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...Irving Langmuir (1932), General Electric chemist, dour, hard-working student of high vacuums and surface tensions, largely responsible for modern electric lights...
...Karl Landsteiner (1930), Vienna-born, since 1922 brilliant physiological chemist at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in Manhattan, discoverer of human blood groups, which made blood transfusion practical...
...fairly short space of time you can, if need be, turn a chemist into a fighting man; but you cannot turn a fighting man into a chemist...
...September 1932 he was ready to tackle his first job-helping to build Siberian Magnitogorsk into a Russian Pittsburgh. He worked three years as a welder, then two years more as a chemist in a coke and chemical by-products plant. He became completely at home among the Russians and married a Russian girl-a teacher of mathematics. Russian is still the language usually spoken in his home in New York-but Mrs. Scott can speak English now and she is mighty glad to be on this side of the Atlantic...
...friend. First of the Quisling Cabinet to get a uniform, he copied his so closely from Goebbels' that in photographs it was hard to tell Lunde from Goebbels. Norwegians nicknamed Lunde "lille Goebbels," and knew him as a vain, ambitious, foolish man who had been an outstanding research chemist when he joined the Quisling Party...