Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Synthetic rubber, long a goal of the "creative chemists," was successfully produced by Duisberg, the German chemist, and Perkin, the Englishman, some years ago. But the processes were not commercially practicable. Now Plotnikoff, also from Germany, has found a feasible formula. A uranium salt, used in conjunction with sunlight, produces an effect similar to, but much cheaper than, ultraviolet rays. The action of these rays on vinyl chloride made from acetylene, results in caoutchoue chloride, which can easily be converted into rubber. The American Association for the Advancement of Science, foreseeing the immense importance of knowing how to utilize...
That cancer is caused by a disturbed electro-chemical balance in the cells of the human body is the theory presented by Donald C. A. Butts, physiological chemist of the Pennsylvania State Department of Health, supported by experimental evidence from rats, and harmonizing with what is known of treatments having a beneficial effect on cancer...
...Howes, Christine Ladd-Franklin or Helen B. Woolley, psychologists; Florence Bascom, geologist; Alice C. Fletcher (who died last month) or Elsie Clews Parsons, anthropologists; Cornelia Clapp, Katharine Foot or Mary J. Rathbun, zoologists; Lydia DeWitt or Louise Pearce, pathologists; Anna Johnson Pell or Charlotte Scott, mathematicians; Mary E. Pennington, chemist; Ellen Churchill Semple, geographer; S. Josephine Baker or Daisy Robinson, sanitarians, and several others. All of these women have national or international scientific reputations...
Harold West, as Charlie Bunting, makes the most of a very difficult part. In this, his second appearance with the Copley Players, he impersonates a "red-blooded idealist" with a remarkable success, combining all the gifts of a modern chemist with those of a William Jennings Bryan. He is an orator par excellence, but he goes back to his chemical experiments at the end, as by far the less dangerous of the two. And he gets a wife into the bargain...
...eternal fire of the ancient fireworshippers of the Caspian Sea was nothing but the burning gases of petroleum, according to Carl 0. Johns, research chemist of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, who revealed many milestones in the development of petroleum since prehistoric times. " Fundamental research in the chemical composition of crude oils is the crying need of the industry today," said...