Fred Alonzo Tate

Fred Alonzo Tate (1920-1980) was a US science information specialist.

Life

Fred Alonzo Tate was born January 8, 1920 in Wisconsin. He completed a PhD in chemistry at Harvard University in 1951.

Tate worked as Manager, information science section, Wyeth Labs 1958-61, then at Chemical Abstracts Service as Assistant director 1961-70; Associate director 1970-1974; Associate director of planning and development from 1974. He was interested in data and information management systems, automated and manual information-handling systems, publishing systems for technical information, information utilization systems, and business management systems associated with foregoing areas. He died on November 19, 1980 in Columbus, Ohio.

Contributions

The American Chemical Society conferred its Skolnik Award to Fred Tate in 1978 "For conceiving, developing and implementing computer-based information-handling systems and procedures across the full-range of Chemical Abstract's (CAS) operations, which had provided prototypes for other secondary services, for his leadership in the development of the CAS Chemical Registry System, and for close international cooperation between the United Kingdom, West German, French, Japanese, and United States groups in the development and use of chemical information systems and services."

Publications

• "Some recent changes at the Chemical Abstracts Service." Percolator 40 (Jan 1965): 42-46.
• "Chemical abstracts service." American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy 23, no. 2 (1966): 63-67.
• "The Chemical Compound Registry System." In: Communication in Science: Documentation and Automation, ed. by A. de Reuck & J. Knight. London : J. & A. Churchill, 1967, pp 158-164.
• "Libraries and abstracting and indexing services-a study in interdependancy." With James L. Wood. Library Trends 16, no 3 (Winter 1968): 353-373.
• "Relationships between primary publications and secondary information services." With R. J. Rowlett Jr & James L. Wood. Journal of Chemical Documentation 10, no. 1 (1970): 32-37.
• "Changing patterns in the international communication of chemical research and technology." With Dale Baker & Russell J. Rowlett Jr. Journal of Chemical Documentation 11, no. 2 (1971): 90-98.
• "A Computer-Based System for Handling Chemical Nomenclature and Structural Representations." With R. J. Rowlett Jr. Journal of Chemical Documentation 12, no. 2 (1972): 125-128.
• "Interlinking of Primary Publications and Secondary Information Services." With Ralph E. O'Dette. In: XXIVth International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry ... Hamburg, 1973. Ed. by Sam Stuart. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1974. Vol. 7, pp. 15-22.
• "Bridging and interlinking the information resources." With others. Journal of chemical information and computer sciences. 16, no 1 (1976): 16-19.
• "Data tagging in information-accessing services." With D. F. Zaye. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial International CODATA Conference, 1976, .. Boulder, Colorado. Ed. by Bertrand Dreyfus. Oxford: Pergamon, 1977, pp 113-114.
• "Techniques for the retrieval of chemical information; dreams vs. nightmares." Pure and applied chemistry 49, no 12 (1977): 1897-1900.

Awards

American Chemical Society. Skolnik Award, 1978.