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famed Scientist
eelared 4 Visitor’
, Dr. Clyde L. Aldridge has -been
..amed a “Visiting Scholar” here
-)r the academic year 1961-62, it
, ^ocj a o f r Kir v
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rank W. R. Hubert, dean, School
,f Arts and Sciences and Dr. Paul
alaway, head, Chemistry Depart-
lent.
The trustees of The Robert A.
Telch Foundation of Houston in
nnouncing the “Visiting Scholar
’rogram” said that Aldridge is
-ne of three widely known scientists
^"elected for the program. He will
ake up his duties Sept. 1.
J
Aldridge is a member of the
isso Research Laboratories, Baton
Louge, La. He is trained in the
ield of organic chemistry and re-
eived his Ph.D. degree at the
Jniversity of Wisconsin in 1952,
le is the author of 38 U. S. patents
■ hd has published scientific papers
the Journal of the American
^ Ihemical Society and the Journal
f Physical Chemistry.
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Dr. W. 0. Mulligan, director of
research of the Robert A. Welch
Foundation and professor of chem
istry at Rice University, says the
Visiting Scholar Program was de
signed by the trustees of the Foun
dation as an additional step to en
hance chemical research in Texas,
as provided in the will of the late
Robert Alonzo Welch.
The visting scholars were se
lected on the basis of competitive
nominations and are made on the
recommendation of the Founda
tion’s director of research and
scientific advisory board.
The term “scholar” is employed
in the highest academic sense of
the word, Hubert pointed out.
The Visiting Scholar Program is
designed to supplement The Robert
A. Welch Foundation’s broad pro
gram of aid to chemical research,
under which there has already
been approved grants amounting to
almost 5.5 million dollars.
“We are particularly pleased to
have Dr. Aldridge at A. and M.
College as The Robert A. Welch
Foundation Visiting Scholar,” Hu
bert said.
PREVENTIVE WAR
Kennedy Says No
Policy Change Due
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON —President
Kennedy let it be known Tuesday
night there has been no change
in United States policy against
engaging in preventive war.
The President also put put word
denying published reports that his
administration has concluded that
the Soviet Union holds no over
all missile advantage over the Uni
ted States.
Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary, reported Ken
nedy’s views to newsmen after
Salinger and other government in
formation men had conferred with
the President.
Salinger said his remarks, ap
proved by Kennedy dealth specifi
cally with:
1. A story in Tuesday’s Wash
ington Evening Star saying in
part that the new Pentagon high
command has “rejected the com
mon Pentagon suggestion that this
country should plan only to re
taliate in any all-out nuclear war
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The Air Force Rifle team has
tied with Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute for 14th place in the nation
wide Air Force 40th annual Wil
liam Randolph Hearst ROTC Rifle
Competition.
The Aggies fired 933 out of a
possible 1,000, while the national
winner, Oklahoma State Univers
ity, fired 950 out of a possible
1,000. This was a postal match
with the results of each school
being sent to the ROTC Division,
Maxwell AFB, Ala., for evalu
ation.
Members of the team were Gary
J. Robicheaux of San Antonio,
William D. Letbetter of College
Station, Robert H. Hackett of Sea-
brook, William L. Titsworth of
Dallas, Robert J. Whiting of Dallas
and Gary W. Morris of Houston.
and never strike first.”
2. Several news dispatches say
ing that studies made at the Pen
tagon by the new administration
show that there is no missile gap
providing a Soviet advantage over
this country.
On the first point, Salinger said:
“There has been no change in the
position of the United States that
this nation does not intend to use
its forces in pre-emptive war.”
In reply to a question, Salinger
said he regards the term preven
tive war as a synonym for pre
emptive war. He added: “Any
story to the contrary is without
foundation.”
On the second point dealing with
a missile gap, Salinger said: “No
such study has been completed.
No such finding has been made
in any such study. The stories
therefore are inaccurate.”
One reporter told Salinger it
was well known by some people
at his news conference that the
stories to which Salinger was tak
ing exception were based on back
ground briefings given newsmen
by government officials. Gener
ally newsmen attending such brief
ings are permitted to report what
officials say but are prohibited
from naming the source.
Salinger said he was not going
to get into that matter at all.
At one point a newsman sug
gested that Salinger seemed to be
saying in effect that the reporters
who wrote the stories had been
wrong—or had interpreted what
they heard erronecously.
Salinger replied that he would
not quarrel with that statement.
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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, February 8,1961
College Station, Texas
Page 3
‘CHEMISTRY ON JUPITER
Dr. Rice Speaks Tomorrow
Dr. Francis 0. Rice will deliver
an address Thursday in Room 231
of the Chemistry Building, to which
the public is invited.
The speaker is professor of
chemistry at Georgetown Uni
versity, Washington, D. C. He will
speak on “Chemistry on Jupiter.”
“One of the outstanding develop
ments in modern chemistry has
been the research and discoveries
on free radical mechanisms and
the kinetics of chemical reactions
as well as their application to
fundamental problems of organic
and inorganic chemistry,” Dr.
Wayne C. Hall, Dean of the Gradu
ate School, said today.
Pioneer
Hall says “Dr. Rice, while head
of the Department of Chemistry at
Catholic University of America,
brought to fruition much of the
pioneer research in this field. His
outstanding research contributions
were recognized when he received
the Hillebrand Prize for 1956.”
Rice was born at Liverpool,
England, in 1890. He received his
B.Sc., M.Sc., and D.Se. from Liver
pool University in 1912, 1914, and
1916, respectively. Rice came to
the U. S. in 1919 on a fellowship
at Princeton University. There
after he became an instructor of
chemistry at New York University
until 1924.
He served as Associate in Chem
istry and Associate Professor at
Johns Hopkins University from
1924 until 1938. From 1938 until
recently he has been professor and
head, Department of Chemistry,
Catholic University of America.
At present he is at Georgetown
University, Washington, D. C. Rice
received the Mendel Medal in 1935.
He is widely known for his books
“The Mechanisms of Homogeneous
Organic Reaction,” “The Aliphatic
Free Radicals” (with his wife,
K. K. Rice) and “The Structure
of Matter” (with Edward Teller).
The major portion of Rice’s out
put of some 80 papers, three books
and several patents has been di
rected to the elucidation of the
kinetics and mechanisms of re
actions. Rice was the first chemist
to realize the implications of
Paneth’s discovery of a method of
detecting free radicals and by his
pioneering work and brilliant in
sight laid the foundation for much
of our present knowledge of free
radical reactions.
In 1931, Rice proposed that, dur
ing pyrolysis, many organic inole-
cules undergo a primary decompo
sition into simple free radicals.
This led to his classic paper with
Herzfeld, a colleague at Johns
Hopkins University, which showed
that complicated radical chain
mechanisms could be described by
simple overall kinetic laws.
New Methods
Recognizing the limitations in
herent in studying systems by the
analysis of reaction end-products,
Rice preceded to devise methods
for the study of reactions by em
ploying paired mixtures of organic
compounds and their deuterated
counterparts. He determined the
extent of isotopic mixing in the
gaseous decomposition products as
they were formed and showed that
the results could be used as an
accurate measure of activatation
energy difference.
Rice developed other free radical
techniques for studying equilibrium
and stationary state systems.
Among these was the introduction
of a liquid nitrogen “cold finger”
in the hot effluent stream from
a pyrolysis. This permitted the
capture of the imino and hydrazino
radicals on the “cold finger” before
obscuring secondary reactions can
occur.
His wide range of interests has
enabled him to extend his work on
the stabilization of colorejl free
radicals into the realm of inter
stellar space, to explain the colors
on the planet Jupiter. He is recog
nized as a teacher of rare gifts.
His many graduate students have
carried the torch of free radical
chemistry into industry, university
and government.
“Rice’s work on free radical ki
netics and mechanisms may truly
be said to have resulted in the
re-examination and reformulation
of a chapter in modern chemistry,”
Hall concluded.
FOR UNDERGRADS
Science Research
Program Revealed
Undergraduate research confer
ences sponsored by the Texas
Academy of Science, were an
nounced yesterday by Dr. Charles
LaMotte of the Department of
Biology. LaMotte is state program
director, representing the Texas
Academy of Science and the Na
tional Science Foundation.
The conferences are supported
by a grant from the National
Science Foundation. The confer
ence here will be held March 20-21;
University of Texas, Feb. 9-10;
Texas Tech, March 9-10 and North
Texas State and Texas Woman’s
University, March 16-17.
Three hundred and twenty out
standing science students and their
faculty counselors from 53 of the
state’s junior and senior colleges
will participate in the four two-
day research conferences, LaMotte
said.
“Participants will visit research
laboratories, talk with some of the
state’s most widely known scien
tists, attend lectures by top-flight
authorities and see some of the
most modern facilities to be found
anywhere in the Southwest.
“They will also receive informa
tion regarding opportunities for
graduate study, graduate school
entrance requirements, scholar
ships, fellowships and assistant-
ships available for the kind of
training needed for teaching and
research careers in the various
natural science disciplines,” La
Motte pointed out.
Army ROTC
Rifle Team
Places Sixth
The Army ROTC Rifle team
has placed sixth in the over-all
standing of all units in the Fourth
U. S. Army Area and third in the
college level standings in the in
door smallbore championship rifle
postal matches.
The A&M team scored 3,814 out
of a possible 4,000. Two of the
team members, M. B. Hodges of
Arlington, Va., and S. C. Burke of
San Antonio, placed in the top 10
individual scores.
Hodges was second with a score
of 390 out of a possible 400 while
Burke was eighth with 386 out of
a possible 400.
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