Word: chemistic
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Very few university presidents are as active in as many areas as is President Conant. He was an outstanding organic chemist, became a respected leader in education and has recently asserted himself as an interpreter of the development of science. With the publication of his Bampton lectures given at Columbia last Spring, Conant emerges as a sociologist and philosopher of science...
...Life is not a miracle," says Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey. "It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth...
...other proof is being sought by studying Titan (one of the satellites of Saturn), which is somewhat bigger than the moon. Titan is too cold for life as the earth knows it, but it has an atmosphere containing much methane. Chemist Urey hopes to find that sunlight is slowly making organic compounds out of this simple gas. If Titan were warmer and bigger the process might already have clothed it with oxygen-and life...
Died. Chaim Weizmann, 77, Russian-born son of a village timber merchant who became a world-famous chemist, leader of world Zionism and first President of modern Israel; in Rehovoth, Israel (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory's donor gained another honor this week. Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. '00, former overseer and famed chemist, won the 1952 Midwest Award of the American Chemical Society for "meritorious contributions to the advancement of chemistry and chemical education...