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...prominence given in the daily press to the recent discoveries of a government chemist accentuate the importance of chemistry in the industrial field. Processes have been discovered which are said to revolutionize the manufacture of gasoline, and to render the United States independent of Germany in the preparation of important dye-stuffs. This illustrates strikingly the now well confirmed fact that on scientific investigation, especially in chemistry, will depend our comparative advantage in manufacture and agriculture...
...March 27, 1832, the son of Dr. David Humphreys Storer, M.D. 1825, and Abby Jane (Brewer) Storer. He was one of the early students at the Lawrence Scientific School, 1850-51. Next, for two years he was assistant in chemistry to Professor J. P. Cooke. He then served as chemist for the United States North Pacific exploration expedition, and after that service went abroad to continue advanced studies and research 1855-57. He received the degree of Bachelor of Science from Harvard in 1855 (honorary Master of Arts in 1870). After his return from abroad Professor Storer practiced his profession...
National Bureaus such as the Bureau of Standards, the Bureau of Soils and the Bureau of Chemistry and the Geological Survey, State Agricultural Stations, and State and Municipal Boards of Health, also require the services of a large number of chemists. Minor positions in the laboratories of such bureaus involve analytical work, frequently of foodstuffs, but sometimes of minerals, fuels, building materials, etc. The oversight of such laboratories requires, however, the breadth of view and experience of a highly trained chemist, since much of the work consists of the investigation of chemical problems...
With a steadily increasing demand for technical and analytical chemists, the necessity for providing adequate instruction in chemistry and allied subjects becomes increasingly important. Teachers of chemistry find a wide field of usefulness both in secondary schools and in colleges and universities. The responsibility of starting the embryo chemist on the right track is no less than that of putting the finishing touches upon an extended professional training; that is, the high school teacher and the college professor find almost unlimited opportunities to further the advance of both science and industry...
...enumerating the various fields of usefulness open to a chemist, one should not fail to mention the possibilities of scientific research. While in many cases the results of this work are of purely scientific or abstract interest, they are indispensable for the development of the science as a whole, and the facts and generalizations discovered in this way may have a very important bearing upon practical affairs. In this connection the recent development of biological chemistry should be mentioned, a subject which in time will surely have a strong influence on the practice of medicine. Innumerable scientific and technical problems...