Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Bryan, E. T., chemist...
Cutting, C. S., chemist...
...made particular study of the injurious effects of certain occupations upon workmen. For example, while professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania he attracted much attention by his researches and investigations into a malady which affects coal stokers exposed to intense heat. Being a skillful and scholarly chemist, he has made very valuable studies of the chemical effects of certain diseases on the human body, and for the results obtained in this work has won the reputation of being one of America's greatest physicians. His appointment to the Harvard Medical Faculty is most certainly a significant addition...
...Edsall has made a number of contributions to the knowledge of preventive medicine. He is a trained chemist and has applied chemistry to the elucidation of medical problems. He has been particularly interested in diseases which result from harmful occupations, and in Dr. Osler's work on modern medicine has contributed chapters on the various forms of poisoning liable to occur when irritating substances are handled for commercial purposes...
...considerable progress has been made since last fall. The specially designed basement is now practically complete and some of the lower granite blocks have been put in place. The building will be called the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory, in honor of Professor Wolcott Gibbs, who was formerly chief chemist of the Lawrence Scientific School. When complete, it will cost $75,000, which sum with an additional endowment of $30,000 has been subscribed by former friends and students of Professor Gibbs...