Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation of New York gave $500,000 to the American Chemical Society to found a prize of an annual value of $25,000, to be awarded to the American chemist of either sex who, in a period to be determined, makes the most outstanding contribution to the science of chemistry. This is one of the largest prizes in existence, being outranked only by the Nobel prizes of about $40,000, awarded annually, and the Bok peace prize of $100,000, to be awarded but once. A committee of leading chemists will administer it, including Drs. Edgar...
Israel Zangwill, Englishman of letters: "The Jewish Tribune printed a list of the twelve outstanding Jews of the world, as chosen by vote of its readers. Albert Einstein, German physicist, was considered relatively the most outstanding. Chaim Weizmann, mann, English chemist, perfector of TNT, head of the Zionist movement, was second. I was third...
...Paris a chemist went insane, smashed his laboratory, hurled into the street test tubes filled with billions of deadly microbes.* At Bayonne, France, during a bull fight a bovine tossed his head, knocked a sword out of a matador's hand and into the grandstand, where it pierced the heart of a wealthy Cu ban spectator, who died. Near Philadelphia the Baldwin Locomotive Works established a world's record by turning out locomotives† at the rate of one per hour for 31 consecutive hours...
...Kahn gives credit to Dr. H. U. Nolan, an English industrial chemist, for the suggestion of the process of manufacture, though its medical application was worked out by himself and Dr. McKee. Dr. Kahn is 36 years old, a graduate of Cornell Medical School, and has spent four years in constant research on problems of metabolism. Physicians and chemists who are in a position to judge have accepted the scientific foundation of intarvin as sound, and there is reason to believe that it will soon take its place beside insulin as an approved treatment, though neither can yet be called...