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Died. Dr. Joseph Cecil Patrick, 72, a chemist who, while searching for a cheap antifreeze in 1923, stumbled on the formula for Thiokol, first U.S.-developed synthetic rubber, which has since become an indispensable ingredient of solid rocket fuel; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...
...conversation took place three times a day, and it involved an exotic mixture of personalities. On the dais waiting to deliver their addresses, Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich sat with that outrider of neutralism, Nobel-prize-winning Chemist Linus Pauling. At another panel, Kremlinologist George Kennan, onetime Ambassador to Russia and Yugoslavia, clashed with Dr. Adam Schaff, the leading Marxist theoretician of Poland...
Visiting Washington to collect a National Medal of Science for his "contributions to scientific knowledge," Chemist Harold Urey, 71, recalled that when he developed heavy water in 1931 he never dreamed that his discovery would win the Nobel Prize or, for that matter, become a vital ingredient in the making of the atomic bomb. "I thought it might have some practical use," he said, plaintively, "in something like neon signs...
Happy Problem. A research chemist with an accountant's nose for profits, President Wurster, 64, rose to the top of B.A.S.F. before the war and stayed on as president when the company was split off from Farben. He still finds time to lecture in chemistry at Heidelberg, read the classics in Latin and Greek. Happily, his biggest problem now is that orders are coming in faster than the company can fill them. To meet the mounting backlog, B.A.S.F. has allocated $500 million for expansion at home and abroad over four years. This year it will spend $200 million...