Rochow to Leave Chem for Year; Sisler, Kistiakowsky Will Teach

Eugene G. Rochow, professor of Chemistry, will take a year off from Chemistry 1 during the 1962-63 academic season.

The Department's introductory chemistry course will be taught during the Fall by Harry H. Sisler, professor of chemistry at the University of Florida, and during the Spring by George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry.

Rochow stressed that "each professor will be free to teach whatever he likes," but noted that both Sisler and Kistiakowsky have particular areas of interest.

Sisler had tended to emphasize the chemistry of aequeous equilibrium in his teaching and to put less stress than Rochow on organic and nuclear chemistry. Sisler is the senior author of General Chemistry: A Systematic Approach, the textbook now used in Chem 1. He will have the title of Sloane Visiting Professor while at the University.

Kistiakowsky was President Eisenhower's scientific adviser. Rochow said that his part of the course will probably stress "whatever seems interesting, important, or significant in chemistry at the moment."

Sabbatical in Japan

While Chem 1 is in other hands, Rochow will spend part of the year doing research at the University, and the Spring Term on a sabbatical traveling in Western Europe and Japan.

Rochow's research will involve work with semi-inorganic polymers, based on a framework of silicon and nitrogen atoms. He will be working with research and post-doctoral fellows and two undergraduates.

While in Japan, Rochow will visit laboratories where silicon polymers are being studied. He has not yet accepted any lecture invitations.

John D. Baldeschwieler, recently named assistant professor of Chemistry, will continue to run the Chem 1 labs.