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...R.A.F. may soon be eating Arizona carrots in preference to all other carrots on earth. The British Ministry of Foods last week impatiently cabled to University of Arizona Nutrition Chemist Margaret Cammack Smith for more details on her discovery that "Arizona carrots contain three to ten times as much carotene as the average carrot*-a discovery, said the Ministry, "of extreme interest and value...
...Chemist Smith is now trying to find whether Arizona's winter growing season, soil or sunshine is responsible...
Died. Dr. Thomas Herbert Norton, 90, chemist who studied European chemical industries while he was U.S. consul at Chemnitz, Germany (1906-14), returned home to compile the famed "Dyestuff Census," on which the beginnings of the domestic dye industry were founded during World War I when German dyestuffs were unavailable; in White Plains...
...requirements are not expected to hit many students, except those who are fanatics in their field. The chemist who spends four years in Mallinckrodt, never penetrating the recesses of Emerson, will be wiped out. Harvard men will continue to learn a little bit of everything, and so spread the gospel of liberal education after graduation...
...English scientist, Fox Talbot, had finally managed to evolve a transparent negative, a flimsy sheet of waxed paper from which, for the first time, prints could be reproduced. Talbot called his new kind of photograph the calotype. Taking Talbot's idea, Hill got technical assistance from a young chemist named Robert Adamson, set up a photographic studio in the heart of Edinburgh...