Word: chemisters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these various industries hundreds of trained chemists are employed. Usually upon entering industrial work, the chemist begins as an analyst. Given a concern of sufficient size, and an enterprising and efficient chemist, this position may develop into a more responsible and better paid one of research chemist or as manager or superintendent. Past experience has shown that the best training for a technical chemist begins with a broad and thorough training in the principles of inorganic, theoretical, and analytical chemistry. It is of great advantage to understand as well the principles of industrial chemistry and of mechanical engineering, but special...
Although chemistry as a profession has long held a position of high standing, its importance has in recent years been very materially increased through the rapid development of industrial chemistry, and through the growing realization that the services of a chemist can be put to good use in a large proportion of industrial processes whether primarily chemical or not. While manufacturing chemistry in America is still behind that of Germany in most respects, yet the present rate of growth of purely chemical industries in America promises well for the future. In particular the cheap production of electrical energy at Niagara...
Furthermore, manufacturing industries of all kinds have in general found that they can use to great advantage the services of a trained chemist, not only for the examination of raw materials, including fuel, oil, water, etc., and finished products, but also in the control of the economical operation of the plants. The "efficiency chemist" has become a close rival of the "efficiency engineer" in value...
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...
...rooms for, the assistant in charge of the building. The balance rooms throughout the Laboratory are protected from the outside walls by passageways, which make them highly efficient in preserving delicate scales from weather disturbances. A memorial tablet and bust of Professor Wolcott Gibbs, the former chief chemist of the Lawrence Scientific School, in whose honor the building was named have been placed on the left wall of the entrance hallway...