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...industries .... Chemistry catalyzes Commerce"-those were the slogans in the American Chemical Society's salon. The keynote of the show was: how Science accelerates reactions in the business world, like a catalytic agent, without itself changing character. Purely, austerely scientific are the training and practice of a modern chemist. Of enormous commercial value, and hence of social significance, are his works where he is employed, he and a thousand brother experimenters, by interests like Du Pont, Ford, Eastman, Bell and the U. S. Government...
Unlike LaFollette, Mr. Ladd's political career had been brief. He was a chemist by profession, a son of Maine, educated at the University of Maine. He served for a time as Assistant, then Chief, Chemist of the New York State Experiment Station. Later, he went West and joined the faculty of the North Dakota Agricultural College as Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the School of Chemistry and Pharmacy...
...smelting and assaying which was a masterpiece of detail; he guided Sweden in its currency policy, dealt with the balance of trade and the liquor laws, ancestored all Scandinavian geologists, arrived at the nebular hypothesis to explain the formation of planets long before Kant and LaPlace, was an original chemist, sketched a flying machine...
...Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeléeff, Russian chemist, arranged all the elements in groups that show the mathematical progression of their atomic weights, predicted the existence of undiscovered elements which subsequent research found. Similarly, there was a square in the chemical crossword puzzle for radium, the properties of which were known before Madame Curie obtained that metal in a free state...
Theodore William Richards, Harvard '86, "foremost chemist in the U. S. university world," Nobel Laureate (1914), Davy medalist (1910), Faraday medalist (1911), Franklin, Gibbs and LeBlanc medalist, is still active at Harvard. Hammond Lamont was a classmate of Richards, himself distinguished in scholarship and undergraduate journalism...