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Chemistry International
Vol. 24, No. 6
November 2002
Awards and
Honors
Dana
Knox Receives the Franzosini Award
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Dr.
Dana Knox
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Paolo
Franzosini, professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Pavia,
Italy was an enthusiastic supporter of the Solubility Data Project.
He had almost completed Volume 33 of the Solubility Data Series when
he died suddenly on 24 January 1985. His colleagues Paolo Ferloni, Alberto
Schiraldi, and Giorgio Spinolo efficiently completed the volume. In
1988, Franzosinis wife, with the encouragement of his colleagues,
very generously donated the payments for Volume 33 to the Solubility
Data Commission (V.8) to establish the Franzosini Award. The award is
given to a promising young contributor to the Solubility Data Project
(SDP) to help them attend, in even years, the International Symposium
on Solubility Phenomena (ISSP) and, in odd years, the annual meetings
of the commission. As of 2002, the chair of the new Subcommittee on
Solubility and Equilibrium Data (SSED) receives nominations for the
award (The capital is held by IUPAC and the IUPAC Secretariat does the
accounting.). The recipients of the Franzosini Award are listed in the
table below.
The Franzosini Award of 2002 was given to Dr. Dana
Knox in appreciation of his continuous contributions to the Solubility
Data Project. His expertise in solution thermodynamics, including better
representation of high-pressure phase equilibria, such as supercritical
solubilities has led to the following project on Solids and Liquids
in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide, which belongs to the section on Solubility
Data Related to Industrial Processes. See the Web site for the project
description <www.iupac.org/projects/2002/2002-045-1-500.html>
or page 20, under "New Solubility Data
Projects."
Carbon dioxide itself is an important industrial solvent.
The corresponding volume will contain comprehensive compilations and
evaluations of the existing data on the solubility of solids and liquids
in supercritical CO2. Processing using supercritical fluids is
an increasingly important area worldwide. Such processes, with their
significant variation in solubility with pressure, permit the accomplishment
of many processes that would be otherwise very difficult to achieve.
Further, systems that employ carbon dioxide as the solvent are particularly
attractive as CO2 is environmentally friendly.
Dr.
Knox is associate professor of Chemical Engineering and Environmental
Science within the Department of Chemical Engineering at the New Jersey
Institute of Technology (USA).
Franzosini
Award Winners*
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Year
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Venue
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Recipient
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Promoter |
1989 |
15th
meeting, Lund, Sweden |
Rumen
Duhlev (Bulgaria) |
Chr. Balarew |
1990 |
16th
meeting, Troy, NY, USA
4th
ISSP |
Pirketta
Scharlin (Finland) |
R. Battino |
1991 |
17th
meeting, Hamburg, Germany |
A.
Pacheco Tanaka (Peru) |
A.
Namor |
1992 |
18th
meeting, Moscow, Russia
5th ISSP |
Stefan
Gradinarov (Bulgaria) |
Chr.
Balarew |
1993 |
19th
meeting, Lisbon, Portuga |
Michel
Ferriol (France) and Teresa Calvet (Spain) |
M.-Th.
Cohen-Adad |
1994 |
20th
meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina
6th
ISSP |
Erich
Königsberger (Austria) |
H.
Gamsjäger |
1995 |
21st
meeting, Guildford, UK |
Felix
José Sueros (Peru) |
A.
Namor |
1996 |
22nd
meeting, Leoben, Austria |
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1997 |
23rd
meeting, Geneva, Switzerland |
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1998 |
24th
meeting, Niigata, Japan
8th
ISSP |
Lan-Chi
Tran-Ho (Austria) |
H. Gamsjäger |
1999 |
25th
meeting, Berlin, Germany |
Chiara
Milanese (Italy) |
A.
D'Aprano |
2000 |
26th
meeting, Hammamet, Tunesia
9th
ISSP |
Vladimir
Zbranek
(Czech Republic) |
J. Eysseltová |
2001 |
27th
meeting, Brisbane, Australia |
Justin
Salminen (Finland) |
P.
Scharlin |
2002 |
1st
meeting SSED, Varna, Bulgaria
10th
ISSP |
Dana
E. Knox (USA) |
R.
P.T. Tomkins |
*established
by Mrs. M. C. Franzosini in 1988 at the 14th SDP meeting, Surrey,
UK. |
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