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Mrs. Jeanette G. Grasselli

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STANDARDS LABORATORIES CONFERENCE

MADAM PRESIDENT

GEOLOG'lC LABORATORY, SANTURCE, PUERTO RICO

DEATH OF RALPH H. MULLER

ULTRA SUPERIOR PURITY HELPS TRACE ELEMENTS IN HUMAN HAIR

1970 SUMMER COURSES

XV COLLOQUIUM SPECTROSCOPICUM INTERNATIONALE

INTRODUCING ... DONALD K. MUNHALL

CALL FOR PAPERS EASTERN ANALYTICAL SYMPOSIUM

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS NEWS

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GUEST SPEAKERS - TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM

21ST PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE

looking ahead

Arcs & Sparks is published by Ultra Carbon Corporation, P.O. Box 747, Bay City, Michigan 48706, for

the advancement of the profession of spectroscopy. News stories, changes of address and other pertinent

correspondence should be directed to the Editor.

Standards laboratories Conference to be Hosted by NBS

The National Conference of Standards Laboratories

will hold its biennial meeting June 15-17, 1970, at the

National Bureau of Standards (U.S. Department of Com-

merce), Gaithersburg, Md. Theme of this year's Conference

will be Innovative Metrology-Key to Progress.

NCSL is a non-profit laboratory-oriented organization

founded to promote cooperative efforts toward solving

the common problems faced by standards laboratories in

their organization and operation. Its membership consists

of academic, scientific, industrial, commercial, and govern-

mental laboratories concerned with the measurement of

physical quantities, the calibration of standards and

instruments, and the development of standards of practice.

It provides liaison with technical societies, trade associations,

and educational institutions interested in these activities.

Topics to be discussed at the Conference include:

New ways of managing

New ways of reducing costs

New methods of optimizing calibration intervals

New time-saving procedures

New technologies and applications

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One of the Conference highlights will be an address by

Myron Tribus, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for

Science and Technology, at the Conference Banquet. The

keynote address will be given by Lewis M. Branscomb,

Director, NBS.

Since the original call for papers was issued, the dates

for the Conference have been changed (pr~viously

announced as June 14-16). This makes possible a back-to-

back arrangement with the Precision Measurements

Association, whose Third Annual Conference will be held

at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C., June 17-19.

The opening session of the PMI Conference is in fact

planned to be held at the National Bureau of Standards in

cooperation with the NCSL Conference.

For further information concerning the NCSL Confer-

ence, write to:

R. J. Barra, M. S. 550Westinghouse Defense & Space CenterP. O. Box 746Baltimore, Maryland 21203

MADAM

'PRESIDENT

Mrs. Jeanette G. Grasselli is a native of Cleveland,

Ohio. She obtained her B. S. degree in Chemistry at Ohio

University and her M.S. at Case Western Reserve Univer-

sity. After graduation, she joined the Research Department

of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, where she is currently

an Analytical Group Leader in charge of Absorption Spec-

troscopy, NMR, and Thermal Methods of Analysis. She has

one patent and has authored or co-authored twenty-five

scientific papers and publications in the field of Infrared

Spectroscopy. Her research interests have been primarily

in the structure and orientation of polymers and in eluci-

dating the nature of the bonding in novel organometallic

compounds. In addition, she has worked with developing

techniques for obtaining IR spectra of trapped gas chromato-

graphy fractions or recovered thin layer chromatography

spots. She has been an invited lecturer at the Canisius

College summer institute in Infrared Spectroscopy (1966,1967, 1968) and at Case Western Reserve University

(1967, 1968, 1969).

She has been active in SAS at the National and local

level for some time. She was President of the Cleveland

Section in 1961-1962, chairman of the Hotel Liaison

committee of the 3rd National SAS meeting in Cleveland,

09io, 1964, member and chairman of the National

Sustaining Membership Committee in 1962, 1964-1965,chairman, Nominating Committee in 1967 and member of

the Tellers and Constitution committees.

She is a member of Coblentz Society (Board of Managers,

1968-1971),ACS, Phi Beta Kappa, Iota Sigma Pi(President,

Fluorine Chapter, 1958-1960), Cleveland Council on

World Affairs and the Central United States Ski Club. Asan active participant of the ACS,SAS, and Sohio Speakers'

Bureau, she has given numerous talks before high school,

college, civic, and technical groups.

In 1963 she received the Eleventh Annual Chemical

Profession Award from the Cleveland area chemistry and

chemical engineering societies. In 1965 she received the

Certificate of Merit Alumni Award from Ohio University.

Jenny's business career started early. Before she was

out of high school, she was selling aluminum castings for

her father's foundry in Elyria, Ohio.

She had been born in Cleveland in 1928, the daughter

of Nicholas and Veronica Gecsy. "I grew up playing

around the foundry;' she recalls. "I learned a lot about

metals - how to make sand cores, check the temperature

of the metal. After a while I went around with my father

when he called on customers and helped him quote jobs:'

Purchasing agents thought Jenny was along for decoration,

until she began supplying her father with facts and

figures.

The years at the foundry gave Jenny her initial impetus

toward chemistry, and she received further encouragement

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in the same direction from her high school chemistry

teacher. She took advanced math courses, earned scholastic

honors, and was elected football queen.

She followed the same pattern at Ohio University,

where she was queen of the Junior Prom and a member of

Phi Beta Kappa. When she graduated in 1950 with a B.S.

in chemistry, her four-year average was 3.8 out of a

possible 4.0.

The best job offer Jenny received was from the research

center, and she started there as a junior chemist. She was

assigned to the "Infrared and Special Problems" project;

and soon she found herself analyzing petroleum products

and various chemicals, a task for which she had had no

special training.

"It was completely new to me;' she recalls, "and I

loved it. I wanted to learn more about the work, which is

why I went on to get my master's degree in organic

chemistry:'

The "special problems" that Jenny encountered in-

volved such questions as, "How well can a particular

fuel oil maintain its specifications in storage?" and, "How

can one measure the viscosity of motor oil at zero degrees

Fahrenheit?"

It was in the effort to solve such problems that Jenny and

two of her supervisors developed a new technique for

extracting naphthalene from a refinery "stream:' They

shared the patent credit.

In 1952 Robert Karl Grasselli joined the research

center of Standard Oil. His particular area of interest then

as now, is catalysis. Bob Grasselli's first assignment was

to develop a catalyst that would produce a new and

different kind of molecule. In the course of his work, Bob

produced chemicals that required spectroscopic analysis.

It was Jenny who did the job for him. Both were attending

night classes at Western Reserve University, Jenny

studying for her master's degree, Bob for his doctorate.

Bob and Jenny were married in 1957, and both have

continued their progress in their respective careers. Bob

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DR. Jack Betteridge

Univ. College of Swansea

Swansea, Wales, Gr. Brit.

Dr. N. J. Harrick

Harrick Scientific Corp.

Ossining, N.Y.

Dr. W. W. Wendlandt

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

Dr. A. A. Westen berg

Johns Hopkins University

Silver Springs, Md.

Dr. R. K. Skogerboe

Cornell University

Ithaca, N. Y.

Guest Speakers

Twenty-Third Annual

Louisiana State University

Symposium

January 26-29, 1970Dr. H. F. Walton

University of Colorado

Boulder, Colo.

Dr. J. P. Walters

University of Wisconsin

Madison, Wise.

Dr. R. C. Ropp

Westinghouse Corp.

Bloomfield, N.J.

Dr. S. P..S. Porto

University of S. California

Los Angeles, Calif.

Dr. W. F. Libby, N.L.

University of California

Los Angeles, Calif.

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Geologic LaboratorySanturce, Puerto Rico

The ceremony of the Official Inauguration of the Geo-

logic Laboratory was held on January 23, 1970, in the

Antonsanti Building, in the Area of Natural Resources

of the Public Works Department. The facilities consist of

an area of more than 4,000 square feet and the technical

personnel consists of 11 scientists and specialists in the

Area of Natural Resources and the United States Geo-

logical Survey of the Department of the Interior.

The Antonsanti Laboratory has the most modern equip-

ment for the analysis of geologic samples, including a

spectrograph, atomic absorption equipment, mercury

vapor detectors. spectrometers. equipment to pulverize

samples and auxiliary equipment that the geologists will

use in their analysis of rock samples. The capacity of the

laboratory will permit several hundred determinations

each day. The geologic material selected by the scientist

in the field will be analyzed within 24 hours, thus per-

mitting an evaluation of the mineral resources of the

island, and permitting a better comprehension of the

natural resources of Puerto Rico.

The Under-Secretary of Public Works and other dis-

tinguished personalities of the United States Geological

Survey al1d the Department of the Interior proceeded to

demonstrate to the reporters and different government

and private personalities the facilities of the laboratory.

A cocktail party was held from five to seven in the

evening in the Area of Natural Resources. As a close t~

the activities the visitors were shown the lunar rock

fragments that the President of the United States of

America presented to the Honorable Governor of Puerto

Rico, Don Luis A. Ferre.

Death of Ralph H. Muller

Ralph Holcombe Miiller

was born in Philadelphia

on January 25, 1900. He

was educated in the United

States at the University of

Pennsylvania and Columbia

University (Ph.D., 1925)

and at Gottingen in Ger-

many (1927). He rose to

the rank of Full Professor

at the New York University

in a teaching career that

began in 1924 and ended

Ralph H. MUlier at that institution in 1951

1900-1970 when he joined the Los

Alamos Scientific Laboratory as a group leader and special

consultant in instruments development. He was engaged

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Ribbon cutting ceremony at the new Antonsanti Laboratory, San-

turce, Puerto Rico, (left to right) Alberto P. Marranzino, U. S.

Geological Survey Chief, Field Service Section, Undersecretary

Carlos Garret. Dept. of Public Works, Aux. Secretary, Cruz A.

Matos, Msgr. Rafael Fontanez and Rafael Boissen, Director of

Laboratory.

in highly secret work at the MIT Radiation Laboratory

throughout World War II. Dr. Muller formed his own

scientific consulting business in Santa Fe in 1962. In semi-

retirement, Dr. Muller accepted a position as .Visiting

Professor at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge

in 1967, and it was there that he died on February 2

among friends, colleagues, and students in an atmosphere

that he had come to love.

Beyond all of his factual accomplishments, Ralph Mii!ler

was a person of great vision and a possessor of remarkable

human attributes. It is worth quoting the first sentence of

the first Instrumentation column he wrote for Analyti-

cal Chemistry in January 1946: "Instrumentation is on

the threshold of a new era, and the problems 'Of analytical

chemistry afford one of its most fertile fields of application:'

What an era it has turned out to be! And Ralph Miiller,

through his vision, insight, and wisdom, contributed at

every step along the way.

21st ,Pittsburgb :Conference - Cleveland Conventioni%«1/~.1%%.

SOS members-H.G. Zelinski, D. Ward.

. .SOS members-R.C. Barras, Atlantic Richfield Co., D.W. Henthorn,

Bethlehem Steel Co., Mrs. Barras.

SOS members-Dr. Wilson, J. Norris, Mrs. S. Degenkolb, Dr.

Tipton, Mr. Degenkolb ..

Ray Wright, Hughes Aircraft. Cliff Granger, Bendix Corp .. T. Johns,

Beckman Inst.

H. Pahl. E. Shuster. Neil Chapman.

Jim Muntz. John Archibald .

R. J. Redinger. Anaconda Aluminum. F. J. Bowan. EMRO. The Ana-

conda Co., Wayne Harshberger. Ormet Corp.

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(I. to r.) R.T. Oliver, Foxboro Inst. Co., Mrs. Harry Fracek, R.A.

Freidel, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Mrs. E.L. Obermiller, E.L. Obermiller,Program Chairman, Mrs. Max Katz.

(I. to r.) R.K. Scott Harbison Walker, Mrs. Robert (Betty) Mainier,

Robert Mainier, 1970 Conference· President _Koppers Research.

SOS members-R.E. Heffelfinger, Battelle Memorial Inst., Dr. L.Strock, Sylvania Electric.

1970 Coblentz Society Award recipient James R. Durig (right)

receives the award from Charles Angell.

(I. to r.) Harry Fracek, Fisher Scientific, Conference Treasurer,

E.L. Obermiller, Consolidation Coal, Program Chairman, Robert

Mainier, Koppers Research, Conference President Frank Byrne,

Westinghouse Res. Labs, AI Church, Conference Photographer, AI

Pollock, Harshaw Chemical, O.E. Wilkinson, Alcoa Research,

Publicity Chairman, C.R Wolfe, Westinghouse Research, Publicity

Chairman Elect.

Ellis R. Lippincott University ot Maryland. (nght) is presented with

the 1970 Spectroscopv Society Of Pittsburgh Award. Making the

presentation for the Soclet\' IS Frank Dickson, Gulf Research.

Morris Slavin, recently retired, received the H. V. Churchill Award

for30years of outstanding contributions tothe ASTM E-2 Committee.

Making the presentation, Don Spindler (left). to Walter Slavin, who

accepted for his father.

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21st Pittsburgh Conference Cleveland Con~

Coffee Time - 1235 gallons of free coffee (more than 25,000 cups)

were served to Conferees at the 1970 Conference.

Registration

APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY\

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More than three-hundred manufacturers exhibited at the Conference.

Get your badge here.

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Welcome to Pittsburgh, Walter's Associates confused a lot of

Clevelanders with 24 of these billboards placed at all turnpike exits,

along the routes from the airport to downtown and throughout the

downtown area. Small signs were also placed in all Rapid Transit

Cars.

vention Center Cleveland, Ohio, March 1- 6, 1970

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(I. to r.) Bob Mainier, 1970 Pittsburgh Conference President,

Koppers Research, E.R. Shuster, Secretary SAS, Nuclear Materials

and Equipment, Frank Dickson, Gulf Research, Clinton Wolfe, West-

inghouse Research, Foil Miller, University of Pittsburgh.

Speakers and Presider, Symposium on Analysis of Lunar Materials,(I. to r.) Robin Brett, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, W.D.

Ehman, University of Kentucky, A.A. Smales, A.E.C. Establishment,

Anal. Sciences Div., Harwell, Berkshire, England, R.E. Hein, Presider,

H.J. Heinz Co" Frank Cuttitta, U.S. Geological Survey, Truman P.

Kohman, Carnegie-Mellon University.

Coblentz IR Technical Clinic, (I. to r.) R. Norman Jones, Nat. Res.

Council of Canada, A. Lee Smith, Dow Corning, R.W. Hannah,

Perkin-Elmer, W.J. Potts, Dow Chemical. K.E. Stine, Beckman Inst.Robert Mainier, Koppers Research, 1970 Conference President

greets Bob Feller, former pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. Mr.

Feller now represents the Sheraton Hotel Corp.

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Recipient of the 1970 SAS of Pittsburgh Award, Ellis Lippincott

(second from right) University of Maryland, with the speakers of

the Award Symposium who were all former graduate students

under Lippincott, I. to r" Marvin C. Tobin, Perkin-Elmer Corp.,

Wm. Fately, Carnegie-Mellon University, Ellis Lippincott, Jack

Katon, Miami University of Oxford, Ohio.

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The following article appeared in INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. March

1970 issue. Our thanks to Mr. Victor J. Danilov. Publisher. forpermission to reprint it.

1970 SUMMER COURSES

For complete information-write:Mr. Nelson Fuson, DirectorFisk Institute Box 8Fisk University .Nashville, Tennessee

For complete information write:

Dr. Jacob Fuchs, DirectorModern Industrial SpectroscopyArizona State UniversityTempe, Arizona 85281

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge, Massachusetts

August 3-7, Technique, InfraredSpectroscopy -

$300.00 one week

Applications, InfraredSpectroscopy - Com-bined $550.00

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

August 3-7, Tenth annual program

in Infrared and Ultra-violet Absorption Spec-troscopy- $175.00

Fifteenth annual pro-gram in Modern Indus-trial Spectroscopy -

$275.00

Interpretation of Infra-red Spectra and BasicUV and Fluorescence.

$200.00

August 17-28,

August 10-14,

August 24-28,

For complete information write:

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyOffice of Summer SessionsRoom E19-356

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee

21st Annual Fisk Institute, Infrared, Ultra-violet and Fluorescence Spectroscopyand Gas-Liquid Chromatography

August 17-21, Basic IR and BasicGIC. $200.00

Ultra Superior Purity HelpsTrace Elements In Human Hair

This has led Dr. W. W. Harrison, associate professor

of analytical chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, University

of Virginia, Charlottesville, and his associates, to develop

an ashing procedure to eliminate organic constituents.

Ashed hair samples, on the other hand, also required the

researchers to find a suitable matrix material.

Powdered silver was examined first as a matrix for the

ash because of its availability in high purity as well as

its excellent conducting and electrode forming properties.

Blank shots of pure silver, however, showed unacceptable

quantities of several elements, notably lead, bismuth,

barium, tin, zinc, copper, iron, and aluminum.

Dr. Harrison and his associates encountered an even

more severe problem arising from the somewhat coarse

nature of the silver powder. This created difficulties in

producing a homogenous mixture of the ashed sample

with the silver.

A recently introduced high-purity grade of graphite

then was studied as a matrix material. "Ultra Superior

Purity" graphite, manufactured by Ultra Carbon Corp.,

Bay City, Mich., exhibited very little trace element im-

purity. It also was so finely divided that it permitted

simple, homogenous mixing with the sample residue. It

was necessary, on the longer exposures, to avoid the

polycarbon lines at 24, 36, 48, and so forth, but this

usually did not impose any serious limitation on the hair

analyses.

Human Hair seems to be capable of storing quantities

of elements that are present in excess quantities in the

human body. Thus, hair can provide a valuable, time-

dependent record for possible diagnostic use. Hair also

represents a readily available, painlessly procured speci-

men with which to work.

In cases of lead or mercury poisoning, for example,

relatively high concentrations of these elements show up

in the hair. The difficulty, however, is that they are still

at the trace element-low ug/gram-levels.

Although spectrophotometric methods, atomic absorp-

tion, neutron activation analysis, and spark source mass

spectrometry have been used for hair analysis, only the

latter technique exhibits the broad scope and sensitivity

required for the wide range survey method desired.

Hair samples, however, are not conducive to direct

analyses by this method because of their nonconducting

nature. Finely divided samples in a conducting matrix

exhibited peaks at essentially every mass unit, which

mitigates against meaningful qualitative or quantitative

results.

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XV Colloquium Spectroscopicum InternationaleMadrid, Spain, May 26-30, 1969

PRESIDENCIA DE HONOR

EXCMO. SR.

D. FRANCISCO FRANCO BAHAMONDE

JEFE DEL EST ADO ESP ANOL

JUNTA ORGANIZADORA DEL XV CSI

PRESIDENTE GENERAL

The historical city of Madrid and its hospitable people

welcomed more than 600 registrants to the 15th Colloquium.

The committees are to be congratulated for a most

successful program. Guests represented twenty-six

countries; they found everything planned for their con-

venience, comfort and enjoyment. The beautiful Central

Building of the Council of Research was headquarters for

the Plenary and Scientific Sessions. A full rounded program

of 215 papers was presented.

J.M. Lopez de Azcona Instituto Geologico y Minero

COMISION CIENTIFICA

COMISION EXPOSICION

COMISION ORGANIZADORA

Site of the XV CSI, the Central Building of the Council of Research,Madrid.

Universidad de Madrid.

Universidad de Madrid.

Dept. Quimica Analitica

(Universidad de Madrid)

Empresa Nacional del Aluminio

(Valladolid)

Universidad de Barcelona

Centro Nacional de Investigacio-

nes Metalurgicas.

Instituto de Optica "Daza Valdes"

Escuela Tecnica Superior de

Ingenieros de Minas.

Instituto de Quimica Fisica C.S.I.C.

Junta de Energia Nuclear

Junta de Energia Nuclear

Junta de Energia Nuclear

Instituto Nacional de Tecnica

Aeroespacial.

Instituto de Quimica Fisica C.S.I.C.

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones

Metalurgicas.

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones

Metalurgicas.

Instituto Nacional de Technica

Aeroespacial.

Instituto Nacional de Tecnica

Aeroespacial.

Instituto de Quimica Fisica C.S.I.C.

Instituto de Quimica Fisica C.S.I.C.

TESORERO

SECRET ARlO GENERAL

Vocales:

F. Delibes Setien

Presidente: F. Burriel Marti

Vicepresidente: J. Morcillo Rubio

Secretario: C. Alvarez Herrero

M. Font Altaba

M. T. Dorado Lopez

A. Sampedro Pineiro

A. Hidalgo Gadea

E. Llorente Gomez

Presidente: F. Alvarez Gonzalez

Vicepresidente: M. Roca Adell

Secretario: J.P. Diaz-Guerra

Gonzalez

Vocales:

L. Aliste Blanco

M. I. Saiz Barrigueta

F. Gomez Ruimonte

Presidenta: A. Camunas Puig

S. Garcia Blanco

J. L. Jimenez Seco

Secretario: D. de Celis Pena

E. Asensi Alvarez-Arenas

Representante de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y

Naturales: J. Otero Navascues.

Representante de la Real Academia de Farmacia:

R. Portillo Moya-Angeler.

Opening Session, (I. to r.) Dr. Menzies, England, Prof. M. Lora-

Tamayo, Chairman of the Council of Scientific Research, Spain,

Prof. F. Rodriques, Director General of Higher Education, Spain,

Dr. J. M. Lopes de Azcona, President of XV CSI, Spain, Dr. Torok,President of XIV CSI, 1967, Debrecen, Hungary.

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Madrid, Spain

May 26-30, 1969

A promenade at dusk, (I. to r.) Dr. K. Zimmer, L. EOTVAS University,

Budapest, Dr. S. Kerekes, United Incandiscant & Electrical Co"

LTD., Budapest, Mr. G. Kisfaludi, Research Center, Pont-a-Mousson,

France.

(I. to r.) Prof. H. Kaiser, Germany, Prof. S.L. Mandelstan, USSR.

(I. to r.) Carl Leistner, USA, E.I. Stonehill, England.

(I. to r.) J.P. Diaz-Guerro, F. Alvarez, M. Roca, J.M. Sicilia. all of

Spanish Atomic Energy Commission.

Colloquium Spectrosco

Official languages of the congress were Spanish, French,

English and German. Uniformed hostesses acted as

interpreters during the general sessions. Head-set re-

ceivers for simultaneous translations were made available

for the Inaugural and Closing sessions, for the Meeting of

National Delegates and Plenary Conferences.

(I. to r.) M. Roca. Spain, J. Morcillo, Spain, F. Malamand. France,

J.L. Jimenez Seco. Spain. G. Vient, France.

(I. to r.) T.A. Read, England, R.O. Scott, England. A. Kvalheim,

Norway, '3.L. Mitchell, England.

(I. to r.) Dr. :rodorovic. Yugoslavia. Dr. Lummerzheim, Germany,

Carl Leistner. USA, J. Bril, France, Dr. Vukanovic, Yugoslavia.

Eln Schegg, Germany, Dr. Nickel, Germany, Mrs. Todorovic.

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picum InternationaleXVI CSI - 1971

Heidelberg, October 4-9

The dance of Spain,(1. to r.) Dr. F. Alvarez, Chairman of the Or-

ganizing Committee, Miss Lucero Tena, famous Spanish ballerina ofFlamenco.

(I. to r.) R. McGowan, Van Nuys, Calif., H. J. Sloane, Monrovia,

Calif.

Carl Leistner, Ultra Carbon with the interpreters (back row I. to r.)

Marta Hildebrandt. Diana Fidalgo, Mr. Leistner, Maria Odriozola,

Marian Munoz-Carero, (front row I. to r.) Isabel Garcia-Maura,

Ana Paniagua, Maria Moreu, Pilar Alvarez.

(I. to r.) J. Artaud, J. Cittanova, A. Brunet. J. Normand, all of France.

Leisure hours were devoted to tours of historical

interest. The magnificent architecture, beautifully land-

scaped gardens and parks delighted the conferees. Several

receptions were held where guests were entertained with

the native Spanish dances. Guests found many fine

dining places in Madrid that offered outstanding food

and wines. A farewell dinner was held in the Hotel Luz

Palacio.

(I. to r.) w.o. Hagenah, V. Caimann, A. Gebhardt. S. Kimmel, all

of German Federal Republic, West Germany.

Officers of the XV CSI, (I. to r.) Dr. F. Alvarez, President of the

Organizing Committee, Prof. Lopes de Azcona, General President,Dr. E. Asensi, General Secretary.

(I. to r.) Prof. Milazzo, Italy, Joseph A. Goleb, USA, J. Artaud,

France.

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must be

Donald K. Munhall

Ultra Carbon Representative

The latest member of the team, Don Munhall, represents

Ultra Carbon in Ohio, Eastern Kentucky and Southeastern

Michigan.

Born and reared in Western Pennsylvania, Don attended

the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Industrial Engi-

neering. Columbus, Ohio has been his headquarters for

the past several years where he is active in the Chamber

of Commerce, Historical Society and church related organi-

zations. Technical societies are also numbered among his

activities, ISA, ACS and ASM.

Don plays golf, time and weather permitting. Even with

all the business related travel he does for Ultra, he names

travel as one of his major hobbies, this is shared with his

wife Jody and their three children, Bill, Christine and

Anne.

Contact:

Donald K. Munhall59 East Kanawha AvenueColumbus, Ohio 43214Phone: 614-888-1999

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Call For PapersEastern Analytical

Symposium

In order to broaden the scope of the Eastern Analytical

Symposium in the sense of including the very latest

developments in the field of Spectroscopy and Analytical

Chemistry, it has been decided that the EAS will include

in its next program (November 1970) three half-day

sessions of submitted papers. Each speaker will be

allowed 30 minutes for his presentation; 25 minutes for

the talk and 5 minutes for discussion. All those interested

in presenting papers at this meeting should send your

copies of a 300 word abstract to:

Dr. B. Karger

Department of Chemistry

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts 022115

In order for abstracts to be considered they

received before May 1, 1970.

The EAS will be held this year on November 18, 19, and

20, at the Statler Hilton in New York City.

Melvin GoodmanPublicity Chairman

9th

NA TIONAL

MEETING

5-10 OCTOBER 1970

JUNG HOTELNEW ORLEANS, LA.

Host:

Southeastern Section,

Society for Applied Spectroscopy

Further

Information: CONTACT:

J. W. Robinson, General Chairman

9th National

Meeting

Dept. of Chemistry

Louisiana State Univ.

Batan Rouge, La. 70803

NATIONAL BUREAU OF

STANDARDS NEWS

Dr. Richard D. Deslattes, Jr.

Receives 1969

Arthur S. Flemming Award

This tiny, brown-eyed lady with the lovely smile, brings

to the SAS this same enthusiasm, untiring energy and

devotion that she has shown throughout her lifetime.

1970 is sure to be another banner year for the society.

We salute you, Jenny.

Madam President' (Continued from page 3)

Grasselli, described by his associates as a "brilliant scientist,"

is a project leader and senior research associate who has

received or shared in 100 patents (issued and pending)

and has several major publications to his credit.

Both carry the same enthusiasm into their leisure time

as they do into their working hours. Camping and skiing

are among their major hobbies. Their love of the outdoors

has taken them on several canoeing trips through the

Minnesota wilderness. But they also share their time with

others through their mutual interest in the Council of

World Affairs. This organization aids college students

from foreign countries to adjust to the American way of

life. Jenny and Bob have been the host family of several

such young people.

Dr. Lewis M. Branscomb, Director of the National

Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce,

said he was highly pleased at the announcement that a

Bureau scientist was one of the recipients of the 1969

Arthur S. Flemming Awards. The scientist is Dr. Richard

D. Deslattes, Jr., Chief of the NBS Atomic Physics Section.

He was honored for his outstanding achievements in

science at the Bureau.

The awards, originally suggested by Arthur S. Flemming,

former Chairman of the Civil Service Commission and

Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and

Welfare, were begun in 1948. They are sponsored this

year by the Downtown Jaycees of Washington, D. C. and

the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, National

Savings and Trust Company, Potomac Electric Power

Company, and the Washington Gas Light Company.

Five awards are given in the scientific and technical

fields, and five in the administrative or executive areas to

ten outstanding people under age forty in Government

serVIce.

The awards were presented at a luncheon on February

19, 1970. The guest speaker was George Romney, Secre-

tary of the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-

ment.

Dr. Deslattes was cited for his direction of research

leading to the successful design, construction, and de-

monstration of the first device combining an X-ray and

optical interferometer. Such a device permits one to measure

the inter-atomic spacing in a crystal in terms of the wave-

length of visible light.

A possible consequence of the new instrument is that it

opens the door to the eventual determination of the unit

of mass in terms of an atomic unit, although no one can be

sure when this goal can be attained.

Throughout his career at NBS Dr. Deslattes has been

concerned with atomic constants, a field that not only

supplies these necessary numbers for science at large, but

which also yields the most exacting tests we have of

physical theory.

Dr. Deslattes was born on September 21, 19G1 in New

Orleans, La. He received his Ph.D. in 1959 from John

Hopkins University. He was a postdoctoral research

associate at Cornell University from 1958 to 1'962. He

then joined NBS to work on solid state physics. He be-

came Chief of the Atomic Physics Section at NBS in 1968.

Dr. Deslattes and his wife and five children live in

Rockville, Md.

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August 3-4

August 5-7

October 5-10

October 6-9

October 13-15

October 26-28

November 18-20

The XXI Mid America Symposium on

Spectroscopy, Sheraton-Chicago Hotel,

Chicago, Illinois.

Twelfth Annual Rocky Mountain

Spectroscopy Conference

The 19th Annual Denver Conference

on Applications of X-Ray

Both at Albany Hotel, Denver, Colorado.

9th National Meeting Society for

Applied Spectroscopy, Jung Hotel, New

Orleans, Louisiana.

Pacific Conference on Chemistry and

Spectroscopy, Jack Tar Hotel, San

Francisco, California.

14th ORNL Conference on Analytical

Chemistry in Nuclear Technology,

Mountain View Hotel and Motor Lodge,

Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

17th Spectroscopy Symposium of

Canada, Skyline Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario,

Canada.

Eastern Analytical Symposium, Hotel

Statler Hilton, New York City.

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