Abstract
THE fourth (1940) annual award of 5,000 dollars by the Sugar Research Foundation, Inc., New York, established by the Foundation to stimulate scientific studies of sugar as a food and as an industrial raw material with the aim of improving its usefulness, has been made to Dr. Hermann O. L. Fischer, of the University of California, Berkeley, for his contributions to knowledge of the molecular structure of carbohydrates and his studies of glyceraldehyde, inositol and the nitromethane synthesis. Following the four annual awards of 1946–49 a grand prize of 25,000 dollars will be given in 1950 for the most significant discovery of the preceding five years. This prize will be awarded in recognition of dis coveries, inventions or developments in the scientific or technological application of carbohydrates which contribute most significantly to an understanding of the functions of sugar (that is, sucrose), or its prac tical utilization, as a foodstuff or in its use in any other field of human activity. The award is open to any person, including the recipients of the four annual awards, and all entries should be submitted by February 1, 1950. Further details can be obtained from the Executive Secretary, National Science Fund of the National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Con stitution Avenue, N.W., Washington 25, D.C.
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