Samuel Z. Cardon (November 24, 1918 – December 28, 1996) was a chemist and scientist entrepreneur who worked primarily for U.S. government agencies in need of technical forecasting.

Biography Samuel Cardon lived in Bratenahl, Ohio and was married to chemist Neva Lucille Campbell Cardon. They adopted two daughters, Lisa Cardon Tietze and Julie Cardon Bayko. Cardon worked at the Rand Development Corporation. In 1964, he started General Technical Services in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania with Arthur Iberall. Cardon died in 1996.

Work Cardon published numerous reports with Arthur Iberall for U.S. government agencies in need of chemical and physical modelling including analysis of waters of the US for the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare,Iberall, A.S. and S.Z. Cardon. Study of research needs in protecting the quality of waters in the USA. Report to HEW, Contract SAPH 76238, 1960.Iberall, A.S., S.Z. Cardon, and H. Schneider. A study of the physical description of the hydrology of a large land mass pertinent to water supply and pollution control. 4 Reports to HEW, Contract SAPH 78640, 1961-62. water pollution for the Public Health Service,Iberall, A.S. and S.Z. Cardon. A study to develop improved water pollution measurement techniques. 3 Reports to Public Health Services, Contract PH-86-62-106,1962. space suit related clothing designs for the United States Army.Iberall, A.S., S.Z. Cardon and J. Ellis. Studies of principles of clothing design to minimize interference with body motion. 3 Reports to Natick Labs., US Army Contract DA-19-129-AMC-45(R), 1963-64.Iberall, A.S. and S.Z. Cardon. To develop an applied science of man-systems. Predictions USA--1970-2050. Final Report to US Army Research Inst., April 1975. They also did technical forecasting, cybernetics, application of systems science, social physics, autonomous systems designs, computer modeling for strategic needs. For NASA, they worked on the general dynamics of human and other mammalian systems,Iberall, A.S., M. Ehrenberg and S.Z. Cardon. General-dynamics of the physical-chemical systems in mammals. Contractors Report to NASA, NASW-1066, Aug. 1966. and thermodynamic issues in long space voyages.Iberall, A.S. and S.Z. Cardon. Analysis of the dynamic systems response of some internal human systems. Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information; Reports to NASA: CR-129, Oct. 1964; CR-141, Jan. 1965; CR-219, May 1965; Interim Report, Dec. 1965. For the United States Department of Commerce, they worked on internal human responses. For the United States Department of Transportation, they did systems models for transportation planning, urban systems functions, and modelling trade.Iberall, A.S. and S.Z. Cardon. Physical foundations for socio-economic modeling for transportation planning, parts I and II. Final Report, Contract DOT-TSC-1157, Dec. 1976.Iberall, A.S. and S.Z. Cardon. The carrying competence of vehicles. Final Report to Dept. of Transportation, Contract DOT-TSC-ll69, Jan. 1977.Iberall, A.S. and S.Z. Cardon. Application of physical science to transportation research and policy analysis. Task I: Review of Analysis of Current Policies and Issues. Report to Dept. of Transportation, 1977 Together, they solved technical problems for businesses such as Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Co., Westinghouse, Sherwin-Williams, Illinois Tool Works, Ohio Brass Co., and Industrial Fasteners Institute.

Honors President of the American Association of Small Research CompaniesACSAmerican Association of Small Research Companies

Patents Production of fluoroacetonitrile, (1948). Manufacture of 3-chlorocoumarin, (1949). Screen oil, (1950).

Publications

Books 1973.

Conference proceedings Lefemine, D. V., E. T. Alvord, and S. Z. Cardon. "Identification of 3, 4-benzpyrene in cigarette paper smoke and tars; Southeastern Reg. Mtg., Am. Chem. Soc., Birmingham, AL, 504913137-3140, 1954. Alvord, E. T. and S. Z. Cardon. Separation and identification of 3, 4-benzpyrene in cigarette smoke; 9th Tobacco Chemists’ Research Conference. Program Booklet and Abstracts 9, Part 2: 5, 1955. Cardon, S. Z. and E. T. Alvord. The presence of 3, 4-benzpyrene in cigarette smoke. Ann. Mtg., Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1-12, 1955. Iberall, A.S. and S.Z. Cardon. Regulation and control in biological systems. In: K. Kaneshige and C. Izawa (eds), Proceedings of IFAC Tokyo Symposium on Sys. Engr. for Control Sys. Design, Tokyo: Science Council of Japan, 1965. Ehrenberg, M. and S. Cardon. Dynamics of the microcirculation. Proc. Ann. Conf. Engr. Med. Bio., 8:50, 1966. Young, E., A.S. Iberall, M. Ehrenberg and S.Z. Cardon. Proc. Ann. Conf. Engr. Med. Bio., 8, 1966. Iberall, A.S. and S.Z. Cardon. Hierarchical regulation in the complex biological organism. Record of the IEEE Systems Science and Cybernetics Conference, 1969. Cardon, S.Z., Survival and growth (II): the small R & D firm. Proc. Conference on Small Research and Development Firms. Los Angeles, California, 1972. (Washington: Small Business Administration, Office of Procurement Assistance; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1973).Survival and Growth

Selected articles Brown, H.C., H.I. Schlesinger and S.Z. Cardon, Studies in Stereochemistry. I. Steric strains as a factor in the relative stability of some coordination compounds of boron. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 64(2):325, 1942. https://dx.doi.org/10.1031/ja01254a031 Cardon, S.Z. and Lankelma, The acyloin condensation of 2-Thiophonealdehyde. J.A. Chem. Soc, 70(12):4248, 1948. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja01192a503 Alvord, E.T. and S.Z. Cardon, The inhibition of formation of 3, 4-benzpyrene in cigarette smoke. Br. J. Cancer, 10(3):498-503, 1956. Alvord, E.T., S.Z. Cardon, R. Hitchcock and H.J. Rand. 3, 4-Benzpyrene in the smoke of cigarette paper, tobacco, and cigarettes. Br. J. Cancer, 10(3):485-97, 1956. Rand, H.J., S.Z. Cardon, E.T. Alvord and A. Burhan, A study of cigarette smoke and cigarette paper smoke alone. Am. J. Surg, 94(3):438-43, 1957. Cardon, S. Z. 3, 4-Benzpyrene in cigarette smoke. Tob. Sci 2:130-131, 1958. Meinhardt, N. A., SAMUEL Z. CARDON, and P. W. Vogel. Novel Method for the Preparation of O, O-Dialkyl Phosphorochloridothionates1. J. Org. Chem. 25.11: 1991-1992, 1960. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jo01081a043 Iberall, A.S. and S.Z. Cardon. Control in biological systems—A physical review. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 117:445-518, 1964. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1964.tb48202.x Iberall, A.S. and S.Z. Cardon. Aeration mass-transfer related to Reynolds number. J. Appl. Chem. London, 16:64, 1966. Iberall, A. S. and S. Z. Cardon. Metabolic control in the mammalian microcirculation. In: P. H. Hammond (ed.), Theory of Self-Adaptive Control Systems. Springer, N.Y., 64-69, 1966. Iberall, A.S., M. Ehrenberg, S. Cardon and M. Simenhoff. High frequency blood glucose oscillations in man. Metabolism, 19:1119, 1968. Cardon, S.Z. and A.S. Iberall. Oscillations in biological systems. Currents in Modern Bio. 3:237-249, 1970. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0303-2647(70)90004-3 Cardon, S., C. Ostermeyer and E. Bloch. Effect of oxygen on cyclic red blood cell flow in unanesthetized mammalian striated muscle as determined by spectroscopy. Microvas. Res., 2:67, 1970.

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