Word: chemist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...racing's sunny prospects couldn't quite cut the fog that hung over the just ended northern season. With two big-name trainers, Tom Smith and Dolly Byers, already charged with doping horses, the Maryland Racing Commission decided to check further. It consulted a new saliva test chemist. Result: four horses that won at Pimlico on Nov. 19, one that finished fifth two days earlier, were found to have been doped...
Died. Dr. Francis William Aston, 68, British chemist who won a 1922 Nobel Prize for inventing the mass spectrograph, through which heavy water and uranium 235 (atomic bomb ingredient) were discovered; in Cambridge, England. He once warned against atomic tinkering: "All hydrogen on earth might be transformed at once, and this most successful experiment published to the universe [as] a new star of extraordinary brilliance...
...Reported the hastily proofread New York Herald Tribune: ". . . The state chemist . . . reported traces of ephedrine in the saliva test taken from Mrs. Elizabeth [Arden] Graham." In fact, Magnific Duel's saliva test was negative...
Since then he has been a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I, a chemist in the U.S. Bureau of Mines (where he helped develop a new way to extract radium), research director of both Standard Oil of Indiana and General Printing Ink Corporation, a professor at the University of Chicago, dean at Penn State, and Director of Science and Education for the New York World's Fair...
Puzzle to Fission. Late in 1938 a distinguished German chemist named Otto Hahn, of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm-Institute, was bombarding uranium with "slow" neutrons of low energy. As one of the end products, he identified barium. This puzzled him, but he published a diffident note on it in Naturwissenschalfen...