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...wobbly: it might some day wither altogether and go the way of dyewood, sugar, gold and rubber. Competition from the other coffee countries and from cheap-labor plantations in Africa is increasing. World overproduction is a constant threat. And there is always the nightmarish possibility that some diabolically clever chemist may wreck the market altogether by discovering a cheap, palatable synthetic substitute for instant coffee...
Then, in the 1930s, CalTech's Chemist Linus Carl Pauling attacked the useful but mysterious bonds from the new angle of quantum theory. He found that the "resonance" of the atoms (their internal vibration) is the source of the forces that hold molecules together. His book, The Nature of the Chemical Bond, is one of the classics of modern science...
...assembled citizens, however, Gundolf Goethel has been no ordinary student. The son of an industrial chemist of Oberhausen, Germany, he is one of 265 boys and girls brought over last fall to the U.S. by the American Field Service (originally founded to sponsor wartime ambulance work). Last week, as the town got together to bid him goodbye, it was also paying tribute to an effective, privately run good-will program which is an important part of the U.S. answer to Communist attempts to capture the world's student generation (see above...
...chemist L.H.D...
Gerty Theresa Cori. Nobel prizewinning biological chemist at Washington University . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D...