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Paul Mueller, research chemist of J. 11. Geigy Co., Basel, Switzerland, has been

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did not realize its value. Mueller was un­aware of the German development and did his work independently. His discovery is credited with saving the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians fcom typhus alone, because of the effect of DDT on the typhus-carrying louse. The Geigy company sent 100 kilograms of the chemical to its New York office, and tests made by the U. S. Department of Agriculture proved its effectiveness. The prize, worth $44,000, will be presented in Stockholm Dec. 10.

John Leo Abernethy has left Washington and Lee University to accept a position of associate professor of chemistry at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, where he will begin writing a one-year text on organic chemistry.

A. O. Allen, from Clinton Laboratories, is now working in the chemistry depart­ment of Brookhaven National Labora­tory, Upton,L. Ι., Ν. Υ. Κ. Knox has also joined the chemistry department. He has been a laboratory assistant at Yale.

J. A. Anthes has been transferred from the Stamford Research Laboratories of American Cyanamid Co. to the com­pany's Bridgeville, Pa., plant, where he is assistant chief chemist.

Dorothy Ann Bachmann, who recently graduated from Chestnut Hill College, has joined the staff of Evans Research & Development Corp., New York.

George F. Blasius has been appointed executive vice president and director in charge of sales and new product develop­ment for Burgess Pigment Co., Sanders-ville, Ga. He had been vice president and technical director of Hercules Filter Corp.

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Vannevar Bush, retiring president of the Research and De v e l opm en t Board of the Na­tional Military Es­tablishment, has been chosen to re­ceive the 1949 In­dustrial Research Institute medal,

awarded for outstanding contribution to the field of industrial research.

The 1948 Roosevelt Medals of ifonor, awarded by· Roosevelt Memorial Associa­tion, Inc., commemorating Theodore Roosevelt and the various facets of his career, have been given to James B. Conaat, president of Harvard, Millicent Carey Mcintosh, dean at Barnard, and to Arthur H. Vandenberg, U. S. Senator from Michigan. They were presented on Oct. 27, Theodore Roosevelt's birthday. Sen. Vandenberg was honored particularly for his work in setting up the bipartisan foreign policy, Dr. Conant for his leader­ship of youth, and Mrs. Mcintosh for "combining service as a teacher with the proverbially endless activities of a house­wife and mother."

Raymond H. Ewell has been appointed chairman of the department of chemistry and chemical engineering at Stanford Re­search Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. He was -formerly senior technologist in the eco­nomic research and development depart­ments of Shell Chemical Corp., San Fran­cisco.

J. EL Faull, Jr., who has been technical superintendent of the Office of Rubber Re­serve GR-S plant at Bay town, Tex., opera-ted jointly by General Tire and Rub­ber Co. and General Latex and Chemical Corp. ψ has joined the staff of the General Latex and Chemical Corp., Cambridge, Mass., as director of research.

Morris Feinleib has completed require­ments for the Ph.D. degree in chemical en­gineering at Columbia University and has taken a position as associate electrochem-ist with Armour Research Foundation, Chicago.

John Bright Ferguson has retired from the staff of the chemistry department, University of Toronto, due to ill health. He has been on the staff for the past 28 years-

Hermann O. L. Fischer, for 11 years with the University of Toronto, has joined the staff of *th.e virus laboratory of the de­partment of biochemistry, University of California at Berkeley.

R. E. Florin has joined the staff of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, as in­structor in the department of chemistry. He ceanes from the University of Illinois.

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Rulon R. Free, president of California Carbonic Corp., has been named to the board of trustees of West Coast University at Los Angeles. He is one of five indus­trialists representing as many different California industries in the direction of the activities of the university.

R. E. Gale, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware this year, has been added to the chemistry section staff of Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory of General Electric, Schenectady, Ν. Υ. J· R. Low, from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, has joined the staff of the metallurgy section.

Joseph A. Gauer, manager of the Chi­cago branch of Fritzsche Bros., Inc., has been retired from active duty because of impaired health. He is succeeded by M- J· Niles, who has been in charge of the New England territory for Fritzsche. Harry P. Bowra, who comes from Canada will now manage the Boston branch, and he will be succeeded by Ian Maclnnes. John T. Brickner has been made manager of the firm's San Francisco branch.

Ray C. Gralow has been promoted to sales manager of the chemical division of Corn Products Refining Co., New York.

Newly appointed members of the chem­istry department staff at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, L. Ι., Ν. Υ., include J· W. Gryder, who has been doing graduate work at Columbia, and L. Fried­man, from the Institute for Nuclear Studies at Chicago.

Reuben Gustavson, a biochemist and chancellor of the University of Nebraska was the guest of honor at a dinner in Stockholm on Oct. 4 given by the Swedish Pioneer Centennial Committee. He had been invited to Sweden as a guest of the government in connection with the cen­tennial celebration in America, and was presented with the insignia of the Royal Swedish Order of the North Star, with rank of Knight.

Robert W. Holley, who has held an ACS postdoctoral fellowship at the State College of Washington for the past year, has joined the staff of the division of food science and technology at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell University), at Geneva, Ν. Υ., as assistant professor of organic chemistry.

Jack A. Holmes, who during the war was a research chemist in the Manhattan Project at the University of California

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Radiation Laboratories, and wtio re­cently received a Ph.D. in educational psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, is now associate professor of psychology and head of the reading clinic at the Personnel Research Institute of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

The Research and Policy Committee of the Committee for Economic Develop­ment, which is responsible for statements on national policy, has been enlarged by the addition of seven new members, among whom is Amory Houghton, chairman of the board, Corning Glass Works, Corning, Ν . Υ.

Lynn K. Hurst has joined the staff of the Argonne National Laboratory, Chi­cago, as an associate chemist. He was previously chief of the physics, metallurgy, and materials section for the AEC in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Daniel Hyman, who received a mast or of science degree in chemical engineering from Ohio State University recently, is now an assistant in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech­nology, Cambridge, where he is also doing graduate work in chemical engineering.

Harold P . Knauss, from the Mound Laboratory of Monsanto Chemical Co. a t

Miamisburg, Ohio», has resigned to become head of the department of physics a t the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

H. A. KUIUQ, chemical consultant, has announced t h e r&moval of liis office from Connecticut Ave. to the Park Lane Build­ing, 2025 I S t . , N .W. , Washington 6, D. C .

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^ Η : - ^ 3 ^ ^ ^ ^ Μ υ£ f l < Î Cj o l n >" Now director of t h e Institute fur Theoretical Physics at t h e University of Ikrlin, von Laue won at tent ion during the last war b y his stand aga ins t Naziism in Germany. He was awarded, the NOIRÏ-1 prize in 1914 and is noted for his studies of Einstein's theory of relativity, of the quantum theory, the Co-mpton effect, altérai ion of the frequency of roentgen rays, of Bohr's atomic model, of the lOinstoin-Bohr equation, and the disintegration

of atoms. l i e will be at the University of Chicago late in November to give a series of lectures on superconductivity.

Rufus Lumry has completed work for a doctor's degree at Harvard University and has become affiliated with the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, as a research associate, on a Merck fellowship.

Warren E- Lux and Donald Powell have joined the chemistry staff at St . Lawrence University, Canton, Ν. Υ., as assistant professors. Mr. Lux comes from the Hy Trous Corp., and Mr. Powell from the University of Rochester. H e replaces Richard Bail es, who has gone to the Dow Chemical Co. in California.

Saul Malkiel, who has been a senior fellow of the American Cancer Society at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re­search, is now assistant professor of medi­cine and director of research of the Allergy Research Laboratory, Northwest era Uni­versity Medical School, Chicago.

Frank D . Mattos, manager of treating plants for Southern Pacific Co., West Oak­land, Calif., and R. S. Belcher, who holds a similar position with the Santa Fe System in Topeka, Kan., have been elected to honorary membership in the American Wood-Preservers' Association in recogni­tion of untiring service t o the industry.

Harvey B . Merrill of Bloomfield, N . J., has rejoined the sales staff of the RCA en­gineering products department after a }*car's absence and has been named sales engineer for the eastern U. S. with the scientific instrument group.

Charles F . Montross, formerly employed by the Lummus Co. of New York as a process engineer, has resigned to accept the position of plant engineer at the Kolker Chemical Works, Inc., Newark, N. J .

Henry D . Noll, petroleum engineer of Houdry Process Corp., has been appointed manager of the engineering and technical service division, Philadelphia.

Harold S. Olcott has been appointed head of the vegetable processing division at the Western Regional Research Labora­tory, Department of Agriculture, Albany, Calif. He was previously in charge of the wheat section, industrial commodities di­vision.

John B. O'Neal has finished graduate work at the University of North Carolina and is now at Mellon Institutte in Pitts­burgh working for Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. in their organic synthesis fellowship.

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Henry J. Richter, research supervisor in charge of the organic chemistry section of the laboratories of A. B. Dick Co., Chi­cago, has resigned to become associate professor of chemistry at Hamline Uni­versity, St. Paul, Minn.

Elizabeth Roboz, specialist in food tech­nology and agricultural chemistry, has joined the food research laboratories of Stanford Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. She comes from the Sugar Research Foundation a t Cornell University.

George W. Ullman has been elected president of Sun Chemical Corp. A. C. Horn was elected chairman of Sun's execu­tive commit toe, and William Recht, vice president, a member of the board of direc­tors. A. E. Horn, president of the Horn division, and Ernest Nathan, president of Warwick Chemical Co. division, were elected vice presidents of the corporation. Albin Κ. Schoepf has retired and James W. Raynolds has resigned.

J. Frank Valle-Riestra and Harry A. Arbit have recently joined the staff of Truesdail Laboratories, Inc., Los Angeles. Mr. Valle-Riestra comes from the Los Angeles County Office of Air Pollution Control, and Mr. Arbit is from G. D. Searle & Co. in Chicago.

W. G. Van Beckum has been appointed manager of technical service for Silvacon sales at Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Long-view, Wash. He has been assistant manager of the development department.

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In the second year of World War I, a t the request of the Imperial Munitions Board, he headed the research program a t Shawinigan Chemicals. In 1919 he be­came vice president of Canadian Electro Products Co. and in 1927, when that firm was merged with Canada Carbide Co. to form Shawinigan Chemicals, he was ap­pointed vice president in charge of re­search. Under his direction a large num­ber of new chemical products were devel­oped. He was awarded the Potts medal of Franklin Institute in 1926. He had been a member of ACS since 1917.

Victor C. Myers Victor C. Myers, 65, director of the de­

partment of biochemistry in the School of Medicine at Western Keserve University, Cleveland, died Oct. 7 in New York of a heart attack.

He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees and an honorary doctor of science degree from Wesleyan University. In 1909 he was awarded a Ph.D. by Yale. At the New York Postgraduate Medical School and Hospital Dr. Myers was a lecturer on chemical pathology, 1911-12; professor of pathological chemistry, 1912-22; act­ing director of laboratories, 1917-18; professor of biochemistry and director of the department, 1922-24.

In 1924 he became professor and head of the biochemistry department a t the State University of Iowa and in 1927 was appointed professor of biochemistry and director of the department a t Western Reserve. He was a pioneer in the field of clinical biochemistry and the author of many scientific works. He had been a member of ACS since 1907.

Gordon G. Pier son Gordon G. Pierson, 51, chemist for the

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