George E. Vladutz
George E. Vladutz (1928-1989) was a Romanian American chemical information retrieval specialist.
Life
George E. Vladutz 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 1975 Vladuts emigrated to the University of Sheffield, England, then in 1976 to the USA where he joined the Institute for Scientific Information.
A detailed obituary and memorial biography appears at: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ci00068a002
Relevant Employment
- Institute of Scientific Information
Publications
- "Concerning one system of classification and coding chemical reactions." 1963
Contributions
Vladutz was interested in chemical action retrieval, knowledge representation for information retrieval. He worked at: Senior research associate, head of chemical information department, All-Union Institute of Science and Technological Information, USSR Academy of Science 1956-74; Manager, Basic Research Institute of Scientific Information 1976-?.
He was interested in developing methods for encoding chemical reactions and compounds for computerized retrieval purposes, theoretical foundations for information science. He was also interested in computer representation of documents and knowledge for information retrieval purposes, phrase based methods of automatic indexing, and bibliographic coupling based associative methods of retrieval.
An article by Eugene Garfield on his reaction and similarity retrieval work appears at: http://wokinfo.com/essays/reaction-similarity-retrieval/
Awards
- American Chemical Society. Patterson-Crane Award, 1989.
Offices
Further reading
- Lawlor, Bonnie. [Obituary.] Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 30, no 4 (1990): 350. [1]
Papers
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