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Working with the University of Toronto's Chemist George Wright, the researchers washed tobacco in hot hexane, which dissolves the wax. They extracted the wax and burned it alone. The resulting tar proved to be at least ten times as cancer-potent as ordinary tar from whole tobacco: in five months all mice painted with a 5% solution from tests at 880° had papillomas (precursors of cancer), and 27% had full-blown cancer. The tar from the wax contained all the cancer agents now known to exist in small amounts in cigarette tar, but Dr. Wynder doubts that...
This is the considered opinion of white-thatched Joel Hildebrand, 75, of the University of California. Hildebrand, a highly respected chemist, is one of the tartest critics of the life-adjustment and how-to-get-along kind of education being dished up by some of the nation's schools and teachers' colleges. Last week his horrible example was a 395-page teachers' manual published by the Chicago public-school system and put together by Paul R. Pierce, now a professor of education at Purdue. The manual bears the formidable title Source Materials of the Educational Program...
James Luther Adams, professor of Christian Ethics, will become the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor of Divinity, a chair which honors the great manufacturing chemist who was mainly responsible for the University's chemical laboratories...
After nine years of dogged work, Chemist John C. Sheehan of M.I.T. announced last week that he had discovered a practical method of synthesizing penicillin V, one of the two most useful forms of the natural antibiotic made by the penicillin mold...
...refugee chemist was a member of the Rockefeller Institute in Hungary, where he spent much time doing research on the prevention of water corrosion. This position led him to apply to the U.S. Rockefeller Foundation for a position in the United States...