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...Chemists of note have testified to Jorge's extraordinary chemical knowledge. One was Dr. Horacio Damianovich, founder of Santa Fé's School of Chemistry, who last week busied himself taking up a private collection for the boy. The chief chemist of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s Argentine branch examined Jorge, found he has the chemical background of a college sophomore. A charming, volatile lad, Jorge can rattle off the laws of Faraday, Gay-Lussac, Pascal, Torricelli faster than most scholars twice his age can follow. Last week Santa Fé's Parliament...
...TIME, March 31 under "Science," British Author-Chemist E. C. Large gives as his reason for Free Trade and the Empire's Golden Age-Ireland's potato famine...
...chemical analysis, often a tedious process, can be greatly speeded and simplified by a new method developed in Europe was described by Czech Refugee Alois Langer. Every element and compound conducts electricity through a solution at a distinctive voltage. To find the amount of copper in a solution, the chemist tunes in an electric meter to the known voltage of copper, measures the proportionate amount of current passing through the solution. Complex organic molecules like vitamins and hormones can also be detected and measured...
...English landlord. Between 1845 and 1860, in the greatest disaster since the Napoleonic Wars, 1,000,000 Irish died directly because of potato fungus, and 1,500,000 emigrated. English industrialists used the Irish famine as a pretext to repeal the Corn Laws (which limited food imports). This, says Chemist Large, was "perhaps the most significant single event in the history of the British Empire." Reason: it inaugurated Free Trade and the Empire's Golden Age. Groused the Duke of Wellington: "Rotten potatoes have done...
...Chemist Aristid V. Grosse, to work in Columbia University's physics laboratory on secret processes for using U-235 (uranium isostope) as a source of power...