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Palmer Award, the Martin Award, and the American Chemical Society Award in Chromatography. At the 1990 Pittsburgh Conference he was honored as one of five pioneers in the development of GC at the first James L. Waters Symposium.
Smalley Receives Welch Award Richard E. Smailey, Gene and Norman Hackerman professor of chemistry and professor of physics at Rice University, is the 1992 re cipient of the Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry. Sponsored by the Houston-based Welch Founda tion, the annual award recognizes outstanding contributions made to the field of chemistry. The award, which consists of a $225,000 grant, a gold medallion, and a certificate, will be presented to Smailey in Hous ton on Oct. 26. Smailey received his B.S. degree (1965) from the Uni versity of Michigan and his M.A. degree (1971) and Ph.D. (1973) from Princeton University. After complet ing a postdoctoral research associateship at the Univer sity of Chicago (1973—76), he joined the faculty at Rice University and was promoted to full professor in 1980. Smailey is best known for his research in fullerene chemistry. He also is a leader in the development of su personic molecular beam techniques for studying clus ters, ions, and molecules, and he invented a method for producing extremely cold molecular beams of refractory materials using pulsed-laser vaporization techniques. Smailey is the recipient of the 1991 Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics and the 1992 American Phys ical Society International Materials Prize.
For Your Information Designed for PCs, the Molten Salts Database: Single Salts and Mixtures, V e r s i o n 2.0 (Standard Reference Database 27) provides materials scientists and chemical engineers with access to data for approximately 320 sin gle salts and more than 4000 salt mixtures in the mol ten state. The properties provided in the database are density, surface tension, electrical conductance, and vis cosity. The Spectroscopic P r o p e r t i e s of Atoms and Atomic Ions Database (Standard Reference Database 38) provides atomic data for scientists working in the fields of plasma diagnostics, laser physics, and astron omy. The database includes atomic masses, groundstate configurations and terms, and ionization poten tials for neutral atoms and ions. Atomic weights, abundances, nuclear spin, dipole moments, and quadrupole moments are provided for stable isotopes. To order either database, contact the Standard Refer ence Data Program, A320 Physics Bldg., NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 (301-975-2208; fax 301-926-0416).
Ettre Receives Golay Award Leslie Ettre was recently awarded the 5th annual M.J.Ε Golay Award in Capillary Chromatography at the 14th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography in Balti more, MD. Sponsored by Perkin Elmer, the award honors Marcel Golay, the inventor of the capillary col umn. (Golay died in 1989.) The award is given annually to a scien tist or scientists who have made significant contribu tions to the evolution of capillary chromatography. It consists of a medal, a scroll, and a financial endowment. Ettre worked with Golay in the late 1950s and early 1960s and was involved in the fundamental develop ment and application of capillary GC columns and GC instrumentation. He was a senior scientist at the Per kin-Elmer Corporation until his retirement in 1990 and is an adjunct professor at the department of chemistry at Yale University. He has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 200 publications on chromatography. Ettre is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Tswett Chromatography Award, the
The Directory of Professional/Trade Organization Laboratory A c c r e d i t a t i o n / D e s i g n a t i o n P r o g r a m s (NIST S P 831) is designed to help officials in com merce, industry, and government locate private sector laboratory accreditation and similar programs for the testing of products and services. Contact the Superin tendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9325 (202-783-3238; stock no. 003-003-03144-5). Spectrum V 1.0 software for performing Fourier t r a n s forms was developed by an engineer at NIST and in cludes a manual and the source code that enables users to modify the program to suit their needs. It is written in FORTRAN for IBM PCs or compatible computers. To request a free copy, contact David E. Hess, Room 105, Fluid Mechanics Bldg., NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 (301-975-5937; fax 301-258-9201; e-mail Hess @ ENH.NIST. GOV). Nominations are being accepted for the 6th Annual Golay Award, which will be presented at the 15th In ternational Symposium on Capillary Chromatography in May 1993 in Riva del Garda, Italy. Nominations should be sent to Carel A. Cramers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Lab Instrument Analysis, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands (31-40-473024; fax 31-40-453762). Deadline is November 1.
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