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T A N N U » ' RKSEABCH LABOBATOBT. This
is the national center of research for the leather and tanning industries and is sup ported by funds of the Tanners9 Council of America. Only recently discoveries have been made that are calculated to make for greater than 50 per cent savings in the processing of leather. LITHOGRAPHIC KKSBABCH LABORATORY.
In the same way this* is the national center of research for the lithographic industries and is supported by the Lithographic Tech nical Foundation. Uuder supervision of the College of Medicine is the Kettering Laboratory established for study of industrial toxi cology. It is supported by the General Motors Corp., the Ethyl Gasoline Corp.» and E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. To its great credit is the solution of the problem of employee handling of tetraethyllead. The Chemistry Department of the uni versity has its quota of diversified research. As integral parts or closely affiliated with the College of Medicine of the univer sity there are half a doien biochemical re search units in the city. At least four of the larger hospitals are extremely active in this line—Christ Hospital, General Hospital, Jewish Hospital, and Children's Hospital. Available space cannot do justice to the scope and importance of this work. As well publicized highlights of this local research might be mentioned the work of L. H. Schmidt, of Christ Hospital, on the effect of sulfapyridine on various strains of pneumococci and the work of Thomas Spies, of the Department of Medi cine, on nicotinic acid and vitamin Β deficiency. Among the country's contributors to art and wit and wisdom the College of Medicine possesses the personalities of Martin Fischer, whose studies in the chem istry of art and whose classroom lectures and 'Tischerisms" are stimulating contribu tions to our culture, and Gustav Eckstein, whose collection of canaries has excited the interest of WooUcott and Toscanini. The Archbishop of this diocese estab lished the Institutum Divi Thomae in Cin cinnati in 1935. i t s purpose is to study problems somewhat along the lines of the basic science research laboratory with an additional interest in the philosophical aspects of science. It has developed that the main accent has been on biophysical and biochemical research. A limited number of students are accepted for re search training. However far our visiting chemists who come to Cincinnati to attend the spring meeting
of
the
AMERICAN
CHEMICAL
SOCIETY April S to 12, may individually travel, if they are as representative a group as we hope, then in a vectorial sense the average visitor is nearly in Cincinnati already; and when he is here in actuality he will find a place where chemistry is at
VOL. 18, NO. 5
Modern Pioneers
T
HE National Association of Manufac turers as a part of its celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the American patent system honored a group of living American inventors "who have contributed new jobs, new industries, and higher standards of living through their inventions and discoveries on the frontiers of industry". Awards in the form of scrolls were presented at dinners held throughout the United States, cul minating in a banquet on February 27 in New York, at which silver plaques were presented to men chosen from the entire country for national honors. Of the 18 individuals and the group headed by the late Wallace H. Carothers, respon sible for nylon, eight are members of the AMERICAN
CHEMICAL SOCIETY,
as
CHEMICAL
SOCIETY.
Their
names follow:
National Awards Leo Hendrick Baekeland William David Coolidge Frederick Gardner Cottrell George Oliver Cunne, Jr. John Van Nostrand Dorr Charles Franklin Kettering Irving Langmuir Harry Steenbock inventors of Nylon Willard E. Catlin Donald D. CofTman George D. Graves Winifield W. Heckert Benjamin W. Howk Wilbur A. Lasier Wesley R. Peterson Frank K. Signaigo Edgar W. Spanagel
Area Awards Charles 8. Ash John C. Baker Harry H. Barber Carl Lewis Beal Frederick M. Becket Robert M. Boehm F. G. Breyer Leslie G. S. Brooker Wallace L. Caldwell John N. Carothers N. K.Chaney William Hale Charch H. J. Creighton W.A. Darrah H. W. Daudt G. H. B. Davis Camille Dreyfus Gustav Egloff
Carl F Prutton R. R. Ridgway T.H.Rogers Carlisle K. Roos W. L 8emon Samuel E. 8heppard R.L. Sibley Games Slayter W. 8. Smith L, A. Stengel E. C. Sullivan William C. Taylor Frederick H. Untiedt Ernest H.Voiwiler Vanderveer Voorbees C. R.%agner H. G. Walker H. H. Wennine Willie ft. Whitney Ira Williams Robert R. Williams Robert E. Wilson
are
nearly all of the nylon group. The selection of the modern pioneers following nominations of a much larger number emphasises the importance of the patent system in building American in dustry and serves to show the utility of the patent system, not only in encouraging invention and discovery, but in affording protection and assistance to the small manufacturer. The nation-wide program honored 500 men and of these 176 are members of the AMERICAN
N. Vladimir Ipatieff Martin Hill Ittner M.&Kharasch Lester Kirschbraun H.B.Kline W. S. Landis EarlT.McBce Elmer V. McCoUum Jerome Martin C. E. K. Mees C. W. Merrill Thomas Midgley. Jr. Carl Shelley Miner J. C. Morrell Harry C. Mougey William B. Newkirk John F. Oiin Walter A. Patrick Karl Ernest Pëiler Carl Pfanstiehl Marvin Pipkin Charles H. Prangs
CarletonKUis J. V. Emmons G. J. Esselen A. L. Feud Colin Garfield Fink Harry Linn Fisher W. C. Geer G. H. Gibson H. W. Greider Lars O. Grondahl H. O. Halvorson Ralph Emmons Hall William Harshaw Henry Bohn Hass C. O. Henke Russell Pearce Heuer K. C. D. Hickman J. R. Ingram
Group and Joint Awards Herbert O. Albrvcbt Eva! i Anderson Thomas A. Boyd Hamilton Bradshaw G. H. Brown Merlin M. Brubaker W. S. Calcott Albert Smith Carter Hans T. Clarke Α. Μ Collins F. B. Downing Ε. Μ. Flaherty Harold W. Greenup M. V. Hitt Horace H. Hopkins John W. Iliff Sebastian Karrer Bengt Kjellgren Alfred T. Larson
Allen E. Lawrence H. W. Lèverons William W. Lowers Donald J. Loder F. A. McDermott Carl J. Malm Edwin R. Maurer Edgar Hugo Nollau Gordon D. Patterson Earle C. Pitman R. C. Roark Paul Robinson W. A. Schmidt H. V. Welch John F. White Harry M. Williams Williac* S. Wilson R. G V.'oodbridge
Honorable Mention Harlan Avery Bond James Eliot Booge Euclid W. Bousquet P. J. Carlisle Oliver Wilfred Cass A. J. Deyrup F. J. Dobrovolny R. B. Elliott C. G. Geary Ivan Gubelmann E. A. Harding C. R. Harris Donald Aubrey Holt James Karr Hunt Ralph A. Jacobson J. A. Jenemann Henry Jordan John L. Keats William E. Kirst Burritt Samuel Lacy C. H. Lemke
A. A. Levine Herbert August Lube Ralph Norbert Lulek A. D. Macallum John W. McCoy Taine D. McDougal Frank W. Parker Arthur N. Parrett Donald A. Ran :~ J. S. Reichert S. S. Rossander Pad L. Salsberg N. D. Scott Joseph Harrel Shipp Alfred Siegel Otto Stallmann Guy B. Taylor Chaplin Tyler J. F. Walker C. J. Wernlund C. A. Woodbury
