography, Society for Analytical Chemistry and Gas Chromatography Discussion Group—Edinburgh Contact: L. Brealey, Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., Station St., Nottingham, England. Page 62 A. Sept. 11 to 16, 1960—138th National Meeting, American Chemical Society, New York, Ν. Υ.

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A u t o m a t i o n Exposition Postponed The Fifth International Automation Exposition and Congress, scheduled to be held in the New York Trade Show Building, November 16 to 20, 1959, has been postponed until 1961. The an nouncement was made by Richard Rimbach Associates, Inc., management for the Exposition. Reasons for the postponement were not detailed.

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