Chemistry International
Vol. 23, No. 4
July 2001
Awards
and Prizes
Gerard P. Moss Wins Patterson-Crane Award
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Dr. Gerard P. Moss
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Dr. Gerard P. Moss
(Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary and Westfield
College of the University of London), a National Representative on the
Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (III.1), is the 2001
recipient of the Patterson-Crane Award presented biennially by the Dayton
and Columbus Sections of the American Chemical Society. The award, given
in honor of two previous editors of Chemical Abstracts, Austin M. Patterson
and E. J. Crane, recognizes outstanding contributions in chemical information
theory or practice.
The award, presented in Dayton, Ohio, USA on 8 May 2001, recognizes
Dr. Moss for his international contributions to chemical information
science and documentation.
He has been actively involved during the last quarter century with
most of the international chemical nomenclature documents published
by the Commission on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (III.1), the
Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN), and the Nomenclature
Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
(IUBMB). His work in disseminating this information through the World
Wide Web is particularly impressive. This online
resource for IUPAC nomenclature recommendations, developed and maintained
by Dr. Moss, now includes almost all of the organic and biochemical
documents and attracted over a third of a million users during the past
year.
Other significant accomplishments of Dr. Moss include his revision
and systematization of Austin Pattersons fused and bridged fused
ring nomenclature, his service on numerous nomenclature commissions,
and the published nomenclature recommendations with which he has been
involved.