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PHILADELPHIA, PA—23 April 2007—Eugene Garfield, chairman emeritus of the Institute for Scientific Information, will receive the Chemical Heritage Foundation's (CHF) second annual Award for Supporting Industries. The presentation will be part of CHF's sixth annual Heritage Day on Thursday, 17 May 2007. This
full day of awards and honors will also mark the 25th Anniversary of CHF.
"An innovator of almost mythic dimensions, Gene Garfield invented the systems used by scholars around the world to track the influence scholarly papers have in their fields," said Arnold Thackray, president of CHF. "It is hard to imagine the scholarly world without the citation systems Garfield created. Every field of scholarship is enriched by his creativity."
Garfield is the inventor of the Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Current Contents, Index Chemicus, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. The SCI and SSCI data bases have provided an objective and quantitative basis for analyzing information flows in scientific communication and have fostered the growth of the field of scientometrics.
Garfield is the president and founding editor of The Scientist, a monthly magazine for the life sciences professional, available on the Web at www.the-scientist.com. He serves on the editorial boards of Scientometrics and the Journal of Information Science. He has also served as a member of the Research!America Board of Directors since 2001 and is the benefactor of the Eugene Garfield Economic Impact of Medical and Health Research Award.
Garfield received his bachelor's degree in chemistry and his master's in library science from Columbia University. He earned his Ph.D. in structural linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves on the Board of Overseers of the library. He is the author of numerous papers on information science and has lectured widely throughout the world.
About the CHF Award for Supporting Industries
The inaugural presentation of the CHF Award for Supporting Industries at Heritage Day 2006 went to Richard Bolte, Sr., founder of BDP International, a major logistics supplier to the chemical industry. The award will be presented annually by CHF to recognize outstanding contributions by a leader who provides products or services vital to the continuing growth and development of the chemical and molecular sciences community.
About the Chemical Heritage Foundation
The Chemical Heritage Foundation serves the community of the chemical and molecular sciences, and the wider public, by treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future. CHF carries out a program of outreach and interpretation in order to advance an understanding of the role of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries in shaping society; maintains a world-class collection of materials that document the history and heritage of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries; and encourages research in its collections.
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