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Hinsherwood Semenov Brattain Shockley Bardeen

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1956 will be given jointly to Sir Cyril Hinshelwood of Oxford University, England, and Nikolai N . Semenov of Moscow University. They will be honored for their research in clarify­ing the mechanism of chemical reac­tions in gases. Working independently, they have done experiments in reaction kinetics that have led the way to recent improvements in the efficiency of in­ternal combustion engines. Semenov is the first Russian ever to receive the Nobel chemistry prize.

The Nobel Prize in Physics is an­

other joint award and will be divided equally among Walter Brattain of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Labo­ratories, William Shockley, director of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments, Inc., Mountain View, Calif., and John Bardeen, who is professor of physics and electrical en­gineering at the University of Illinois.

The physicists are being honored for their work in inventing and develop­ing a transistor. Brattain, Shockley, and Bardeen worked together at the Bell Laboratories for several years.

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Edgar O. Andrews resigns as assist­ant to the director of technical person­nel of Mallinckrodt Chemical Works uranium division, St. Louis, to accept a position on the personnel staff of Β attelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio.

Winthrop M. Barnes joins Southwest Research Institute's industrial eco­nomics staff as process engineer. He will advise companies and communities on industrial development and will spe­cialize in markets, production, process, and economic aspects in industrial chemical, petrochemical, and related industries.

H. B . Bartley, Jr., named to manage new sales office of Celanese Corp. chemical division in Wilmington.

Rubin Battino from Duke University joins Leeds & Northrup, Philadelphia.

Student engineers and chemists with Sun Oil's research and development department this past summer: Mary Black, Martha Morgan, William Stout,

William Jones, Jr., Anne Davis, Richard Haines, Thomas Olson, Richard Fitch, Emanuel Skrabek, Samuel Wood, Jr., Robert Karns, Robert Fisher, Robert Kerwin, Frank Bauchspies, Donald Burd, Herman Solomon, Donald Feath· erman, Stuart Jones, Harold Pier, Ralph Gilford, Jay Markley, Albert Oleniczak, Carey Parker, Arland Ole· son, Rudolph Grube, Frederick Camp, Ralph Zaayenga, John Loeb, James Mollenauer, Hans Grethlein, Alvin Mc-Connell, John Welch, and Gerald White.

William R. Bowen resigns from Phillips Petroleum to join research de­partment of Anglo-Lautaro Nitrate Co., Maria Elena, Chile.

James O'Conner Brown, manager of Petro-Tex Chemical Corp. plant at Houston, elected a vice president of the company.

Col. Martin B. Chittick of American Mineral Spirits Co. receives Achieve­ment Award of the National Lubricat­ing Grease Institute. It was given in recognition of his outstanding services in the development of the lubricating grease classification system, now the International Standard Method of Classification.

Charles S. Cope joins Du Pont's polydhemicals department research di­vision-, Wilmington.

Kenneth L. Cordes promoted to re­search* supervisor at D u Pont's poly-ciieinlcais department.

Pefcer F. Croitom joins Koppers Co. tar products division as a chemist under tbe cadet training program.

Donald Dieball, Robert Graham, amd Robert Hackhel join technical di­vision staff of Visking Corp.

Vance B. Erickson, chief chemist at ICaiseir Aluminum & Chemical, transfers from Baton Rouge works to the home o-£Ece in Oakland, Calif., and will later establish headquarters with the explo­ration department in Permanente, Calif.

George Eudy joins Stepan Chemical Co. as southeastern sales representative, Charlotte, N. C.

R J. Evans accepts position with Sbell Chemical at its Norco chemical plant.

Elias Fischer from Armour & Co. joins technical staff of Ninol Labs, Chicago.

Donald Garrett named assistant manager of Trona plant research de­partment of American Potash & Chemi­cal, Succeeds Harold Mazza, now manager of research at Los Angeles plant.

James L. Ginn joins B. F . Goodrich research center in Brecksville, Ohio.

Pittsburgh Award Rofcert F . Mehl, dean of graduate

studies at Carnegie Tech, has been chosen to receive t h e P i t t s b u r g h Award for 1956. The award is made annually by the Pittsburgh Section of the ACS for out­standing contribu­t i o n s t o the ad­v a n c e m e n t of chemistry in the

Pittsburgh area. Mehl joined Car­negie Tech in 1932 after 10 years in industrial and academic positions. At Carnegie he has served as the director o f the metals research laboratory, head of the department of metallurgical en­gineering, and dean of graduate studies. H e has also served on many government committees, has written several books, and published numerous papers on the chemistry of metals and aJloys. The award, a bronze plaque, will b e presented at a dinner in Pitts­burgh, Dec. 13.

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Bruce Graham appointed manager of William C. Kay named assistant gen­eral manager for the organic chemicals department at D u Pont, Wilmington. Ernest R. Bridgwater named assistant general manager for the newly created elastomer chemicals department. George E. Holbrook to be general man­ager of elastomer chemicals depart­ment.

Charles F. Miles elected chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Miles Laboratories, Inc., Elkhart, Ind. George W. Orr, Jr., named presi­dent; Edward L. Miles elected vp-marketing-

Theodore Morel joins Mona Indus­tries, Paterson, N. J., as chief chemist.

Richard J. Prosen joins Minneapolis-Honeywell research center, Hopkins, Minn., as senior research scientist.

Robert F. Purcell joins expanded nitroparaffins research staff of Com­mercial Solvents, Terre Haute, Ind.

Bernard A. Rausch accepts position as chemical engineer at Chambers works of D u Pont.

C. A, Reed, director of engineering department at National Coal Associa­tion, given the Percy Nicholls Award

tne organic chemistry section at Stan­ford Research Institute.

Robert E. Haberland joins Westing-house Electric's Bettis plant at Pitts­burgh, operated for AEC.

Lyïe B. Hawkins promoted to tech­nical assistant manager of new products organic chemicals department of Wy­andotte's Michigan Alkali Division, Wyandotte, Mich.

Lester Helmus joins Shell Develop­ment's Emeryville, Calif., research center as an engineer.

U . V. Henderson, Jr., completes a two-year tour of active duty with the Navy in the Logistics Branch of ONR, and is now with Experiment Inc., Rich­mond, Va., as senior scientist.

Frederick C. Hitchcock named to newly created post of director of new products, Warner-Lambert Pharma­ceutical Co.

William Holzhauer of Aluminum Co. of Ajnerica, W. P. F. Brawner of W. P. Fuller & Co., C. C. Walker of Gen­eral Electric, and Loren Westhaver of U. S. Steel have been elected directors of California Manufacturers Associa­tion.

φ The Huxleys at New York Academy of Science Left to right: Julian Huxley, biologist; Frank NdE. Berger, leader of group at Wallace Laboratories that developed merprobaniate, and Aldous Huxley, author and brother of Julian, at the Conference on Meprobamate and Other Tranquil­izers held at the New York Academy of Science last month. A. Huxley, whose novel "Brave New World," told of a dream drug called soma, said that chemistry "will give us something which most human beings have never had before . . . joy, peace, and loving-kindness."

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for "outstanding achievement in the fielci of solid fuels." The award is given by the coal division of American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and the fuels division of American Society of Mechanical Engi­neers and honors the late Percy Nich-oiis, a leader fur almost 50 years in the advancement and development of utilization of coal for heat and power.

Hillary Robinette, president of Robi-nette Research Labs, Ardmore, Pa., twill address the 29th Congress of the French Society of Chemical Industries in Paris, France, on Nov. 23.

Recent additions to research and development staflFs at Diamond Alkali, Painesville, Ohio: Peter P. Roussis, Harold E. Munns, Frederick C. Shibel, H, Norman Benedict, and C. Luther Fuelling.

Joseph C= Sherwood named tech­nical service director of Minneapolis division of Glidden Co.

Gilbert W. Smith transfers from Clif­ton, N. J., office of Curtiss-Wright Corp. research division to Quehanna, Pa., as senior research chemist in the research division.

Ronald D . Smith joins research staff of D u Pant's chemical department, Wilmington.

William L. Smith transfers from Carbide & Carbon development labs to Bakélite Co. research in Bloomfield, N . J .

Norman F . Staley, chemical engi­neer, and Clara Elizabeth Bush, chem­ist, join aviation division of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., Niagara Falls.

J. Donald Swan joins General Aniline & Film Corp., Linden; N. J., as chief chemist for ethylene oxide-glycol plant now under construction.

Daniel H . Terry elected vp-research and development for Bon Ami Co., New York, Ν. Υ. From General Dyestufi

Gordon B. Thayer promoted to plas­tics specialist on the staff of technical service at Dow Chemical.

Glen A. Thommes joins Du Pont's photo products research lab, Parlin, N. J.

Sun Oil employed the following high school science teachers this past sum­mer at its research and development department: Donald Treible, Howard Milbourne, Jr., Charles Price, Richard Munsell, Raymond Yeich, and Ernest FederofiF.

John Truhlar joins research depart­ment of Morton Salt Co. at Woodstock, 111., as a research chemist.

T Off for Olympics Kenneth A. Hahn, professional serv­

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Michael Wales joins Shell Develop­ment's Emeryville research center as a chemist in catalysis and surface chemistry.

Promoted to senior technical ad­visers, newly created posts at National Aiuminate Corp.: Alfred O. Walker, Carl E . Johnson, Walter E . Steinmetz, and James H. Phillips.

Kenneth L. Weeks, Jr., appointed superintendent of Olin Mathieson Chemical operations at Brunswick, Ga.

Henry E- Wessel appointed manager of marketing research for general de­velopment department of Monsanto's research and engineering division, St. Louis.

William T. Yost appointed chief chemist and manager of the research laboratories of Booty Resineers, New­ark, Ohio.

Arthur J. Yu joins high polymer sec­tion of American Viscose Corp/s re­search and development division, Mar­cus Hook, Pa.

Louis J, Zapas joins applications re­search lab of M. W. Kellogg Co. as a rheologist.

Seeger to New Post

Nelson V. Seeger has been named to the newly created post of associate di­rector of explora­tory research for Diamond A l k a l i Co. He has been section head in charge of urethane polymers research

and development and in his new posi­tion will hold primary responsibility for the company's development and re­search activities in monomer, polymer, and radiation chemistry at the Diamond research center in Painesville, Ohio.

> EDUCATION

Dwight Conway appointed to in-structorship in the department of chem­istry at Purdue.

Recent additions to the virus labora­tory at University of California, Berke­ley, include Gosta Frick, Walter E . Frisch-Niggemeyer, Kozo Narita, Ma-thias Staehelin, Neville D . Symonds, Raul E. Trucco, Marvin Weintraub.

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Duane T. Gish, L. K. Ramachandran, and Κ. Κ. Reddi.

Cecil P. Headlee resigns as head of the department of pharmacology and physiology at St. Louis College of Phar­macy and Allied Sciences to become associate professor of pharmacology and physiology at Northeast Louisiana State College school of pharmacy, Mon­roe, La.

M. E. Hodes resigns as associate in medicine at Columbia University and is now assistant professor of medicine at University of Indiana, Indianapolis.

Joe E. Hodgkins becomes associate professor of chemistry at Texas Chris­tian University. From Du Pont.

Hansel L. Hughes, formerly asso­ciate professor of chemistry at Ca­tawba, is now associate professor of chemistry at the Norfolk division of William & Mary College, Norfolk, Va.

Howard L . Littig, Jr., becomes in­structor in chemistry at Compton Col­lege, Compton, Calif.

Robert M. Rosenberg, formerly as­sistant professor of chemistry at Wes-leyan University, now assistant profes­sor of chemistry at Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis.

Kenneth H . Shull will spend the year at the University of Cambridge, Eng-

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Joseph Brenner becomes research chemist in division of wood chemistry at USDA's Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.

Joseph S. Butts , head of agricultural chemistry depar tment at Oregon State College, named a member of a special 10-man nutrit ion survey team being sent to the Middle East for a month by the U. S. Government .

Schoch Lecture Series Inaugurated at Texas Warren Kendall Lewis ( r ight) , professor at MIT, gave the first lectures in the E . P. Schoch Lecture Series at the University of Texas last month. The series opened on Oct. 16, the occasion of E . P . Schoch's (left) 85th bir thday. Subject of the lectures was Advances in Fuidization. The lectures will be an annual affair.

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land, on a postdoctoral fellowship in biochemistry awarded by U. S. Public Health Service.

Justine L Simon receives Ph.D. from Northwestern and is now assistant pro­fessor of chemistry at Rockford College and Rockford Men's College, Rockford, 111.

Frank M. Strong to deliver three of the 1956 series of the E. R. Squibb Lectures at the Rutgers Institute of Microbiology. He is a biochemist at University of Wisconsin.

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