Learning last week got around to honoring Dr. George Oliver Curme Jr., one of U. S. chemistry's great experts, by giving him the Chandler Medal and a salute at Columbia University. Industry long ago crowned him with Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., created expressly by Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. to exploit his discoveries and processes. The industrialists, further, made him vice president, chief chemist and director of research of the chemicals subsidiary.
Dr. Curme's main work has been with aliphatic chemicals, such as fatty acids, hydrocarbons, alcohols, esters, ethers. In those...
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