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fHiv a i c è r s rvtryc^ α π α b/in^nigrc Ray P. Dinsmore of Goodyear Tire

& Rixbber was elected president of the ΑτηΡΓΪΓΡ.η Institute of Chemists at the

R. P . Dinsmore D. B. Keyes recent national meeting. Donald B . Keyes of A. D. Little, past president of AIC, was elected chairman of the board. John Nair of Thomas J. Lip-ton, Inc., became vice president, and Lloyd A. Hall of Griffith Labs and George L . Royer of American Cy-anamid were named councilors at large for th ree years. Karl M. Herstein, Herstein Labs, was elected councilor-at-large for one year. L . Van Doren and Fred A. Hessel were re-elected secretary a n d treasurer, respectively.

W o o d w a r d to Get Ledlie Prize Robert B . Woodward, who is Morris

Loeb Professor of Chemistry at Har-m—B^——-^K^s^!ms^ vard, has been

search, discovered or otherwise made the most valuable contribution to science, or in any way for t h e benefit of mankind." Wood­ward will b e honored for his synthesis of quinine, major contributions to t h e synthesis of cortisone, the synthesis of strycrinine, and of lysergic acid.

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Nelson F . Beeler promoted to pro­fessor of science at State University Teacbers College, Potsdam, Ν . Υ.

Myron W . Black, Jr., a junior major­ing i n applied chemistry at Caltech, given the Armed Forces Chemical As­sociation Award in recognition of his outstanding record in academic, extra­curricular, and military activities at Caltech.

Alfred Brizzoiara, senior student, re­ceives Father Power Award from Ford-ham University for excellence i n chem­istry. He has also accepted a scholar­ship offer from Columbia for graduate studies.

The honorary degree of doctor of engineering was conferred on George Granger Brown, dean of engineering at University of Michigan, at t h e final centennial convocation at NYU college of engineering. Among others receiv­ing t h e degree were Michael Halpern , senior vp , Texas Co.; Augustus B. Kinzel, vp-research, Union Carb ide & Carbon; George P. M e a d e , manager of Gramercy refinery, Colonial Sugar; and Alex Stewart, director of research, Na­tional Lead.

Giovanni Bucolo becomes chief bio­chemist a n d assistant director of labo­ratories a t Donald N . Sharp Memorial Communi ty Hospital, San Diego, Calif. From Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, New York City.

William I. Burt , president of Good­rich-Gulf Chemicals, Inc. , Cleveland, was honored recently by the faculty of the college of engineering at Ohio State University with a Dist inguished Alum­nus Award . T h e award recognizes dis­t inguished achievement on the par t of alumni in the field of engineering.

E. Fullerton Cook, professor emeritus of operative pharmacy at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, and E h Lilly, chairman of the board of Eli

Lilly & Co., honored with alumni awards at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. Cook is a 1900 graduate of the school, and Lilly, a 1907 graduate.

Robert B. Corey, professor of chem­istry at Caltech, r e t r i e s travel grant from Rockefeller Foundation to visit scientific meetings in Europe and Australia this summer.

Senior chemistry s tudents receiving awards at Illinois Institute of Technol­ogy include: Ray S. Dewey , NSF fellowship; Vincent M. Sarich and Ian Bartky, teaching assistantships at the University of California. I lmar Kalnin has been given an Erwin O. Freund fellowship; Byron Turnques t , Eastman Kodak fellowship; Albert Deutsch , H T fellowship; and Serge Vinogradov, special department assistantship.

Fred E. Dickinson appointed director of the new forest products laboratory, University of California at Richmond. He has been chairman of the depart­ment of wood technology a t University of Michigan, and will*assume his new duties July 1.

Warren W. Ewing , professor of phys­ical chemistry at Lehigh University, retires after 35 years of service.

American Insti tute of Chemists, Louisiana chapter, presented awards consisting of a year's associate mem­bership and a bronze medal to t h e fol­lowing outstanding students of chem­istry: Lee T. Free land, Loyola;

Symposium Hails M a r k on Birthday The 60th birthday of Herman F. Mark was the occasion of a symposium on polymers in his honor given by the Institute of Polymer Research at Brooklyn Poly, May 14. Left to right: Raymond E. Kirk, dean of the graduate school and head of chemistry department at Brooklyn Poly; Mark, head of the Polymer Research Institute; and Turner Alfrey, Jr., of Dow Chemical. Mark is internationally renowned as a scientist and a teacher in the field of x-rays and electrons and structure of matter, and in macromolecules

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George F. Heîfrich, Tulane; and Truett J. Lemoine, LSU.

Claus F. Hinck, Jr., who will retire this summer as assistant dean and pro­fessor of biochemistry at NYU college of dentistry, honored by 125 colleagues and friends recently at a testimonial dinner. He will leave NYU in August after 36 years of service.

Maurice L. Huggins, research asso­ciate in Kodak research labs of Eastman Kodak, has been invited to serve as a visiting professor at Osaka University, Japan, beginning in October, under a Fulbright grant. H e will also lecture at universities in Kyoto, Tokyo, and elsewhere in Japan.

Arthur E. James, head of chemistry department at Temple University school of pharmacy, awarded a Fulbright lec­tureship at University of Peshawa, Pakistan.

Frank V. Kosikowski, professor of dairy industry at Cornell, is working in dairy chemistry research at National Agriculture Research Institute, Paris, France, under a Fulbright fellowship.

Donald C. Larson, junior majoring in metallurgy at the University of Washington, has been awarded the first scholarship in powder metallurgy b y Metal Powder Association. The $500 scholarship has been established to en­courage engineering students to special­ize in powder metallurgy in order t o help fill the need for trained personnel and give the deserving student oppor­tunity for a promising future.

Herbert E. Long-enecker, who has been dean of the graduate school a t t h e University of P i t t s b u r g h , h a s been a p p o i n t e d vice president of t he University of Illinois in charge of the Chicago Profes­

sional Colleges. These colleges consti­tute the university's program of re ­search and education in the health and medical fields. He will assume office Aug. 1.

NSF Awards Travel Grants To Biochemists

National Science Foundation has awarded travel grants to attend t h e Third International Congress of Bio­chemistry to be held in Brussels, Bel­gium, in August, to 27 American bio­chemists. Of this number, 18 were made by NSF, seven by the American Society of Biological Chemists. T h e last two mentioned were given as memorials to the late Erwin Brand b y

the ACS Division of Biological Chemis­try. The foHowing are recipients: Roscoe 0. Brady, National Institutes of Health; Paul L. Day, University of Arkansas school of medicine: Alexander L. Dounce, University of Rochester; Harold Edelhoch, Kansas University

medical center; Sidney W. Fox? Iowa State College; Philip Handler, Duke University school of medicine; Frederic L . Hoch, Harvard medical school; Patricia J. Keller. University of Wash­ington; Lloyd M. Kozloff, University of Chicago; Henry R. Mahler, Univer-

Benjamin Burtt, fencing coach, demonstrates a parry with fencing team captain at Syracuse

Champion in Lists and Laboratory >TpEST tubes and tournaments may -*- seem an incongruous combina­

tion, but to Benjamin P. Burtt, as­sociate professor of chemistry at Syracuse University, they go to­gether like h a m n ' eggs. In less time than it would take Aladdin to give his lamp a quick rub, Burtt can switch from the role of chem­istry researcher and professor to that of Syracuse University's fenc­ing coach.

He came to Syracuse in 1946 and spearheaded a drive to organize a university fencing squad. His zeal­ous effort and enormous enthusiasm led the way to official recognition of Syracuse's fencing team in 1950.

Doffing his white chemist's coat and donning mask and pads of a fencer, Burtt has during the past five years spent many an afternoon in the gym priming his team for their annual 10 to 12 bouts with such schools as Cornell, Buffalo, St. Lawrence, RIT, Oberlin, and MIT.

As for wins and losses, it's been pretty much nip and tuck all the way. Six victories and three de­feats were chalked up in '53. The following year Syracuse's nine ended the season with three wins

and six losses. This year, they took five and lost five with the season's climax coming March 12 when Syracuse placed third in the North Atlantic Conference held in Buffalo.

It was during his freshman year a t Ohio State in '38 that this lean young man's prowess with the épée came to the fore. Agile, fast on his feet, Burtt proved a great suc­cess with the sword, and in his senior year captained the team that won the NCAA (National Collegi­ate Athletic Association) fencing tournament. The peak of personal fencing achievement also came that year with his winning of the In­dividual Epée Championship.

Burtt, who took up chemistry and fencing at just about the same time, is now engaged in research on gas phase radiation chemistry. This work for the past four years has been sponsored by the Atomic En­ergy Commission.

In the laboratory Burtt is work­ing on such projects as the decom­position of nitrous oxide by alpha radiation, the role of electron cap­ture in the decomposition of nitrous oxide, and the synthesis of hydro­gen chloride by alpha radiation.

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si'tv of ^^T^consin* Frank ^L IS iailfittfv Penn State; Lester J. Reed, University of Texas; Sidney Roberts, University of California, LA; Wal ter C. Schneider

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Robert M. Hill, recent Ph.D. in bio­chemistry at University of Minnesota, appointed assistant biochemist in the department of biochemistry and nutri­tion, University of Nebraska.

Joe E. Moose, chemistry department chairman and director of research and graduate studies a t the University of Nevada, named dean, graduate school.

W . W. Newschwander, associate pro­fessor of chemistry at Central Washing­ton College of Education, awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship for postdoctoral study.

John L . Overholt leaves New Jersey Zinc Co. to work with M I T Operations Evaluation Group in Washington, D . C.

Alan M . Rich ter appointed director of public relations a t Philadelphia Tex­tile Institute Foundation, Germantown.

J. Henry Rush-ton appointed pro­fessor of chemical

^*fB8£fËÉiRi engineering at Pur­due University. Has been professor and director of chemical engineer­ing department at Illinois Institute of

J. H. Rushton Technology.

Paul J. Stageman of the University of Omaha department of chemistry has been elected president of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. He is the first chemist to serve in that post since 1933.

J. C. Smith, lecturer in organic chem­istry at Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Uni­versity of Oxford, is making a three-months' visit to the CSIRO as a guest worker at t h e division of industrial chemistry in Melbourne, Australia.

Robert B. Sosman of school of ce­ramics, Rutgers University, elected an honorary member of t he British Ce­ramic Society.

James B. Surnner, Nobel prize win­ner in chemistry for 1946, will retire from the faculty of Cornell July I .

Carola Tritt in appointed assistant professor in the pape r technology de­partment at Western Michigan College, Kalamazoo. She has been technical director of Ward Paper Co. since 1950 and is the first woman to b e named to the paper technology faculty.

GOVERNMENT Mary Lou Angelotti leaves Diamond

Alkali and is now a chemist in the physical branch of Chemical Warfare Division at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

Philip Camberg transfers from Engi­neer Research and Development Labo­ratories, F t . Belvoir, Va., to the Air­borne Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, Washington, D. C.

Raymond R. Dickison, former head librarian at Colorado School of Mines, has been named chief librarian for Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Advin C. Graves, scientific adviser to the test manager of Atomic Energy Commission, given t h e gold seal award for distinguished service by Federal Civil Defense Administration.

Lencre Schroeder , who has been ad­ministrative associate to directors of r e ­search at Parke-Davis, Detroit, has gone to England to join the London branch of the OflBce of Naval Research.

Leo Shartsis, physical chemist in glass section of Mineral Products Divi­sion, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D . C , given the Silver Medal for Meritorious Service from t h e Depar tment of Commerce. Award was presented in recognition of his original and outs tanding contributions to im­proved scientific understanding of t h e structure and constitution of glasses.

George Shel ton, ceramics specialist in porcelain a n d pottery at National Bureau of Standards , receives Silver Medal for Meritorious Service from t h e Depar tment of Commerce before retire­ment after 2 5 years of service. He is recognized for outstanding and original contributions to the technology of ce ­ramics, especially in the field of ceramic dielectrics for bo th industrial and mili­tary electronics equipment .

Serge N. Timasheff leaves Yale t o become supervisor of t h e physical-chemical unit a t Eastern Utilization Re­search Branch, USDA, Philadelphia.

Tin B. Yee joins research division of Redstone Arsenal, Hunts ville, Ala.

Honaman to Direct Defense Information Policies R. Karl Honaman (right) is sworn in as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. In his new post, Honaman Λνίΐΐ carry out the Defense Department's new public information policies. John E. Moore, ( left ) , director of personnel, Office of the Secretary of Defense, administers oath of office. Right, Robert Tripp Ross, Assist­ant Secretary of Defense ( Legislative and Public Affairs ) . Honaman was formerly director of publication for Bell Labs and more recently director of Commerce Depart­ment's Office of Strategic Information

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