Word: chemist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...1760s, Sir Hugh Smithson, Duke of Northumberland, took up with Elizabeth Keate Macie, reputed descendant of Henry VII. One result: a son, James Smithson, who became a leading chemist, but because of the bar sinister never a duke. Wrote he: "On my father's side I am a Northumberland, on my mother's I am related to kings, but this avails me not. My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct and forgotten...
More oil was poured on a still choppy sea by Brazil's Navy Captain Alvaro Alberto da Motta Silva, who took over the Commission's rotating chairmanship. The Captain-a chemist and a physicist, whose naval duties have left him a lot of time for reading-documented the world's urge for peace by citing a long list of immortals: Descartes ("I think, therefore I am"), Virgil (to whom the Captain erroneously ascribed Horace's phrase on war, "matribus detestata"), Thomas Jefferson ("Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"), Abraham Lincoln ("We cannot escape history"), Epicurus...
...inventor, Cambridge Chemist Harry Hurst, 34, claimed that he had got rid of the defects in DDT (see below). DDT is 1) slow, and 2) deadly to good as well as bad insects. Dr. Hurst said that some of his mixtures seem to be highly selective, attacking pests but leaving useful insects unharmed. He had also found Activated DDT lethal to some bothersome insects, notably cockroaches, which are not bothered much by DDT alone...
Pfizer brought the price of penicillin down from $20 per 100,000 units to less than $1. This chemical miracle was primarily the work of John L. Smith, the practical-minded chemist who now runs the Pfizer Co. Smith, a shy man with an intense dislike of publicity, was born in Germany, came to the U.S. at the age of three. He learned some chemistry in school, was further helped by his father, who had taken a correspondence course in it. Later, Smith attended Cooper Union, but left before getting his degree to go to work as a laboratory assistant...
...White Orchid, Winged Victory), and found time to get married to Tom J. Lewis (for 15 years) and to Russian Prince Michael Evlanoff (for 13 months). She is unmarried now. She has her own ideas of perfection, and demands it of her employes, even if a chemist has to spend days remaking a color until Arden herself thinks it is "paradise pink." Her competitors say: "Work for Elizabeth Arden and live in a revolving door...