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Were he a students, Fieser would be classified as a character, since he drives a sleek Jaguar convertible and breeds Siamese cats which be names after chemical compounds. But since he is a world famous organic chemist, his quirks--though legendary--leave him no whit less respected...
Fieser mixes business and pleasure in one big beaker. His wife, also an organic chemist, has a laboratory right next to his. She was a student in his first chemistry class at Bryn Mawr, where he taught after studying at Williams and Harvard. They have written six books together--a bulky Fieser and Fieser sooner or later adorns the bookshelf of every Harvard Chemistry major. The Fiesers are childless, but they own two Siamese cats. The elder cat was named "Syn K. Pooh," after Synthetic Vitamin K, which Fieser first synthesized; and the younger was named "J.G. Pooh" after Jellied...
Died. Henry Drysdale Dakin, 72. London-born research chemist whose specialization in military medicine led to his development (with Dr. Alexis Carrel) of Dakin's solution, a sodium hypochlorite wound antiseptic which saved hundreds of lives in World War I, won him the grateful thanks of France when he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; in Scarborough...
...research into glass fiber, although neither company invented it. The threadlike glass was made in London over 100 years ago; a jacket woven of coarse glass fibers was displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Owens-Illinois got commercially interested in glass fiber in 1931, when Chemist Games Slayter stumbled across a way to make fluffy glass fibers which could be used for insulation. In 1938 Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass formed Owens-Corning Fiberglas, split 95% of its stock between them and held 5% for purchase by the new company's top management. Boeschenstein...
...asked Bobst to take over. "The business was dominated by cosmetic cooks," Bobst recalls. "They built their products on the basis of sight, smell and feel. They had no regard for the needs of the skin and hair." Bobst changed all that by putting a top chemist in charge of Warner's cosmetics research...