Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thiokol itself is not brand-new. It was accidentally discovered in 1929 by a chemist who was trying to concoct an antifreeze. Since 1930 it has been manufactured as a substitute for rubber, leather, cork. Typical uses: barrage balloon coatings, gas masks, gasoline hoses, washers, cable sheathing...
...graduate chemist, who had only a small sum of industrial research work before being drafted over a year ago, and who finds his specialized knowledge and training of little value as a soldier in the Army, I feel somewhat qualified to make such a suggestion...
...From milk. Chemist Paul D. Watson of the Department of Agriculture has developed a lacquer excellently suited to cans of evaporated and condensed milk (largest canned food) and for large milk-shipping cans. It is made of lactic acid (from fermented whey) plus small amounts of vegetable...
...nonfloral field, Dr. E. P. Schoch, University of Texas, worked on the extraction of acetylene (base of neoprene) from natural gas. What the U.S. needs are not new sources of rubber so much as new processes of manufacture or improvements on those known. Example: M.I.T. rubber research chemist Dr. Desiree le Beau is working on a new process to reclaim synthetic rubber for reuse. (Methods used to reclaim natural rubber won't work on synthetics, where each type must be differently treated.) But rubber experts are skeptical of most inventions or improvements. Said President L. Collyer of Goodrich last...
...longer do nations boast, as the French Revolutionists boasted when they sent Chemist Antoine Lavoisier to the guillotine in 1794, "The republic has no use for scientists." No longer do nations waste their resources by sending their best scientists to the battlefields instead of to the laboratories-as the British in 1915 sent the 20th Century's most promising physicist, young Henry Moseley, to Gallipoli, where he was shot through the head...