Farrington Daniels, a native of Minnesota, 

 obtained his B.S. degree from the University 

 of Minnesota in 1910 and his Ph.D. in chem- 

 istry from Harvard University in 1914. He 

 taught at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, serv- 

 ed in the Chemical Warfare Services as first 

 lieutenant, and took a research position in 

 nitrogen fixation in Washington. From 1920 

 he has been at the University of Wisconsin 

 where he is now chairman of the Department 

 of Chemistry. He is author or co-author of 

 several books and many research papers in 

 physical chemistry. His fields of research have 

 been in chemical kinetics, photochemistry, 

 atomic energy, and solar energy. For the past 



nine years, with support from the Atomic Energy Commission, he has devoted 

 considerable time to the thermoluminescence of crystals. 



John P. Dolan received a B.S. degree in 

 mathematics and physics from the University 

 of Denver in 1948. He was a graduate student 

 at the University of Chicago in 1949. From 

 1951 to 1953 he was engaged in geophysical 

 prospecting as an employee of the Western 

 Geophysical Company. Since 1953 he has 

 been a research mathematician-physicist with 

 the Petroleum Research Corporation. His 

 major research activity has been devoted to 

 the interpretation of drill-stem test pressure 

 data. 



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