Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...molecule is built up of hundreds or thousands of amino-acid-units which link together in complex ways. They form long chains, they branch, they tangle, they join together in rings. Even to identify the amino acids in a simple protein is a difficult task for the most skillful chemist. To figure how they are arranged in the protein molecule has baffled chemists completely. At last week's Second International Biochemistry Congress in Paris, Dr. Fred Sanger, 33, a Quaker chemist from Britain's Cambridge University, told how he and a group of associates had solved one protein...
Cornell's Peter Debye, 68, Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist, author of the Debye theory of the specific heat of solids. Born in The Netherlands, Debye succeeded Einstein as professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zurich, served as director of Berlin's Max Planck Institute until the Nazis drove him out ("Stay at home and occupy yourself by writing a book," they told him), in 1940 finally made his way to Cornell. There, perpetually wreathed in cigar smoke, he pioneered in high polymer research, taught Cornellmen their chemistry, and each year managed to make them...
...legend of Conant the Wandering Scholar therefore has little substance An undergraduate impression also shared by many alumni and even some faculty members--that is harder to kill is of Conant the Cold-Fish Chemist. The 59-year-old Conant is no rollicking extrovert, but stuffed-shirt dignity is also not a part of his make-up. The summer after he was elected president he spent abroad with his wife: they created a sensation by traveling second-class on the "Europa." A CRIMSON of that same era reported that Conant's outstanding characteristic was his shyness; as substantiation it reported...
...chemist Conant achieved nation-wide recognition just before becoming president in 1932 he received both the Charles F. Chandler Medal at Columbia and the Nicholas Medal of the American Chemical Society for his work on Chlorophyll. It was this research which brought him to the attention of the Corporation when it began to seek a successor to President Lowell. Conant was at first far down on the list of possible presidents, but after several interviews the Corporation was so impressed by his manner that word braked out he was the popular favorite for the job. The day before his selection...
...selection of an organic chemist as president of Harvard was not so radical a step as many though at the time, since President Eliot first gained notice is a professor of chemistry in the 1860's. Nevertheless, Conant's election made University professors tremble. The story goes that one optimistic professor pointed out that Eliot had been both a chemist and a good president, to which philosopher Alfred North Whitehead replied, "Yes, but Eliot was a bad chemist. There is the difference." The faculty waited apprehensively for Conant to make his first moves...