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...Anita Boyer Field, Frederick Field's wife, and former wife of McGill University's research chemist Raymond Boyer. Chemist Boyer served 19 months for passing Canadian explosives secrets to the Soviets...
...Valentin Korn, 43, for years a producer of unexceptional wines from a small hillside plot, but a vintner with a bright idea of how to make every year a vintage year. Hiring a chemist, he concocted a mixture of two parts grape juice, eight parts water, plus dashes of citric acid, tartaric acid, potash and glycerin. In two years Korn made between 1,500,000 and 4,000,000 quarts. Germans sipped it with satisfaction, noted nothing unusual; neither did the government controllers, who checked it periodically for bouquet and chemical content...
Died. Irving Langmuir, 76, first U.S. industrial chemist to win (1932) the Nobel Prize, prolific experimenter in what he called the "borderland of chemistry and physics," a "pure research" staffer at General Electric Co.'s research lab for 41 years, and a pioneer rainmaker; of a coronary thrombosis; in Falmouth, Mass. Langmuir once said: "Whatever work I've done, I've done for the fun of it." His fun included such breakthrough inventions as the gas-filled light bulb and the high-vacuum power tube (the heart of modern radio and TV broadcasting...
...ages generally fell between 25 and 35. Medical men, lawyers and a few other professionals were hard to place in U.S. jobs. But the academy found that man-hungry U.S. industry and education were eager to take the scientists off its hands. In spite of language difficulties, one research chemist dropped into an industrial job at $15,000 a year. Some others did nearly as well. With this encouragement, the academy is planning to bring 300 more Hungarian refugee scientists and professional men to the U.S. in the next few months...
They did not create much of it-only about 50 atoms or one billion-trillionth of an ounce. "Hardly a commercial quantity," said Chemist Fields. Asked why he and his friends went to such trouble, he said with a happy smile: "Well, discovery of a new element is considered a big thing in some circles...