Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked Bobst to take over. "The business was dominated by cosmetic cooks," Bobst recalls. "They built their products on the basis of sight, smell and feel. They had no regard for the needs of the skin and hair." Bobst changed all that by putting a top chemist in charge of Warner's cosmetics research...
Gamma globulins, the immunity-bearing proteins of the blood, have come into general use for protection against measles. The possibilities both of the effectiveness of these globulins against other diseases and of their further separation to yield specific antibodies pose a challenge to chemist and oltnician alike...
...Charles Allen Thomas, world-famed as a chemist but known to his neighbors as an amateur farmer, was annoyed by the farmland that he owned near Dayton, Ohio. Some parts of the same field yielded well, while other parts yielded badly. Chemical analysis showed that both patches had the same supply of plant nutrients. What was the difference...
Many other farmers had noted the same thing, and there were many theories. But Dr. Thomas, a research chemist who is now president of the great Monsanto Chemical Co., was in a position to spend time, money and talent on the problem. Last week at the Philadelphia meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a group of Monsanto chemists told about discoveries that are causing great excitement in agricultural circles. Monsanto may have found an answer to the world's eternal demand for more productive land...
High Standard. At Yale, Eli Whitney won a key, and Chemist Benjamin Silliman bitterly complained about PBK's bibulous anniversary meetings ("After such surfeits, I am always sick"). In 1818, South Carolina College at Columbia applied for a charter, sent it to the Secretary of War, PBK's John C. Calhoun, who in turn sent it to the Secretary of State, PBK's John Quincy Adams. Adams was the first presidential member. Those who came after him: Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt* and William Howard Taft...