Chemistry Profs Receive Awards

Three Harvard chemists received awards from the American Chemical Society last week at its annual national meeting in Detroit.

Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, was given the $1000 Fritzsche Award for his work on the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Bloch shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for the same work.

The $1000 Award in Pure Chemistry was given to Dudley R. Herschbach, professor of Chemistry, for his measurements of the energy changes that occur when two different molecules collide to produce a third kind of molecule.

Eugone G. Rochow, professor of Chemistry, whose basic research on organosilicon compounds helped make possible the synthetic silicone industry, won the $1000 Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Organosilicon Chemistry.