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Zwolinski To Tour
Europe On Grant
OhioProf Earth, Mars Plant Life Similar
Moves In
To I. Ed.
Dr. Bruno J. Zwolinski, direc
tor of A&M University’s Thermo
dynamics Research Center, has
been awarded a National Science
Foundation grant to lecture and
conduct seminars in Poland Sept.
18-Oct. 17.
As a guest of the Polish Acad
emy of Sciences, Dr. Zwolinski
will lecture on energy-structure
relations for organic substances,
theory of kinetics and standard
reference data in chemistry at
universities and research insti
tutes in Warsaw, Posen and
Cracow.
Officials noted Zwolinski is the
first physical chemist from the
United States chosen as a visit
ing professor to Poland under
the new scientific academic ex
change program initiated by Po
land and the US State Depart
ment under direction of the US
Academy of Sciences.
Earlier in September, Zwolin
ski will present a paper, “Enthal
pies of Formation of Gaseous
Radical Fragments” to the IU-
PAC International Symposium on
Thermodynamics at the Univer
sity of Heidelberg, Germany.
The A&M professor also will
visit laboratories in England,
Belgium, Germany, Czechoslo
vakia and Austria.
Appointment of Dr. Donald L.
Clark from Ohio State as associ
ate professor in the Industrial
Education Department at Texas
A&M has been announced by Dr.
Everett Glazener, head.
Clark, whose appointment is
effective Sept. 1, will have re
sponsibility in undergraduate in
dustrial education courses and
assisting in graduate and re
search areas.
At Ohio State, the new pro
fessor was teaching and research
associate and worked in a spe
cial US Office of Education in
dustrial arts curriculum project.
Clark, 35, also taught at Stout
State, Menomonie, Wis., and in
Janesville, Wis., public schools.
The Colorado native received
bachelor and master degrees at
Stout State. The Ph.D. was re
cently awarded at Ohio State.
Clark is an active church and
scouting leader and a member of
the Wisconsin National Guard.
He is married and has two sons.
Life on earth probably has the
potential for adapting to more
extreme or exotic environments
similar to those which may exist
on Mars or Jupiter, a plant physi
ologist told the American Insti
tute of Biological Sciences here
Wednesday.
“Ordinary green plants and
fungi possess far more tolerance
toward extreme or exotic envi
ronments than has been hitherto
suspected,” noted Sanford M. Sie
gel of the University of Hawaii.
Speaking in a “Plants in Space
Symposium” at A&M, Siegel de
scribed experiments with garden
beans and cucumbers grown read
ily from seed in only five per
cent oxygen and even in as little
as one per cent oxygen atmos
pheres.
“Not only is there tolerance to
reduce oxygen, but also in some
cases, onion and garlic seed, for
example, germination takes place
in atmospheres containing 50 per
cent or more of ammonia gas.
(Atmospheres of planets like
Jupiter are thought to contain
ammonia.)
Siegel said many plants such
as boxwood, palm and cucumber,
show increased cold-hardiness
when exposed to nearly oxygen-
free atmospheres.
“Frost damage, even at tem
peratures of —20 to —30 degrees
Centigrade, is greatly reduced
when oxygen levels are reduced
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to one per cent or less,” he said.
“For example, winter rye ger
minated under pure nitrogen or
argon atmospheres could return
to air readily, but rye germinated
under helium gas failed to sur
vive the transfer back to air.”
“The ability to live in low-oxy
gen atmospheres is also reflected
in the ability to grow not only in
air but under fresh or salt water
as well,” Dr. Siegel said.
He added that as environmental
stresses become more severe, the
complex green plant often fails
but ordinary fungi continue to
grow with little or no oxygen un
der ammonia, with 16 hours out
of each 24 at —30 degrees Centi
grade, in desert atmospheres or
saturated salt solutions.
Siegel concluded: “These ex-
Curator Added To Assume Duties Judder Gets
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Dr. James R. Dixon, formerly
curator of herpetology at the Los
Angeles Museum of Natural His
tory, will join A&M’s Wildlife
Science faculty this fall.
Dr. Richard J. Baldauf, acting
department head, said the ap
pointments effective Sept. 1.
The new associate professor is
no stranger to A&M. He earned
the Ph.D. in zoology and the
master’s degree in wildlife science
at A&M after receiving the bache
lor’s degree in biology from How
ard Payne.
Dixon also conducted research
in A&M’s College of Veterinary
Medicine from 1956 to 1961.
Concurrently with his work at
the Museum of Natural History
at Los Angeles, Dr. Dixon served
as associate professor of biology
at the University of Southern
California. He also has taught
at Stephen F. Austin State Col
lege and New Mexico State Uni
versity.
The professor has 50 publica
tions to his credit.
Dr. George W. Kunze and Dr.
Leo Berner Jr. assume their new
positions Friday as associate and
assistant deans, respectively, of
the Graduate College.
Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall,
who previously announced the ap
pointments, said Kunze succeeds
Dr. Robert W. Barzak who has
requested a return to full-time
teaching in English. Berner re
places Dr. James G. Potter who
has accepted a position as head
of the Physics Department at
Florida Institute of Technology.
Dr. Kunze, currently professor
of soil and crop sciences, won the
Texas A&M Former Student As
sociation’s Distinguished Achieve
ment Award for Research in 1966.
A native of La Grange, he holds
B.S. and M.S. degrees from A&M
and the Ph.D. from Pennsylvania
State University.
Dr. Berner, associate professor
of oceanography, is a native of
Pasadena, Calif. He earned his
B.A. from Pomona College, M.S.
from the University of California
at Los Angeles and Ph.D. from
Schipps Institute of Oceanogra
phy.
Belgian Medal
It’s not too often a foreign
government decorates a person
twice with the same medal, but
such was the case for A&M Pres
ident Earl Rudder Tuesday night
in Houston.
The Belgian government first
honored Rudder as an Officer in
the Order of Leopold in 1947 for
his key role in the Battle of the
Bulge, a major factor in the
World War II liberation of Bel
gium.
The original medal was de
stroyed in a 1963 fire at the Pres
ident’s home on the A&M cam
pus, so the award was presented
again Tuesday night by Belgian
Consul General Herman Matsaert
at a reception attended by 100
persons.
Rudder, who recently retired
from the Army Reserve with the
rank of major general, was a
colonel in command of the 109th
Infantry Regiment in the 1944
Battle of the Bulge when Bel
gium was,
periments, and many pari
ones with invertebrate anit]
indicate that ordinary tern
life as it now exists has adapl
potentials that often exceed!
planetary confines of the Ejj
and may sometimes overlap!
or environmental conditions!
Mars or Jupiter.”
The scientist is the discovj
of a tiny umbrella-shaped or|
ism which is able to live ini
ammonia atmosphere and red
bles a recently discovered mil
fossil which may have livedj
earth two billion years ago j
Another scientist on the A||
program revealed that plj
grown in a rotating device ral
a “clinostat” which simulJ
weightlessness, react by utiliij
food materials, growing andp
forming other necessary pi|
processes at greater rates.
The reason, said Richard]
dolph of Argonne National!
oratory, seems to be that lnl
and small bodies within the pl^
cells interact more readily inti
environment.
“These findings suggest
mechanical manipulation!
plants resulting in a more i
form distribution of gravi-pl
cipitable particles will result!
more rapid plant growth," j
said.
The plants in Space symposiJ
and the appearance of Agrit{
ture Secretary Orville Freeirl
were highlights of the Wedn
day sessions of the 18th annl
meetings of the AIBS at AU|
More than 1,070 scientific;
pers are being delivered in
sions w r hich last through Friil|
On Thursday, Secretary Fit
man begins a two-day “look i
listen” tour of Central and
Texas agricultural and fede^
projects.
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