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The Management Science Achievement Award—Ninth Annual Competition: 1980

The Kelly-Springfield Tire Company is the winner of the 1980 Management Science Achievement Award for its innovative, technically advanced, and effective use of Management Science in integrated operations planning and scheduling. The $6,000 cash prize was awarded to Robert H. King, Manager of Research and Planning, and Robert R. Love, Jr., Management Science Analyst, both of Kelly-Springfield's Operating Division. Their award-winning paper concerned production planning in tire manufacture. The judges were particularly impressed by the work of Kenneth G. Cooper, of Pugh-Roberts Associates, dealing with the Ingalls shipbuilding model as a technique for cost management and negotiation. For this work, Dr. Cooper received the second cash award of $2,500. Likewise of special merit was the entry by Betty W. Holz and General James M. Wroth (Ret.) of General Research Corporation on the Army's computer system for manpower planning, budgeting, and policy evaluation. For this work, Ms. Holz and General Wroth received the third cash award of $1,500.

The Management Science Achievement Award

A major purpose of the College on the Practice of Management Science is “to focus attention of the management community and the public on the great value of the practice of Management Science and Operations Research.” To that end, the College on the Practice of Management Science sponsors the annual international Management Science Achievement Award Competition. The awards were established in 1972 to recognize and honor outstanding examples of implemented Management Science. The prize is awarded to the client organization in recognition of its use of high impact Management Science. A cash award of $6,000 is given to the Management Scientists who developed and implemented the work.

Short report: The mother-child health passport: Austria's successful weapon against infant mortality

The rapid decline in Austrian infant mortality is explained in terms of a new administrative program in that country entitled “The Mother-Child Health Passport.” The rationale and procedures involved in this plan are presented. Prenatal care was made more attractive to mothers by offering them a cash award payable upon completion of a specified number of examinations during pregnancy. One year after the program's commencement, the Austrian Health Department succeeded in linking a second set of examinations with further financial support contingent upon four checkups during an infant's first year of life. Approximately 95% of all pregnant women now participate in the Mother-Child Health Passport program. Infant mortality has declined by as much as 30% over the last five years.

Juror Responses to Direct and Mediated Presentations of Expert Testimony1

One hundred twenty‐one King County (Washington) jurors viewed one of four videotaped versions of medical testimony relevant to the determination of a claim for damages against an employer in an industrial accident case. Two versions presented the claimant's physician (direct testimony), and two presented an attorney reading the physician's testimony verbatim (mediated testimony). Two professional actors (one female, one male) portrayed the physician in one version and the attorney in the other. Videotape presentations were introduced by written material and followed by a questionnaire in which Ss answered a number of legal, attitudinal, and factual questions. Responses to direct testimony differed from those to mediated testimony on several dimensions: number of items listed as significant to the determination of a cash award, estimates of sufficiency of material presented to determine an award, estimates of physician's competence, estimates of confidence in ratings of physician's competence, and number of correct items in a factual retention test. Significant correlations were found between scores on some of these dimensions and number of dollars awarded as compensation. Differences between the actors produced no significant effects, nor were there any significant interactions. It is concluded that, ceteris paribus, direct testimony is to be preferred to mediated testimony.

The 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics

The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences has announced that the 1963 Nobel Prize in physics is to be given jointly to Eugene P. Wigner of Princeton University, who will receive half of the cash award of $51 000, and to Maria Goeppert Mayer of the University of California and J. Hans D. Jensen of the University of Heidelberg, who will share the other half.

Sarton Medal

The George Sarton Medal, which is awarded for outstanding performance in the history of science, has been given to Edward J. Dijksterhuis of the University of Utrecht. Prof. Dijksterhuis is known for his published works on the history of early Greek science and of 17th‐century science. The presentation was made in absentia on September 2 at the banquet in Philadelphia of the International Congress of the History of Science, which met at Cornell University and at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia. The medal and cash award of $1500 are donated by the Pfizer Company.

Nobel Prizes for 1954

THE Nobel Prize in physics for 1954 has been awarded jointly to two German physicists, Max Born and Walther Bothe, with the Prize in chemistry going to an American, Linus Pauling. Born, now 73 and living in retirement at Bad Pyrmont, Germany, was honored ‘for his fundamental works in quantum mechanics, especially his statistical interpretation of the wave function”. Until recently he taught at the University of Edinburgh, and before that at Cambridge and Göttingen. Bothe, 63, is presently at the Max Planck Institute at Heidelberg. His award was in recognition of his development of the coincidence counting method in the study of cosmic radiation “and the discoveries he made with it”, notably that charged particles were present in cosmic rays. The work for which Born and Bothe share the Nobel Prize was done about twenty-five years ago. Pauling, 53, was born in Portland, Oregon, and is on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology. He was cited for “his works on the nature of chemical bonds, especially as applied to the structure of complicated substances”. The Nobel Prize carries with it a gold medal and a cash award currently worth about $35 000. The presentation ceremonies take place on December 10th in Stockholm.

STUDIES WITH MEDICATED AEROSOLS

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ALUMINUM COMPANY HONORS FRARY FOR RESEARCH

IN TRIBUTE to the fact that aluminum is a child of chemical research, the Aluminum Co. of America held open house at its New Kensington, Penna., research laboratories December 16, in celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of its central research department. Honored at the same time was Francis C. Frary, who has directed the efforts of the research group since its inception in 1918. A dinner for the laboratory personnel was given that evening at the University Club of Pittsburgh, at which Dr. Frary received an emblem and a cash award as a tribute to his quarter of a century with the company. After the presentation Dr. Frary spoke on some of the problems attending aluminum research and he was followed by E. R. Weidlein, of the Mellon Institute, and by a paper by Webster N. Jones of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. At the laboratory inspection, officials of the ...