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Friedrich Bergius, though he is one of Germany's most brilliant chemists, may some day be the most bitterly hated by that country's common people. He is a specialist in those technologies to which necessity is not only mother but sedulous nurse. Vivid in the German mind is a hateful memory of the Ersatz (substitute) foods consumed in great quantities during and after the War. If natural food again becomes scarce in Germany, Chemist Bergius will doubtless be in charge of producing Ersatz food for empty German stomachs. Lately he has worked out on a mass-production...
...industrial chemist, Friedrich Bergius was born in what is now the Polish Corridor, became assistant to Fritz Haber who won a Nobel Prize for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Bergius himself was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1931, now lives at Heidel- berg in close touch with its university...
Another figure spotlighted at the Pittsburgh meeting, which 3,000-odd chemists attended, was not a chemist at all but an old and frail man of high finance, diplomacy and government: Andrew William Mellon. Chemistry feels that it owes much to Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research which will soon move into a huge, classic building girt by tall pillars...
Fusel OiL During Prohibition most U. S. drinkers came to regard "fusel oil" as an ingredient of unsavory whiskey and a cause of bad hangovers. Alluding to this idea with some irony last week, Industrial Chemist W. B. D. Penniman of Baltimore stated that fusel oil is the collective name for six complex alcohols which are the most important factor in determining the flavor of good whiskey. Usually they are present in percentages of only a few tenths of 1%. When a customer sued an Irish distiller for damages to his health from drinking whiskey which, he claimed, contained...
...American Chemical Society is no less eager to publicize itself and its doings than is the American Medical Association. Early last week the Society's publicity department handed reporters a copy of a speech by a Jersey City manufacturing chemist named Herman Seydel in which that Doctor of Philosophy declared that a compound of benzoates of his devising was the long-sought single cure for arthritis (TIME, Sept. 14). The speech was released for immediate publication, though Chemist Seydel was not to deliver it before the Society, meeting in Pittsburgh, until four days later. So closely watched...