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...Since no chemist can truly say that he has seen a molecule under the microscope, laymen may be mystified to hear scientific talk of "giant molecules." But molecules, infinitesimally tiny as they are by ordinary standards, vary greatly in size. Molecular weight of ethyl alcohol, for example, is 46 units; * of sodium chloride (salt), 58.5; of the hormone secretin, 5,000; of hemoglobin, about 68,000; of the thyroid substance thyroglobulin, about 700,000. Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley and his associates at the Rockefeller Institute have crystallized the virus which causes mosaic disease in tobacco, found that it weighs...
...dock day after day were four men who, according to the Crown, had been caught red-handed by Miss X. All were once-trusted employes at Woolwich, the chief British arsenal: Albert Williams, armament examiner; George Whomack, assistant foreman of the gun section; C. W. Munday, assistant chemist; and P. E. Glading, only a minor employe at Woolwich, but featured as an important Communist...
...fled to Nazi Germany. In 1934 a Congressional Committee investigated the Friends of New Germany, found it "for ail practical purposes the American section of the Nazi party." The Friends changed this name to Amerikadeutscher Volksbund in 1936, resumed functioning under the leadership of a sleek, pompous, garrulous ex-chemist named Fritz Kuhn whose offices in Manhattan are decorated by portraits of Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler...
Bessie married a chemist named Michael Berliney, but in professional connections preferred to be known as "Mrs. Pastor." The couple moved to Perth Amboy, N. J., where "Mike" had a laboratory. With skilled, indefatigable hands Mrs. Pastor kept house for her husband, spent her spare time in his workshop, composing synthetic waxes, lotions and soaps. Today she has taken out 18 patents, has sold some of them to cosmetic and soap makers. Not to be outdone, Mike has taken out 174 patents...
...bestowing the degree Baxter read the following citation: "A chemist who sought to unlock the secret of plant growth; now the leader of a more difficult and more important quest; how to advance scholarship and maintain liberty in 20th century America...