Word: chemistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brandywine's Banks. Eleuthèree Irénée du Pont de Nemours was a young Frenchman* who had studied gunpowder-making under France's great chemist Lavoisier, had become inspector general of commerce under King Louis XVI. When revolutionary mobs stormed the Tuileries in 1791, Irénée and Papa Pierre led 60 volunteers who defended the King until only they and six others were left alive. They escaped, later sailed to the U.S. There, young Irénée, amazed at the high price and low quality of gunpowder, raised...
...thinks he is? Greenewalt." Greenewalt went off to M.I.T. with no clear notion of what he wanted to be, settled on chemical engineering, but was better known for his eye for pretty girls than for his scholarship. With a B.S. from M.I.T. Greenewalt got a $120-a-month chemist's job at Du Pont, but was still aimless about his future. While watching vats on a graveyard shift at the old Wilmington research lab, he passed the time by practicing the clarinet, spent his off hours courting Margaretta du Pont (Irénée's daughter...
...household expenses." Thus prosaic Mrs. Greenglass added her testimony to the story of a far-flung Russian espionage ring whose purpose was to steal U.S. atomic secrets (TIME, March 19). She admitted that she had recruited her husband into the conspiracy which included British Physicist Klaus Fuchs, Philadelphia Chemist Harry Gold, and Spymaster Anatoli Yakovlev, Russian vice consul in New York...
...Julius Rosenberg, 33, drummed on the counsel table; his wife, Mrs. Ethel Green-glass Rosenberg, indicted with them as a fellow conspirator, was the calmest. These three, the Government charged, were part of the spy transmission belt for which Physicist Klaus Fuchs (see SCIENCE) was a prime source and Chemist Harry Gold a key courier. The Russian contact for the ring was Anatoli Yakovlev, who was wartime Soviet vice consul in New York. "The evidence of the treasonable acts of each of these three defendants is overwhelming," U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol told the jury...
...Moon Face. The man who sits in the president's chair and runs all this started out to be a chemist. Later George Stoddard switched to psychology, went to the University of Paris in 1921 and got fascinated by the work of the famous Alfred Binet (intelligence tests). It was as a tester and child psychologist, at the University of Iowa, that Stoddard made his first reputation. In 1942 he switched again, to administration. Before Illinois summoned him to the $20,000-a-year president's job, he was a dean at Iowa and, for four wartime years...