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The University of Michigan has announced that W. E. BACHMANN, assistant professor of organic chemistry, is the winner of the Henry Russel Award for 1932-33. This award, carrying $250, is made annually to "some member of the university faculties of a rank not higher than that of assistant professor, who is chosen for distinguished scholarship or authorship and conspicuous ability as a teacher."
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NELSON R. TRENNER, formerly a graduate assistant a t New York University, has been notified of his appointment t o a National Research Fellowship for next year. Since receiving his degree at New York University last year, Doctor Trenner has con tinued h i s investigations in the field of gaseous reaction kinetics and will carry them on as National Research Fellow at Princeton University under the direction of H. S. Taylor. WILLIAM F . WALDECK, who completes t he requirements for the
doctoral degree at N e w York University this month, has been appointed as research chemist with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass
B R I G H A M A P P O I N T E D C H I E F OF CHEMICAL W A R F A R E SERVICE
F R A N K G. BREYER, executive chairman of the Committee on
O N M A Y 24,1933, Claude E . Brigham was appointed Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service with the rank of Major-General. General Brigham was born in Indiana in 1878 and graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1901, being commissioned second lieutenant in t h e Ar tillery Corps. From 1901 t o W A R R E N K. COOLEY, formerly research director and principal 1913 he served in the Philip of the National Association Institute of Dyers and Cleaners, pines, at San Francisco, Fort has become president of the Caled Products Co., Inc., 500 Monroe, Va., and Fort Totten, Washington-Baltimore Blvd., Cottage City, Brentwood, M d . N. Y., being promoted t o first The company was formed by Mr. Cooley and associates about lieutenant in 1906 and t o cap three years ago t o manufacture products for dry cleaners tain, Coast Artillery Corps, in and laundries, textile and leather industries. 1909. From 1913 to 1917 h e was director and instructor of CARL GILLE, chief engineer of Weigelwerk, A. G., Germany, has the Coast Artillery School a t come t o the United States to join the Blaw-Knox Co., PittsFort Monroe, Va. H e served burgh, Pa., for a period of t w o years in a consulting capacity as a s s i s t a n t to the Chief of as designer and builder of breweries. Coast Artillery at Washington, WILLIAM M. GROSVENOR has found it convenient to lease t he D . C , from 1917 to 1919, be entire tenth floor of T h e Chemists' Club, 50 East 41st St., ing promoted to major, lieu New York, N . Y., because of a rapidly expanding consulting tenant c o l o n e l , and colonel. business. Exclusive of clerical assistants, there are now The next year he was on various twenty chemists and chemical engineers working under his duties in Germany and Eng direction. land, returning in June, 1920, to Fort Monroe, Va., where h e W. HALDEN, Biochem. Institut Techn. Hochschule, Graz, C. E . BRIGHAM was fort c o m m a n d e r u n t i l Austria, has been elected '"membre correspondent pour January, 1921. l'Autriche" b y the Société Philomathique de Paris, in appreIn 1921 h e transferred to t h e Chemical Warfare Service and ciation of his work on t h e biochemistry of fats and lipids. from 1921 t o 1929 served a s executive officer, Office Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, Washington, D . C. In 1929 he was JOHN P. HARRIS, manager of the Chicago office of the Industrial transferred t o Edgewood Arsenal, Md., as commanding officer, Chemical Sales C o . , Inc., has been elected president of t h e holding that position until his appointment a s chief of the ser American Oil Chemists' Society. vice. He w a s promoted colonel, Chemical Warfare Service, on JOSEPH S. HICKS, formerly assistant director of research, Hecker January 1, 1932. H-O Co., Buffalo, Ν . Υ., is now with Crowell & Murray, Inc., analytical and consulting chemists, Cleveland, Ohio. This firm has added an organic chemistry division t o its activities L A M B U N A B L E TO A D D R E S S E R I E S E C T I O N and Doctor Hicks is in charge of this new department, which at present is specializing in t h e examination of food products T H E E R I E SECTION h a s learned with regret through Robert L. and other organic materials. Jones of Detroit, Mich., secretary of the Group of Local Section Officers, that illness will prevent President Arthur B. Lamb LAWRENCE LYSLE LACHAT has accepted a position as research from giving a projected address before t h e Erie Section on his and nutritional chemist with the State Department of Agri way to the Chicago meeting of the American Association for the culture, Division of Feed and Fertilizer Control, St. Paul, Advancement of Science, June 19 to 23. T h e next meeting of Minn. the Erie Section will be some time in the autumn. E. L. LUACES is at present in Cuba supervising t h e installation of activated carbon units at the new Magdalena distillery. This is the second beverage alcohol distillery in Cuba t o S. C. F O O D R E S E A R C H COMMISSION D I S C O N T I N U E D install the vapor phase-liquid phase scheme of treatment using activated carbon which was developed a few years ago T H E SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE, in an act approved M a y and first installed in Cuba. 13, 1933, and effective on that date, provided that "the property and duties of the State Food Research Laboratory at Charleston On a recent visit to Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., A. E . shall be associated with the State Medical College." The trus MARSHALL addressed the student chapter of the American tees of the Medical College have announced that, due to heavily Institute of Chemical Engineers on "Chemical Engineering reduced appropriation, it will be impossible to continue the labora as a Profession" on May 8, and on M a y 9 spoke to the senior tory, which has been engaged for some years on investigations in students of all the engineering schools of the university on foods and nutrition. Present members of t h e laboratory staff "Relation of Chemical Engineering to Other Branches of t h e are Roe E. Remington, Harold Levine, Harry von Kolnitz, and Engineering Profession." F. Bartow Culp. L. T. MCCLOSKEY has resigned a s vice president of ContinentalDiamond Fibre Co., to become associated with Taylor & Co., Inc., of Norristown, Pa., manufacturers of vulcanized fiber and R U B B E R INDUSTRY C O D E phenol fiber. Unemployment and Relief for Chemists and Chemical Engineers in N e w York City and vicinity, has announced the appointment of M . R. BHAGWAT as secretary of the committee.
DONALD F . OTHMER, formerly consulting chemical engineer of Rochester, N . Y., has moved t o Brooklyn, Ν. Υ . , where he i s assistant professor of chemical engineering at the Polytech nic Institute of Brooklyn. H e is continuing his industrial work in the development of distillation processes for solvent recovery and for acetic acid and acetic anhydride production and processing. Transylvania College has conferred its honorary degree of doctor of science on CHARLES A L L E N THOMAS of the Thomas and
Hochwalt Laboratories, Dayton, Ohio.
T H E R U B B E R MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION has announced
that Newton D. Baker has been engaged as special counsel to assist the rubber industry in working o u t a n operating code under the National Industrial Recovery Act. T H E METROPOLITAN SECTION of the Electrochemical Society
on May 19 elected the following officers for t h e season 1933-34: chairman, James A. Lee, editorial staff, Chemical and Metal lurgical Engineering; secretary-treasurer, William Cabler Moore, research staff, U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co.
