Awards New award established The ACS New Haven Section has established a new award, the Maurice R. Chamberland Award for Applied Chemistry, to recognize outstanding professional achievement of a member of the section in the area of applied chemistry. It will consist of $200 and a bronze plaque to be given biennially. The award perpetuates the memory of Dr. Maurice R. Chamberland, who served the section as chairman in 1974 and in numerous other capacities before his death in December 1975. ACS members may make nominations for the award, and may indeed nominate themselves for it. The nomination should include the name and address as well as a brief statement of the achievement of the candidate, and be submitted by April 15 to Dr. Joseph Reardon, Quantum Inc., Barnes Industrial Park, Wallingford, Conn. 06492.
Dr. Marion D. Francis, senior scientist at the Miami Valley Laboratories of Procter & Gamble Co., has received the ACS Cincinnati Section Chemist of the Year Award. The award recognizes Francis for his research on bones and teeth; his basic research on the effect of stannous fluoride on tooth enamel played an important role in the development of fluoride in toothpaste. Francis has also done research in the treatment of bone disease and the early diagnosis of bone cancer.
terephthalic acid and the direct oxidation of propylene to propylene oxide. Dr. Attila E. Pavlath and Dr. Allen G. Pittman have received the ACS California Section Award in recognition of their contributions to fluorine chemistry. Pavlath and Pittman have collectively devoted 41 years to the advancement of fluorine chemistry, each having written about 100 scientific publications, books,
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chapters, etc., and having lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad. They are jointly involved in the deposition of fluorocarbon polymers on various surfaces using electric glow discharge in order to achieve a soil-repellent surface. Pavlath is a project leader at USDA's Western Regional Research Center in Albany; Pittman is a research leader, also at USDA, WRRC in Albany, and adjunct, professor, division of textiles & clothing, University of California, Davis. Francis
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Dr. Ralph Landau will receive the 1977 Winthrop-Sears Medal of the Chemical Industry Association this week in New York City. The medal is awarded to an individual "who by his entrepreneurial action .contributed to the vitality of the chemical industry and the betterment of mankind." Landau cofounded Scientific Design Co., a process development and engineering-construction company, in 1946. When Scientific Design became part of Halcon International in 1963, he became president of Halcon, and in 1975 was elected chairman of the board and chief executive officer, his position to date. Landau is credited with the development of radically new chemical process technology including the "Mid-Century" process for the oxidation of p-xylene to
People Deaths Edmund Adams, 66, Nov. 3, 1976, Annapolis, Md. Joined ACS in 1947. Dr. C. E. Barnett, 71, Sept. 21, 1976, Palmerton, Pa. Joined ACS in 1928; emeritus member. Jordan F. Brown, 55, Dec. 29, 1976, Henderson, Nev. Joined ACS in 1946. Dr. Richard G. Chase, 60, October 1976, Kent, Ohio. Joined ACS in 1944. Thompson J. Coe, 60, Jan. 5, San Francisco. Joined ACS in 1950. Thomas B. Cole, 49, Jan. 9, Decatur, Ala. Joined ACS in 1962. June Coleman, 56, Dec. 7, 1976, Mentor, Ohio, Joined ACS in 1947. Edwin Cox, 74, retired general, former vice president of Virginia-Carolina Chemical, and
senior partner of consulting firm, Feb. 'I'l. of a heart attack, Richmond, Va. Joined ACS in 1923. Cox was a noted historian of the state of Virginia, as well as an expert on military history, particularly the Civil War. A large part oi his early research was concentrated in the tie velopment of nicotine compounds. In 1965 ru received the Cold Medal Award of the Amen can Institute of Chemists. Dr. William J. Hart, 68, Dec. 14. 1976. Clarion, Pa. Joined ACS in 1941. Leslie E. Hartwell, 71, Oct. 22, 1976. Area dia, Calif. Joined ACS in 1955. Dr. Roberta Bleiler Hill, 46, nutritionist and biochemist at Eastern Kentucky University, Oct. 5, 1976, Richmond, Kv. Joined ACS in 1956. Richard L. Holgate, 47, Oct. 29, 1976. Creve Coeur, Mo. Joined ACS in 1955. Dr. Garold C. Jenison, 78, Nov. 4, 1976, Phoenix. Joined ACS in 1928; emeritus member. Dr. Duane E. Johnson, 47, Nov. 29. 1976, Los Gatos, Calif. Joined ACS in 1950. David Y. Kim, 42, Oct. 18, 1976. Lowell. Mass. Joined ACS in 1965. Dr. Munio Kotake, 82, Sept. 18, 1976. Osaka. Japan. Joined ACS in 1951. Otto L. Kowalke, 98, Dec. 27, 1976, Madison, Wis. Joined ACS in 1914; emeritus mem ber. Maurice M. Kraft, 84, president of Kraft Chemical Co., Chicago, Jan. 19. Joined ACS in 1941. Dr. Thomas D. Kroner, 62, Nov. 13. 1976. Marblehead, Mass. Joined ACS in 1941 Joseph H. Kugler, 73, formerly manager oi chemical division of 3M, St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 26, 1976. Joined ACS in 1927; emeritus member. Dr. Paul K. Leatherman, 71, Dec. 1. 1976, Garden Grove, Calif. Joined ACS in 19.11. Dr. Milton Levy, 54, New York University School of Medicine, Oct. 30, 1976, New York City. Joined ACS in 1948. Robert R. Lewis, 79, Nov. 30, Medford. Ore. Joined ACS in 1918; emeritus member. Thomas G. Lyons, 50, Monsanto Co., Texas Citv, Tex., Oct. 20, 1976. Joined ACS in 1951. Mike M. Maaghoul, 32, Elect ru Power Research Inst., Jan. 21, Palo Alto, Calif. Joined ACS in 1971. Dr. Louis A. Mikeska, 87, Oct. 22, 1976, Largo, Ha. Joined ACS in 1917: emeritus member. Dr. Julian Miller, 54, nuclear chemist. Columbia University, Dec. 14, 1976, of a cerebral hemorrhage, Berkeley, Calif. Dr. Miller was credited with research broadening the understanding of how one element is changed into another in nuclear reactions. Joined ACS in 1961. Dr. Y'lon N. Morris, 75, December 1976, Maitland, Fla. Joined ACS in 1924; emeritus member. Chairman of North Jersev Section 1956. Dr. Hugh H. Mosher, 87, Oct. 6. 1976. New Shrewsbury, N.J. Joined ACS in 1922; emeritus member. Dr. Eric Weger, 46, professor and chairman of chemical engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 17. Joined ACS in 1969. Contributions to a memorial fund in his honor may be sent to Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Box 1198, Washington Universitv, St. Louis, Mo. 63130. Dr. Aaron Weiner, 38, photo products divi sion of Du Pont, Parlin, N.J., Nov. 29, 1976. of a heart attack. Joined ACS in 1963. Bruce Williams, 93, former owner and op erator of Bruce Williams Laboratories, Joplin, Mo., Nov. 28, 1976. Joined ACS in 1906; emeritus member. Dr. Frederick Woitseh, 67, Jan. 25, Monro via, Calif. Joined ACS in 1952. A. H. Zeigler, 67, president of American Solar Corp., Sept. 24, 1976. Miami, Fla. Joined ACS in 1939. April 4, 1977 C&EN
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