Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both scientists and laymen had ideas, and all week long they aired them to their hearts' content. "In my opinion, even though I am a scientist." wrote Chemist A. L. Bacharach, "fissionable (an Americanism, I believe), is not admissible, though fissile is." Nonsense, cried a gentleman from Churchfields. Woodford, "it is unquestionable that 'fissionable' is objectionable to the impressionable; but to the knowledgeable it is unexceptionable." Added someone from Harrow, Middlesex: "Fissionable is fashionable, and surely reasonably admissible. Fissible is risible...
After careful discussion of the matter with Roommate Wepman, a Miami attorney's son with vague literary pretensions, Chemist Fraden decided to use potassium cyanide as a terminal agent. One evening last August, he put a vial of the stuff in his pocket, got a bottle of champagne, called on his parents and joyously announced that he had got a job. He poured three glasses of wine, added cyanide to two of them, and asked his parents to join him in a toast to his future. They drank and toppled to the floor...
...less than 45 different substances have been identified (and many more are suspected) in the tar; 15 of these, including nicotine, have been tested for cancer-causing powers and acquitted, and most of the other 30 seem unlikely culprits. At New York University's Institute of Industrial Medicine, Chemist Alvin Kosak and Physician William E. Smith are breaking down tobacco tar into several fractions and testing each on mice. Parallel work to that at N.Y.U. is going on at two or three other laboratories in the U.S. and half a dozen in Britain. Dr. Wynder himself, now working with...
Strong, Sensitive Scale. The most accurate chemist's scales, those that use quartz fibers as springs, can weigh only tiny quantities. Scales big enough to handle good-sized samples are not nearly as sensitive. Last week Dr. Alsoph H. Corwin of Johns Hopkins University told about a scale that he has developed which is both strong and sensitive. Its beam teeters on a finely polished knife edge of boron carbide (almost as hard as diamond), resting on the same material. The edge is so sharp that the pressure on its minute bearing surface...
...hear the announcer until after the point after touchdown. -The university is just completing a $10 million building program which includes a $2,400,000 liberal-arts building and art gallery, and a $3,600,000 science building, named for Notre Dame's Father Julius Arthur Nieuwland, chemist-pioneer in the making of synthetic rubber. The building program has been paid for by the gifts of alumni and Notre Dame's many nonalumni friends, not by football receipts...