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Died. Dr. Otto Hermann Diels, 78, retired German organic chemist who, with his ex-pupil, Dr. Kurt Alder, received the 1950 Nobel Prize for chemistry after developing the diene synthesis, a method of artificially producing complex chemical compounds (e.g., cortisone); in Kiel, Germany...
I.C.I, and its current boss, Dr. Alexander Fleck, a dour Scottish chemist who took over the chairmanship last July, think that the argument is poppycock, have recently issued a booklet defending the company's position. Says Fleck: "Private enterprise has . . . enabled our organization to grow in a way which is vigorous, resilient, progressive and effective." He points to the fact that I.C.I, spends $10 million a year on research alone, has upped postwar plastic production 210%, and already has spent almost $400 million for new capital construction in the United Kingdom since 1945. With their new program, Fleck...
...Leish) and music (Symphony No. 3 by Walter Piston). In the person of Harlow Shapley, he has given a new view of the geography of the universe, and through Paul Mangelsdorf, he has helped develop hybrid corn. Of Harvard's scientists, six have won Nobel Prizes.* Its chemists, biologists, and physicians have invented the iron lung, developed a treatment for pernicious anemia, and through the work of Bacteriologist John Enders, laid the groundwork for a safe polio vaccine. One scientist, the late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Oct. 12), made the blood bank possible; another, Chemist Robert Woodward, developed...
...line with its theme of Harvard's contribution in the scholarly world, the magazine also features capsule biographies of 12 professors, including Chemist George B. Kistiakewsky, Economist Sumner Slichter, and Philosopher Harry A. Wolfson...
Both scientists and laymen had ideas, and all week long they aired them to their hearts' content. "In my opinion, even though I am a scientist." wrote Chemist A. L. Bacharach, "fissionable (an Americanism, I believe), is not admissible, though fissile is." Nonsense, cried a gentleman from Churchfields. Woodford, "it is unquestionable that 'fissionable' is objectionable to the impressionable; but to the knowledgeable it is unexceptionable." Added someone from Harrow, Middlesex: "Fissionable is fashionable, and surely reasonably admissible. Fissible is risible...