Word: chemists
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Prize for Promise. The Langmuir Prize of $1,000 is awarded annually by the society to a chemist under 30 years of age who shows promise of an exceptionally brilliant career. Last week's winner was John Gamble Kirkwood, who was born in Gotebo, Okla. 29 years ago, got his Ph. D. at 23 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is now an assistant professor at Cornell. Of little interest to laymen, Dr. Kirkwood's work on the dielectric properties of gases under pressure and on polarization phenomena in methane, nitrogen and hydrogen provided invaluable working tools...
...Story of Louis Pasteur" combines accuracy with shrewd selection that keeps an eye on dramatic values. The result is a most moving account of the career of the humbly great French chemist. Paul Muni, with admirable insight and restraint, and an efficient camouflage of synthetic whiskers, gives us the determination, perseverance, and kindliness of the pioneer warrior against man's microscopic foes. Josephine Hutchinson is equally good in the role of the sympathetic, self-effacing wife...
...Zerbe is especially well-fitted to give a course of this kind, having been trained as a chemist before he took up the study of painting. He studied at Munich, and was a member of the famous "group of seven" in that city before coming to the United States two years...
Although it is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust, aluminum was not isolated until a Dane named Oersted did so in 1825, by heating the chloride with potassium. Napoleon Ill's chemist, Deville, substituted sodium for potassium, got the price of aluminum down to $34, then...
...Howerth, brilliant young research chemist, neither knew nor cared who hired him, who fitted out an expensive laboratory for him and then left him to his own devices. He thought it was queer, but because he was hot on the trail of a great discovery he soon forgot to wonder. What Howerth thought he was after, and then thought he had, was the creation of organic life from inorganic matter. When his invention turned out to be a deadly virus that killed his only friend, he was horrified. But Nicholas Holtz was pleased, chalked up another long shot turned asset...