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 at: Organic Chemistry, Information Science; CAS: Assistant director 1961-70; Associate director 1970-1974; Associate director of planning and development 1974-?; Manager, information science section, Wyeth Labs 1958-61. 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

(ACS) for conceiving, developing, and implementing computer-based information handling systems and procedures across the full range of CAS operations; and for leadership in the development of the CAS Chemical Registry System.

Publications

• "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.
• "Libraries and abstracting and indexing services-a study in interdependency." 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.

Papers

Location #1

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• Includes: Papers relating to CAS work are definitely at CAS offices (in the basement; CAS has no archives) but not arranged or described.
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• Source: Phone conversation with Dale Baker, 6/96.