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...British chemist named Greville Williams broke down natural rubber by distillation, obtained a hydrocarbon compound called isoprene. In 1882 William Tilden, also of Britain, made isoprene by .racking turpentine vapor in a red-hot tube...
...cans paved the way to France for the A. E. F. The job was done so well that U. S. soldiers gained in weight an average 12 lb. a man. These and many more facts are pointed out in Chemistry in Warfare, to be published this month by Research Chemist Frederick A. Hessel, Mary S. Hinrichs Hessel and Wellford Martin...
...slip's message: aging (70), sentimental Pierre Samuel du Pont, who was seated at the head of the long, oval, mahogany table, had resigned as chairman of the board. Granddaddy of the Du Pont clan, he had been with the company for almost 50 years, starting as a chemist, moving from the presidency to the chairmanship in 1919. He was ready to retire to his enormous hothouses at Longwood Gardens, where he plucks orchids and figs, to sit in the evening on his broad plaza and watch his $500,000 fountain swish and spurt in beams of many-colored...
...Congress was ready to award him $100,000, but Chemist Jackson stormed Washington, violently denounced Morton as a fraud, claimed that he had given Morton the tip on the powers of ether. Up popped Dr. Long with a sheaf of documents to prove that he was first. Confronted by conflicting claims, Congress did nothing. Morton died a pauper in 1868. Jackson went mad, died in an asylum several years later. During the Civil War, Long buried his documents in the woods. Later he dug them up and stored them in the garret. He died an embittered...
...earlier of the 950-odd arsenic compounds invented by Paul Ehrlich. While the drug gently seeped into the patient's veins (two drops every three seconds), young Dr. William Leifer explained to the visitors one of the most remarkable advances in the treatment of syphilis since Chemist Ehrlich discovered arsphenamine...