George E. Vladutz

George E. Vladutz (1928-1989) was a Romanian American chemical information retrieval specialist.

Life

George E. Vladutz (also Vléduts) was born in Oradea, Romania, in 1928. He studied chemical engineering at the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute in 1946 and earned an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Organic Dyestuff Chemistry from the Leningrad Technological Institute in 1952 and a Ph.D. in Organic Synthesis from the Mendeleev Institute for Chemical Technology in Moscow in 1956. In 1967, he received a D.Sc. in Chemical Information Science from the Institute for Organic Chemistry of the Elements in Moscow, with a thesis on "The Design and Development of Information Retrieval Systems for Organic Chemistry".

In Russia Valdutz worked at the All-Union Institute of Science and Technological Information (VINITI) of the USSR Academy of Science from 1956 to 1974. He was senior research associate and head of the chemical information department,

In 1975 Vladuts took up a visiting research fellowship at the University of Sheffield, England, then in 1976 he went to the USA where he joined the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia where he developing the Key Word/Phrase Subject Index for ISI products. In 1981, he became manager for basic research at ISI, directing projects in automatic indexing and retrieval, including the development of bibliographic coupling techniques for associative searching of large journal citation files. he died in 1989.

Contributions

Vladutz worked on developing methods for encoding chemical reactions and compounds for computerized retrieval purposes. His work provided a basis for computer indexing of chemical reaction data and to allow automatic identification of synthetic pathways.

Publications

• Vléduts, G. É. & V.K. Finn. "Creating a machine language for organic chemistry." Information Storage and retrieval 1, no 2-3 (July 1963): 101-116.
• Vléduts, G. É. "Concerning one system of classification and coding chemical reactions." Information Storage and retrieval 1, no 2-3 (July 1963): 117-146.
• Automatic Information Systems in Chemistry, with Geyvandov. (1973).
• "Natural Language Text Segmentation Techniques Applied to the Automatic Compilation of Printed Subject Indexes and for Online Database Access." In: First Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing. Search. 136-142.
• "Bibliographic coupling and subject relatedness." With James Cook. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science 21 (1984): 204-207.
• "Joint compound/reaction storage and retrieval and possibilities of a hyperstructure-based solution." With Scott R. Gould. In: Chemical Structures: The International Language of Chemistry. Berlin: Springer, 1988, pp 371-384.
• "East European, Soviet, and Western science compared: A scientometric study." With David A. Pendlebury. In: The Status of Civil Science in Eastern Europe: Proceedings of the Symposium on Science in Eastern Europe, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, September 28–30, 1988. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1989, pp 113-128.
• "Chemical Reaction Retrieval Using Citation-Based Relationships." With Daniel E. Meyer & Nadia F. Abdul-Malik. In: Chemical Structures 2: The International Language of Chemistry Proceedings of The Second International Conference, Leeuwenhorst Congress Center, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 3rd June to 7th June 1990. Berlin: Springer, 1993, pp 449-457.

Awards

• American Chemical Society. Patterson-Crane Award, 1989.

Further reading

• "George Vladutz." Wikipedia [1]
• Lawlor, Bonnie. [Obituary.] Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 30, no 4 (1990): 350. [2]
• Lynch, Michael F. & Peter Willett. "George Vladutz, 1928-1990." [Obituary.] Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 30, no 4(1990): 349.