Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slick-haired young Dr. Aristid von Grosse, research chemist of Chicago's Universal Oil Products Co., created a stir at a chemistry convention summer before last by exhibiting a speck, weighing one-tenth of a gram, of pure protoactinium which he had isolated. It was the first of the 92 elements to be isolated in the U. S. and this crumb constituted the world supply. Last week Dr. von Grosse created another stir by revealing that the world supply of protoactinium had unfortunately disappeared...
Interested in the possible value of the element for cancer therapy. Chemist von Grosse took a photomicrograph of his precious mite by the light of its own rays. The pictures showed something like a glowing shoe-button. Then he turned the stuff over to Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry to be placed on exhibition. The museum furnished visitors with a magnifying glass by which to inspect the speck, too small to be seen with the naked...
...five vice-chairman chosen representing the different regions of the country are: Langdon P. Marvin '98, New York lawyer and former member of the Board of Overseers; Albert A. Sprague '98, Chicago civic leader and member of the Board of Overseers; Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. '00, St. Louis chemist and member of the Board of Overseers; Charles E. Perkins '04, corporation official of Santa Barbara, Calif., and William Tudor Gardiner '14, of Gardiner, Me., a former governor of Maine...
Invited as guest of honor to a London banquet, Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, 87, Ph. D.. LI. D., D. Sc., famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...
WHEN the ace campus chemist test tubes the wrong acids hand him a camera with which to catch anew aerial view of the campus. Or better yet, send COLLEGIATE DIGEST photos of the accident scene and principles. The "Eyes Over the Campus" editor will pay you the professional news photographers rates $3 for all photos he accepts for publication...