Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of two separate investigations, one conducted by Mr. W. L. Wedger, chemist for the state police, and the other by college officials in charge of Dean H. J. Hughes '94 of the Engineering School, it is believed that the explesion in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory last Friday afternoon was caused by the presence of oil in the oxygen tanks which were being filled at the time...
...prehistoric Indians of the central Mississippi Valley had forestalled the modern chemist in making and using evaporating pans and precipitating jars which they employed in the manufacture of salt. These utensils were of pottery. The shallow pans were two to four feet in diameter. The precipitating jars were about two feet high and four inches across at the top, tapering to a point; at the bottom. These jars were furnished with covers, to protect the contents. The brine was collected from saline springs, placed in the jars, and allowed to stand until sediment had formed. The clear brine was then...
...likely as not some chemist a few million years, hence, desiring post-humous flame, will loose Destruction from Pandora's box and cheat humanity out of the promised other nine billion years to come...
...return Labrador has given them what I consider an invaluable gift--the gift a laboratory gives a chemist, or a good clinic gives a doctor. It has afforded a test field for the use of the talents of body, mind, and soul, for which their long and expensive education has been undertaken a fine opportunity of a field that, by its isolation and crude conditions, shows them the immense value to the world of being able to do things that contribute to life. Many have told me that in conventional civilization they had not seen the personal challenge of life...
Professor L. J. Henderson '98, the biological chemist who served last year as exchange professor to France, has returned and will resume his old courses. These include "History of the Physical and Biological Sciences", "General Biological Chemistry", and "Experimental Biological Chemistry." Mr. B. F. Dodge is giving the course on Chemical Engineering...