Rochow Earns Grant For One-Year Study; Freed of Teaching

Eugene G. Rochow, associate professor of Chemistry, has been awarded the Carothers Research Professorship for 1952-53 which will free him of teaching duties this year for full-time research in inorganic chemistry. He will seek basic knowledge of the nature of silicones and the reasons for their industrially valuable properties.

The Carothers Research Professorship frees one Harvard chemist each year for one year of research. It was established in 1951 by the DuPont Company in honor of the late Dr. Wallace H. Carothers, the Harvard chemistry teacher who headed the DuPont research program that led to the discovery of Nylon.

Professor Rochow, an industrial chemist before he joined the Harvard faculty in 1948, is an international authority on silicon compounds. This year he will investigate ways of preparing organic silicon compounds which are the base of carborundum, next to diamonds the hardest material known, and in another form free flowing oils which stay find at low temperatures.