Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unique was the electioneering of Candidate Georges Claude, a well known chemist. He ignored politics completely, and lectured to his constituents in crisp, entertaining style on scientific subjects. Intrigued, the ballot-casters gave him a thumping majority...
Reeling Atoms. Probably the most notable paper at this "most notable symposium" was the report of Professor William Draper Harkins, University of Chicago chemist. Fourteen years ago C. T. R. Wilson discovered that atoms shot at high speed through a gas, may be made to leave visible trails. Since then Professor Harkins has been trailing helium atoms. He has been busily exploding chunks of "thorium C" and other radioactive substances which shoot off atoms at the mad speed of 12,000 miles per second...
Hours in a dentist's chair are in themselves unpleasant, but they bring a sense of security, of satisfaction that time could not be better spent. Now comes the word from Germany that these visits are the causes of new misery. Some time ago, Professor Stock, famed Berlin chemist, published an article on the dangers of using amalgam* for fillings. One Professor His then decided to study the problem in his medical clinic. He took a group of workmen who had contact with mercury in their daily occupation, a group of patients whose only contact with mercury...
Died. Theodore William Richards, 60, famed chemist, winner of the Nobel chemistry prize in 1914 for his table of atomic weights, head of the Harvard department of chemistry since 1903; following a brief illness; in Cambridge...
...Hugh Stott Taylor of Princeton University, in the opinion of his chemist-colleagues, has been engaged in research which was the "most original," and the "most stimulating to further research." Accordingly, he received last week the Nichols Medal, coveted by all chemists. Industrial problems had suggested to Dr. Taylor the study of catalytic agents-those substances which accelerate, retard, or even cause chemical change, while remaining themselves unchanged. Catalytic agents are used to vulcanize rubber. Chemist Taylor's experiments have been with substances which prevent rubber from rotting, dyed materials from fading, oil from becoming rancid...