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Nov07 NUCLEUS Aa4b DED UN 18 O 98 F http://www.nesacs.org N Y O T R E I T H C E N O A E S S S L T A E A C R C I N S M S E E H C C TI N O CA February 2009 Vol. LXXXVII, No. 6 N • AMERI Monthly Meeting Professor Wilton L. Virgo of Wellesley College to Speak at Simmons College Tips for Job Seekers By Megan Driscoll Summer Scholar Report Identification of Genes Regulated by Transcriptional Regulator, p8 By Derek Kong This Month in Chemical History By Harold Goldwhite, California State University, Los Angeles February Historical Events in Chemistry by Leopold May, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC February 1, 1905 methods for the determination of ing and used it against pellagra and Fifty years ago, Emilio Segré shared crystal structures, was born on this pursued the idea that diseases such the Nobel Prize in Physics (1959) day. as beriberi, scurvy, rickets and pella- with Owen Chamberlain for their gra were caused by lack of vital sub- discovery of the antiproton. He co- February 16, 1955 stances in the diet. discovered technetium with C. Per- F. P. Bundy, H. T. Hall, H. M. Strong rier in 1937, and astatine with D. R. and R. H. O. Wentoff announced the February 25, 1880 Corson and R. MacKenzie in 1940, synthesis of diamonds at General Arthur B. Lamb, who was the editor and demonstrated the existence of Electric Research Laboratories on of the Journal of the American the antiproton in 1955. He was born this date. Chemical Society (1917-1949), was born on this day. on this date. February 19, 1859 February 2, 1802 One hundred and fifty years ago, February 28, 1901 Jean Baptiste Boussingault, who Svante A. Arrhenius was born. He Linus C. Pauling, who was born on demonstrated that plants absorb devised a theory of electrolytic dis- this date, received the Nobel Prize nitrogen from soil in the form of sociation and was a researcher in for Chemistry in 1954 for his nitrates and not from air as previ- viscosity and reaction rates. In 1903 research into the nature of the chem- ously believed, was born on this day. he was awarded the Nobel Prize in ical bond and its application to the Chemistry in recognition of the elucidation of the structure of com- February 6, 1892 extraordinary services he had ren- plex substances and the Nobel Peace Seventy-five years ago, William P. dered to the advancement of chem- Prize in 1962. He did research on Murphy shared the Nobel Prize in istry by his electrolytic theory of the structure of molecules such as Physiology or Medicine (1934) with dissociation. proteins and investigated the con- George R. Minot & George H. cepts of valency and resonance. February 23, 1884 Whipple for their discoveries con- Additional historical events can be cerning liver therapy in cases of One hundred and twenty-five years ago Casimir Funk was born. He iso- found at the CSW website or Dr. anemia. He was born on this date. May’s website, faculty.cua.edu/may/ lated nicotinic acid from rice polish- N February 7, 1834 history.htm. One hundred and seventy-five years ago Dimitri I. Mendeleev was born. He discovered the Periodic Law (Table) at same time as Lothar Meyer, who published later. February 8, 1795 One hundred and seventy-five years ago Friedlieb F. Runge discovered carbolic acid (phenol) and aniline in coal tar. He also investigated dry distillation and the composition of matter and was born on this date. February 12, 1826 Moritz Traube, who was born on this date, did research in semi-per- meable membranes, sugars, respira- tion, fermentation, oxidation, protoplasm, and muscle. February 14, 1917 Herbert A. Hauptman, who devel- oped methods for the determination of crystal structures and received the Nobel Prize in 1985 with Jerome Karle for their outstanding achieve- ments in the development of direct 2 The Nucleus February 2009 The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, Inc. Contents Office: Marilou Cashman, 23 Cottage St., Natick, MA 01360. 1-800-872-2054 February Historical Events in Chemistry 2 (Voice or FAX) or 508-653-6329. ____________________ e-mail: mcash0953(at)aol.com by Leopold May, Catholic University of America Any Section business may be conducted Notable New England Chemists 4 via the business office above. NESACS Homepage: ___________________________ http://www.NESACS.org Eben Horsford, Wolcott Gibbs, Josiah Cooke, Jr. and Thomas Hunt David Cunningham, Webmaster Monthly Meeting 5 ACS Hotline, Washington, D.C.: _______________________________________ 1-800-227-5558 Professor Wilton L. Virgo, Wellesley College, to Speak At Simmons College Officers 2009 Announcements 6 Chair: ________________________________________ Dr. E. 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