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KU Signs $4,440 Army Contract For Analytical Chemistry Research
The development of a device that may introduce revolutionary techniques in analytical chemistry is the goal of University scientists in work being done for the Army.
Friday, October 26,1951
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy today announced the signing of a research contract with the ordnance department of the Army. The latter will provide $4,440 for the first year of the project.
Dr. Charles A. Reynolds, assistant professor and an outstanding analytical chemist in the Missouri valley area, originated the project.
Dr. Reynolds was granted a leave of absence for the year when the army chemical corps requested his services for secret work. In his absence Dr. Paul W. Gilles, assistant professor of chemistry, is supervising the work and Dr. Reynolds is
following the study by correspondence.
The contract description of the project is "research on the methods of coulometric analysis utilizing electrolytically generated reagents and photometric determination of equivalence."
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will speak at the Disciple fellowship meeting at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Myers hall.
Dr. Gilles said the problems are essentially the design, construction, testing and utilization of a new apparatus for analytical processes. Analytical chemistry is the foundation on which all types of chemistry rest, he added.
The research assistant on the project is Edward N. Wise, a candidate
for the Ph.D. degree in chemistry. Wise, who is in his second year of graduate study at K.U., holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Ohio university. For three years he did research in the graphic arts for the famous Battelle Memorial institute in Columbus, Ohio.
Chancellor Murphy To Speak
During the past three years he has been employed in the Los Alamos, N.M., laboratory of the Atomic Energy commission. He has had three articles published in chemical journals on electronic techniques as applied to analytical instrumentation.
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