rector of the chemical section, material science laboratory, Norair Division of Northrop Corp., Hawthorne, Calif.
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Kishorkumar C. Fozdar appointed chemist at Shulton, Inc. Received his training in chemistry and pharmacy. John P. Freeman joins Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio, as assistant editor. From University of Washington. Rudolph J. L. Frundt has been named vice president, director of operations, of Strong Cobb Amer, Inc., in Cleveland. Previously, he was plant superintendent of McKesson Laboratories, the manufacturing division of McKesson & Robbins in Fairfield, Conn. Bernard D. Fulks, from Union Carbide, is now process engineer with Du Pont's Martinsville, Va.? nylon plant.
Woodward Receives SOCMA Medal Dr. Robert B. Woodward (right), Donner Professor of Science, Harvard University, receives the 1962 Gold Medal Award of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association from SOCMA president Dr. Carl A. Gerstacker. The annual award is given for outstanding creative research in organic chemistry. Dr. Woodward was honored for his work on the synthesis of compounds such as quinine, cholesterol, cortisone, strychnine, lanosterol, lysergic acid, reserpine, and chlorophyll, and also for his work as a teacher in training chemists.
Dr. Charles E. Aiman has been appointed group leader in the research department of Aldrich Chemical Co., Milwaukee. Other appointments: Dr. Harvey B. Hopps as group leader and Dr. G. Scheytt as senior research chemist. Dr. Frank A. Bovey of Bell Telephone Laboratories will receive the Minnesota Award of the A C S Minnesota Section this year. Dr. Bovey was formerly head of the polymer res e a r c h department at Minnes o t a Mining &
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Harvard in 1940 and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He has worked extensively on the stereochemistry and physical properties of polymer systems and the applications of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to such studies. William S. Devine has been named plant manager of Drew Chemicars main manufacturing facility in Boonton, N.J. A vice president of the company, he was formerly plant administrator. He replaces Paul Manocchio, a vice president and director, who has moved to the company's New York headquarters to direct manufacturing and quality control for all Drew plants. Dr. Donald L. Dinsel has accepted a position as research chemist at Du Pont's Jackson Laboratory. He recently received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Ohio State University. Dr. Leo diRicco, formerly staff chemist with IBM, is now technical di-
New analytical chemists at Glidden Co. in Baltimore: Chasen Carl Ging, Calvin W. Hoskins, and Dr. James C. Ramsey, Jr. New research chemists: Dr. Stanley J. Lokken, H. A. Gibbons, Mitchell Dudnikov, Lawrence F. Naughton, and Paul A. Eagle. New development engineers: John M. Hiscott and Richard S. Tobin. Thomas F. Graham has joined the research laboratory of Shell Chemical's synthetic rubber division as a research chemist. Dr. Murray Hauptschein, group leader in the organic research department of Pennsalt Chemicals (technical division), has received the first ACS Philadelphia Section Award for conspicuous scientific a c h i e v e ment through research. The award was presented at the section banquet Oct. 18. Dr. Hauptschein received a Ph.D. from Duke University in 1950. From 1950 to 1955 he was a research associate and, later, director of organic chemical research at the Research Institute of Temple University. He joined Pennsalt's research and development department in 1955 and is now internationally recognized as an authority in organic fluorine chemistry.
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Dr. Harold Jabloner from Brooklyn Poly joins research center of Hercules Powder, Wilmington, Del. R. T. Knowles, manager of inorganic chemicals sales, and K. M. Wildes, manager of chlor-alkali sales, retire from Dow Chemical after 45 and 35 years, respectively, with the company. Dr. Erich Konrad of Leverkusen Rubber Laboratories has been named recipient of the 1962 Gold Medal of the British journal, Rubber and Plastics Age, for outstanding services to the synthetic rubber industry. Joseph S. Kubisen joins Drew Chemical's industrial and cosmetic division as a member of the technical sales staff serving Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. From Kessler Chemical. William R. Kuntz elected executive v.p. of Molybdenum Corp. of America. Succeeds Emil A. Lucas, retired after more than 45 years with the company. E. T. Layton has been made manager of distributor products for the industrial chemicals division of Mallinckrodt Chemical. Formerly, he was field sales representative with headquarters in Dallas. Charles A. Lindsay has been elected president of Urethane Industries International, Inc., following acquisition of 769^ of its common stock by Stauffer Chemical.
Dr. Carl D. Lunsford named director of laboratories and chemical research for A. H. Robins Co., Richmond, Va.
W. William Ritt, Jr., joins Tidewater Oil Co., Norristown, Pa., as supervisor of patents and technical information services.
William H. Madden, Jr., is the new vice president for planning at Rexall Chemical. Since 1959, he was director of business development for the parent company, Rexall Drug and Chemical.
G. L. Weamer appointed senior engineering associate in petroleum products research at Richmond, Calif., lab of, California Research. Dr. M. F . Hughes named senior research chemist in process development. R. W. Hill named group supervisor in high polymer research at Richmond, and Dr. H. Y. Jennings appointed senior research chemist at the La Habra laboratory.
Richard J. Mayer joins Pitt-Consol Chemical, Newark, N.J., as coordinator of market development. Dr. W. Walter McCarthy appointed general manager of Sonic Engineering Corp., Norwalk, Conn.
Leslie A. Wetlaufer, assistant manager of Du Pont's personnel division, retires after 35 years with the company.
George H. Meason, vice president in charge of refining at Tenneco Oil since 1959, has been given the added assignment of directing the company's marketing, supply, and transportation operations.
Guy F . Willey has been named Charleston, S.C., plant manager of Humble Oil & Refining. A year ago, he was appointed operations superintendent of t h e Charleston plant. Prior to that, he spent four years overseas with Esso Standard Italiana. In Italy, he was a refining consultant at Leghorn and Genoa. Mr. Willey joined Esso Standard Oil, now part of Humble Oil, in 1945 and served at the company's refineries in Bay way and Bayonne, N.J., as well as at the Esso headquarters in New York City.
Richard P. Molt has been appointed director of research and development at Whiting Corp., Harvey, 111. C. David Osbun joins Jackson Laboratory of Du Pont at Wilmington as a research and development engineer. Dr. Clinton J. Peake joins FMC's Niagara Chemical Division, Princeton, N.J., as research chemist. Robert J. Perkins joins Jackson Laboratory of Du Pont, Wilmington, as research and development chemist.
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of Wyoming, is acting head of the chemistry department at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. Dr. Joseph Fisher, formerly assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, is now assistant professor of chemistry at Hastings College, Hastings, Neb.
Dr. Emory H. Braswell becomes assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Connecticut. Previously, he was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Birmingham, England.
Dr. Robert E . Gilman, from National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada, joins Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., as assistant professor of chemistry. Dr. Harold H. Warren, associate professor, is on sabbatical leave at Caltech.
Dr. George E . Brown joins t h e chemistry department of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, as professor. Staff additions serving as assistant professors: Dr. John H. Hall, Dr. Melvin D. Joesten, Dr. Charles E. Morreal, and Dr. Richard J. Ruch.
Spencer Awardee Named Dr. Arnold Kent Balls, 7 1 , will be given the 1962 Charles F. Spencer Award during the annual Kansas City Chemistry Conference, t o be held Nov. 16 at Kansas City University Center. The award, a medallion and $1000, was established by the late Kenneth A. Spencer, founder of Spencer Chemical, in memory of his father. It is administered by the ACS Kansas City Section. Dr. Balls is professor emeritus and collaborator at USDA's Western Regional Research Laboratory, Albany, Calif.
Dr. Frank BockhofT named chairman of the chemistry department of Fenn College, Cleveland. Dr. John T. Cumming continues as chairman of
Dr. Harold Goldwhite, formerly a lecturer at Manchester College of Science and Technology, England, appointed assistant professor at Los Angeles State College. Dr. Anthony J. Moye, formerly a research fellow at Harvard, is now assistant professor at Los Angeles State. Dr. Anthony J. Andreoli is on sabbatical leave for a year at Kyoto University, Japan.
Dr. E. T. Bucovaz, a recent graduate of St. Louis University, is now teaching in the chemistry department of the University of Tennessee Medical School, Memphis.
Dr. Lawrence R. Jankovics joins Lafayette College as assistant professor of chemistry. Formerly research chemist with Rohm and Haas.
Dr. Melvin Calvin gives the Ninth Annual Gilbert N. Lewis Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Subject: "Primary Quantum Conversion in Photosynthesis." Dr. Stanley L. Cosgrove, from CBS Laboratories, joins University of Cincinnati as associate professor of chemistry in the College of Engineering.
Dr. Harry F. King and Dr. George A. Clarke join the faculty of State University of New York at Buffalo as assistant professors of physical chemistry. Dr. Walter Dannhauser promoted from assistant to associate professor.
Dr. Gustav P. Dinga, who recently received his Ph.D. from the University
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John W. Olver, previously an instructor at MIT, is now assistant professor in chemistry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Nagin K. Patel joins Duquesne University faculty as assistant professor of pharmacy, Pittsburgh. Dr. Elwood F. Reber is professor of physiology and pharmacology and professor of veterinary research at the University of Illinois. He returns to the university after a year of biochemical research in Denmark. Edward L. Safford is now assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Thiel College, Greenville, Pa. Dr. Jacob A. Seaton, until recently with Spencer Chemical, is now assistant professor of chemistry at Sam Houston State College, Huntsville, Tex. Joseph R. Siefker joins faculty of Indiana State College as assistant professor of chemistry. John C. Slattery promoted from assistant to associate professor of chemical engineering at Northwestern University's Technological Institute.
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Dr. Lynn Stewart joins the chemistry department of Indiana University, Bloomington, as research associate. Robert C. Tripp from New Mexico Highlands University joins staff of chemistry department at Brooklyn College. Dr. Leon Grotler and Dr. Grace Wieder also join the staff.
GOVERNMENT Dr. Richard C. French returns to Crops Division, U.S. Army Biological Laboratories, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md., from USDA at Beltsville, Md. Dr. Louise B. Speck from the faculty of University of Colorado medical school is now working in the field of psychotomimetic drugs at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C., for National Institute of Mental Health. Martin B. Williams is chief of the newly formed technical operations division of the Armed Services Technical Information Agency (ASTIA) at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. He was formerly a chemist in the propulsion laboratory at Redstone.
