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a spa@iou;> animal room and diet kitchen adjoin the main laboratory. A separate instrument room tor Geiger counters and other assa> equipment has also been pro­vided.

In addition to the use ol radioactive iso­topes, a nia>s spectrometer has been pur­chased. This will enable the faculty to extend the range οί investigations to in­clude experiments not adaptable to the use of radioactive materials, and also to carry out experiments on humans with safety.

Jay S. Roth will be in charge οί the laboratory and will aid in the planning and coordinate research. The clinical pro­gram will be carried out m cooperation with Samuel Geyer ot the department ol radiology and other hospital staff mem­bers.

"Frontiers in Chemistry" Schedule Announced

Eight oi the nation's outstanding chemi­cal scientists will participate this ye.tr in the "Frontiers in Chemistry" lecture-series scheduled annuailv tor late winter and spring months at Wayne University m Detroit, the institution has announced Lectures are scheduled for Monday even­ings beginning Feb . 26 with a lecture by Winston M. Manning of Argonne Na­tional Laboratory, Chicago. Other speakers include G. K. Boyd, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, John E. Willard, University of Wisconsin, Charles D. Cory­ell, MIT, Linus Pauling, California In­stitute of Technology, Joseph J. Katz, also of Argonne, and A. V. Grosse, Re-search Institute of Temple University

Synchrotron Research Contract Awarded Michigan by AEC

University of Michigan scientists have been awarded a two-year contract by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Amounting to $80,000 for the first year, to be used to continue development, altera­tion, and operation of the 300-million-electron-v olt "race track" synchrotron.

The synchrotron will provide a means for speeding up electrons to within a frac­tion of the speed of light, thereby ena­bling scientists to investigate the structure of the protons in the center of the atom.

Mil Gives Course In Instrumental Analysis

Massachusetts Institute ot Teehnolog\ is offering two one-week specialized train­ing programs in instrumental analysis in the 1951 summer session.

The programs are designed to provide an adequate grounding in fundamental principles and theory and a knowledge of a wide variety of types of practical appli­cations of commercial instruments used in analytical chemistry. David N. Hume and Lockhart B. Rogers of the chemistry de­

partment at M I T will conduct the courses scheduled to run from July 9 to 13 ( t o be devoted to electrical methods ) and July 16 to 20 ( to be devoted to optical methods ). Tuition for each one-week period will be $65. Application forms may be obtained from Walter H. Gale, Room 3-107, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Mass.

Nevada Gets Documents On Basic Magnesium Project

The I'niversity ot Nevada's Maekay School ol Mines has recently received as a gitt ot Guernsey P. Frazer documents and photographs ot Basic Magnesium Inc. ol Henderson, Xev. The documents and photos give the complete story ol the project from die inception of the Basic Magnesium plant until the end of the war emergency. Plant structure, manufactur­ing process, and data on the mining of inagnesite at Gabbs Valley, New, with the flotation and calcining processes there are included in the collection. Photographs show the elaborate processes of reduction from the calcined ore to metallic mag­nesium that were carried out in the huge plant at Henderson.

Mr. Frazer was formerly director of public relations at the project and a long­time friend of the director of the Maekay School oi Mines. He accumulated the documents as part of his work with the project.

Utah Offers Research And Graduate Fellowships

The University of Utah has announced the availability of approximately 30 re­search fellowships and four scholastic fel­lowships for graduate students for the school year 1951-52. There are openings for these fellowships in some 50 depart­ments, including chemistry, physics, bio­chemistry, and chemical engineering.

Stipends for fellowships range from $500 to $1,200, depending on qualifica­tions of the student. Application forms may be obtained from the dean of the graduate school, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and should he submitted before March 1. 1951.

The university also has a limited num­ber ol teaching fellowships and assistant-si lips available for graduate students in many departments of the university. Ap­plications should be addressed directly to the head of the department concerned.

Tau Beta Pi Engineering Fellowships Announced

Fellowships available to members of Tau Beta Pi for graduate study in engi­neering during 1951—52 have been an­nounced by the engineering honor society. The fellowship program allows a certain latitude in choice of field of study, the stipulation being that fellows are expected

ultimately to advance their proiession b> service in the engineering field—in re­search, in practice, or in teaching.

Fellowships carry awards of $1,200 each payable in ten monthly increments. Applications must be mailed by Feb . 28 , 1951, and awards will probably be an ­nounced by March 31 by the icllowship board. Information may be obtained from Paul H. Robbins, 1121 Fifteenth St., N. \V.f Washington 5, D. C.

Stevens Institute Announces Corrosion Seminar

The Stevens Institute of Technology graduate school has announced t h e list of speakers for the 15-week seminar and public lecture series on "Prevention of Corrosion" sponsored in cooperation with the National Association of Corrosion En­gineers. Lectures are scheduled for Wednesday evening on the Stevens campus, Casde Point, Hoboken, N*. J., and began on Feb. 7 witii a talk by T . P. May ol International Nickel Co.

Research Corp. Grants $86,000 To Forty-Six Scientists

Forty-six scientists will receive support lor basic research in academic institutions trom Research Corp. grants totaling $86,001), it was announced recently. Thirty-nine of die 46 awards in the cur­rent list are intended to stimulate young scientists and their students, as well as to support die work they propose.

Included in the latest group of awards is a grant to the University of Nevada. This rounds out a comprehensive nation­wide program of grants in aid of scientific research which have been awarded t o 250 colleges in all 48 states, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and British Columbia. A special grant was made to die National Research Council for the publication of t he International Tables of Crystallographic Data .

Among die grants given for research in the field of chemistry are the following:

Louis F. Cason, Tuskegee Institute, stability of some sulfur—containing or-ganosilicon compounds.

Cerald Perkins, Jr., University of Ari­zona, application of oscillographic polar-ography to analytical chemistry and con­centration as a function of d i e height of the polarographic wave.

\V. Robert Winans, Occidental College, separation of die higher fatty acids by a chromatographic method.

M. E. Madiisen, Pacific Union College, spectrophotometric studies in the field of complexions in solution.

Norman Kharasch, Universitv of Soudiern California, reactions of fluorin-ating agents with organic sulfur com­pounds.

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Robert Hofstadter, Stanford University, nuclear electric charge distribution by experiments on the elastic scattering of electrons from nuclei.

Harry S. Mosher, Stanford University, bimolecular reductions with optically ac­tive reducing reagents.

Garth L. Lee, University of Colorado, zinc-photosensitized reaction of simple hydrocarbons and the zinc-photosensi­tized reaction between simple hydrocar­bons and simple alkyl halides.

Joseph C. Michalowicz, the Catholic University of America, electrical conti­guity of mercury when in contact with other metals.

D. R. Norton, George Washington Uni­versity, polarographic study of o-phthal-aldehyde and its reaction products with amino acids and other compounds.

National Research Council, U. S. Com­mittee on Crystallography, publication of the International Tables of Crystallo-graphic Data .

G. B. Butler and Paul Tarrant , Uni­vers? of Florida, preparation and poly­meria j n of branched chain fluoro-olefins.

Bernard Rabinovitch, Illinois Institute of Technology, light scattering from three dimensional polymer networks.

Robert A. Benkeser, Purdue University, preparation and reactions of silicon or-ganomctallics.

Nathan Komblum, Purdue University, copolymerization properties of certain or­ganic compounds.

Donald G. Kundiger, Kansas State Col­lege, reactions of ketene acetal with cer­tain organic halides.

Gerrit Van Zyl, Hope College, reactions of epoxides with malonic esters and mono-substituted malonic esters.

James S. Fritz, Wayne University, fur­ther investigation of titration of acids in nonaqueous solution.

Ernest H. Lyons, Jr., Principia College, rate of dissociation of complexions of metals at electrolytic cathodes.

Clifton P. Idyll, Adelphi College, synthesis and properties of biimidazole derivatives.

George W. Hazzard, St. Lawrence Uni­versity, ultrasonic velocity in polystyrene as a function of molecular weight at a frequency of one megacycle per second, temperature to vary from 200 to 80° C.

Monica Healea, Vassar College, sec­ondary emission of electrons from metals bombarded by positive ions at primary energies up to 75 kev.

R. Edwin Worley, University of Ne­vada, initial delay time and growth char­acteristic, of the Lewis-Rayleigh after­glow.

R. T. Wendland and R. E. Dunbar, North Dakota Agricultural College, di-benzofuran sulfonic acids for protein hy­drolysis and amino acid precipitation.

Albert B. Stewart, Antioch College, in­vestigations to determine the mechanism of the glow discharge with spontaneous oscillations.

Maynard B. Neher, Ohio University, Diels-Alder reaction in preparation of chloro-nitro compounds of possible in­terest as insecticicles.

Roy G. Bossert, Ohio Wesleyan Uni­versity, application of diisocyanates to the prenaration of derivatives of alcohols, phenols, and alkyl halides.

R. P. Perry, Langston University, benz-amidine and cinnamidine derivatives of some highly substituted benzoic and cin-narnic acids.

Carl W . Bonhorst, University of Port-

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land, resolutions of racemic mixtures oi amino acids.

Philip S. Skell, University of Portland, research in the field of aliphatic free radi­cal chemistry.

Milan W. Garrett, Swarthmore Colleges design of wire-wound systems for the pro­duction of very uniform magnetic fields and field gradients. Design of search-coil systems for use with a ballistic gal­vanometer to measure field or gradient at a single point in any magnetic field.

Spencer Macy, South Dakota School ol Mines and Technology, measurement ol the electrooptical constants of sphalerite and other cubic crystals.

W. Stuart Haynes, University of Utah, photolysis of ketones and other organic compounds.

Donald C. Gregg, University of Ver­mont, trityl ethers of thiophenol and the isomeric tniocresols.

Thomas I. Crowell, University of Vir­ginia, kinetics of amine-catalyzed con­densations of aldeyhdes with nitro-methane.

NSR Food Protection Committee Considers Additives Terminology

The subcommittee on toxicology of the Food Protection Committee of the Na­tional Research Council, in a recent meet­ing in Washington, mapped out a plan for future work on the development of basic principles for the determination of the safety of the use of additives in foods.

It proposed that the following termi­nology be considered to apply to additives:

"Chemical additives are considered to be pure substances or mixtures of known and reproducible composition not usually present in the particular foods concerned, or present only in suboptimal amounts."

The subcommittee further proposed that additives be considered in two groups:

1. Incidental additives, which are not introduced into foods by design but are adjunct substances which remain, usually in small amounts, after usage in food pro­duction, processing, and storage.

2. Intentional additives, which are ad­juvant substances which impart some special quality to the food.

The subcommittee was instructed to di­rect its initial efforts to study surface ac­tive agents in use or proposed for use in ice cream, in view of the current Food and Drug Administration hearings to es­tablish a standard of identity for ice cream. This phase of the study may form a progress report in the study of the entire problem of surface active agents.

Chemotheropeutic Aid Planned at Dog Cancer Clinic

The use of chemotherapeutic agents, in­cluding such compounds as triethyleni-mino-s-triazine in the treatment of can­cerous growths in dogs is one of the studies planned at the newly established cancer clinic for dogs in the Bureau of Biological Research of Rutgers University. The clinic, believed to be one of the first of its kind in the nation, is sponsored by the

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university and the U. S. Public Health Service, which has made $15,000 avail­able for the first year ol the project.

T h e clinic will diagnose, study, and treat cancer in dogs. James B. Allison, director of the Bureau of Biological Re­search, noted that the incidence of the disease in dogs is about the same as that in man—5%. Diagnosis oi the disease will ~be made as dogs are referred by veterinarians for treatment. The clinic will study the physical and chemical changes which occur as the animal under­goes treatment.

Triethylenimino-s-triazine was devel­oped as a chemical agent in the treat­ment of cancer by Moses L. Crossley, bio­chemist on the bureau staff, who is one of t h e team of scientists cooperating with the new clinic. Dogs will be treated with­out charge and New Jersey veterinarians have been invited to bring in dogs suspected of cancer for study and treat­ment.

Cooling Tower Institute Formed T h e practical encouragement of all ef­

forts, both governmental and private, toward the conservation of water as America's No. 1 natural resource has been annou.nced as the primary objective of the recently formed Cooling Tower In­st i tute, according to Raymond C. Kelly, president.

Other objectives of the institute are to: support cooperative research toward im­proving the technology, design, and per­formance of industrial water cooling equipment ; coordinate recognized engi­neering groups in developing standard­ized testing procedures acceptable to manufacturers, users, and technical groups; establish minimum standards of construction; and to accumulate technical data of interest to both manufacturers and users of industrial water cooling equip­ment.

T h e present membership of the insti­tute represents the majority of the manu­facturing capacity for industrial-type equipment , but it is hoped eventually that i t will encompass the entire field of both evaporative water cooling and the newly developed air cooled heat ex­changers. The member companies include the Fluor Corp., Ltd., Los Angeles: Foster-Wheeler Corp., New York; Hud­son Engineer ing Corp., Houston; Lilie-Hoffinann Cooling Towers, Inc., St. Louis; the Marley Co., Inc., Kansas City; J. F. Pritchard & Co., Kansas City; and C. H. Wheeler Mfg. Co., Philadelphia.

T h e elected officers of the Cooling T o w e r Institute are: president, Raymond C. Kelly of J. F. Pritchard & Co.; first vice president , J. Robert Fluor of Fluor Corp . ; second vice president, John A. Brown of Foster-Wheeler Corp.; and secretary-treasurer, Leon T. Mart of Marley Co. Headquarters for the organiza­tion h.ave been established at Kansas City, Mo.

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