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Unlike many scientific developments, this invention by an M.I.T. chemist is more than an advance into the hinterlands of already explored territory-it is a landing on a strange and alien coast. The light-transforming action of this cell can be roughly compared to the synthesis of food within green plants, a process which scientists have not been able to duplicate, even crudely...
...Manhattan's Mager & Gougelman, oldest and largest U.S. glass-eye maker, scenting a shortage, had put U.S. glass companies to work analyzing the German glass. A chemist at Northwestern University finally cried Eureka, and last week Mager & Gougelman were making eyes from a domestic glass which they said was better than that old German stuff...
...transformation of the University's science departments into service schools calls for a corresponding acceleration in those departments, like mathematics, which are feeders for the sciences. No engineer, physicist, or chemist can proceed far without a basic mathematical training, for more than one bridge has fallen or radio gone dead because of weaknesses in its designer's calculus...
...years the Department of Agriculture's Tropical Station in Puerto Rico has experimented with home-grown smells. Its pretty chemist, black-eyed Noemi Garcia Arrilaga, specializes in extracting the .essence of the coffee flower. Some months ago, Senorita Arrilaga thought she had it. was further encouraged by local distributors who said it had a "pervading tropical fragrance with a come-hither accent." The distributors have yet to persuade U.S. perfume brewers, who fall into two general classes, 1) the topnotchers,. who claim there is no adequate substitute for their dwindling hoards of French, Bulgarian, Chinese and Tibetan essences...
Dean Donham praises President Conant's heavy concentration in chemistry as an undergraduate. As a result, President Conant passed his Ph.D. in two years. Agreed, this was excellent training for a professional chemist. But the reason that James B. Conant devoted several years to the study of poison gas rather than something more productive can be blamed on the many men throughout the world with the same idea as Dean Donham--the idea that it is not the duty of colleges to help men think their way through a difficult world by a process of mental development and broad acquaintanceship...