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Rochow, an international authority on silicon compounds, is now a research chemist with General Electric, where he has been working chiefly on projects in organic chemistry...
Chemical Change. At E. I. du Pont de Nemours, the president customarily resigns by the time he's 60. Last week, when Walter S. Carpenter Jr. turned the mark, he stepped aside for Crawford H. Greenewalt, 45, a chemist who had joined Du Pont in 1922, later married the daughter of Irénée du Pont. Carpenter became chairman of the board, succeeding 67-year-old Lammot du Pont, who remains a director...
Life Chemicals. Sir Robert, 61, an ardent mountain climber and chess player, since 1945 president of Britain's ancient & honorable Royal Society, is an organic chemist whose forte is exploring the intricate compounds found in living organisms. He synthesized the delicate substances which color fruits and flowers. He put together artificial sex hormones more powerful than the natural ones. At present he and his chemist-wife Gertrude Maud, whom he met in a laboratory, are working on the production of synthetic penicillin. Organic chemists admire Sir Robert as a master of laboratory strategy. Biochemists honor him for pioneering...
...Other animals have died out in the past," observed Nobel Chemist Harold C. Urey, musing brutally aloud on the meaning of atomic warfare. "I do not see why we should be any exception, and perhaps now is the time...
While he was still a research chemist he met Isobel Swithinbank, whose grandfather introduced Eno's Fruit Salt to a more or less grateful nation. One day she came into his father's office, where Stafford was helping get out campaign literature, and asked if she could help electioneer. Since then, she has seldom left Cripps's side. Tall, blue-eyed, with fluffy, grey hair, Lady Cripps's vivacity helps melt his icy public front. In a recent interview with a reporter, Cripps was stiffly formal. To almost every question he objected: "Well, you really...