from the University of Illinois, has accepted a position as a research chemist in the organic, research laboratory of Sherwin-Williams Co., Chicago.
News-Makers William Francis Giauque, professor of thermodynamics at the University of California, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies on the behavior of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero. Giaque is cited for his work on low temperatures. He developed his own methods to create lower temperatures than any scientist had ever attained previously. Hideki Yukawa, Japanese atomic scientist of the Columbia University staff, won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is the first Oriental to be named a Nobel winner. He gained world-wide scientific fame for his prediction that a meson was a component of the elements and that it was a contributing factor to the binding forces of nature. Bjorn F . Benson has been made a member of the research staff of Industrial Rayon Corp., Cleveland. He come? from Inland Rubber Corp. Werner von Bergen, director of research for the Forstmann Woolen Co., Passaic, N . J., has been given an award from the American Society of Testing Materials for outstanding scientific contribution to the wool industry. Rear Adm. Burton B. Biggs, executive secretary of the Munitions Board Petroleum Committee, has been named representative on the interdepartmental board on synthetic liquid fuels, Washington, D. C.
Robert M. Bridgforth, Jr., has joined the staff of Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va., as associate professor of physical science. He comes from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred E. Brown has been appointed assistant director of research and Anthony M. Schwartz manager of the new industrial chemicals division of Harris Research Laboratories, Washington, D. C. Other additions to the Harris technical staff include Marian M. Hellstrom from Abbott Laboratories; Jacqueline M. Pritchard from the National Bureau of Standards; and Nancy Jane Tucker, recent graduate in chemistry from George Washington University. Ralph Burdeshaw, formerly Plaskon glue representative in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska, has taken over representation in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama for that division of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., with offices in Atlanta. C. J. Fauth has left the Atlanta position to go to Mr. Burdeshaw's former territory in Milwaukee. Emmett H. Burk, Jr., recent Ph.D.
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William B. Bradley has been appointed scientific director of the American Institute of Baking, Chicago, 111. He has been head of the institute laboratories since 1945.
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Arthur F. Bixby, former assistant manager of sates of the agricultural chemicals division of the Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, has been named manager of sales.
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John Biles, until recently engaged in research at the University of Colorado u n d e r an A t o m i c Energy Commission grant, has joined the staff of the Hardin College S c h o o l of Pharmacy, Wichita Falls, Tex., as professor of pharmaceutical chemistry.
Wallace S. Brey, Jr., has joined the faculty of St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia, as assistant professor of chemistry. He comes from DePauw University, where he was assistant professor.
Victor S. Burstein has left Michigan Paper Co. and is now vice president of the Normandy Chemical Corp., Port Huron, Mich. Gordon H. Chambers, vice president of the Foote Mineral Co., Philadelphia, has been appointed to the additional office of treasurer of the company.
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M. J. Conway, Pittsburgh office manager of the Michigan alkali division of Wyandotte Chemicals Corp., was recently presented with a gold watch in recognition of his 25 years of service to the company. Over 1.400 Wyandotte employees have to date received their 25-year watch awards, and 855 of these are still in active service.
University and is now a research fellow in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
Kenneth Conwell, sales representative in the Chicago office of Monsanto Chemical Co.'s organic chemicals division, has been appointed to the division's New York office.
Saul Frances, until recently a member of the department of bacteriology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, has been made director of Wells Laboratories, Inc., Jersey City, X. J.
Robert N. Corning has left Monsanto Chemical Co., where he was a chemist, to accept a part-time teaching assistantship on the analytical chemistry staff at the University of Illinois, Urbana, while doing graduate study.
O. B. J. Fraser, assistant manager of the development and research division of the International Nickel Co., Inc., New York, has been elected president of the American Welding Society.
J. R. Cox has accepted the position as superintendent of refining for Southland Oils, Inc., at the Sandersville, Miss., plant. He has operated his own business in Shrevoport, La... for the past several years.
James A. Freek has left the department of pharmacology at the University of Virginia medical school where he was research associate and has joined the staff as an instructor in the chemistry department of the University of Tennessee medical school, Memphis.
Fred Denig, vice president of Koppers Co., Inc., Pittsburgh, has been made manager of the company's production department. G. Frank D'Alelio has been named vice president and manager of the research department.
Alvin Glassner has left the department of chemistry at Trinity College and has accepted an appointment as theoretical physicist at Reaction Motors, Inc., Dover, N . J.
Bradley Dewey, president of the Dewey cv. Almy Chemical Co., Cambridge. Mass., has been elected chairman of the advisory council for science ami engineering at the University of Xotre Dame. G. J. Dienes, formerly group leader in the physics division at Bakelite Corp., is now research specialist in the laboratory s of North American Aviation, Inc., Downey. Calif. Samuel F. Dubs has been appointed chief metallurgist for Morris P. Kirk & Son. Inc.. a subsidiary of National Lead Co., New York. He has been assistant superintendent of the Los Angeles plant. Frederick M. Eaton, of the New York law firm of Shearman & Sterling & Wright, has been named a member of Monsanto Chemical Co.'s finance committee. Marvin Fein has recently received a Ph.D. from Purdue University and is now employed by Schenley Research Laboratories, Lawrenceburg, Ind., as a research organic chemist. Gordon R. Findlay from Massachusetts Institute of Technology has joined the National Research Corp., Cambridge, Mass. William G. Finnegan has received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Ohio State 3430
Fred D. Fleming, West Coast manager of Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, has retired after nearly 30 years of service with the companj\ He will continue to reside in Baldwin Park, Calif.
Frederick Gormley has been appointed part-time instructor in chemistry at the University of Kentucky. Lexington. He comes from Webster College, where he was instructor in chemistry. N. R. Gotthoffer, chemical consultant, has opened offices at 5819 Kinoll Ave.. Cincinnati. He has been research administrator of the Drackett Co.. and for 19 years was research and technical director of the Grayshike Gelatin Co. Floyd J. Gunn has been made head of coatings sales of Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich. He has l>ecn supervisor of plastics sales in the Chicago office. Abbott K. Hamilton h a s been made a vice president of Commercial Solvents Corp., New York. He has been with the company since it c o m b i n e d with Pennsylvania Alcohol and Chemical Corp., of which he was an executive. CHEMICAL
J. G. Hooley has been appointed chairman of the department of chemistry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Other newly appointed staff members are E. V. White from the University of Idaho and G. G. S. Dutton from the Sir John Cass Technical Institute / . G. Hooley in London, on the organic staff; S. H. Zbarsky from the University of Minnesota, to teach biochemistry ; M. Kirsch from the University of Manitoba, W. A. Bryce from Oxford, B . A. Dunell from Princeton University, and H. M. Daggett from Brown University, to teach physical and analytical chemistry. D. S. Scott, who comes from the National Research Council at Ottawa, and C. W. Larkam, from E. I . du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., have been added to the chemical engineering staff, and J. P. Tully, the senior oceanographer at the Pacific Biological Station at Nanaimo, B. C . will be a part-time lecturer in the department of chemical oceanography. Stanley C. Hope has been elected president of Esso Standard Oil Co. Former executive vice president and director of the company, he succeeds M. J. Rathbone. H. G. Burks, Jr., vice president and director, has been named executive vice president. K. Elizabeth Howe has left the Stamford research laboratory of American Cyanamid Co. and has accepted a position as librarian with Carter Products, Inc., New Brunswick. N. J. Albert S. Hunter has taken a position in soil fertility research at the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, Corvallis. The position is that of soil scientist with the division of soil management, and associate professor of soils at Oregon State College. He was transferred from Salinas, Calif. Warren H. Kaye has accepted a position as process development engineer in the metallurgical processing division of the Saratoga Laboratories, Inc., Saratoga Springs, N. Y. He comes from the metals research laboratory at the University of Vermont. David Kelsey has been transferred from the Chicago laboratory of the Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville. Md. He is still with the insecticide division of the livestock branch of Production and Marketing Administration, Department of Agriculture. AND
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Lawrence C. Kingsland, Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D . C , has re signed from that position to return to private practice in St. Louis. John A. Marzall of Chicago has been named to succeed him. James G. Knudsen, who recently received his P h . D . in chemical engi neering from the U n i v e r s i t y of Michigan, has been appointed assistant professor of chemi cal engineering at Oregon State Col lege, Corvallis. Before his study at Michigan, Dr. Knudsen taught chemical engineering at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.
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Irving Kogon has been appointed re search fellow at Brooklyn College under a grant from the Research Corp.
fluidity or mobility permits it to be pumped or sprayed like a. liquid or to be easily dispersed to a n unusually fine a n d penetrating dust.
Robert A. Kriegeris now employed by the U. S. Geological Survey to do re search in quality of water at the water resources division in Washington, D. C. H e comes from Hercules Powder Co.
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William E . Laughlin has joined the research department of the Pittsburgh Corning Corp., Port Allegany, Pa. He is a recent graduate in chemical engi neering from Pennsylvania State College.
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Arthur Lindenbaum of Argonne Na tional Laboratory has recently joined the staff of the medical division as an associate biochemist. He will receive a P h . D . degree in physiological and bio logical chemistry at the University of Minnesota in December.
an -mmiscible solvent, such as^ n a p h t h a , etc. DRY-FLO is suspended in the solvent. And even though it settles to' the surface of the water it continues to be easily resuspended in the solvent, as illustrated".
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Paul Linz has been named chairman of the board of directors of the South American Minerals and Merchandise Corp., New York. Earl L. McCabe, Jr., who recently re turned to this country from Germany, where he was a pilot on the Berlin air lift, has been assigned to the Air ForceInstitute of Technology as a student in the College of Industrial Administra tion, Dayton, Ohio. William L. Madison has joined the product development department of Bristol Laboratories, Inc., Syracuse, Ν . Υ., as senior chemist. He comes from Burroughs Wellcome Co. The following have been given post graduate fellowships in the division of industrial and cellulose chemistry at
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NEWS-MAKERS McGill University: D . F . Manchester of Queen's College, by Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.; George B. Creamer, from New York State College of For estry at Syracuse University, by Ameri can Viscose Corp.; N . Levitin (Queen's) by Brown Corp.; D . A. Guthrie, by Canadian Industries, Ltd., and John A. Harpham, by the D. S. and R. H. Gotr.esman Foundation.
the company. H e will devote his time t o service as an industrial consultant, and will open offices in Boston next 3rear.
Harris C. Miller has been promoted to the sales staff of the Hooker Electro chemical Co. and assigned to the New York City sales area. He has been process studjT engineer.
F. E . Satterthwaite has been appointed quality control engineer of the plastics division in the chemical department of the General Electric Co. at Pittsfield, Mass. He has been quality control en gineer for the product service division of the company in Bridgeport.
Jerre L. Noland has recently accepted appointment as a biochemist in the Entomology Section, Medical Division, Army Chemical Center, Md. He held a Lai or fellowship in biochemistry at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole during the summer. Roy E . Paul has been appointed su perintendent of the Tarpon Springs, Fla., plant of Victor Chemical Works. H e has been assistant production superin tendent at the Mount Pleasant, Tenn., plant. James L. Peyton, Jr., and James Wiechman have joined the chemistry staff at Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, Pa. They recently received mas ter's degrees in chemistry and education, respectively, at Marshall College and Western Illinois State College. Bryan C. Redmon has been ap pointed assistant director of organic chemical research by U. S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc., at the Baltimore labo ratories. H e has b e e n with USI since 1946. F r e d e r i c k D. Rossini, chief of the thermochemis try and hydrocar bons section of the National Bureau of Standards, has been appointed professor and head of the chemistry department at Car negie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, effective July 1, 1950. Dr. Rossini is chairman of the Washington Chemical Society, local section of the ACS. J. B. Rutter, vice president of Mon santo Chemical Co. and general man ager of its Merrimac division, Everett, Mass., has retired after 30 years with
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H . R. Salisbury has been appointed president of the Air Reduction Sales Co., N e w York, Ν . Υ. H e has been associ ated with the organization for over 23 years in various executive capacities.
Lucien A. Schaible, until recently chief chemist of the Oxzyn Co., has been appointed director of the new labora tory for research and product develop ment of Charles of the Ritz, Inc., South Norwalk, Conn. V e r n e H. Schnee, previously assistant director of Battelie Insti tute, has been named director of the University of O k l a h o m a Re search Institute in Norman. H. H . Schrenk, §§# former industrial health official of the U. S. Bureau of Mines and the U . S . P u b l i c Health Service, has been appointed to the staff of Industrial Hygiene Founda tion's fellowship at Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh. H e will serve as a senior fellow and as research director of the foundation. Robert A. Speck has been made vice president of National Carbide Corp., N e w York, in charge of sales and dis tribution. George R. Milne has been appointed vice president in charge of operations, with headquarters in Louis ville, K y . Cyril J. Staud, director of Kodak Re search Laboratories, Rochester, Ν . Υ., has been elected a fellow of the Photo graphic Society of America. John A. Stierstorfer has been ap pointed senior sj^nthetic enamel chem ist at the Stamford, Conn., branch of the Atlas Powder Co.'s industrial fin ishes department.
CHEMICAL
Necrology Leonor
Michaelis
Leonor Michaelis, 74, physical chemist and member emeritus of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, died recently at the institute's hospital. Born in Berlin, he took an M . D . degree there in 1896 and began his career at the State Institute of Serum Research in Berlin. H e held several other research positions in Germany and in 1922 went to Japan as professor of biochemistry at the medical school in Nagoya. H e came to this country in 1926 and until 1929 lectured in research medicine at Johns Hopkins, when he joined the staff of Rockefeller Institute. His most recent work was the discov ery of the radical of vitamin Ε which may prove basic to an understanding of the action of the vitamin. He discovered that the protein of hah becomes soluble material under the ac tion of thioglycolic acid, which is the basis for cold permanent hair waving, or the home permanent. He was better known in scientific circles for his work on enzymes. In 1912 he published a book on mathe matics for biologists and chemists, and two years later his book on hydrogen ion concentration appeared, which was to become a classic in the field of physi cal chemistry. His manual of physical chemistry and his book on oxidationreduction potentials have been trans lated into many languages and have run into many editions. He had been a member of ACS sincf 1926.
Gustave H.
Pfeiffer
Gustave H. Pfeiffer, 45, retired busi ness manager of the Hercules Powder Co. experiment station, Wilmington. Del., died Oct. 31 after an extended ill ness. A graduate of Rose Polytechnic Institute, Mr. Pfeiffer received an M 5 . degree from Carnegie Institute of Tech nology in 1926. H e joined Hercules the same year as a research chemist, and in 1937 became a member of the patent department. In 1940 he was named group leader of the testing division and later business manager. He has been a member of ACS since 1940. Emanuel Bloch, research chemist at the Pepsi-Cola Co., Long Island City, NT. Y., Aug. 30. ACS member since 1943. Charles F. R. Brotherton, chairman of Brotherton & Co., Ltd., Leeds, Yorks, England, July 28. ACS member since 1931. A. Donald Cummings, chief chemist, Collyer Insulated Wire Co., Pawtucket, R. I., Sept. 1. ACS member since 1925.
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