This will be the topic of the 1st Wednesday Luncheon of the Westfield Historical Society.
Mr Arison will tell how after graduating from the University of Michigan in 1943 with a BSc in science, he was recruited by duPont as a chemist to work in the TNT plant in Illinois. In 1944 he was transferred to work on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago where he became part of a group that installed uranium in one of the reactors designed for the production of plutonium.
After serving in the US army, he joined Merck in August 1947 as a Research Chemist and simultaneously started his PhD in Organic Chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
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During the last four decades at Merck, Dr Arison was in charge of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility in the Department of Metabolism. NMR is the chemical equivalent of MRI. He has been the author/co author of 214 publications and over 50 patents.
To make a reservation for the talk and luncheon please call 908 233 2930 by noon on Monday, January 2nd 2012.
