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...fuel factory (if coal or oil were used, the amount consumed would certainly have to be less than the amount manufactured). He did say that, with natural coal and oil still plentiful and prices low, the cost would be too high to undertake commercially now. But he believes the chemist's job is to be ready for future shortages...
Wearing a Willkie button in his lapel, Christian A. Herter '15, Republican Speaker of the House in the Massachusetts General Court, used his own career as an illustration of the "life and times of a Harvard man." Chemist, diplomat, teacher, miner, and politician, Herter advised less dogmatism and more open-minded readiness to benefit by opportunities...
Hans Zinsser was born in New York City of German parents from the Rhineland. His father was a prospering chemist. The young man went to Columbia, decided to be a writer, switched to biology, then to medicine. When he saw that most of his patients were scared by his fanatical thoroughness, he turned to research and teaching. During World War I he went to Serbia to fight the typhus which ravaged that country after the Austrian invasion, later served with the U. S. Army in France in the Medical Corps. For the past 17 years he was professor of bacteriology...
...Shuksan outing last week went three competent climbers: H. Karl Boyer, 28, of Seattle, who fought in the Spanish Civil War; Anne Cedarquist, 22, a chemist who once climbed California's hazardous Lassen Peak; Faye Plank, 37, a Bremerton librarian. Miss Cedarquist had climbed Rainier twice this year, Boyer once. They expected to be up to Shuksan's peak and safely down by nightfall...
Nieuwland & Neoprene. In 1900 the late Julius Arthur Nieuwland, Belgian-born chemist, Catholic priest and longtime teacher at the University of Notre Dame, made a poisonous black tar by treating acetylene with metallic chlorides.-At a scientific meeting in 1925 Nieuwland described one of his experiments producing acetylene rubber. A Du Pont chemist heard him, started his company on the trail. With Nieuwland's collaboration Du Pont workers made a good rubbery material first called DuPrene, now neoprene, which is highly resistant to oil. Its dozens of uses include hose linings, gaskets, conveyor belts, rubber gloves, printing plates, refrigerator...