Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particles from the cyclotron and produced neptunium, a new "synthetic" element with 93 electrons. Next, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg and co-workers discovered plutonium (No. 94), and, four years later, at the University of Chicago, americium (No. 95) and curium (No. 96). Last week tall, gaunt, 37-year-old Chemist Seaborg and his associates were in the news again. By bombarding americium with alpha particles, they had produced another new element, with 97 electrons...
...Bosses. Herblock has been cartooning for 21 years. A Chicago chemist's son, he won a scholarship to Chicago's Art Institute. In 1929 he quit school to start cartooning on the Chicago Daily News, later moved to Cleveland and the Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1941, Herblock drew the cartoon for N.E.A. that won him a Pulitzer: a German soldier searching the sky for a British bomber while Parisians look on and grin...
Last week, 40 years later, Chemist-Metallurgist Langmuir announced his retirement as associate director of G.E.'s famed lab. Among his achievements he could count a 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (the first won by a U.S. industrial chemist), awards and honors from many top-drawer scientific organizations, an impressive list of discoveries, and international renown...
...Gravitation: "If I read it I probably couldn't understand it." Said Dr. Urey: "I could wring that reporter's neck! It was just an idle remark. Who cares that I don't understand the theory of relativity and/or gravity? I'm just a poor chemist, not a physicist. It would mean something if [Dr.] Robert Oppenheimer said...
...Font's own President Crawford H. Greenewalt filed his own cogent brief. Only because of Du Font's size, said Chemist Greenewalt, was his company able to spend ten years and $27 million on the "difficult and sometimes bitterly disappointing research" to develop nylon-and thus give rise to many new U.S. businesses. To illustrate his point, Greenewalt held a 1.2-lb. package of nylon (price: $1.60) in one hand and a woman's nylon dress in the other. The dress had been processed by six companies-spinner, throwster, weaver, etc.-and was priced to retail...