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DR. RAYMOND M. FUOSS.FORMER ALTOONANGIVEN HIGH HONORII-1ber of Brown University j:Faculty, Awarded Medal and $1,000. 'At its meeting in New York city j last week, the American Chemical society paid high honor to a former Altoonan, Dr. Raymond M. Fuoss, assistant professor of chemistry at Brown university, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Z. Fuoss of 313 Fourth avenue, this city.Dr. Fuoss was awarded the so-I ciety’s threshold medal and $1,000 award in pure chemistry, founded by A. C. Langmuir for “outstand- , ing research by a chemist under 31 years of age.”In this award. Dr. Fuoss, who is ■ 29 years old, is recognized as the |; author of the first comprehensive . theory of electrolyctic solutions which, at lower concentrations, ap-. *• • !• ;* *; ' *•. ■ -»•*' *■ • 'ir.:. •*.* • ' 14plies to all solvent media and to all electrolytes.” IDr Fuoss was born in Bellwood, I Pa., in 1905; was graduated from the Altoona High school in 1922 and from Harvard in 1925; wasi Sheldon Traveling Fellow in 1924 and Austin Fellow in 1925 at Har-! jvard; received the degree of doctor.of philosophy from Brown univer-: sity in 1932; was International Research Fellow in Leipzig in 1933 ': and 1934, and then returned toBrown.Formal presentation of these| honors to Dr. Fuoss will be made at the next meeting of the Ameri-cap Chemical society to be held in • San Francisco in August.j Dr. Fuoss is married and resides at Providence, R. I.
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Altoona Mirror
Altoona, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Apr 30, 1935
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