Joyce Yagla Corey, Emerita Professor of Chemistry at the University of Missouri–St Louis, died on July 21, 2024. Professor Corey was a member of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty of University of Missouri–St Louis (UMSL) from 1968 to the end of her life, the first woman to earn tenure in the department. She had taught […]
Greg Wall died from complications of cancer on June 7, 2024. Greg served the St. Louis Section for many years and in many capacities: as Section Chair, Program Committee Chair, Director, and Councilor. In 1996, when Greg was Chair, the Section received the Award for Outstanding Performance by a Medium-Large Section. In 2004 he received
Leo Jackson (Jack) Malone, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Saint Louis University, passed away on April 22. He was 85. Malone served as treasurer of the Saint Louis Section of the ACS in 1976 and its chair in 1981. Dr. Lol Barton, who preceded Malone as chair of the Section, recalls that the ACS
Dr Lincoln Diuguid was the recipient of the first “Salute to Excellence” ever awarded by the St Louis Section, November 11, 2000. On January 27, 2015, at the age of 97, Dr Diuguid died at Beauvais Manor. He had been diagnosed with pneumonia and flu. Dr Diuguid’s obituary in the February 1, 2015, St Louis
Dr Donald Ames, longtime resident of Kirkwood and 60+ year member of the American Chemical Society, died at his home on January 2, 2014. Dr Ames received his BS in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin in 1944 and was drafted into the Army but assigned to the Metallurgy Laboratory at the University of Chicago
Dr William Standish Knowles, a Monsanto chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, died at his home in Chesterfield at the age of 95. After earning his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1939 and his PhD from Columbia University in 1942, he spent his entire career working for
Henry D Barnstorff, who served as Secretary of the local section 1964-5, and in the Chair succession 1965-7, died on May 30, 2012. Hank received his Bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Missouri Valley College as part of a World War II Navy training program. After the war, he spent two years in medical school, then
Samir El-Antably died today. He served as Chair of the St Louis Section–ACS in 1982, and since then had been the go-to guy for arranging any sort of banquet or special event. His interest in cooking naturally led him to knowledge of the local restaurant scene, and he used that knowledge to the Section’s benefit
Robert W Murray, Curators’ Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at UM-St Louis, died March 13, aged 83. He joined the University in 1968 after a ten-year career at Bell Laboratories. He graduated from Brown and Wesleyan and completed his PhD degree at Yale. Bob was department chair from 1975 to 1980 and was appointed Curators’ Professor
Vincent Spaziano had retired just last month! He had been a member of the faculty at Saint Louis University since 1973, rising to the rank of professor in 1986. He was chair of the department of chemistry from 1987 to 2002, and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 2002 until his retirement.
