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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight attained what may well be considered the top job of U. S. industrial scientific research,* when President Gerard Swope made Dr. Coolidge director of General Electric's research laboratories (TIME, Nov. 14). As such Director Coolidge is Laureate Langmuir's boss. Precisely, Dr. Langmuir received his award for "pioneer work in surface chemistry." This refers to his useful concept of the arrangement and orientation of molecules at the surface of objects-how, for example, gases react at the surface of a hot tungsten wire. This led him directly to the invention of the gas-filled incandecent lamp...
Before an audience of over 350 persons, the Honorable W. M. Maltbie, Chief Justice of Connecticut, the presiding judge, awarded the decision to the Brandeis Club, counsel for the plaintiff, in the semi-final argument of the Ames Award Competition, held last night in the Court Room of Langdell Hall...
...scholarships are financed by private contribution and by funds diverted for this purpose from the operating budget of the Institute itself. It provides for one award for each five students regularly enrolled in each of these divisions...
...year. Candidates who are in their last year of undergraduates work or who have just started upon graduate work will be shown preference at the time of selection of the Fellows. The applications for the fellowship will close on January 1, 1933 for the third year that this award has been made...
...month to quit the cinema and live with her; in Manhattan. Mrs. Wayne's countersuit to void the contract was denied by the New York Supreme Court, appealed. Honored. George Oenslager, B. F. Goodrich Co. technical adviser, by the Perkins Medal (high U. S. chemistry award) for research in rubber chemistry; University of Illinois Chemistry Professor George Lindenberg Clark, by the Grasselli Medal, for X-ray research in chemistry; General Electric Co.'s Engineer Frank M. Starr, by the $500 Alfred Noble Prize,* for a paper on "Equivalent Circuits...