American Chemical Society, Chicago Section

Frank Burnett Dains, 1869-1948. Lecture assistant to Dr. W. O. Atwater at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, and later assistant professor at Northwestern University and professor at Washburn College in Topeka, Kansas. From 1911 until tire time of bis retirement in 1942 he was in charge of the department of organic chemistry at the University of Kansas, where he made notable contributions to the chemistry of the aldehydes, urea ethers, substituted ureas, thiazoles, imidazoles, and pyrazoles, and was an enthusiastic collector of books, portraits, and other memorabilia connected with the history of chemistry. He was a charter member of the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society and served as Councilor of the Society, as Chairman of the Divisions of Organic Chemistry and History of Chemistry, and as contributing editor and abstractor for the Journal of Chemical Education. See also ref. (166). 

Claude Hudson was the recipient of the Nichols (New York Section, American Chemical Society, 1916), Willard Gibbs (Chicago Section, 1929), Richards (Northeastern Section, 1940), Borden (American Chem-... 

Dr. Karabinos was a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Oil Chemists Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, and Sigma Xi. His academic and professional activities brought him many honors and awards. These included a Graduate Research Fellowship at The Ohio State University (1942-1944), the Chemist of the Year Award of the Joliet, Illinois, Section of the American Chemical Society (1960), and the Alumnus of the Year Award of St. Procopius College (1962). He was elected Vice Chairman, and then Chairman, of the Joliet Section of the American Chemical Society, and Chairman of the Chemistry Section of the Illinois Academy of Science. He served faithfully on several Committees of the Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. Indeed, Karabinos was organizing a symposium on Non-Food Uses of Carbohydrates for the Division at the time of his terminal illness. The Symposium was held on September 1,1977, at the Chicago Meeting of the Society. 

In 1931, Levene was awarded the Willard Gibbs medal of the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society as the outstanding American worker in the application of organic chemistry to biological problems. That citation is one which will go unchallenged for many years to come. 

Chicago Section, American Chemical Society, Abstracts of Chemical Patents Vested in Alien Property Custodian, classified and indexed by Science-Technology Group, Special Libraries Association, edited and published by Office of Alien Property Custodian, Washington, D. C., 1944. 

In 1944, the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society and the Chicago Chemists Club set up a joint library committee to study the scientific literature needs of the Chicago area. As a result of the work of this committee, a decision was made in November 1946 to establish the Chicago Chemical Library Foundation (3, 10). In the constitution and bylaws of the CCLF adopted December 31, 1947, the object of the foundation is stated as follows (4) ... 

Chicago Section, American Chemical Society, Abstracts of Chemical Patents Vested in... 

Based on a 1976 lecture series sponsored by the Chicago Sections of the American Chemical Society and the Electrochemical Society. 

Theory of Resonance (Jackson Laboratory Lecture Series, Lecture No. 6) (Wilmington, DE E. I. Dupont de Nemours Co., February 8,1946) 1—13. Modern structural chemistry. (Acceptance speech for the Willard Gibbs Medal, awarded 14 June 1946 by the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society). Chem. Eng. News 24 (10 July 1946) 1788-1789. The valences of transition elements, in Contribution d I Etude de la Structure Moleculaire (Victor Henri Memorial Volume), Desoer, Liege, (1948), pp. 1-14. 

The medals, awards and honorary degrees accorded to Dr. Mark are so numerous that I am not able to record them in this brief testimony. They come from many countries, organizations and societies. They span more than four decades. In 1928, Dr. Mark was awarded the Heinrich Hertz Medal. This year our Geheimrat will receive the prestigious Willard Gibbs Medal of the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society. 

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