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YVilhelm Institute in Berlin, Alfred Stock, using great ingenuity and scien­tific skill, determined the physical prop­erties of most of the hydrides of boron

—the boranes. However, his efforts to determine the chemical properties of these unusual compounds were largely thwarted. He ran head-on into the problem of being able to produce them only in very limited amounts.

Until 1930, the boranes remained chemical curiosities. However, in that year at the University of Chicago, Her­mann I. Schlesinger, aided by Anton R. Burg, found that by passing an electri­cal discharge through a mixture of bo­ron trichloride and hydrogen he could vastly accelerate the formation of di-borane, 3L,H«}. With little difficulty, he couïd make 10 times as much material in a single week as Stock produced in six Aveeks.

Schlesinger went on to synthesize many of the other boranes, such as B4-H,,,, B r ,H n , and B 1 0 H n . The way was opened to the development of a whole new field of chemistry—not only the boranes but also the metal borohydrides and the metal aluminum hvdrides. Within six years after Schlesinger an­nounced the synthesis of lithium alu­minum hydride, more than 1700 papers were published describing its use in

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For blading new iiaii> in bu on clieni-istr\ and r latecl hcids. ^ciiicsiiiger has won the 1 959 Priestley MeiW. the high­est award in American chemistry. For Schlesinger. tins is clearly a veau* of recognition. In February, the Navy-gave him the Disiinguislini Public-Service Award, its highest civilian honor. Next month, the ACS Chicago Section will present him with the λ\Ίΐ-lard Cibbs Medal.

In later research. Schlesiiifter and Herbert C Brown developed a siinpler method for making sodium horohv ciride from methyl borate and sodium hy­dride, a technique now used connmer-cially to produce sodium borohyclride in tonnage quantities.

Of special importance. Schlesinger and Albert E. Finholt did pioneer ing research on lithium aluminium hydride. The great virtue of this c o m p o u n d (apart from the fact that it has low molecular weight and high reducing power) is that its reducing ability is quite specific. Unlike many other such agents, it will reduce an aldehyde group, for example, while leaving a nearby double bond intact. For this reason, it is being used extensively in the commercial· synthesis of vi tamin A, cortisone, and other pharmaceuticals.

• G e r m a n Spoken Here. Born in Minneapolis in 1882, Schlesinger was brought up in a household where every­one spoke German. In fact, h e learned to read German before he could read English. The family moved to Chi­cago when he was six, and h e WAS en­rolled in a private school \\litre a t least half the subjects were taught in Ger­man.

When Schlesinger entered Chicago's Lake View High School in 1896, h e had an idea he wanted to become a physician. However, the s t imulat ing teaching of his high school chemistry instructor and the winning of the school prize ($10) for top marks in chemistry put a fresh slant on things.

In 1900, Schlesinger entered t h e Uni­versity of Chicago as a chemistry major; he graduated with a Ph.D. a mere five vcars later Academic life however

did not intrude upon the gay social whirl. "1 wasn't one of those—what do you call them?—greasy grinds."

At the University of Chicago, Schles­inger became a close associate of the famer! organic chemist Julius Stieglitz. He did his graduate research under Stieglitz on the catalyzed hydrolysis of imidoe-sters.

Schlesinger took off for a year and a half of Mim\ in Gt-imaii\ . He did re-search under Waiter Nernst in Berlin and later studied under Johannes Thiele in Strasbourg.

In 1906. Schlesinger got a job offer from Johns Hopkins and returned to ine Γ. S. to oecoine a κ-beaieii as5>ii>tuni. in physiological chemistry (what would now l>e called biochemistry) .

The following year, Schlesinger re­turned to the University of Chicago to become an instructor in general chem­istry a t $800 a year. He supplemented this income by teaching in the summer and correcting correspondence course exams at night. For the next four decades, he taught general chemistry to thousands ot undergraduates .

In addition, he taught qualitative analysis, physical chemistry, and ad­vanced inorganic chemistry and also directed graduate research. In all. he trained about 50 graduate students, some of whom have gone on to become leaders in boron chemistry. "My stu­dents," he emphasizes, "have always been among my greatest satisfactions."

Schlesinger also found time to write his college text, "General Chemistry," which has gone through four editions. Apart from teaching, writing, and re­search, he has held a number of im­portant administrative posts at the uni­versity. He was executive secretary (equivalent to chairman) of the chem­istry depar tment from 1933 to 1946.

After 41 years of service, Schlesinger became emeritus professor in 1948. Since his retirement, his research has been sponsored in part by the Office of Naval Research and the Naval Re­search Laboratory. Among his recent scientific interests: the synthesis and chemical properties of the diboron tetra-halides.

Even now, 76-year-old Hermann Schlesinger shows up at his Chemical Abstracts-lined office in Kent Chemical Laboratory for a full day's work. Much of it now involves writing up the re­sults of earlier experiments. Poring over his laboratory notes, he says: "There is so much w e still have to do."

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Schoellkopf Medal Tlie Schoellkopf Medal of the West­

ern New York Section of the ACS will he given to Max E . B r e t s c h g e r , s e n i o r technical adviser for F M C s Becco Chemical Division. Presen­tation will he made May 19. Bretsch-ger will he cited for "his leadership

in research and development resulting in the production of concentrated h> -drugen peroxide by the ammonium persulfate process, and for his guid­ance and planning in the establish­ment and growth of technical educa­tion at the two-year college level." Bretschger came to the L\ S. in 1926 from Switzerland to join Becco. He later became v.p., and in 1952, presi­dent of the company. He retired in 1956.

Harry D. Anspon resigns from Gen­eral Aniline & Film to become section leader in plastics research at Spencer Chemical research center, Merriam, Kan.

E d w a r d G. Baker named research as­sociate, chemicals research division of Esso Research & Engineering.

Joseph W . Barker retires as chair­man of the board of Research Corp. H e lias held various executive positions with the company for the past 25 years.

William A. Barnwell , Jr., chemical engineer with Dow Chemical , named chemical sales representative for chem­ical machinery division of Baker Per­kins, Inc., Saginaw, Mich.

Paul V. Brown named manager of manufactur ing at La Verne, Calif., plant of Taylor Fibre Co.

Wilfred M. Bywater, administrative supervisor in Allied Chemical 's Plastics & Coal Chemicals Division, retires after 42 years with the company.

John R. Carlson named general man­ager of American Industrial Chemical succeeding Albert II . Cooper, resigned.

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C l a r k H . C a r t e r n a m e d v . p . a n d as­s i s tan t g e n e r a l m a n a g e r of W a l k e r L a b o r a t o r i e s , Inc . , N e w York.

A m o n g n e w l y e l e c t e d t ru s t ee s a t Tex t i l e R e s e a r c h I n s t i t u t e , P r ince ton , N . J., are H e r s c h e l H . C u d d of Amer i ­can v iscose , K e n n e t h H . Kïîpsie ï t i uf Amer i can C y a n a m i d , E d w a r d A. O ' N e a l , J r . , of C h e m s t r a n d , C h a r l e s L . P a i n e of C o u r t a u l d s ( A l a b a m a ) , Leon­a r d Smi th of N a t i o n a l C o t t o n C o u n c i l .

R a n a l d G . D u n n i n g n a m e d chief en­g inee r at C h e m i r a d C o r p . , Mi l l town , N. J.

H e r b e r t E . F r e d e r i c k s o n t ransfers to t h e L y n c h b u r g , Va . , p l a n t of E . J. L a v i n o & C o . as ass i s tan t s u p e r i n t e n d ­en t .

J a m e s L . G a l l a g h e r , J r . , a n d F . L a u r a n c e M a n g o l d join e n g i n e e r i n g d e p a r t m e n t of M o b a y C h e m i c a l , P i t t s ­b u r g h .

L u t h e r T . G a r e y , ana ly t i ca l c h e m ­ist a t S t a n d a r d Oi l ( I n d . ) W h i t i n g labs , ret i res af ter 2 7 yea r s of service .

Nelson G e t c h e l l n a m e d m a n a g e r of technica l sec t ion , u t i l i za t ion resea rch division of N a t i o n a l C o t t o n Counc i l , W a s h i n g t o n , D . C.

J a m e s G o r m a n , m a n a g e r of n i t rogen p r o d u c t s for A m e r i c a n C y a n a m i d ' s ag r i cu l tu ra l d iv i s ion s ince 1944 . re t i res after 32 yea r s wi th t h e c o m p a n y . Also re t i r ing is his sister Georg i a , a C y a n a ­mid e m p l o y e e for 3 6 yea r s . A n o t h e r sister , E m e l i n e , r e t i r ed from the com­p a n y in 1 9 5 3 after 2 9 years of service . T h e th ree of t h e m a n d M r s . G o r m a n will live in F l o r i d a .

J . P e t e r G r a c e , p r e s i d e n t of W . R. G r a c e & C o . , n a m e d to b o a r d of di­rec tors of K e n n e c o t t C o p p e r .

D a v i d C . H a w k a p p o i n t e d m a n a g e r of t echn ica l s e rv i ce a t C a r y C h e m i c a l s , E a s t B r u n s w i c k , N . J.

L e o n a r d R . H i n e s p r o m o t e d t o as­soc ia te d i r e c t o r of b io log ica l r e sea rch at H o f f m a n n - L a R o c h e , I n c .

H o r a c e W . H o o k e r n a m e d sales m a n ­a g e r for w e s t e r n c h e m i c a l d ivis ion of H o o k e r C h e m i c a l . G e o r g e A. G e n t e s b e c o m e s p r o d u c t i o n m a n a g e r of the

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Roy C . N e w t o n , vice p r e s i d e n t of r e sea r ch at Swift & Co., re t i res af ter

3 5 years of serv ice w i th t h e c o m p a n y . H e will raise beef v - i n m . v ^ n n u t u i i i i

nea r T h r e e Rivers , M iuli. H e h u b helped bin id a re-s e a r c h staff at Swift t h a t h a s con­t r i b u t e d h u n d r e d s

of i m p r o v e d forms of food a n d food p r o d u c t s . His personal r e s e a r c h h a s b e e n in stabi l izat ion of edible fats a n d oils. U n d e r his d i rec t ion , Swift nu ­tri t ion fe l lowships a n d grants- in-a id for bas ic resea rch in ag r i cu l tu re h a v e b e e n e x t e n d e d t o universi t ies a n d col leges . H e is a former chairman of t h e A C S C h i c a g o Sect ion a n d of t h e Agr icu l ­tura l a n d F o o d Chemist ry Division of the Socie ty . H e was cha i rman of t h e c o m m i t t e e that organized t h e first N a ­t ional C h e m i c a l Exposi t ion .

J. R. H o w e l l promoted from assist­an t m a n a g e r , C h i c a g o district , to dis­tr ict m a n a g e r in Albany, Ν. Υ., for Union C a r b i d e Chemicals . Russel l W . M a r t i n , technica l r ep resen ta t ive , b e ­comes assis tant manager in C h i c a g o dis t r ic t . Car l D . P r e s t o n p r o m o t e d f rom technica l r ep resen ta t ive t o assist­an t m a n a g e r of N e w York distr ict .

N a t h a n M. I n g b e r l e a v e s A r m y C h e m i c a l C e n t e r , where he was re ­search analyst , to b e c o m e senior an­alyst a t Borden Chemica l ' s cent ra l re­search lab .

P h i l i p J acobson from S t a n d a r d B r a n d s b e c o m e s director of t echn ica l sales a t Yeast P r o d u c t s , I n c . , P a t e r s o n ,

E d w a r d E. K e n n e d y n a m e d m a n ­a g e r of n e w l y es tab l i shed ana ly t i ca l r e s e a r c h a n d d e v e l o p m e n t un i t a t Eli Lil ly & Co .

J o h n W . K e n n e d y p r o m o t e d to as­sis tant sales m a n a g e r o f indus t r i a l chemica l s division of Staufïer C h e m i ­cal, Nor th Por t l and , Ore. A. P re s ton Y o u n g p r o m o t e d to similar posi t ion in Los Ange le s .

N o r m a n B. K i n g joins B a d g e r Mfg . Co . as process engineer , C a m b r i d g e , M a s s .

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Thomas L. Kirchgessner appointed associate pharmacologist in research division of Mead Johnson & Co.

H. F. Kraybill trom U. S. Army Medical Research and Xutrition Lab­oratory, Denver, is now senior scientist with Curtiss Wright Corp., Princeton, N . J .

George C. Krusen ÎÏ joins process development department ot Dewey & Almy Chemical, Cambridge, Mass., as development manager.

Frederick B. Langreck, technical adviser to general manager of research and engineering division of Monsanto Chemical, receives Engineers* Day Honor Award from Washington Uni­versity school of engineering, as an "outstanding alumni."

Harry G. Lindwall resigns as pro­fessor of chemistry at XYU to become research associate at Olin Mathieson Chemical, Xew Haven.

John H. McKenzie named v.p.-re­search and development at United Carbon.

G. E. Moore from National Petro­chemicals is now with Keuffel & Esser Co., Hoboken, X. J., as senior super­visor in chemical research.

M a u r i c e L. Moore has been named director of new product devel­opment at Sterling Drug and v.p. of the c o m ρ a n y *s Gïenbronk a n d Winthrop labs di­visions.

Herbert i. Moss joins research staff of RCA laboratories at David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton.

John F. Murphy named director of laboratories at Swift & Co., Chicago. Walter M. Urbain becomes director of engineering research, and Β. Τ. Hens-gen, associate director of engineering research.

Arthur P. Narins joins staff of Ameri­can Cyanamid at Savunnah as a process engineer.

Clyde Nestler joins chemical re­search department of Thiokol Chemi­cal's Redstone division, Huntsville, Ala. From U. S. Arm v.

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Arthur Κ. OTCeefe elected president of Texas-U. S. Chemical Co. From U. S. Rubber.

John O. Percival joins Sylvania Elec­tric Products as section head for gov­ernment contract engineering in the semiconductor division, Woburn, Mass. From GE.

Reginald P. Perrv ao'^^iuted v *"* of Lukens Laboratories and its associate corporation. Skinner & Sherman.

Charles Riffkin named head of parenteral formulations department at Squibb Institute for Medical Research.

Walter F. Rogers, supervisor of Gulf Oil's technical service lab at Houston, named by American Petroleum Insti­tute as 1959 recipient of Citation for Service award. He is recognized for outstanding service over the past four years as national secretary and national chairman of the API committee on standardization of oil well cements.

George H. Scheffler to direct re­search and program coordination on Darco activated carbons at Atlas Powder's experimental lab in Marshall, Tex. Richard B. Hoots succeeds him as manager of activated carbons lab.

Daniel Smith rejoins central research labs of Interchemical Corp. to head newly established color center. Paul Resnick promoted to junior research associate and Leon Kutik named group leader. New lab staff members include Ferdinand Acampora, Michael Bêcher, Anthony Fuseo, Donald Lazzarir», and John Muiiner.

Murray C. Slone becomes senior engineer in rocket engineering depart­ment, Thiokol Chemical, Utah divi­sion, Brigham City. From Chemiglos, Inc.

Joseph R. Stev­ens, executive v.p. of J. T. Baker Chemical, elected president of the c ο m ρ a n y. He joined Baker as di­rector of organic research in 1944 and has since been

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Calvin N. Sparrow and Clarence J. Morrissey named senior project chemist and project chemist, respectively, in

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George C. Stradley joins Michigan Chemical. Saint Louis, Niich., as ^τοιι*^ leader in charge of chemical engineer­ing rescwrcn.

Herbert F. Tomasek named presi­dent of Chemagro Corp., Kansas City, Mo. Rosmarie von Rumker named v. p. -research and development, and Robert C. Scott, v.p.-manufacturing.

Under newly organized research and development departments at Yisking Co., W. F. Underwood named director of research and J. C. Wright, director of development. Under Underwood, Lloyd M. Cooke becomes assistant di­rector, Howard L. Leventhal, assist­ant director of planning, and W, Ernest Henderson and William Sacks, man­ager and assistant manger of plastics film research. Paul H. Lindenmeyer becomes manager of pioneering re­search and Virginia C. Menikheim, as­sistant manager. Edward A. Shiner named manager of natural polymer film research and Louis L. Winokur, man­ager, patent liaison. Under Wright: Gerald R. Toy, assistant director; Cyril J. Brounstein, manager of food casings development; Joseph N. Craver, man­ager of special films development; F. Warren Tauber, manager of food packaging development, and Werner Stock, assistant manager. Recent ad­ditions to the staff include Herman Chiu, Frederick Forester, Stanley Lustig, Arnel Potter, and Duane West-erberg.

William H. Wendel elected execu­tive v.p. of Carborundum Co.

G. J, Wilson-, assistant to v.p. in charge of research at National Cash Register, named director of research.

R. B. Winsor elected a v.p. of Ca­nadian Industries, Ltd., Montreal.

| GOVERNMENT Lawrence B. Berger appointed to

head the division of health in the Bureau of Mines. He has been with the bureau \n Pittsburgh for 40 vears

and will continue to make his head­quarters in Pittsburgh.

Glenn L. Cook» head of spectros­copy group at Bureau of Mines pe­troleum research center, Laramie, Wyo., receives a $300 award for con-tiiiUwus superior service.

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director of the Office of Saline Water at Department of the Interior, Wash­ington, D. C. Allen Cywin named acting assistant director for demon­stration plants. Joseph J. Strobel be­comes chief of processes developments division. W. S. Gillam appointed chief of basic research division.

Miguel A. Medina from American Oil is now medical technologist at school of aviation medicine, depart­ment of toxicology, Randolph Air Force Base, Tex.

Space Chemists Named

C^HEMICAL ADVISERS on the civilian space program are preparing for their first meeting. T. Keith Glennan, ad­ministrator of the National Aeronau­tics and Space Administration, now has the last of 14 acceptance letters from appointees to the Chemical Energy Processes Research Advisory Commit­tee to NASA.

Chairman is J. A. Reid, executive vice president and general manager, Astrodyne, Inc., McGregor, Tex. Ex­cept for two periods in the U. S. syn­thetic rubber program, Reid was a Phillips Petroleum research chemist from 1933 to 1958 when Astrodyne was formed to develop solid propellant systems.

Glennan says the chemical group and 12 committees in other fields will meet several times a year. χ urpose: χιβ-view research in progress, consider new problems, recommend the direction future research should take." He says committee members will provide needed liaison between NASA and the general scientific community.

Besides Reid, members of the chemi­cal group are: Farrington Daniels, University of Wisconsin; Β. Η. Sage, California Institute of Technology; E. J. Froehlich, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech; David Airman, Aeronutronic Systems, Inc.; W. H. Avery, John Hop­kins Applied Physics Laboratory; Frank

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D o n a l d S - Allen, professor o i c h e m ­istry a n d -chairman o f divis ion o£ natural science at Strate Usiiversity-Teachers College?, N e w Paltz, X. Y-, as on l e a v e to teach at O a k Ridge Inst i ­tute of Nuclear S t u d i e s for sever» months and will do research i n onedical isotopes.

Gordon ^M. B a r r o w , professor o§ chemistry SL\ N o r t h w e s t e r » , n a m e d chairman of7 d e p a r t m e n t of chemis try °r?/l *"*he3.Tiic2s.3 eî"i*Tirîeeri2"i*T 2t dTase ïnsti— tu te o f T e c h n o l o g y , effective June 1.

Lucims Ά. B i g e l o w . , professor oif cherriistry at Dolce Univers i ty , del ivered! the J o h n W . W a t s o n L e c t u r e at V i r ­ginia Po ly technic Inst i tute , o n â n o r i n e chemistry oan April 1.

Sabbatical leaves of a b s e n c e s for uni ­versity year 1 9 5 9 - 6 0 wil l g o to R. C . ElderfieldL professor of chemistry', a n d VI il ton TamiTS-, a«nH?ite professor of d i e m i s t r y at University of Mich igan . Sabbat ica l for the s econd s e m e s t e r of I 3 5 9 - 6 0 goes t o W . W . M e i n k e . asso-

Emery O l l e r t 1ΡΛ\*Ν C S I R O to be ­c a m e head of - h e m i s t ^ d e p ^ **««» . L'niversity of New Scmth W a l e s . W o l -l i ingoj.g.

Samuel Lepkovsky sianted winner of t l i e Babeock-Hart Award for 1959 . H e i s a professor at the L" ni versify of Cal i ­fornia and a pioneer in research on riboflavin. T h e Babcocfc-Hart Award i s given by the Institute of P o o d T e c h -nnologists.

H e r m a n F- Mark, director of Brook­l y n Poly s Po!\Tner Research Institute, v%ill pressent the annual Fdcrar Marburg L e c t u r e at the annual ASTN1 m e e t i n g iâi Atîaïàtic City„ June 2 3 . ï l i s subject i-s N e w Poh^ners.

Henry J. Masson. professor emer i tus o>f chemica l eng ineer ing at X Y U . re­t ires as assistant dean in c h a r g e of the «graduate divis ion.

Leonard K. N a s h , assoc ia te professor, wi l l b e c o m e professor of chemis try at Harvard on July 1.

Mi l ton Oreh in . professor a n d h e a d o f chemistry- department at Univers i ty o f Cincinnat i , wil l present b i s findings an produc ing alcohols used i n t h e p las ­t ics industry before the^ International C o n g r e s s on Coordination C h e m i s t r y in L o n d o n in April.

Frederick L- XL Patt ison n a m e d pro­fe s sor a n d h e a d of chemis try depart ­m e n t at University o f Wes tern Ontar io , L o n d o n . Ont . , effect ive July 1.

Kurt S. Spieg ler n a m e d professor of oheinnistry- at Israel Inst i tute of T e c h ­n o l o g y , Haifa . Israel. F r o m Gulf R e ­s e a r c h & D e v e l o p m e n t .

Robert Stern, formerly assistant pro­fessor o f chemistry at W e s l e y a n U n i -^.~ersitv_ XliddietowT*. COÏÎÏÏ . . is n o w teacher of chemistry at S t a p l e s H i g h Schoo l . Westport . C o n n .

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