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MR. AiiDBisr HAYES EMERY has been elected secretary and business manager of the American Chemical Society. Mr. Emery, a former official of the United States Bureau of Mines, succeeds Dr. Charles L. Parsons, who retired on December 31 after serving the Society as secretary for thirty-eight years and as business manager for fourteen. Mr. Emery has been the Society's assistant manager since 1936 and assistant secretary since 1943. Born in Lancaster, N.H., on June 2, 1901, he graduated in 1922 from Oberlin College, where he specialized in chemistry, and obtained his master's degree from Ohio State University in 1923. Mr. Emery then joined the staff of the Bureau of Mines as a chemist at the Pittsburgh Experiment Station. In 1927 he went to Washington to take up administrative work in the Bureau. When he resigned in 1936 to become assistant manager of the American Chemical Society, he was assistant chief engineer of the Bureau's Experiment Stations Division. Mr. Emery was secretary of the American Chemical Society's Division of Gas and Fuel Chemistry during 1933-37, and was assistant editor of Chemical Abstracts in charge of its fuel section during 1931-39. He has also edited several sections of Metallurgical Abstracts dealing with the chemical aspects of metallurgy. As a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, he helped to establish the Institute's Industrial Minerals Division, of which he was secretary in 1938 and vice-chairman in 1939.
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Secretary of the American Chemical Society: Mr. A. H. Emery. Nature 157, 188 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157188b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/157188b0