Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II a Geigy chemist, Paul Muller, rediscovered the formula and found that it killed bugs. Its first test came during a plague of potato beetles in Switzerland in 1939. DDT stopped the beetles dead. Concentrated DDT is toxic to men and animals when swallowed, but in the weak dilutions used for sprays and dusts, it has been found harmless to the skin...
...Daughter of the late great Chemist Julius O. Stieglitz, niece of famed Photographer Alfred Stieglitz...
...Australian-born professor of pathology. He organized a research team to study the practical extraction of capricious penicillin. The team included experts in chemistry, bacteriology, pathology and medicine. Among them : Mrs. Florey, who is also a doctor, and Dr. Ernst Boris Chain, a brilliant half-French, half-Russian enzyme chemist who shares with Dr. Florey the honors for developing penicillin...
Shark fishing became big business in 1938 when "Tano" Guaragnella, a fin-sharp San Francisco fish broker, sent a soup-fin shark liver to a chemist, learned that the livers of Galeorhinus zyopterus are the richest known source of Vitamin...
Occupied by the Army during the fall term, Winthrop House has been vacant for several months. Completed in 1931, it was known in its civilian days for its athletes, pre-meds, and its master bio-chemist Ronald M. Ferry...