ACS NEWS
JACS goal: thorough editing New editor chooses eight-man board to lend varied expertise, choose reviewers, and decide what to publish
Dunn
Parr
Wiberg
Letsinger
Rabinovitch
Leonard
Parry
Halpern
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About a month from now when Dr. Martin Stiles takes over the editorship of the Journal of the American Chemical Societij from current editor Marshall Gates, he will have the combined help of nine other persons making up a board of editors (C&EN, May 19, page 4 4 ) . The editorial staff for the journal has heretofore been very small. Dr. Stiles will distribute papers submitted for publication among the independent editors, who have been chosen to provide a wide area of expertise in chemistry. The editors will choose reviewers for, and decide whether to publish, papers submitted to them. The board of working editors will by no means replace the current JACS editorial advisory board, Dr. Stiles emphasizes. The advisory board, which at present consists of 25 chemists recognized as leaders in their individual research areas, will continue to provide help in determining board editorial policies and in helping occasionally with manuscript review. Dr. Carl H. Brubaker, Jr., JACS associate editor, will continue at that post with Dr. Stiles. Dr. Brubaker, an inorganic chemist on the staff at Michigan State University for 17 years, has helped edit JACS since 1964. Serving as deputy editor will be Dr. Thomas M. Dunn, professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan. Born in Sydney, Australia, Dr. Dunn received his Ph.D. from University College, London, where he lectured for five years until joining the Michigan faculty in 1963. His research specialty has been in high-resolution spectroscopy. Comprising the remainder of the JACS board of editors will be Dr. Jack Halpern, Dr. Nelson J. Leonard, Dr. Robert L. Letsinger, Dr. Robert G. Parr, Dr. Robert W. Parry, Dr. B. Seymour Rabinovitch, and Dr. Kenneth B. Wiberg. Dr. Halpern, born in Poland in 1925, has lived in Canada most of his life. Educated at McGill University, Montreal, he taught for 12 years at the University of British Columbia and has taught for seven years in his present position at the University of Chicago. Dr. Halpern received the ACS
Award in Inorganic Chemistry in 1968. He is on the editorial boards of several research journals. Dr. Leonard, professor of chemistry and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois, has held many offices in the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry and has served on editorial boards of several ACS journals. Active in organic chemistry and natural products, he received the ACS Award fcr Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry in 1963. Dr. Letsinger, professor of chemistry at Northwestern University, has specialized in organic and biological chemistry, including such areas as polynucleotide synthesis, photo-induced substitution reactions, and organometallic compounds. Dr. Parr, chairman of the chemistry department at Johns Hopkins University, has pursued research in physical and theoretical chemistry. He has served on many ACS committees and editorial boards for technical journals. He recently received an Outstanding Achievement Award of the University of Minnesota. Dr. Parry, who has been on the chemistry staff at the University of Michigan for 23 years, begins a new career at the University of Utah this summer. He was the first editor in Inorganic Chemistry and still serves on the advisory board of that journal. He has been chairman of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry and has become an authority on boron hydride chemistry. In 1965 he received the first ACS award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry. Dr. Rabinovitch, chairman of the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry, is in his 21st year at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research field is gas-phase kinetics with current emphasis on unimolecular reactions, the technique of chemical activation, and collision transfer of vibrational energy. Dr. Wiberg is chemistry department chairman at Yale University. A physical organic chemist, he is currently on the editorial board for The Journal of Organic Chemistry and has served on the executive committee of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry.
ACS honors International Science Fair winners
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WINNERS. Dr. William H. Glaze (center), chairman of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section, is surrounded by winners in the 20th International Science Fair. From left to right: Deborah L. Denton, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Glenn W. Hanes, Glenn Dale, Md.; John H. Cawley, Tucson, Ariz.; and Joyce C. Schock, Circle, Mont
Four high school students were hon ored by ACS last month for their outstanding projects in chemistry at the 20th International Science Fair held in Fort Worth, Tex. First prize awards, each comprising $100 and an inscribed plaque, were given to John H. Cawley, 17, Rincon High School, Tucson, Ariz., and Joyce C. Schock, 17, Circle High School, Circle, Mont. Mr. Cawley won his award for "The Mechanism of Spe cific Reactions," and Miss Schock re ceived her honor for "Paper—An Everyday Wonder." Alternate awards of plaques were received by Deborah L. Denton, 18, U. S. Grant High School, Oklahoma City, Okla., and Glenn W. Hanes, 17, Duval Senior High School, Glenn Dale, Md. Miss Denton's award was for "Effects of Ethanol on the Drug Metabolizing Enzymes for Organophosphorus Insecticides in Male Rats" and Mr. Hanes' was for "Photodissociation Processes in Triarylacetonitriles." The winners were chosen from more than 400 students from affiliated fairs in the U.S. and a number of foreign nations. The annual science fair, conducted by Science Service, culminates a selection process in volving thousands of school and re gional fairs. All four students received sub scriptions to the Journal of Chemical Education and their teachers re ceived certificates. Dr. William H. Glaze, of Denton, Tex., chairman of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section, rep resented the Society in recognizing chemistry winners.
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