Thursday, March 28, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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150 scientists discuss brine here
About 150 scientists from all over the world visited KU March 25 and 26 as part of the KU sponsored "Symposium on Geochemistry of Subsurface Springs" and pooled results of their private investigations of technological and economic questions concerning the salt water.
The symposium—the first of its kind—examined the prospects for recovery of rare metals and fertilizer chemicals from brines. The scientists heard technical reports which dealt with the possibility of turning the large costs of disposing of brines in connection with crude oil production into a source of additional profits by treating the water before it is sent back to underground reservoirs.
Nineteen technical papers submitted by scientists at the symposium will be published in a few months in Chemical Geology magazine, a geochemistry journal. In addition to the scientists, private oil companies sent representatives to sit in on the symposium.
Physics prof is studying photographs
Robert Stump, a physicist,
spends most of his time working
with photographs. But this work
is not as paradoxical as it sounds.
Stump, professor of physics at KU, studies photographs of proton interactions in liquid hydrogen provided by Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratories. He must study a great many photographs—currently a group of 100 000 from the Brookhaven laboratory.
The research is supported by an $86,500 grant from the National Science Foundation.
From the research, Stump and six associates hope to learn more about the fundamental nature of matter, about particles even smaller than the atom, and about the forces which hold the nucleus together.
Assisting him in the research are fellow faculty members, Dr. Nowhan Kwak and Dr. N. Cara-yannopoulos, both assistant professors of physics. Three graduate students also participate in the project. They are Tom Singer, Overland Park; James Manwalier, Heilington; and James Head, Des Moines, ha.
Professor Ernest E. Anigno, associate professor of civil engineering at KU and the section chief for geochemistry of the state geological survey, said Kansas was an appropriate place for a meeting of this kind because the Kansas petroleum industry handles millions of barrels of brine each year.
Angino was instrumental in planning the symposium along with Professor Gale K. Billings, assistant professor of geochemistry at Louisiana State University.
Y. K. Bentor, a geology professor from Jerusalem and author of one of the technical papers presented at the symposium, had to get his release from the Israeli army before he could make the trip.
An Economic Study Tour of Europe
will be conducted this summer by a professor of international relations and a professor of economies from the graduate school of a well-known university. A two-week course in contemporary European problems (in English) at the Sorbone will be supplemented by seminars in economic and political problems of Western and Eastern Europe led by eminent scholars and statesmen (such as Ludwig Erhard, former Economies Minister; Prof. John Jewkes of Oxford; Enoch Powell, MP; Archduke Otto von Habsburg; Jacques Rueff, former Economies Minister, France) in 10 countries. Social activities with European students will be included in this non-regimented tour. For more information, write, Dept. 104, A.P.S.E., 33 Chalfont Road, Oxford, England.
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