Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Southwest facing one of the worst droughts in its history, the hunt was on for new ways to get around the perennial shortage of rain. Last week in El Paso, young (30) Dr. Peter Duisberg, agricultural chemist from New Mexico A. & M., reported to the Southwestern Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that desert research might well be "opening up a new agricultural frontier." He was ready to name scores of plants that need almost no water and might be converted into products varying all the way from varnish to broomstraws...
...Chemist Woodward emphasized the fact that his new substance is not yet cortisone. He must add another oxygen atom in the proper spot, and must exchange his carbomethoxy group for a dihydroxyacetone sidechain. In the process it will also be necessary to alter the double bonds that now join some of the atoms in his steroid (see diagram). But Chemist Woodward's cautious colleagues agree that the toughest part of the job seems to be over...
MONSANTO CHEMICAL: Charles Allen Thomas, 51, is a chemist turned manager. A Kentuckian, he went from M.I.T...
...Robert Runnels Williams, the victory marks a climax in a 40-year war against beriberi which he began, as it happened, in the Philippines. At 24, an unknown research chemist in Manila's Bureau of Science, Williams noted that chronic beriberi was dramatically cured by an extract made from rice bran. That was in 1910. It gave Williams the germ of an idea which flowered, 25 years later, in his isolating vitamin BI and then synthesizing it cheaply...
...year-old chemist is married and has three children. The Washington School of Plastics now employs him as an instructor. He got his degree from Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1912, six years after the renowned George Frederick Gundelfinger...