News and Views • Specialty Meeting on Ambient Measurements. Oct. 27-28. Air Pollution Control Assoc, New Orleans. Contact: Robert L. Eisenbach, Jr., Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., P.O. Box 1031, Baton Rouge, La. 70821 m 33rd Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference. Nov. 5-7. Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh. Contact: Edward J. Fasiska, Materials Consultants & Labs, 1567 Old Abers Creek Rd., Monroeville, Pa. 15146
Short Courses James A. Fisher (right), senior vice president of Fisher Scientific and president of Scientific Apparatus Makers Association (SAMA), presents the ACS Award in Chemical Education to William T. Lippincott. Professor Lippincott of the University of Arizona is cited for his leadership in innovative instructional methods and his writing and editing efforts which provide a stimulus to the field of chemical education. The presentation was made at the Spring ACS Meeting in Philadelphia; SAMA sponsors this ACS Award
SAMA Award William Hewlett and David Packard are the first joint recipients of the SAMA Award, the highest honor given by the Scientific Apparatus Makers Association. The award was presented at SAMA's annual meeting in Hot Springs, Va., in May. The two awardees are founders of the successful Hewlett-Packard Co., which they started in 1939 in a garage in Palo Alto, Calif. By 1975 this company, which manufactures and designs electronic, medical, analytical, and calculating instruments, employs 29,000 persons and has sales of nearly a billion dollars. The two men met during undergraduate days at Stanford University. Both have made outstanding contributions of time and talent to industry, government, academic, and civic activities in California and the Nation. The SAMA award was established in 1949 to recognize high achievement in developing the instrument industry's capacity to serve the Nation in fields of industry, research, education, health, and defense.
1975 Mettler Award The recipient of the 8th Mettler Award in Thermal Analysis has been chosen by the North American Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS). Frank Karasz of the University of Massachusetts has been cited for his outstanding performance in several areas: "a thermal analysis approach to the theory of fusion of molecular crystals;
thermodynamic properties of solid polymers; thermodynamics of the helix-coil transition in biopolymers and the novel use of thermoanalytical instrumentation in the study of the very small heats associated with conformational transitions . . . calorimetry." Professor Karasz is also a world leader in the thermal evaluation of behavior in organic materials and polymers. The award, which includes a $1000 honorarium, is sponsored by Mettler Instrument Corp. and is given each year in recognition of creative work and distinguished service in the field of kinetic thermal analysis. Presentation of the award took place in June at the 5th International Conference in Thermal Analysis in Peterborough, Canada.
Meetings Previously scheduled 1975 meetings appear in the July issue. The following meetings are newly scheduled in A N A L Y T I C A L C H E M I S T R Y
• Water Pollution Control Federation Meeting. Oct. 5-10. Miami Beach Convention Hall. Contact: Robert A. Canham, WPCF, 3900 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Washington, DC. 20016 • Technical Conference on New Advances in Separation Technology. Oct. 23-24. Hilton Inn, Tarrytown, N.Y. Contact: W. F. Heneghan, 289 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich, Conn. 06830
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ACS Courses. For more information, contact: Department of Educational Activities, American Chemical Society, 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. 202-872-4508 Computer Applications in Chemistry Chicago, 111. Aug. 22-24. Peter C. Jurs. $175, ACS members; $200, nonmembers Technical and Scientific Writing Chicago, 111. Aug. 22-24. Jay Gould. $195, ACS members; $220, nonmembers Carbon-13 NMR Spectrometry Chicago, 111. Aug. 22-24. George C. Levy. $175, ACS members; $200, nonmembers Laboratory Automation—Microprocessors, Minicomputers, or Calculators Chicago, 111. Aug. 23-24. Raymond E. Dessy. $130, ACS members; $150, nonmembers Solving Problems with Modern Liquid Chromatography Chicago, 111. Aug. 23-24. J. J. Kirkland and R. Snyder. $150, ACS members; $170, nonmembers Digital Electronics for Instrumentation and Automation Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. Sept. 1-5. David Larsen, Peter R. Rony, and Jonathan A. Titus. $325, ACS members; $360, nonmembers Microprocessors and Minicomputers—Interfacing and Applications Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. Sept. 14-19. Raymond E. Dessy. $325, ACS members; $360, nonmembers
