Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Notably Eslanda Goode Robeson, wife of Paul Robeson, lawyer, actor, spirituals-singer. She is a Spanish Negress who, after being graduated from Columbia, was an assistant pathological chemist at Presbyterian. She surrendered her profession to marry Paul Robeson...
Matchmaking. Chemist John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees, England, invented the first match, exactly 101 years ago. It was called a "friction light." It consisted of a wooden splint, one quarter inch in width, dipped in a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash, gum and starch.* The next epoch in matchmaking was brought about by the use of phosphorus. Over-inflammable, phosphorus matches caused many a fire. Factory hands, employed in their production succumbed to an incurable disease called phossy-jaw. The dangers of these matches at length were recognized in the laws of most nations, including matchmaking...
...years ago Dr. Alois Fischer, Viennese chemist, made an alloy of radium and platinum. He sent it to Madame Marie Curie at Paris. She gave it to the Curie Radium Institute for experiment...
Chemistry's Value. Samuel Wilson Parr, 71, preceptor of the group of brilliant chemists and physicists at the University of Illinois, and president of the chemistry society, opened the meeting with the survey usual at such affairs: "Output of chemical products in this country have advanced in 50 years from an insignificant sum to more than $2,000,000,000 annually at present. . . . This is a chemical age, and we live, move and have our physical being as a result of chemical processes. Whether we travel on foot in chrome-tanned shoes and rayon stockings or roll to work...
...From coking, a ton of coal gives 12 gals, of gummy coal tar. From coal tar, chemists have fractioned off more than 300 intermediates (esters, ethers, alcohols, etc.), from these intermediates about 200,000 coal tar products (dyes, perfumes, flavors, medicines, resins). William Perkin, London chemist, made the first coal tar dye (Perkin violet) in 1856, by accident...