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contributions to the development of the Mobil M-Gasoline Process. After his retire- ment from Mobil in 1978, he became a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley La- boratory, where his accomplishments have included work in catalytic carbon ga- sification, catalytic coal liquefaction, hy- drodenitrification, nitrogen oxides emission control, and oxidative methane coupling.

Dr. Heinemann was awarded a Distin- guished Scientist/Engineer Award by the US Department of Energy, is a member of the national Academy of Engineers, was the founder and executive editor of Cata- lysis Reviews, and continues to lecture extensively within the academic com- munity. Over the past 60 years, he partici- pated in the invention and development of fossil fuel processes that resulted in 14 commercial processes, many of which have seen multiple applications. He has authored approximately 100 publications and holds 75 patents.

Death of Professor Harry Emdleus

Although Harry Em(~leus was never at the centre of catalysis, his death in Cam- bridge, UK, on 2 December 1993, should be noticed here. His importance in many fields of inorganic chemistry during a period when catalysis was developing at great speed meant that he influenced the way catalyst researchers and designers thought. The book he wrote with J.S. An- derson, "Modern Aspects of Inorganic Chemistry", which was first published in 1938 and has since passed through sev- eral later editions, presented the subject in an entirely new and exciting way. It was influential, well beyond the normal bounds of inorganic chemistry. His school at Cam-

bridge, which dominated inorganic chem- istry for several decades, was also import- ant in shaping the subject.

Harry Em(~leus was born in 1903. He graduated at Imperial College, London, in 1923 and after research there leading to his Ph.D. in 1925 he went first to Karlsruhe to work with Alfred Stock, the famous Ger- man preparative chemist. This provided the springboard for much of his work in synthetic inorganic chemistry, especially that of highly reactive compounds. Hethen went for two years with H.S. Taylor (later to be Sir Hugh Taylor-- he was the Taylor of Rideal and Taylor, the authors of the first book to look at catalysis in the modern way) at Princeton. This could have given him a lead into catalysis, but in fact Emd- leus tackled various photochemical prob- lems at Princeton. He returned to Imperial College in 1931 and eventually became Reader in Inorganic Chemistry. Over this period his research covered a wide range of topics, including reactive silanes and non-metal fluorides, and it was also at this time that he and his colleague wrote "Mod- ern Aspects of Inorganic Chemistry". In 1945 he moved to Cambridge and he was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry there until he retired in 1970. Under his leader- ship his group made many notable con- tributions to inorganic chemistry, espe- cially to that of the non-metals. As Norman Greenwood has written: "He had an unerr- ing skill in choosing fertile new areas for study and motivating his young research group, which came from all over the world. This subtle combination of art and skill came from possessing a deep insight into reaction chemistry" ("The Independent" (London) 23 Dec. 1993, p.14).

My own memories of him date from when I was a student. He was a quiet,

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gentle man who nevertheless impressed us (and students are not readily im- pressed) with both his breadth of knowl- edge on inorganic chemistry and his in- sight into how it all worked. Later I met him again when I was in the chemical industry and he visited us occasionally as a con- sultant. His charm and politeness were just as evident. Although I do not remember any suggestion from him which lead di- rectly to, for example, an improved cata- lyst, on every occasion he visited us we felt we had learned much and had gained much from the consultancy.

MIKE SPENCER

Correction

We have to apologise to two industrial chemists, both with the name of Thorn-

pson, for confusing their activities. In a note on new publications (News Brief, 109 (1994) N23) we mentioned a recent Ple- num book, "Carbonylation: Direct Syn- thesis of Carbonyl Compounds" by M.V. Twigg, H.M. Colquhoun and D.J. Thom- pson, and described Thompson as having "recently moved from Johnson Matthey to ICI, Wilmington". In fact the D.J. Thompson who is co-author with Twigg and Col- quhoun has been an ICI employee for many years, was at ICI Specialty chemi- cals, Wilmington, Delaware, when the book was published and is now with Zeneca (a company formed by the splitting of ICI) at Jealott's Hill, UK. The other Thom- pson, who is D.T. Thompson, was an em- ployee of Johnson Matthey in the UK and has recently retired. We hope that this con- fusion has not caused embarrassment to either of the Thompsons.

Calendar of Forthcoming Events New Items

For full Calendar see Appl. Catal., 110(1994)N12

11-16 June 1994 Davos, Switzerland

*5th European Inorganic Chemistry Symp. Contact: J. Hendekovic, European Science Foundation, 1 quai Lezay- Marn6sia, 67080 Strasbourg C~dex, France, (+33) 88767135, fax. (+ 33) 88366987

14-17 Aug. 1994 Denver, CO, USA

• Applicatlon of Chemical Engineering Fundamentals to En- vironmental Problems (Part of 1994 AIChE Summer Na- tional Meeting) Contact: R. Heck, Engelhard Corp., 2655 US Route 22 West, Union, NJ 07083, USA, (+ 1-908) 2052847, fax. (+ 1-908) 9642882

20-25 Aug. 1995 Chicago, II, USA

• Int. Symp. on Deactivation and Testing of Hydrocarbon Conversion Catalysts(RPart of ACS 1995 Fall Mtg. Contact: P. O'Connor, AKZO Chem., P.O.B. 247, 3800 AE Amersfoort, Netherlands, (+31-33) 676571, fax. (+31-33) 676114 or G.L Woolery, Mobil R&D, P.O.B. 480, Pauslboro, NJ 08066-0480, USA, ( + 1-609) 2242407, fax. ( + 1-609)2243610 or T. Takatsuka, Chiyoda

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