Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacDonald, surgeon and physiological experimenter, of St. Catherine's, Ontario, before the Toronto Academy of Medicine. For seven months Dr. McDonald has neglected his practice to work in the laboratories of Toronto University under the guidance of Dr. J. J. R. Macleod, skilled inspirer of students, keen biological chemist, co-discoverer with Dr. F. G. Banting of insulin, hope of diabetics (TIME...
...University of Kentucky employs a plumber. That plumber is also a chemist. He has been doing research work at the University in mining and metallurgy. He is 32-year-old Harry McClane. Last week he announced the discovery of an alloy. He claims for it that it is only slightly heavier than aluminum, much lighter than brass or iron, that it will withstand a pressure of more than 50 tons to the square inch, that it does not corrode, that earth acids do not affect it, that it takes a polish like silver, and that it can be manufactured...
...industries .... Chemistry catalyzes Commerce"-those were the slogans in the American Chemical Society's salon. The keynote of the show was: how Science accelerates reactions in the business world, like a catalytic agent, without itself changing character. Purely, austerely scientific are the training and practice of a modern chemist. Of enormous commercial value, and hence of social significance, are his works where he is employed, he and a thousand brother experimenters, by interests like Du Pont, Ford, Eastman, Bell and the U. S. Government...
...combustion engine. Into the cylinder was put a mixture of various kinds of carbonaceous dust-grain, sugar, cocoa, wood, even ground spices and cornstarch. When mixed with air and an electric spark administered, the dust exploded. Perhaps it was a new clue to the solution of the fuel problem. Chemist W. A. Noel of the Department had hit upon it when the carriage of his model grain elevator was blown to the top of its shaft like a motor piston and wrecked, by the spontaneous combustion of dust accumulated in the shaft. His major problem now is elimination...
Theodore William Richards, Harvard '86, "foremost chemist in the U. S. university world," Nobel Laureate (1914), Davy medalist (1910), Faraday medalist (1911), Franklin, Gibbs and LeBlanc medalist, is still active at Harvard. Hammond Lamont was a classmate of Richards, himself distinguished in scholarship and undergraduate journalism...