Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franz Boas, who retires this year from the faculty of Columbia University where he served for 40 years, is noted for his work as (1 a physicist, 2 a surgeon, 3 an anthropologist, 4 a chemist, 5 a radiologist...
Died, Rev. Dr. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, 58, chemist, priest of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Holy Cross, onetime dean of Notre Dame University's College of Science; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. His researches gave mankind Lewisite (deadliest of war gases) and chloroprene (artificial rubber...
Died. Arthur Amos Noyes, 69, chemist of California Institute of Technology, developer of the ionic theory, onetime (1927) President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif...
...Chemist-President Conant, crack researcher in chlorophyll (the green coloring matter of plants), graciously invited his outstanding rival, Chemist Dr. Hans Fischer of the University of Munich. A resounding roll of Nobel Prize winners included three physicists: Arthur Holly Compton (Chicago), Niels Bohr (Copenhagen), Werner Heisenberg (Leipzig); three chemists: Friedrich Bergius (Heidelberg), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (Cambridge), Theodor Svedberg (Upsala, Sweden...
...woodshed. Quitting the University of Illinois after an argument with his chemistry professor, he worked with the State Water Survey Office testing Illinois River water, later with Chicago Storage Battery Co., where he became interested in the heat resistant qualities of metal conductors. William Hoskins, a consulting chemist, let Marsh use his lab oratory after work to tinker with alloys, later took him into the firm of Mariner & Hoskins. That is where Chromel was born. Hoskins Co. was incorporated in 1908, marketing an electric furnace developed during the Chromel experimentations. Next year the company was moved from Chicago to Detroit...