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H. E. Smith, The Effect ofTetramethylorthosilicate on the Eyes, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Industrial EeUowship 274-1, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Center on the Materials of the Artist and Conservator, Mellon Institute,... 

Some 40 research articles resulted from Tipson s 18 years at the Mellon Institute, and they demonstrate that he was able to sustain some of his interest in carbohydrate chemistry, and he continued to study the reactions of sulfonic esters with sodium iodide. In 1945 he compiled his published work into a senior thesis for the D.Sc. degree that was awarded by the University of Birmingham. However, a considerable proportion of the research at the Mellon Institute was never published because of patent restrictions. This was particularly true for his work on carbohydrates and other organic compounds conducted after July 1952, when he was assigned to the Parke, Davis and Company Fellowship in Medicinal Chemistry to synthesize potential antiviral and anticancer agents. 

These included Johns Hopkins pharmacologist John J. Abel (by letter only, as he could not attend), Rockefeller Institute biochemist P. A. Levene, Chief of the U.S.D.A. Bureau of Chemistry Carl Alsberg, Wisconsin pharmacologist Arthur Loevenhart (engaged at the time in chemical warfare work), Acting Director of the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research E. R. Weidlein, and two industry representatives, Frank Eldred of Eli Lilly and Company and D. W. Jayne of the Barrett Company. The addresses were published in the December 1918 issue of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, and were also reprinted and circulated to numerous individuals whose views were solicited (21). 

Three of the participants of the New York symposium (Abel, Levene, and Eldred) were also on the Committee, along with Harvard pharmacologist Reid Hunt, Yale chemist Treat Johnson, Director of the Mellon Institute Raymond Bacon, and chemist F. 0. Taylor of Parke, Davis and Company (23, 24). 

The Industrial Health Foundation, with headquarters at the Mellon Institute, is a nonprofit research association of industries with the objective of advocating industrial health programs, improving working conditions, and encouraging better human relations. It provides direct professional assistance to member companies in control of industrial health hazards, assists companies in the development of health programs, and contributes to the advancement of industrial hygiene and medicine. 

Mellon Institute Submission of Data by FDA. Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, University of Pittsburgh, Special Report on the Acute and Subacute Toxicity of Mono-, Di-, and Triethanolamine, Carbide and Carbon Chem Div, UCC Industrial Fellowship No 274-13 (Report 13-67), 1950... 

Mellon Institute Submission of Data by FDA. Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, University of Pittsburgh, Special Report on the Acute and Subacute Toxicity of... 

Mellon Institute on the effect of adding sugar to sand-lime bricks. It was found that the addition of 6% sugar (this amounts to 13 lb. of sugar per 1000 bricks) increased the tensile strength by about 60%. To summarize, it seems that sucrose exerts a beneficial effect on mortar and on sand-lime brick but a detrimental effect on Portland cement. 

Mellon Institute. 1949. The acute toxicity of m-cresol. Unpublished data submitted by Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to EPA/OTS. Fiche no. OTS0517523. 

Mellon Institute, Camegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Mellon Institute, Camegie-Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213... 

In Fig. 3.1 results according to ref. 70 axe shown. These results, which are plotted on a double logarithmic scale, according to eq. (3.41a), were obtained on solutions of three anionic polystyrenes in monobromo-benzene at 25° C. Some data of these polymers, which were provided by J. Altares of Mellon Institute, are given in Table 3.2 together with data of the well-known semi-technical sample Sill. 

For the next eleven years (1944-1955), Emmett directed the Gulf Oil-sponsored Multiple Petroleum Fellowship at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. In 1955 Emmett returned to Hopkins, but this time as the W. R. Grace Professor of Chemistry there he remained until his retirement in 1971. His last 14 years were spent back in his beloved state of Oregon, where he held the title of Research Professor at the Portland State University. Dr. Emmett died on April 22, 1985. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Pauline Pauling Emmett. 

At the Mellon Institute he applied l4C tracers to examine the behavior of intermediates in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis over iron catalysts. By adding small amounts of radioactively labeled compounds to the CO/H2 synthesis gas mixtures, he was able to prove that some of these compounds (e.g., small alcohols) are involved in the initiation step of the chain growth process that leads to larger hydrocarbon products. It was during this era that his associates first placed a catalytic reactor into the carrier gas stream of a gas chromatograph and developed the microcatalytic pulse reactor, which is now a standard piece of equipment for mechanistic studies with labeled molecules. While at Mellon Institute Emmett began editing his comprehensive set of seven volumes called Catalysis, which he continued at Hopkins. 

R. Stuart Tipson, Department of Research in Organic Chemistry, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania... 

Sant, Roger W., "The Least Cost Energy Strategy", The Energy Productivity Center, Mellon Institute, Arlington, VA, 1979. 

Radiation Research Laboratories and Department of Chemistry, Mellon Institute of Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, U.S.A. 

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