Honors: J.V.N. Dorr Receives Perkin Medal

The Perkin Medal, awarded annually for valuable work in applied chemistry, by the American section of the Society of Chemical Industry, has been conferred for 1940 upon Doctor J.V.N. Dorr, president, The Dorr Company, Inc. The award was made January 10, 1941, at a joint meeting with the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Electrochemical Society, and Societe de Chimie Industrielle. Doctor Dorris a native (1872) of Newark, NJ, USA, and received the degree of bachelor of science from Rutgers University in 1894. He also has been awarded honorary degrees from that and other institutions. He spent some time as chemical experimenter in the laboratories of Thomas A. Edison, and was employed as assayer and chemist by several mining companies, before developing the group of important industrial inventions for which he is known.