Dr. Edmond S. Perry named assistant head of photomaterials division of Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, N.Y.
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INDUSTRY Robert N. Armour appointed president of Heyden division of Tenneco Chemicals, Inc., New York City. Dr. Lester Arond and Dr. Lloyd Taylor
named research group leaders in polymer research lab of Polaroid Corp., Cambridge, Mass. Dr. Sidney Kasman and Herbert Ahrens named to a similar post in pilot chemical lab, and Dr. Leon Rubin, in analytical chemistry lab. Harris Curtis promoted .to associate scientist in organic research lab. Miles G. Benson joins staff of Dominion Aluminum Fabricating Co., Ltd., Toronto, as chief engineer. Wilbur L. Boyer appointed to products application lab staff at New Jersey Zinc, Palmerton, Pa. Robert Brady named sales manager of Pfister Chemical Works, Metuchen,
N.J. Paul W. Brna, who is retail sales manager of George Lueders & Co., elected president of Chicago Perfumery, Soap and Extract Association. Albert J. Weber of Brockway Glass named v.p.; Albert S. Dunham of Wheaton Glass, secretary; and Richard E. Lavers of Avon Products, treasurer. Dr. Ralph J. Brodd named research technical manager for rechargeable batteries and Dr. John F. Yeager, for 82
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primary batteries at Union Carbide lab, Parma, Ohio. Dr. Akiya Kozawa named a research associate. Harvey S. Lipske appointed v.p. of product development and quality control at Fay go Beverage Co., Detroit.
Dr. Charles W. Plummer promoted to director of research for Polyvinyl Chemicals, Inc., Peabody, Mass. Dr. Daniel S. Polcyn named senior electro chemist at Gould-National Batteries, Inc., R&D lab, Minneapolis.
Roy G. Lucas joins Ugine Industries, Inc., subsidiary of Société d'ElectroChimie d'Ugine, in New York City as a sales promotion manager.
William A. Rowe named manager of research services at Gould-National Batteries, Inc., R&D lab, Minneapolis.
E. Hoke Martin, district sales manager for paper chemicals at Hercules Powder, retires after 29 years of service.
Lawrence A. Shipman joins Continental Can as director of R&D for folding carton division, Chicago.
W. Dale McElroy elected v.p.-operations of United Gas Improvement Co., Philadelphia.
Dr. E. Bruce Trickey named manager of Geigy Chemical's production plant, Mcintosh, Ala. John A. Gaunt named assistant manager and head of production. Phillip G. McCracken becomes head of development department.
Calvin J. McManus, Jr., named v.p. and general manager of process plants division at Foster Wheeler Corp. Frank A. Lee named general manager of the fired heater division. Dr. B. A. Mela a s named group leader in organic research section of Celanese Chemical, Corpus Christi, Tex. Dr. P. L. Pickard named research associate and Frances Colburn, librarian. Dr. Ronald A. Mitchell named analytical research chemist at Du Pont's Jackson lab, Wilmington, Del. Ferrin B. Moreland becomes chief of biomedical support section of crew systems labs, Brown & Root-Northrop, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center. Dr. Robert E. Muller appointed corporate director of research and development at National Can Corp., Chicago.
Lester B. Woolfenden named to new position of regional manager of manufacturing for dyestuff and chemical division of General Aniline & Film, Calvert City, Ky. Dr. Ronald H. Yocum joins special assignment program at Dow Chemica], Midland, Mich. A. E. Young named to head a study of Dow Chemical's invention and patent procedure. William C. Young named head of inspection control section at manufacturing division, Smith Kline & French Labs, Philadelphia.
Continental Carbon Elects Oswald Newell, Jr., has been elected president of Continental Carbon Co.,
Dr. Dennis M. Mulvey and Dr. John L Zabriskie join Merck & Co., Rahway, N.J., as senior research chemists. James C. Schaeffer, Martin J. Blazis, and James P. Crane join as research chemists, and Robert D. Burleson, Jr., as manager of business development. Helen E. Oberstar named group leader in hair products at Shulton, Inc., New York City. W. Hampton Oliver named executive v.p. at Toyad Corp., Latrobe, Pa.
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EDUCATION New MIT President Howard W. Johnson, who has been dean of the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at MIT, has been elected president of MIT. He sucJohnson ceeds Dr. Julius A. Stratton, who will retire July 1. Dean Johnson is on leave temporarily from MIT to serve as a consultant to Federated Department Stores in Cin cinnati. He is the second social sci entist to become president of MIT. Arthur W. Adamson, professor of chemistry at University of Southern California, is on a six-month visit at the University of Bristol where he will be Unilever Visiting Professor for the 1965-66 session. Dr. R. E. Gibson, director of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Silver Spring, Md., has been appointed Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) by Queen Elizabeth II. He was cited for his contributions to Anglo-American friendship and understanding. Dr. John Howatson and Dr. John E. Maurer promoted to professors of chemistry at University of Wyoming. Dr. John W. Hamilton and Dr. Yet-Oy Chang promoted to professors in the department of biochemistry. Dr. Shyamala Rajander promoted to assistant professor. Dr. Charles R. Smith pro moted to associate professor of pe troleum engineering. Dr. Glenn L. Jenkins retires June 30 after 25 years as dean of the school of pharmacy and pharmacal sciences at Purdue. He is now on terminal leave of absence and Dr. Gustav E. Cwalina is acting dean until June 30, when Dr. Varro E. Tyler, Jr., now pro fessor of phamacognosy at University of Washington, will take over as dean. Walter L. Koltun, formerly program di rector in molecular biology section of National Science Foundation, is now special assistant in the office of the v.p. and secretary of MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
ACS Atoard in Chemical Instru mentation Sponsored by Ε. Η. Sar gent i? Co.
Leonard T. Skeggs, Jr.
The 1965 ACS Award in Chemical Instrumentation honors Dr. Leonard T. Skeggs, Jr., for his pioneering work in the development of automatic methods of analysis for clinical laboratories. Dr. Skeggs is chief of the biochemis try section and hypertension research at the Crile Veterans Administration Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. The $2000 award is sponsored by E. F. Sargent & Co., and will be presented this week at the ACS Winter Meeting in Phoenix. The 47-year-old Ohioan received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Youngstown College in 1940. He then went to Western Reserve Univer sity for graduate study in biochemis try, and received a master's degree in 1942 and a Ph.D. in 1948 under the late Victor Myers. After receiving his doctorate, Dr. Skeggs joined the Veterans Adminis tration hospital staff in Cleveland, and retained his affiliation with Western Reserve as a research fellow in bio chemistry. He is currently an associ ate professor of biochemistry there. Dr. Skeggs' early research in clinical chemistry was done at a time when physicians were beginning to recog nize the importance of and the need for rapid and accurate clinical anal yses. This increasing demand for both routine and highly complex tests created a shortage of trained labora tory personnel. Recognizing this, Dr. Skeggs first conceived (in 1950) the basic design for an instrument, later to be called the Au to Analyzer, which was to revolutionize clinical analysis. He built a prototype in his home work shop, and tested it at the VA hospital laboratory.
By 1952, he thought the instrument sufficiently developed to warrant com mercialization. After what was prob ably a discouraging start (four instru ment companies turned him down on grounds that they lacked production facilities or that the instrument had little potential), Technicon Instru ments undertook commercial develop ment. Sales began in 1957. Today, the AutoAnalyzer is the larg est selling instrument of its kind in the clinical laboratory field. It can handle up to 40 samples simultaneously. The only manual operations required are sample loading and the final data calculation from the recorder tracing. A versatile machine, the AutoAnalyzer has been used for such nonclinical ap plications as phosphate analysis of boiler water, sulfur and nitrogen diox ide analyses of stack gases, and mon itoring of the crystallization process in sugar manufacturing. Dr. Skeggs' latest development is a multiple sequential analyzer that will perform 12 analyses on a single blood sample and record all results on a strip chart. Eleven minutes after the sample enters the analyzer, results are printed out on a form which can be added to a patient's hospital rec ord. This method eliminates any er rors in transcription or report prepara tion. Other honors Dr. Skeggs has re ceived are the Arthur S. Flemming Award (1957) and the D. D. Van Slyke Medal from the New York Soci ety of Clinical Chemists (1963). In 1960 he was elected a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. In the same year he received an honorary D.Sc. from Youngstown College. J A N . 17, 1966 C & E N
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DEATHS Oliver Kamm Dr. Oliver Kamm, 77, retired scien tific director of Parke, Davis & Co., died Dec. 5, 1965, in Grosse Point Farms, Mich. He had been with the company since 1920, and was best known for his separation of oxytocin and vasopressin from the posterior pituitary gland, for his pioneering work in qualitative organic analysis, and his textbook on the subject. Dr. Kamm joined the ACS in 1911. He was chairman of the Division of Me dicinal Chemistry, 1931-32.
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Dr. George G. Oberfell, 80, re tired since 1950 as v.p., research and development at Phillips Petro leum, died Dec. 25, 1965, in Bartlesville, Okla. Dr. Oberfell grad uated from Miami University in 1910 and did graduate work at University of Pittsburgh. He joined the Bureau of Mines in 1912 and later worked with various industrial firms. He joined Phillips in 1925 and while there directed the development and com mercialization of many processes now used in the petroleum refining, natural gas, and synthetic rubber industries. He held 33 patents and was author of numerous technical articles. In 1947 the University of Tulsa conferred on him an honorary D.Sc. He had re ceived many other honors in the pe troleum and chemical fields. He joined ACS in 1919.
Arthur C. Eaton, 76, retired chief chemist of Planters Peanuts, Dec. 3, 1965, in Suffolk, Va. Joined ACS in 1911; emeritus member. James Henderson, retired from U.S. Steel, Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 13, 1965. Maurice Kayner, 57, analytical re search chemist, J. E. Seagram & Sons, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 3, 1965. Tobias R. Keller, secretary, City Chemical Corp., New York City, Nov. 10, 1965. Dr. J. Harvey Kleinheksel, for 37 years professor of chemistry at Hope Col lege, Holland, Mich., Dec. 2 1 , 1965. Joined ACS in 1926; was chairman of the Western Michigan Section in 1961. Β. Ε. Long, 83, retired, formerly con sultant in Latin American countries and Philippines, and superintendent of a factory for 21 years in Colombia, Nov. 27, 1965. Joined ACS in 1910; emeritus member. Dr. Miles S. Sherrill, retired, Boston, Nov. 19, 1965. Joined ACS in 1904. Frank K. Smith, 58, board chairman of Technic, Inc., Providence, R.I., Dec. 18, 1965, in Islamorada, Fla. Karl E. Stansbury, 86, retired chair man of the board and former president of Thilmany Pulp & Paper Co., Appleton, Wis., Dec. 2, 1965. Dr. Kenneth G. Stone, 45, professor of chemistry and assistant dean of grad uate school at Michigan State Univer sity, Nov. 19, 1965. Joined ACS in 1943; chairman of Michigan State Col lege Section, 1956-57.
Edward P. Allis, 73, retired chairman of the board and president of Louis Allis Co., Milwaukee, Dec. 15.
Jules N. Stich, 44, research engineer, Houston Fearless Corp., Hyattville, Wyo., Nov. 28, 1965.
Walter P. Arnold, 63, executive v.p. of Koppers Co., Pittsburgh, Dec. 8, 1965. Joined ACS in 1926.
Hertha H. Taussky, research associate, Institute for Muscle Disease, New York City, Nov. 8, 1965.
Kenneth R. Bailey, 33, senior scientist in nutritional biochemistry depart ment at Mead Johnson Research Cen ter, Evansville, Ind., Dec. 30, 1965.
Sydney A. Tibbetts, chemistry teacher, Berkeley, Calif., Nov. 30, 1965. Joined ACS in 1908; emeritus mem ber.
G. Malcolm Dewees, chemist, Contin ental Diamond Fibre Co., Bridgeport, Pa., Dec. 3, 1965. Joined ACS in 1933.
Dr. Eugene H. Woodruff, 61, depart ment head of patents and technical in fo rmation at Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, Mich., June 28. Joined ACS in 1928.
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