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Kurt Gingold (1929–1997) was an Austrian-American scientific translator, and a charter member and second president of the American Translators Association . Life and career Kurt...

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Kurt Gingold (1929–1997) was an Austrian-American scientific translator, and a charter member and second president of the American Translators Association.

Life and career

Kurt Gingold was born in Austria in 1929. He studied at Tulane University, where he was active in the student chapter of the American Chemical Society and Hillel, graduating in 1950.[1] He went on to do graduate work at Harvard,[2] obtaining his doctorate in chemistry in 1954. In 1957 Gingold was a contestant on the NBC game show Twenty-One.[3]

For thirty years he worked as a translator (senior information scientist) for American Cyanamid, going on to work as a consultant translator for Boehringer Ingelheim.[4] He was a charter member of the American Translators Association (ATA), founded in 1959, serving as vice president 1960–63, and as president 1963–65.[5] It was in the latter capacity that, on September 30, 1964, he gave a presentation to the Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee of the National Academy of Sciences and the United States National Research Council, explaining the lack of correlation between cost and quality in commercial translation.[6] In 1965 he became the second recipient of the Gode Medal for services to the profession. He was accredited by the ATA as a translator into English from Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Gingold served as a vice-president of the International Federation of Translators,[4] and in 1970 he became director of the Interlingua Institute.[7]

Gingold died July 19, 1997.

Publications

As author

  • Gingold, Kurt; Rochow, Eugene G.; Seyferth, Dietmar; Smith, Albert C.; West, Robert (1952). "Ionization of Organometallic Halides". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 74 (24): 6306. Bibcode:1952JAChS..74.6306G. doi:10.1021/ja01144a532.
  • Rochow, Eugene G.; Gingold, Kurt (1954). "La conversión de clorosilanos a siloxanos mediante dimetilformamida". Journal of the American Chemical Society . 76 (19): 4852– 5. Bibcode : 1954JAChS..76.4852R . doi : 10.1021/ja01648a025 .
  • Kurt Gingold, Sistemas de clorosilanos y amidas , Universidad de Harvard, 1954.
  • Gingold, Kurt (1961). "Traducción de piscinas: ideal y realidad". Journal of Chemical Documentation . 1 (2): 14– 19. doi : 10.1021/c160002a005 .

Como traductor

  • Mirra Osipovna Korshun , Combustión rápida simultánea (Métodos en microanálisis 1), editado por J.A. Kuck. Traducido del ruso por Phyllis L. Bolton y Kurt Gingold. Gordon and Breach, Nueva York, 1964.
  • Aleksandr Petrovich Terentʹev , et al., Combustión húmeda y métodos catalíticos en microanálisis (Métodos en Microanálisis 2), editado por J.A. Kuck. Traducido por Kurt Gingold. Gordon & Breach, 1965.
  • JA Kuck (ed.), Determinación de carbono e hidrógeno y el uso de nuevos catalizadores de combustión (Métodos en Microanálisis 3). Traducido por Kurt Gingold. Gordon and Breach, 1968.
  • MA Dalin, IK Kolchin, BR Serebryakov, Acrilonitrilo . Traducido por Kurt Gingold. Westport, Connecticut: Technomic, 1971.
  • Kurt Gingold, Tecnología soviética del uretano (Serie Progreso soviético en poliuretanos). CRC Press, 1973. ISBN 0-87762-069-5
  • Natal'ia Petrovna Bechtereva , Aspectos neurofisiológicos de la actividad mental humana . Traducido del ruso por Kurt Gingold y James Woodbury. 2.ª edición. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN 0-19-502131-2Publicado originalmente en ruso, Leningrado: Editorial Meditsina, 1974.
  • Kurt Gingold, Síntesis y química física de los uretanos (Serie Progreso soviético en poliuretanos). CRC Press, 1975. ISBN 978-0-87762-157-7
  • JA Kuck (ed.), Determinación de oxígeno, selenio, cromo y tungsteno (Métodos en Microanálisis 5). Traducido por Kurt Gingold. Gordon and Breach, 1977. ISBN 0-677-20920-7"Traducción de artículos de investigación microquímica de microanalistas contemporáneos de Italia, Alemania Occidental, Checoslovaquia, Hungría, Polonia, Yugoslavia y la Unión Soviética"
  • J. A. Kuck (ed.), The determination of sulfur in the presence of other elements or simultaneously with them (Methods in Microanalysis 6). Translated by Kurt Gingold. Gordon and Breach, 1978. "microchemical research papers of contemporary microanalysts in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Roumania and the Soviet Union"
  • Mark Efimovich Vol'pin (ed.), Chemistry Reviews, Vol. 4. Translated by Kurt Gingold. Soviet Scientific Reviews Series. Gordon & Breach Publishing Group, 1982. ISBN 3-7186-0114-1
  • M. G. Voronkov, E. A. Maletina, V. K. Roman,Heterosiloxanes: Derivatives of Non-Biogenic Elements Vol 1 (Soviet Scientific Reviews). Translated by Kurt Gingold. Harwood Academic (Medical, Reference and Social Science), 1988. ISBN 3-7186-4811-3

References

  1. ↑Jambalaya Yearbook 1950.
  2. ↑The Harvard Crimson, Saturday, December 2, 1950.
  3. ↑St. Petersburg Times, Oct 14, 1957.
  4. 12Frank Esterhill, The Interlingua Institute: A History (New York, 2000), p. 77.
  5. ↑"Past Officers and Directors - American Translators Association (ATA)"(PDF). www.atanet.org. Retrieved 2026-03-28.
  6. ↑Language and Machines: Computers in Translation and Linguistics. A Report by the Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee Division of Behavioral Sciences National Academy of Sciences National Research Council (Publication 1416 National Academy of Sciences National Research Council; Washington, D. C., 1966), p. 16
  7. ↑Kurt Gingold, Interlingua website.
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