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...light at Princeton reached Pasadena, hearts burned among the staff of California Institute of Technology. Caltech was built to be the greatest lamp of Science in the U. S. Lumber, oil and electricity provided the fuel. Biggest wicks are Robert Andrews Millikan (Nobel Laureate, physicist), Arthur Amos Noyes (chemist). Thomas Hunt Morgan (geneticist). Astronomer George Ellery Hale gleams on Mount Wilson nearby. The late Albert Abraham Michelson (Nobel Laureate, physicist) used to measure light's speed a few miles to the south. Other brilliant scientists frequent Caltech for work & consultation, among them Albert Einstein. Last week Caltech made sure...
Hercules Powder Co. wanted to know why, why, WHY Dr. Henricus Johannes Stander refused to remain as chemist. At 28 he was one of the best colloid chemists in the U. S. Was it money? No! Why, then? Because, blurted Dr. Stander, a Yale medical graduate, son of a South African country doctor: "Because I'm going to be the damnedest best obstetrician in this country." A Manhattan event last week marked him as superlatively good, if not the best. The vast new medical centre of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College Association opened for patients...
Model Molecules. General Motors' Charles Franklin Kettering and L. W. Shutts had great fun constructing a model of what Professor Donald Hatch Andrews (Johns Hopkins chemist,G.M. consultant) told them a molecule of water must look like. They took two steel balls of equal weight to represent hydrogen atoms. For the oxygen atom they took a third steel ball weighing 16 times as much as each ''hydrogen atom." They also built spiral springs whose tension in relation to the weight of the three balls resembled the electrical forces which hold a molecule of water together. They joined...
...went the American Chemical Society's senior kudos, the Priestley Medal. He has been the Society's secretary for 25 years, its business manager since last year. His work in pure chemistry flowered 30 years ago when he was busily exposing the properties of beryllium. As chief chemist of the Bureau of Mines he was a leader in the chemical prosecution of the War. Since 1919 he has practiced in Washington as a consultant chemist...
...proletarian by birth is Soviet Director Coates. He was born in St. Petersburg, son of a Russianized British capitalist (woolen mills) and a half-Russian Englishwoman. He grew up in Russia, studied under Rimsky-Korsakov. Vaguely intending to become an electrical chemist, he studied in England under Sir Oliver Lodge. At 18 he returned to music. In 1914, aged 32, he became senior conductor at the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg, stayed there until the Revolution. He did not settle again in Russia until last year. When Conductor Coates arrived in Manhattan last month he seemed thoroughly Russianized, voluble...