The George L. Braude Award is a new award being established by the Maryland Section in 2003. Monique Braude is underwriting this special award in her husband’s memory. Dr. Braude worked at W.R. Grace and was a long-time member of American Chemical Society. He served as chair of the Maryland Section in 1962, and in 1968, he received the Maryland Chemist Award. Below is Dr. Braude’s biography as it appeared in the Chesapeake Chemist in 1968:
Dr. Braude was born in Samara, Russia, in 1918. He studied chemical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, and chemistry at the University of Vilnius in Lithuania, where he was awarded a bachelor’s degree in 1942. He received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Halle, Germany, in 1945, following graduate work under Professors Theodor Lieser and Karl Ziegler. In 1946, he was awarded a doctor’s degree in economics by the same school. Dr Braude held academic positions at the Universities of Halle and Frankfurt, Germany.
From 1948 to 1952, he was chief chemist with the Prosynthese Company in Paris, France. He came to the United States in 1952 and joined the Imperial Paper and Color Corporation in Glens Falls, New York, as a research chemist. In 1956, he became director of Commercial Research with the American Alcolac Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland.
Since 1957, he worked for the Research Division of W.R. Grace & Co., first as a supervisor in Process Development in Curtis Bay. He transferred to the Special Projects Department in Clarksville in 1963, became section manager in 1966, and director of this group in 1967.
Dr Braude serves on several committees of the Maryland Section and as chairman in 1962. He is also a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, of the American Oil Chemists Society, and of the American Ordnance Association. His main areas of interest are organic sulfur and nitrogen chemistry, colloid and surface chemistry, and polymers.
Previous Recipients of the Award:
| 2003 Elsa Reichmanis | 2004 Madeline Jacobs | 2005 Robert L. Caret |
Note: The Braude Award includes a plaque and a $1,000 grant.
