{"id":1818,"date":"2013-06-21T07:57:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T14:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2013-06-21T07:57:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T14:57:15","slug":"pigman-william-ward-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1818","title":{"rendered":"PIGMAN, WILLIAM WARD, 1910-1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chemist; college professor and administrator.\u00a0 Born&#8211; March 5, 1910, Chicago, Illinois.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; James Ward and Olga (Chapple) Pigman.\u00a0 Married (1)&#8211;Alice Elizabeth Wolfe, June 6, 1933.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three.\u00a0 Married (2)&#8211; Gladys Lorraine Hargreaves, October 26, 1973.\u00a0 Education&#8211;\u00a0 B.S., 1932; \u00a0M.S., 1933, George Washington University; Ph. D. (chemistry), University of Maryland, 1936.\u00a0Lalor Fellow at the University of Leipzig, 1938-41.\u00a0 Chemist, National Bureau of Standards, 1930-44; Corn Products Refining Company, 1944-46; Institute\u00a0of Paper Chemistry, 1946-49. Associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Alabama Medical School, Birmingham, 1949-60; Professor and Head of the Department of Biochemistry, New York University Medical School, 1960-77.\u00a0 Published articles in many research journals; editor of Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry, 1945-49. Member of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (Fellow and councilor) and other professional organizations.\u00a0 Awarded the C.S. Hudson Award of the American Chemical Society, 1959; Medal of the French Biochemical Society, 1962; the University of Milan Medal, 1964. Named Distinguished Professor by the New York Medical College. Died October 26, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online; Obituary, New York Times, October 1, 1977.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carbohydrates, chemistry, biochemistry, physiology.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Academic Press, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Chemistry of the Carbohydrates.\u00a0 New York; Academic Press, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Evaluation of Agents used in the Prevention of Oral Disease.\u00a0 New York Academy of Science, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Mucous secretions.\u00a0 New York Academy of Science, 1963.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Carbohydrates:\u00a0\u00a0Chemistry, and Biochemistry.\u00a0 New York; Academic Press, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>The Glycoconjugates. Vol. 1-2. New York: Academic Press, 1977-78.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Chemist; college professor and administrator.\u00a0 Born&#8211; March 5, 1910, Chicago, Illinois.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; James Ward and Olga (Chapple) Pigman.\u00a0 Married (1)&#8211;Alice Elizabeth Wolfe, June 6, 1933.\u00a0 Children&#8211;three.\u00a0 Married (2)&#8211; Gladys Lorraine Hargreaves, October 26, 1973.\u00a0 Education&#8211;\u00a0 B.S., 1932; \u00a0M.S., 1933, George Washington University; Ph. D. (chemistry), University of Maryland, 1936.\u00a0Lalor Fellow at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}