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...Zerbe is especially well-fitted to give a course of this kind, having been trained as a chemist before he took up the study of painting. He studied at Munich, and was a member of the famous "group of seven" in that city before coming to the United States two years...
Although it is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust, aluminum was not isolated until a Dane named Oersted did so in 1825, by heating the chloride with potassium. Napoleon Ill's chemist, Deville, substituted sodium for potassium, got the price of aluminum down to $34, then...
...Howerth, brilliant young research chemist, neither knew nor cared who hired him, who fitted out an expensive laboratory for him and then left him to his own devices. He thought it was queer, but because he was hot on the trail of a great discovery he soon forgot to wonder. What Howerth thought he was after, and then thought he had, was the creation of organic life from inorganic matter. When his invention turned out to be a deadly virus that killed his only friend, he was horrified. But Nicholas Holtz was pleased, chalked up another long shot turned asset...
Slick-haired young Dr. Aristid von Grosse, research chemist of Chicago's Universal Oil Products Co., created a stir at a chemistry convention summer before last by exhibiting a speck, weighing one-tenth of a gram, of pure protoactinium which he had isolated. It was the first of the 92 elements to be isolated in the U. S. and this crumb constituted the world supply. Last week Dr. von Grosse created another stir by revealing that the world supply of protoactinium had unfortunately disappeared...
Interested in the possible value of the element for cancer therapy. Chemist von Grosse took a photomicrograph of his precious mite by the light of its own rays. The pictures showed something like a glowing shoe-button. Then he turned the stuff over to Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry to be placed on exhibition. The museum furnished visitors with a magnifying glass by which to inspect the speck, too small to be seen with the naked...