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$40,000 PRF Grants Awarded

Five professors receive Petroleum Research Fund unrestricted grants for research in pure science

Research grants of $40,000 each have been awarded to five outstanding sci­entists by The Petroleum Research Fund administered by the ACS. Lat­est recipients are Dr. George A. Olah of Western Reserve University, Dr. Max T. Rogers of Michigan State Uni­versity, Dr. Paul von R. Schleyer of Princeton University, Dr. Herbert L. Toor of Carnegie Institute of Technol­ogy, and Dr. Harry M. Walborsky of Florida State University.

This brings to 20 the number of sci­entists who have received ACS-PRF Unrestricted Grants for Established Research in the Petroleum Field since these were first authorized in 1964 (C&EN, Jan. 25, 1965, page 76; May 31, page 82; July 26, page 55) .

The awards permit each recipient to investigate any area of pure science which may provide a basis for sub­sequent research in the petroleum field. The grants are for a four-year period but may be used at any desired rate.

Dr. Olah is professor of chemistry and chairman of the chemistry depart­ment at Western Reserve University.

He received a Ph.D. from the Technical Uni­versity of Buda­pest in 1949 and joined the faculty there as professor of theoretical or­ganic chemistry.

Olah He became head of the department of organic chemis­try and associate scientific director of the Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954.

Dr. Olah was forced to leave his native country after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. He was with Dow Chemical of Canada from 1957 to 1963 and with Dow's Eastern Research Laboratory, Framingham, Mass., in 1964-65. He accepted his present position in September 1965.

He is the author of a six-volume

monograph on "Friedel-Crafts and Re­lated Reactions" and of 160 scientific papers.

Dr. Olah won the ACS Award in Petroleum Chemistry in 1964. In addition to Friedel-Crafts reactions, his main research interests are in electrophilic aromatic substitution and the investigation of stable carbonium ion complexes in solution.

Dr. Rogers, professor of chemistry at Michigan State University, received a B.Sc. in 1937 and M.Sc. in 1938

from the Univer­sity of Alberta and a Ph.D. in 1941 from Cali­fornia Institute of Technology. From 1942 to 1946 he taught chemistry at the

Rogers University of Cal­ifornia, Los Angeles. He became as­sistant professor of chemistry at Mich­igan State in 1946, associate professor in 1948, and professor in 1955. Dr. Rogers held a Guggenheim fellowship at Oxford in 1954 and in 1962 he was a National Science Foundation post­doctoral fellow at the National Physi­cal Laboratory, Teddington, England.

He has written 112 papers dealing with the determination by physical methods of electronic and molecular structures of a variety of organic se­ries.

Dr. Schleyer, professor of chemistry at Princeton University, received an A.B. from Princeton in 1951 and

Ph.D. from Har­vard University in 1957. He re­turned to Prince­ton as an assist­ant professor in 1958, became an associate profes­sor in 1963, and a

Schleyer professor last year. In 1964-65 he was a Fulbright research scholar at the University of Munich and also held a Guggenheim

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fellowship. He is now an Alfred P. Sloan research fellow.

Dr. Schleyer's research interests are bridged polycyclic hydrocarbons and carbonium ions and the study of con­formational factors which influence ground and transition state energies.

Dr. Toor, professor of chemical en­gineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology, is an authority on cou­

pled transport phenomena. He received a B.S. from Drexel In­stitute of Tech­nology in 1948, and an M.S. in 1950 and Ph.D. in 1952

Toor from Northwest­ern University. He joined the Car­negie Institute of Technology staff in 1953 as an assistant professor and be­came associate professor in 1957 and professor in 1961. He served as a UNESCO Technical Aid Expert at the University of Madras, India, in 1962-63.

Dr. Toor's principal research has been in diffusion and mass transfer in multicomponent systems.

Dr. Walborsky, professor of chemis­try at Florida State University, re­ceived a B.S. from City College of

New York in 1946 and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1949. He was a research associate at the University of California, Los Angeles, until

Walborsky 1950, when he became an assistant professor at Flor­ida State. He was named an associate professor in 1955 and professor in 1959. Dr. Walborsky held a U.S.

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Public Health Service postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1953.

He is currently investigating the homogeneous and heterogeneous re­ductions of optically active alkyl hal-ides by metallation and by electrolytic methods.

CAS Names Director of Marketing Philip K. Reily, former vice president for marketing at Atlantic Research Corp., Alexandria, Va., has joined

the Chemical Ab­stracts Service staff in the newly created post of director of mar­keting. His re­sponsibilities will include market research, sales,

public relations, and advertising for Chemical Abstracts and other CAS publications and services.

A native of Washington, D.C., Mr. Reily received a B.S. in chemistry from Lehigh University in 1948. For six years prior to joining Atlantic Re­search in 1956, he was director of the Solid Propellant Information Agency of Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, the technological information center for the U.S. solid-prop ellant rocket program.

Mr. Reily has served on the advi­sory board of Axe Science Corp., and has been a member of the Bureau of Naval Ordnance Advisory Commit­tee on Solid Propellants. He also has been chairman of the Metropolitan Washington Science Industry Commit­tee. He is a member of ACS, the American Ordnance Association, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

New Local Section Officers NORTH JERSEY. Dr. W. Lincoln Hawkins, supervisor, plastics applied re­

search — deteriora­tion and stabiliza­tion of plastics, at Bell Telephone Laboratories, is the new chairman of the North Jersey Section. Serving with Dr. Hawkins are Dr. Samuel M. Gerber, chairman-

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DELAWARE. Dr. Blaine C. McKusick, associate director-basic sciences at Du

Pont, is the 1966 chairman of t h e Delaware Section. Serving with Dr. McKusick are Dr. Robert S. Voris, chairman-e 1 e c t; Dr. John R. Schaef-gen, secretary; and Dr. John J. Drys-dale, treasurer.

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI. John C. Guyon, associate professor of chemistry at

the university, is the 1966 chairman of the University of Missouri Section. Other officers serv­ing with him are Dr. James Adair Ross, vice-chair­man, and Dr. John E. Bauman, Jr., secretary-treasurer.

TEXAS A&M-BAYLOR. Dr. Norman C. Rose, associate professor of chemistry at

Texas A&M Univer­sity, is the new chairman of the Texas A&M-Baylor Section. Serving with Dr. Rose are Dr. James L. Mc-Atee, Jr., chairman-elect, and John B. Beckham, secre­tary-treasurer.

NASHVILLE. Dr. Donald E. Pearson, professor of organic chemistry at Vander-

bilt University, is the new chairman of the Nashville Section. The other officers serv­ing with Dr. Pear­son are James K. Witt, chairman-elect, and Dr. Rob­ert V. Dilts, secre­tary-treasurer.

MILWAUKEE. Dr. Allen G. Boyes, su­pervisor of the chemical services section

at Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., is the new chairman of the Milwaukee Sec­tion. Other offi­cers serving with Dr. Boyes are Ken­neth E. Miller, chairman-elect; Dr. Glenn R. Svoboda, s e c r e t a r y ; a n d

Roger D. Senn, treasurer.

ST. LOUIS. Dr. H. D. Barnstorff, man­ager of professional employment, organic

chemicals division, Monsanto Co., is the 1966 chairman of the St. Louis Section. Serving with Dr. Barns­torff are Dr. Leo J. Spillane, chair­man-elect; Dr. Frederick J. Lud-wig, Sr., secretary;

and Dr. George Brooke Hoey, treasurer.

WYOMING. Dr. Andrew W. Decora, project leader at the Laramie Petroleum

Research Center, U.S. Bureau of Mines, heads the Wyoming Section for 1966. Serving with Dr. Decora are Dr. Vernon C. Bulgrin, chairman-elect; Michael Purko, secretary; and Dr. John

Howatson, treasurer.

NORTH CAROLINA. Dr. J. Charles Morrow, professor of chemistry at the

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is the 1966 chairman of the North Carolina Section. Serving with Dr. Morrow are Dr. E. Clifford Toren, Jr., chair­man-elect, and Dr. G. Gilbert Long,

secretary-treasurer.

ST. JOSEPH VALLEY. Dr. Arthur A. Smucker, professor of chemistry and

chairman of the di­vision of natural sciences and of the chemistry depart­ment at Goshen College, is the new chairman of the St. Joseph Valley Sec­tion. The other officers are Dr. George H. Bain,

chairman-elect; Dr. Richard C. Pilger, Jr., secretary; and Dr. James M. Day, treasurer.

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