rector of the M. V. Lomonosov State University in Moscow.
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Act of 1906. A food chemist. Dr. D u n b a r started his career in the laboratory of t h e
L a u r e n e Paterson Opferman, general m a n a g e r and technical director of Drug Research, Inc., Adrian, Mich., h a s been given an Alumni Award b y W a y n e University, o n e of five which honors outs t a n d i n g alumni in service to the university or t h e community. Mrs. Opferman is widely known for her discovery of a new production method for cortisone which h a s increased t h e supply and lowered the cost from $200 to $28 a gram. K e n n e t h $. Pitzer has resigned as Director of Research for the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission a n d will return to the University of California, Berkeley, to b e c o m e d e a n of t h e college of c h e m istry. T h e two-year t e r m w b i c h h e originally agreed t o serve with A E C had been extended to two and a half years. His resignation is effective
June 18. H a r o l d L. Rosenthal has been appointed senior research biochemist at the department of cardiology, Philadelphia General Hospital. He comes from the bureau of biological research at Rutgers University. P a u l B. D u n b a r
Charles W . Crawford
Drug Administration, Federal Securit> Agency, W a s h i n g t o n , D. C . on Ma\ 31. He will b e 69 on May 29 and has spent nearly 44 years in government service. Charles \V. Crawford. Depnt> Commissioner, succeeds Dr. D u n b a r . Dr. D u n b a r obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry from Johns Hopkins Cniversity and was one of the original group to undertake enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug
Bureau of Chemistry. When t h e F D A was established as a separate enforcement bureau in 1927 he was m a d e assistant chief. He b e c a m e Commissioner in 1944. Mr. Crawford has been in government service for 34 years, and b e g a n as an analyst at F D A ' s Chicago a n d New Orleans stations before coming to W a s h i n g ton in 1918. He received his education at Oklahoma A&M.
ffiniJll^llWVl George Granger Brown, a m e m b e r of the faculty of the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, since 1920, has been appointed d e a n of t h e college of engineering. He will succeed Ivan C. Crawford, w h o reG . G. B r o w n tires Jnl\ 1 to return io private practice as an engineeriniz consultant. M a r g a r e t C a m e r o n of Houston, Tex., who is completing work for a F h . D . in chemistry at T u l a n e University, h a s been a w a r d e d a F u l b r i g h t postdoctoral fellowship at t h e University of Leeds, E n g l a n d , to w o r k o n heterocyclic c o m p o u n d s . W . O. C a s t e r has accepted an assistant 2074
professorship in the physiological chemistry d e p a r t m e n t of the University of Minnesota. I le was previously director of the nutrition chemistry laboratory of the U. S. Public Health Service, Atlanta, Ga. Stanley V. D u b i e l , Jr., w h o is graduating as a chemistry major from the Bradford Durfee Technical Institute, Fall River, Mass., has been awarded a teaching fellowship in chemistry at Northeastern University, Boston. Taul H. T e r r y , also a chemistry major at Bradford Durfee, has accepted a g r a d u a t e assistantship in chemistry at Washington University, St. Louis. Vasili I. Komarewsky, professor of chemical engineering and director of t h e catalysis laboratory at Illinois Institute of Technology, will lecture next month b e fore the Societe de Chimie Industrielle in Paris on "Catalytic Aromatization of Hydrocarbons." Aleksandr Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov has been elected to succeed t h e late S. I. Vavilov as president of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. He is also the present C H E M I C A L
T h e T e n n e s s e e Eastman research fellowship for 1951—52 has been awarded to A d a m E . Skrzec, who is a candidate for t h e P h . D . in chemical engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. F . D . T u e m m l e r of Shell Development Co., Emeryville, Calif., has been appointed to the Commission on the Expression of Analytical Results, a subdivision of t h e International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. He is treasurer of t h e California Section of ACS.
IwiB'ifSTliii C l a r e n c e E . Albertsoi* has joined the B o r g - W a r n e r Central Research Laboratory in Bellwood, 111. H e comes from the R o b e r t s h a w Laboratory in Pittsburgh. H . E . Bayer b a s been appointed general superintendent of construction at t h e chemical plants division of Blaw-fCnox Construction C o . , Pittsburgh, Pa. C. W . Bell lias been elected president a n d general manager of Table Rock Laboratories, Inc., Greenville, S. C. He has b e e n assistant manager. W . Austin Bishop has been appointed t o t h e personnel division staff of t b e Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co., Philadelphia. H e has b e e n a colonel in the Office of the Adjutant General. Neil J. Braski, superintendent of the p o w e r d e p a r t m e n t of the Diamond Alkali Co., Pinesville, Ohio, has been appointed plant engineer. Jack R. Horacek, who has been m a n a g e r of utilities at t h e elect roAND
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lytic chlorine-caustic soda plant at Hous ton, has b e e n n a m e d to succeed him. O . R. Brunkow has b e e n appointed sales m a n a g e r of the Hardesty Chemical Co., NVw York, N. Y. Ile comes from Com mercial Solvents Corp. H a r o l d J. B y r n e has been appointed director of clinical research at C o n m v r cial Solvents t i o r p . a n d will b e in charge of clinical evalua tion of new drugs a n d antibiotics at t h e company's re search center in TVrre Haute, Ind. H e was previously m r d i c a l director of Baxter Laboratories.
Busch as superintendent of the products purification unit and J o s e p h Neely suc ceeds Phelps as superintendent of the acetic acid unit. John F. Krasny, formerly of the Na tional JBureau of Standards, has joined t h e staff of the Harris Research Laboratories, Washington, D. C , to work on physical properties of textiles. O t h e r new members of the staff are M a r y Cozart, Mary Imrey, and Betty Hollingsworth. Howard A. Kreith has been appointed purchasing agent of D e a r b o r n Chemical Co., Chicago. Pie comes from McKesson & Rohbins, Inc. Charles Kuhn, oldest active employee
G. D . C r e e l m a n , formerly director ot research of the M. A. Hanna Co., Cleve land, Ohio, has been named research co ordinator. D . N . Vedensky has been a p pointed director of research and develop ment. H e has been in charge of metal lurgical research and development.
This improved method of heat application for the chemical and process indus tries combines a jacketed scl of conven tional design with an elec trically-heated Dowtherm vaporizer, in a single com pact unit. Electrical energy is transformed into heat by Blaw-Knox immersion heaters. Dowtherm is vapor ized and transfers its latent heat to the inner vessel by condensation. The cycle of vaporization and condensa tion is continuous, and the fast, u n i f o r m , efficient heating inherent in vapor systems is fully realized.
Brownlee O. Currey has been elected to t h e board of directors of Commercial Solvents Corp. H e is president and a director of E q u i t a b l e Securities Corp.. Nashville, Tenn. θ
Julian Dorsky has joined the Givaudan Corp., D e l a w a n n a , X. J., as plant chemist. He has been senior fellow in charge of the phenolic chemicals fellowship at Mel lon Institute, under a Koppers Co. grant. Arthur C. E m e l i n has been elected presi dent of Schenley Laboratories, Inc., L a w r e n c e b u r g , Ind. H e succeeds t h e late Irv ing j . Seskis. Aaron F . Levy oi the engi neering staff has been n a m e d executive vice president.
For a brief description of Blaw-Knox Electro-Vapor Heating Systems write for Bulletin No. 2324.
Richard W . KixMiller has been m a d e assistant general manager of the chemical division of Cclanese Corp. of America, N e w York City. Kenneth D . Bowen, plant m a n a g e r at Bishop, Tex., will continue in that post and will assume t h e additional responsibility of manager of plant opera tions of the chemical division. John H . Frick has been n a m e d manager of t h e n e w chemical plant to b e built at P a m p a . Tex. William O r r becomes production superintendent at Bishop. Η . Κ. Busch has been promoted to assistant production su perintendent at Bishop, and B . C. Martin succeeds Orr as superintendent of t h e t o r m a l d e h y d e unit. S. T. Ross replaces NO.
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J. J. Leavitt has been named a group leader in the organic section of the chemi cal research department, Calco Chemical Division of American Cyanamid Co., Bound Brook, N. J. Frederic H . Adams has been appointed a research associate. H e has been a group leader in the re search department.
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W . D . Croswhite, Sr., production su p e r i n t e n d e n t of Industrial Rayon Corn.'s Pinesville, Ohio, plant, has b e e n appointed m a n a g e r of the company's Covington, Va., plant, succeeding I. T. Meyer, now on t h e executive staff in Cleveland.
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Raoul J. Landry has joined the surface coatings division of L. H. Butcher & Co., Los Angeles. He comes from McGuireLandry Co., San Francisco.
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F r a n k T. Clark of Ft. Worth, Tex., w h e r e he was division geologist, has been a p p o i n t e d chief geologist for Cities Serv ice Oil Co., Bartlesville, Okla. Frank C o o t e r has been m a d e exploration field division manager at Ft. Worth.
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of Manhattan Rubber Division, RaybestosManhattan, In< ., retired April 30 after 57 years of sen. ice as a sales executive in the company's New York sales office. He started as an office boy in 1894.
mnΑ» Ε sisim&mmm'&HW **!in distinguished service to Canada to the field of geology, particularly . . . bis outstanding method of making quan titative expressions of geological proba bilities for use in the control and direction of mining operations and exploration. Ralph C. Tallman has been named di rector of research for Lion Oil Co.. El Do rado. Ark. H e has been manager of the planning and survey department of the company's research division, and replaces Frank J. Soday, who R. C. Tallman has headed t h e re search division. Soday has resigned to become director of research for Chemstrand Corp., Decatur, Ala. Arthur E . T e m p e l , Jr., has joined Com mercial Solvents' research and develop ment department in Terre Haute, Ind., as bio-engineer in the microbiological pilot plant. He comes from Merck & Co., I n c .
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J. H. T h a c h e r has been appointed to the position of executive assistant to t h e vice president of Standard Oil Co. of California, San Francisco. He was for merly southern district producing manager. W . D. Thomas, Jr., has been appointed a technical representative of the petroleum chemical department of industrial chemi cals division, American Cyanamid Co., Stamford, Conn. J. B . Peeso, Jr., succeeds CHEMICAL
him as a group leader in petroleum chemi cals. He h a s been in the petroleum chemi cals sales department.
m&smSffl^'Sim Paul M. Bigley, assistant general sales manager of the Michigan Alkali Division of Wyandotte Chemicals Corp.. Wyan dotte. Mich., has been appointed to serve with thi' Economic Stabilization Agency in Washington and is on a leave ot ab sence from his company. Bruce \ V . D u k e lias been recalled to active duty with the Army as a first lientenant in t h e Chemical Corps and has been assigned t o the chemical and radiological laboratories. Army Chemical Center. Md., to do research and development work in the field of high polymers. He comes from Behr-Manning C o : p . Karl V. E r d m a n is on leave from Shell Chemical Corp. and is serving in Wash ington with the National Production Autborit\ as commodity industrial analyst in the sohents and alcohols section, eh.-lin eal division. Lujos'Janossy, professor of cosmic phys ics at the- Irish Institute for Advanced Studies, h a s been appointed to direct all cosmic ray research in Hungary. Donald R. Klang of Sherwin-Williams Co., has been called to active duty as a first lieutenant in the Air Force and is stationed at Columbus. I n d . Seth Q. Kline, chemical ordnance engi neer in t h e munitions division ot the chemical and radiological laboratories of Army Chemical Center, Md., has retired after 24 years of service with the Fed eral Government. Montagu Travers M o r g a n , medical of ficer for the Port of L o n d o n , has been unanimously elected president of the World Health Organization Sanitary Con ference which met in Geneva in April to draft new international sanitary regula tions for world trade and travel. Daniel B. M u r p h y has resigned as in structor in chemistry at t h e University of Scranton to accept a position as a re search chemist at Picatinnv Arsenal. Dover, N. J. Richard &. Panzer, w h o has been a graduate teaching fellow in t h e chemistry department of the University of N e v a d a , is now chemist with the Titanium Unit at t h e U. S. Bureau of Mines Experiment Sta tion in Boulder City, N e w Joseph H. R o w e has joined the tech nical staff of t h e Natural Rubber Bureau research laboratory, Washington, D . C. H e comes from the materials testing labo ratory of the Texas Highway Department, Austin, T e x . AND
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