Kathryn Landgraff. Their son is doing graduate work in physics at Berkeley.
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Nichols Medal to Rossini of Notre Dame Work in thermodynamics led to his becoming a world authority in petroleum chemistry This year's recipient of the William H. Nichols Medal of the New York ACS Section, Dr. Frederick D. Rossini, was cited for his "outstanding contributions to the area of chemical thermodynamics through research, writing,
and organization." Dr. Rossini is dean of the college of science at University of Notre Dame, associate dean of the graduate school, and chairman of Notre Dame's research council. Before going to Notre Dame, Dr. Rossini was Silliman Professor and head of the chemistry department at Carnegie Tech, as well as director of the chemical and petroleum research laboratory there. Before that, he spent 22 years with the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C. He began his continuing interest in thermodynamics and thermochemistry—particularly with respect to hydrocarbons—at NBS. This work ultimately led to his becoming a world authority in petroleum chemistry. Dr. Rossini took a B.S. in chemical engineering in 1925 and an M.S. in science in 1926 at Carnegie Tech, and his doctorate at University of California, Berkeley, in 1928. He joined NBS in a time when pioneering investigations of basic sci84
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entists and industrial processes of applied scientists were requiring thermodynamic data of increasing accuracy. As Dr. Rossini says, "About the time the need developed for more accurate data on heats of reaction foiscience and industry, a renaissance in thermochemistry began. I was fortunate to be starting my work in thermochemistry at that time." With the support and encouragement of the late Dr. Edward W. Washburn, Dr. Rossini set up the thermochemical laboratory at NBS. He succeeded Dr. Washburn as director of the American Petroleum Institute Research Project No. 6 on the hydrocarbon composition of petroleum. After leaving NBS he continued his work on API-sponsored research projects at Carnegie Tech's chemical and petroleum research laboratory. In addition to his research work, Dr. Rossini has always had a deep interest in teaching. He lectured in thermodynamics to classes in the graduate school of NBS from 1934 to 1950. He also has been a lecturer in chemical thermodynamics at Howard University and in petroleum chemistry at Catholic University of America. Dr. Rossini has been head of two national organizations of scientists. In 1963-64 he was president of Sigma Xi; in 1961-65 he served as president of the Albertus Magnus Guild, an organization of Catholic scientists. He has also been both secretary and chairman of the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs. Dr. Rossini was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1951. He holds six honorary doctorates. The Nichols Medal is the third ACS section award for him; the others are the 1934 Hillebrand Award of the Washington Chemical Society and the 1959 Pittsburgh Award. Among Dr. Rossini's many professional affiliations, in addition to ACS, are the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Institute of Chemists, and AAAS. Dr. Rossini is married to the former
EDUCATION Stork Honored Dr. Gilbert Stork, professor of chemistry at Columbia University, is the seventh winner of the annual Edward Curtis Franklin Memorial Award sponsored by Phi Lambda Upsilon at Stanford University. Dr. Stork has also been chosen to deliver the annual Foster Lecture Series in the chemistry department of State University of New York at Buffalo, April 25 to 29. Jack K. Carlton, formerly dean of college of sciences at Louisiana State University, is now dean of the faculties of arts and sciences and professor of chemistry at University of West Florida, being built at Pensacola. Mary Constance Castellanos joins the ACS Publications staff in Washington, D . C , to work as an editorial assistant on the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and the Journal of Chemical Engineering Data. She has worked with Food and Drug Administration and with Documentation, Inc. Dr. Wesley J. Dale, head of evaluation group for National Science Foundation's science development program, appointed dean of school of graduate studies and professor of chemistry at University of Missouri, Kansas City. Dr. Peter J. W. Debye, emeritus professor of chemistry at Cornell, delivered the first lectures under the distinguished visiting professorship program of the chemistry department at Fordham in February. Scheduled for the future are Dr. Cyril A. Grob of Basel, Switzerland, April; Dr. F. Albert Cotton of MIT, May; Dr. Emanuel Vogel of Cologne, West Germany, July; Dr. C. A. Coulson, Oxford University, September; Dr. Feodor Lynen, Munich, October; and Dr. Koji Nakanishi of Tohoku University, month to be announced.
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Dr. Farrington Daniels, professor emeritus of physical chemistry at University of Wisconsin, presented the sixth annual Harold A. Iddles Lecture Series at University of New Hampshire this month. He spoke on solar energy and small portable electrochemical power sources. New on the staff of Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio: James M. DeZelar and Jennifer A. Olt, formula indexing; Patricia A. Frye and David R. Heym, systems development; and Allan M. Leib and Roger L. Moody, assignment and abstracting. Dortha B. Doolittle named professor in chemistry department at Pennsylvania Military College, Chester, Pa. From Drexel Institute of Technology. Bernard Hornung, formerly chief engineer for Europe of the overseas chemical division of W. R. Grace & Co., has been appointed to take over the planning of the expansion and partial relocation of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Harold S. Johnston, professor of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, and a leading investigator in the field of gas kinetics, has been appointed dean of the college of chemistry at Berkeley. Dr. Samuel Lenher, a v.p. of Du Pont, named a fellow of University College, London. The title is given to former students who have attained distinction in science, art, literature, or public life. Dr. Richard C. Lord, professor of chemistry at MIT, received the SSP Award of the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh for outstanding contributions to the field of infrared spectroscopy. Dr. S. S. Penner, professor and chairman of the department of the aerospace and mechanical engineering sciences at University of California, San Diego, has been elected a member of the engineering sciences section of the International Academy of Astronautics. Membership in the section is world-wide and is limited to 60. 86
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Dr. David B. Phillips joins faculty of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, as assistant professor of chemistry. Dr. Hyungong Kim and Dr. Joseph S. Cantrell join as assistant professors. Dr. Lewis N. Pino, who has been program director for the undergraduate student program at National Science Foundation, is now assistant to the chancellor of Oakland University, Rochester, Mich.
INDUSTRY Bert W. Ahrens named technical sales representative of cosmetic and detergent division for Standard Chemical Products, Hoboken, N.J. Dr. James A. Arvin, director of resin research department at Sherwin-Williams since 1946, retires. Succeeded by Dr. James H. Sample. Dr. Lynwood N. Whitehill named assistant director of the department.
Dr. John A. Shellenberger, director of department of flour and feed milling at Kansas State University, becomes president of International Association for Cereal Chemistry. He succeeds Dr. T. Widhe of Sweden and is the first representative of the U.S. to head the ICC.
Dr. Richard H. Barry promoted to assistant director of product development for all pharmaceutical products of Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., Nutley,
Dr. Daniel Swern,
Ralph G. Biondi named marketing director for Allied Chemical's Plastics Division, Clifton, N.J.
senior investigator at Fels Research Institute of Temple University school of medicine and professor of chemistry in the school of liberal arts, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays visiting lectureship at Osaka University, Japan, for 1966-67. Dr. Charles H. Townes, provost of MIT, one of the inventors of the laser, and also renowned for his research in microwave physics, has been named to receive the Priestley Memorial Award of Dickinson College. The award of $1000 honors him for his "contributions to mankind through physics and his interest in educating young scientists." Professor the Rt. Hon. the Lord Wynne-Jones of Abergele, head of the school of chemistry at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, who was formerly Prof. W. F. K. WynneJones, delivers the second annual series of Kilpatrick Lectures in chemistry at Illinois Institute of Technology this month. Dr. Howard E. Zimmerman will deliver the 1966 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Lecture at Ohio University department of chemistry May 2. He will speak on Recent Developments in Exploratory and Mechanistic Organic Photochemistry.
N.J. Edward T. Benning named sales manager of Tenneco Chemicals, Inc., Nixon-Baldwin division, Nixon, N.J.
Andrew H. Black named assistant market manager for Union Carbide's Olefins Division.
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Boxer named executive director of Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research and director of the institute's bioorganic chemistry Boxer group. Dr. Ashton C. Cuckler becomes senior director of the institute, and Dr. Robert H. Silber, senior investigator for drug metabolism studies. Dr. Willard M. Bright, a v.p. and director of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., named v.p. of Industrial Research Institute, New York City. He succeeds Dr. Finn J. Larsen, recently nominated by President Johnson as principal deputy director of defense research and engineering. George E. Brissey named general manager of Swift & Co. quality assurance department, Chicago. He succeeds V. C. Mehlenbacher, retired. Dr. Thomas P. Carney elected senior v.p. for R&D at G. D. Searle & Co., Chicago. George W. Cavanaugh appointed technical staff consultant at Alpha Metals, Inc., Jersey City, N.J.
Dr. Kuo Y. Chang joins benzene research lab of Dow Chemical, Midland, Mich. Dr. Stacy Daniels joins chemical department research labs; Karlis F. Riskevics, the materials engineering lab, and Joe C. Andrick, the analytical lab. Robert W. H. Chang promoted to supervisor of R&D at medical products division lab of 3M Co., St. Paul.
Garvan Medal
George R. Couch named assistant to general manager of western mining divisions of Kennecott Copper, Salt Lake City.
Mary L. Petermann
A. B. Craig named Chemback director in commercial development department of Chemstrand. A decision to study the particulate material which kept interfering with her efforts to study deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) launched a long and continuing interest in nucleoproteins for Dr.
Mary L. Petermann. In recognition of her pioneering research in cellular chemistry, she is being honored as the 1966 recipient of the Garvan Medal, which recognizes distinguished service to chemistry by women chemists. It will be presented to Di. Petermann by Dr. H. Gladys Swope, chairman of the Women's Service Committee, at the 151st ACS National Meeting. Dr. Petermann received the Sloan award in cancer research in 1963 and also became the first woman Member of the Sloan-Kettering Institute of Cancer Research. The particulate material which attracted Dr. Petermann's attention in 1949 was referred to for a short time as "Petermann particles" but has since been formally named ribosomes. These mammalian cytoplasmic ribonucleoproteins are now known to be the sites of protein synthesis. Dr. Petermann began her studies on the ribosomes with a crude cellular homogenate. She brought the quantitative techniques of physical chemistry to bear on the delineation of the properties of the ribosome and its stability in biological systems. Ultracentrifugal analysis revealed differences between the ribosomes of normal and abnormal mammalian tissues. Electrophoretic analysis resulted in isolating ribosomes containing 50% RNA. Attempts to isolate larger quantities of purified ribosomes were unsuc-
cessful until the need for a dialyzable stabilizing factor was realized. With the help of a stabilizing factor prepared from calf liver, Dr. Petermann isolated the first mammalian ribosomes in a highly purified form and characterized them physicochemically. The importance of magnesium ion concentration in stabilizing the ribosome was also observed by Dr. Petermann. Later, magnesium replaced the animal extract as a stabilizer for ribosomes. The degree to which the ribonucleoprotein particles became associated or contaminated with other proteins was demonstrated by Dr. Petermann. Her preparation of "clean" ribosomes helped to dispel the confusion as to whether activating enzymes were a necessary part of protein biosynthesis. Once the ribosomes were clean, the need for the addition of activating enzymes could be demonstrated. Ribosomes from a rapidly growing rat tumor, the Jensen sarcoma, were purified by Dr. Petermann, and their ability to bind magnesium was studied. The free ribosomes in this sarcoma's cytoplasm, Dr. Petermann found, can be purified with or without the use of deoxycholate and the properties of the two types of preparations compared. Dr. Petermann's current areas of interest include the transformations which ribosomes may undergo, the characterization of the RNA subunits, and the binding of proteins to the ribosomes. Dr. Petermann graduated with high honors in chemistry from Smith in 1929 and received her Ph.D. in physiological chemistry from Wisconsin in 1939 under Dr. E. L. Severinghause.
Alexander D'Angio named director of marketing by Calmec Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles. J. S. Michael Dashwood appointed president of Chemicals Division of Miles Laboratories, Elkhart, Ind. Dr. Walter G. DeWitt joins Rohm & Haas research laboratories in Bristol, Pa. T. A. Dietz will administer all chemical activities for Gulf Oil, Pittsburgh. Dr. Alex Lewis, Jr., will direct all refining activities. G. Charles Egleson will manage inorganic geological work at Midland, Mich., for Dow Chemical. John Evans, Jr., joins staff of Sun Oil's research and engineering department, to work in industrial and automotive products. Frederick F. Fleischman, Jr., from Corning Glass named general manager of Sentinel Glass, Hatboro, Pa. William F. Gerrow, Jr., named general manager of Southern Latex, division of International Latex & Chemical, Austell, Ga. Timothy Hely joins technical sales staff of HumKo Products Chemical, a division of National Dairy Products, Clifton, N.J. Thomas A. Hoenigman joins staff of B. F. Goodrich Co. research center, Brecksville, Ohio, as a research chemist. MARCH
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David E. Jackson named manager of Nalco Chemical's subsidiary, Nalco, Ltd., London. Rudolph A. Jerothe named manager of Toscony plant at Passaic, N.J. Harvie M. Merrill named manager of KayeTex plant at Yardville, N J . These are operations of Stauffer Chemical's plastics division. Dr. Leon Katz, corporate director of research and development for General Aniline & Film Corp., has been elected a vice president of the company. Dr. Katz joined the firm in 1953 as a senior chemist at the Linden, N.J., chemical plant. Edgar G. Luerich named plant manager of specialty chemical division plant, Stauffer Chemical, Weston, Mich. Leland N. Mattson elected a v.p. and named director of chemical and microbiological services of Scientific Associates, Inc., St. Louis.
Dr. Clyde H. Nestler and Dr. John D. Bashaw named research chemists at Chemstrand Research Center, Durham, N.C. Dr. James P. Bell named senior research engineer and J. W. McGee, research chemical engineer.
James C. DeLand, technologist, Shell Oil, Deer Park, Tex., Nov. 15, 1965.
Edward S. O'Connor appointed technical development director at Pfister Chemical Works, Inc., Ridgefield, N.J. Donald Wagstaff appointed production manager.
Reginald P. Fraser, 66, SL founder of the jet research laboratory at Imperial College, London, and associated with the faculty there for more than 40 years, Feb. 25.
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Earle A. Harding, retired, Jan. 1, Wilmington, Del. Joined ACS in 1920.
Andrew I. Andrews, head of department of ceramic engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana, Jan. 31. Joined ACS in 1920. Roland Blanchard, retired, Sierra Madré, Calif., Jan. 15. Joined ACS in 1924; life member. Dr. Jakob Blom, 66, chief chemist at Tuborg Breweries, Ltd., Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 14, 1965.
Michael A. McNeilly named technical director for Apogee Chemical, Inc., Richmond, Calif.
Dr. Walter R. Bloor, 88, professor emeritus of biochemistry and the first chairman of the department of biochemistry at University of Rochester school of medicine and dentistry, Feb. 11.
Edward G. Merritt named manager of pharmaceutical and cosmetic section at Chas. Pfizer & Co. chemical division.
Theodore H. Boss, 61, president of American Aniline Products, Inc., Paterson, N.J., Feb. 22 in Manchester, England.
Dr. S. A. Miller from British Oxygen Co., Ltd., establishes a consulting practice in London.
George L. Bousquet, 74, retired consultant to Transition Metals & Chemicals, Inc., Wallkill, N.Y, Jan. 19. Joined ACS in 1918; emeritus member.
Robert L. Mitchell appointed v.p.technical and manufacturing, and Graham Davis, v.p.-administration and international, at Celanese Chemical. Dr. W. B. Ligett appointed corporate technical director and Dr. A. 0. Zoss, corporate director for commercial development. John I. Morrison and Hope Howard join staff of chemistry division at Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, Mo. Dr. John Nelson promoted to head of department of refrigerated foods research at General Mills, Minneapolis. Dr. George Foster and Dr. Ali Touba join exploratory food research department. 88
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Edward E. Brown, 56, chief chemist, Interlake Iron Corp., Beverly, Ohio, Jan. 8.
Joseph C. Fox, die-casting consultant, Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 27, 1965. Joined ACS in 1917.
Dr. Arlie P. Julien, 67, retired, formerly research director at Solvay Process, Jan. 25. Joined ACS in 1922; emeritus member. (For an account of his plans for a research center for retired chemists, see C&EN, Nov. 4, 1963, page 152.) Gerald Liebert, 40, brewmaster, Lucky Lager Brewing Co., San Francisco, October 1965. ACS member since 1954. George H. Mengel, retired, Jan. 8, Berkeley, Calif. Joined ACS in 1912; emeritus member. J. F. Mitchell, 55, chief chemist, U.S. Pipe & Foundry Co., Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 4, 1965. Joined ACS in 1930. William F. Palmer, 64, retired sales manager, Reading Dyeing Co., Reading, Pa., Dec. 16, 1965. Joined ACS in 1925. Dr. Reston Stevenson, 84, emeritus professor of chemistry at College of the City of New York, Nov. 22, 1965. Joined ACS in 1903; emeritus member.
Desmond M. Carney, 64, of the chemistry faculty at University of Detroit, Feb. 24.
Dr. Thorbergur Thorvaldson, 83, cement chemist, dean emeritus of graduate studies at University of Saskatchewan, Oct. 4, 1965. Joined ACS in 1908.
Gustav E. Cohen, 85, retired, formerly on the faculty at Penn State, State College, Pa., Dec. 15, 1965. Joined ACS in 1909; emeritus member.
Cecil L. Traywick, chemist, U.S. Pipe & Foundry Co., Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 18, 1965.
Edward I. Cotter, 70, retired, formerly chief chemist at Goldsmith Bros. Refining & Smelting, Chicago, Jan. 31.
James G. Weart, Jr., retired, formerly chemist and lab supervisor, State of Illinois Department of Public Health, Springfield, Jan. 20. Joined ACS in 1921.
