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Arie Jan Haagen-Smit
Arie Jan Haagen-Smit
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The mint macie goIc! and silver coins, and Arie's first chemistry lesson consisted of playing hide-and-seek with his sisters among piles of goIc!
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van Romburgh, a natural products chemist who soon had Arie isolating a dermatitis-inducing agent from the outer layers (arils) of the fruit of the cashew nut.
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Utrecht at that time was the worict center for the stucly of plant hormones. Caltech, which eventually numbered three Utrecht graduates among its chemistry faculty, was basically a substation of Utrecht for plant growth hormone studies anti the only center for plant hormone stucly in the Unitec!
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In a series of papers publisher] in HoppeSeyler's Zeitschr~ft fur physicalische Chemie in 1933 and 1934, Kogel, Haagen-Smit, and ErxIeben clescribed the isolation in pure form and the structure determination of two active plant hormones, auxin a anct b.i Auxin was revealer!
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Though it was later possible to obtain degradation products and determine their structure, the isolation of auxins a and b could never be repeated and turned out to be a scam perpetrated by Hanni ErxIeben. ErxIeben left detailed notebooks in which samples were properly recorded.
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let it go at that. Although Utrecht was the original center of plant hormone work, Caltech grew in importance with the appointment of Herman Dolk ant!
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trap the volatile flavoring materials evaporated from the plants. Investigating the chemical nature of these volatiles that is, the substances ctistillec!
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One of Haagy's graduate students toIct me several years after his departure from Caltech that his notes on the course "Chemistry of Natural Products" contained more meat and information than his notes from any other class he tract taken as a graduate student at the Institute. In addition to sharing the academic burdens of teaching and supervising graduate students, Arie served as the Division of Biology's first executive officer, a position he heal for six years.
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Sensitive plants such as spinach ant! alfalfa were used for sometime to determine smog severity at smog-measuring stations throughout Los Angeles County.
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how the high oxidant levels in Los Angeles air were generated. From 1950 to 1959, Haagen-Smit took a year's leave of absence from his academic post to lead the research efforts of the Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District.
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the Volkswagen Company failed to register its compliance with the Air Resources Board regulations. Haagen-Smit promptly posted a ban on the sale of Volkswagens in the state.
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He was successful at every step of his quest for more stringent air pollution control legislation and was clirectly responsible for the catalytic converters now mandatory on automobiles to remove the last vestiges of unburned hydrocarbons from their exhausts. Haagen-Smit retired from Caltech in 1971 but retained his position as chairman of California's Air Resources Board until 1973.
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I've done it on a local basis and I've taken it to the state basis and I've done quite a bit on a national basis. There's only one facet of air pollution control that ~ think ~ could have done more for and that's city planning." But this is characteristic Haagen-Smit moclesty.
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Office of Science and Tech nology 1964-1973 Member, Advisory Committee for Biology and Med icine, Atomic Energy Commission 1965 Member, Committee on Pollution, Subpanel on Air, National Academy of Sciences Member, Technical Advisory Panel to the Assembly Committee on Transportation and Commerce, California State Legislature 1967-1968 Chairman, Technical and Scientific Advisory Com mittee, State of California Air Resources Board 1968-1973 Chairman, State of California Air Resources Board 1967
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Department of Commerce Member, Conference of Interdisciplinary Commu nications Program, Smithsonian Institution 1971 Member, Committee for Motor Vehicle Emissions, National Academy of Sciences 1971 Member, Editorial Board, Excerpta Medica (The Netherlands) 1971-1973 Chairman, National Air Quality Criteria Advisory Committee, Environmental Protection Agency Reviewer, Extramural Research Projects and Grants, Environmental Protection Agency Consultant, Division of Biomedical and Environmen tal Research, Atomic Energy Commission 1974-1976 Member, Science Advisory Board, Environmental Protection Agency HONORS AND AWARDS 1947 Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau, The Netherlands 1950 Fritzsche Award, American Chemical Society 1955 Certificate, Pure Air Committee 1957 Special Clean Air Award, Los Angeles County 1958 Frank A
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Department of Agriculture 1972 Honor Scroll, American Institute of Chemists 1972 Frederick Gardner Cottrell Award, National Academy of ~ ~aences 1972 Monsanto Award for Air Pollution Control, American Chemical Society 1973 National Medal of Science 1974 Rheinland Preis (Germany) 1974 Tyler Ecology Award 1974 Eliot Cresson Gold Medal, The Franklin Institute PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES Air Pollution Control Association American Chemical Society American Association for the Advancement of Science Botanical Society of America Botanical Society of The Netherlands Dutch Chemical Society Institute for Food Technology New York Academy of Sciences Royal Academy of Science, The Netherlands Sigma Xi Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine Society of Plant Physiologists Society for the Study of Development and Growth Swiss Chemical Society Alpha Chi Sigma National Academy of Sciences
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Polyterpene und Polyterpenoide, zur Kenntnis des Azulenes.
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Uber den Einfluss der Auxine auf das Wurzelwachstum und uber die chemische Natur des Auxins der Graskoleoptilen. Hoppe-Seyler's Z
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Evidence of another physiologically active principle in Cannabis saliva (marihuana)
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Bot., 31:219. The chemistry of essential oils.
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Lowy. Isolation of a peptide in guinea pig liver homogenate and its turnover of leucine.
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Lowy. The degradation of alpha-aminoadipic acid in guinea pig liver homogenate.J.
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Second Technical and Administrative Report on Air Pollution Control in Los Angeles County, ed.
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Nutr., 9:413. Atmospheric reactions of air pollutants.
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84-86. 1959 Studies of air pollution control by Southern California Edison Company.
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Health, 8:31. New and revised motor vehicle standards adopted.
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Presented at the Science Writers Seminar on Global Pollution, San Francisco, January 29. 1969 California air pollution progress.
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216 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS A lesson from the smog capital of the world.
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