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Show Chemist Joins U. Faculty Dr. Jean H. Futrell, a chemist and chemical engineer with a wide industrial research background, has joined the University of Utah faculty as an associate professor of Chemistry. Dr. Futrell, a native of Louisiana, Louisi-ana, has been involved in-volved in high-level high-level industrial research since 1957. His special interests v& field are iotv-w , Icule reaction, gas phase ra&ia-i tion chemistry! and mass spec. Dr. Futrell trometry. J He is a graduate of Louisiai.J Polytechnic Institute and the W j versity of California at Beriaj: Dr. Futrell has worked as iw-search iw-search associate at the Lawrace Radiation Laboratory, University of California and did research in radiation chemistry for Humble Oil Corp., Baytown, Texas. He also served as research officer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, from 1958-59, and as research re-search scientist, photochemistry, radiation chemistry and mass spectrometry, spec-trometry, at the Aerospace Research Re-search Labs, Wright - Patterson from 1958-67. Dr. Futrell, who has published a large number of chemical reports re-ports and journal articles in his field, has won many honors during dur-ing his academic and professional career. These include a national science foundation predoctoral fellowship, fel-lowship, an atomic energy commission com-mission fellowship and an allied chemical and dye corporation fellowship. fel-lowship. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and thp American Phvsical Society. |