Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir William Jackson Pope, 69, famed British chemist whose experiments enabled the Allies to produce mustard gas in quantity during World War I; in London, England...
...faculty ranks as one of the Big Four among U. S. universities (with Harvard, Chicago, Columbia). Few years ago the American Council on Education rated California "distinguished" in 21 of 35 departments (Harvard: 23). Among California's distinguished professors: Atom-Smasher Ernest Orlando Lawrence, French Scholar Haakon Chevalier, Chemist Gilbert Lewis, Spanish Scholar Rudolph Schevill, Biologist Herbert McLean Evans, Paleobotanist Ralph W. Chaney, Legal Scholar Max Radin...
...dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed Dr. Conant was bent on getting crack research men instead of crack teachers, because he hired big-name scholars at fancy salaries while he let brilliant young instructors of undergraduates go. Harvardmen began to think that Chemist Conant was more adept at test-tube work than at human equations...
Encephalitis. Less widespread than poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), but more destructive, is encephalitis. Young victims are often left stupid, shuffling, problem children, older ones drooling cripples, with muscular tremors, mumbling speech, double vision. Twelve years ago Chemist William John Matheson gave several hundred thousand dollars for a study of the disease. The fund has dwindled, for the Matheson Commission takes no money for treatment. Executive secretary of the Commission is capable Dr. Josephine Bicknell Neal who has investigated a remarkable Bulgarian belladonna treatment for chronic cases, long used in Europe. These tablets which Dr. Neal considers "by far the most effective...
That plants have "emotions," "heart beats," feel pain, were theories of the late Hindu Botanist Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. Every gardener knows that "wounded" plants heal themselves with mysterious juices. Last summer, Chemist James English Jr. and James Frederick Bonner, working at the California Institute of Technology with famed Dutch Plantman Aire Jan Haagen-Smit, announced that they had solved the mystery of that healing juice. In a kitchen-simple experiment, they butchered a batch of fresh Kentucky Wonder string beans, dribbled the hormone-rich juice into the pod-linings of other wounded beans. In a few hours, large clumps...