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...burning glass is not a new idea. The pioneer French chemist Lavoisier built one almost 200 years ago and succeeded in melting iron with the sun's rays. The one at Mont Louis, by far the biggest ever built, has reached a temperature of 2,500° C. (4,500° F.). Electric furnaces can also reach high temperatures, but experiments conducted in them are complicated by carbon from the electrodes. The sun's concentrated rays are pure heat; they can melt or vaporize a substance without contaminating...
...they were not told why. Some suspect it was because they belonged to large professional societies that have some Communist members. Others think that their birth in a country now dominated by Russia was the sole reason. A typical case is that of Professor Michael Polanyi, Hungarian-born chemist and philosopher long resident in Britain. He was kept from teaching at the University of Chicago, although he had been for 20 years one of the most active anti-Communists in Europe...
...satisfactorily explain what makes a great chess player. Having a mathematical bent is not enough. The leading U.S. masters come from all walks of life, and include a psychologist, a wholesale meat merchant, a chemist, an editor, a college student, a pharmacist and a soldier. There has never been a top woman player. Reshevsky thinks that women are too easily rattled to make strong players. Of composure and self-confidence, the two most important ingredients after ability, Reshevsky has a full measure. He displayed both when a spectator asked him to explain the one-sidedness of his match score against...
...Carothers Research Professorship frees one Harvard chemist each year for one year of research. It was established in 1951 by the DuPont Company in honor of the late Dr. Wallace H. Carothers, the Harvard chemistry teacher who headed the DuPont research program that led to the discovery of Nylon...
Professor Rochow, an industrial chemist before he joined the Harvard faculty in 1948, is an international authority on silicon compounds. This year he will investigate ways of preparing organic silicon compounds which are the base of carborundum, next to diamonds the hardest material known, and in another form free flowing oils which stay find at low temperatures...