Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Established by the will of the late Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-96), Swedish chemist and engineer, in addition to similar prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Peace, without distinction of nationality (TiME, Nov. 30, 1925). Individual awards now total about $35,000 each, and are made annually, provided, 1) the candidates are deserving, and 2) the interest on the invested funds is adequate. The Literature winners include: Sully-Prudhomme (1901, first award made), Kipling (1907), Maeterlink, (1911), Hauptmann (1912), Tagore (1913), Rolland (1915), Anatole France (1921). Yeats (1923) Reymont (1924) and 6 Scandinavians...
...French National Research Co. announced, and careful U. S. oil men accepted it as a fact, that Chemist Audibert of Paris had succeeded in making synthetic petroleum, not as a laboratory curiosity, but by a process commercially practicable. This announcement was made and received as being far more important than other fuel-substitute discoveries lately made- coal dust in the U. S. and Germany, fagots in France (Time, Oct. 11). Submitting oxygen, hydrogen and coal to a pressure of 200 atmospheres, introducing a secret catalytic agent and filtering the result, M. Audibert had indubitably obtained a heavy viscous fluid which...
...oilmen were not, however, cast down by any vision of a great market lost to them suddenly of in the proximate future. Chemist Audibert's process had indeed been shown commercially practicable, but only for a nation with coal in sufficient abundance to permit the diversion of millions of tons annually from furnaces to carburetors. To supply France with synthetic gasoline by the Audibert process would require three or four million tons of coal per annum, All this would have to be imported as France has not enough coal as it is. In terms of coldest economy, the logical...
...Food. Shrimps, clams, oysters, and similar sea foods are beneficial against rickets, goitre and anemia, said Dr. D. Bresee Jones, chemist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture...
...described the personality and performances of Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) under whom he had worked at the College de France. Berthelot it was who first prepared "organic" compounds (containing the inevitable constituent of living matter, carbon) from their constituent elements: hydrogen, oxygen, carbon. It seemed then as if Chemist Berthelot had made life from dead matter though nowadays the things he made, benzene, alcohol, etc., are regarded more calmly. (Next year France will observe the centennial of Berthelot's birth in a "house of chemistry" now abuilding in Paris...