Word: chemistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the presidency of Theologian Timothy Dwight, Chemist Benjamin Silliman, father of scientific teaching in the U.S , set up his pioneer laboratory, out of which grew the autonomous Sheffield Scientific School. Gradually, Yale began to accumulate some of its brightest ornaments. There were Physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, who formulated the laws that form the basis for modern thermodynamics, Elias Loomis, who helped devise the modern weather map, Geologist James Dwight Dana, Sociologist William Graham Sumner...
...accordance with these beliefs, he has set up a $1,000,000 fellowship program to give young scholars in the humanities a chance they rarely get today. For the university, he has picked his appointments well (among them: Novelist Robert Penn Warren, Chemist John G. Kirkwood, Political Scientist James W. Fesler). He has even reached down to the secondary schools, which he regards as the weakest link in the educational chain. His M.A. for teachers is an attempt to give schoolmen courses-not just in pedagogy, of which they often have too much, but also in the stuff and substance...
...from the University of Buffalo; Allen Mandelbaum of New York City, a history and English scholar, who received his A.B. from Yeshiva University in 1945 and his A.M. from Columbia in 1946; and Richard P. Smith of Garland, Utah, a chemist, who received his A.B. from the University of Utah...
...Chemist Duisberg had begun his own experiments with the creosote bush (Larrea divaricata), an acrid, sticky evergreen that thrives in millions of acres of drought-stricken wasteland. Last winter, using a distilling apparatus made from junkheap parts, Duisberg showed how to turn the hardy bush into a palatable stock feed.* With one byproduct already available to increase the margin of profit (nordihydroguaiaretic acid, a fat preservative that brings $35 a lb.), he managed to develop another: a quick-drying varnish that is almost certain to be salable. Other promising plants on Duisberg's list...
Duisberg's catalogue includes dozens of other products of desert plants-liquid wax, carbon paper, steroids, burlap, even fire sticks for Boy Scouts. But New Mexico A. & M. has decided that Duisberg's work, despite possible future rewards, is "too fundamental," and is dropping the project. Chemist Duisberg, however, is not worried about having to shut up shop. With an eye to the thirsty future, half a dozen other colleges are.already clamoring for his services...