Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week warned Dr. Benjamin Talbott Brooks, 50, independent consulting chemist of Manhattan, as the American Chemical Society opened its meeting in San Francisco. Dr. Brooks wanted to make his point especially clear to people who suppose that oil under U. S. ground will last hundreds of years. Distinguishing between shortage and actual exhaustion, Dr. Brooks, famed in his profession for research on refining methods, foresaw that oil dearth would be upon the nation in from five to eight years...
Sheep's Wool & Sex. "We have a positive cure for homosexuality," exclaimed Professor Leopold Ruzicka, a Swiss organic chemist who lectured at the University of Chicago this summer. In 1931 Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Danzig discovered in the urine of men (and some women) the hormone which establishes masculinity in men (and some women). That male sex hormone was named androsterone. Last year Professor Ruzicka manufactured androsterone from cholesterol collected from the grease of sheep's wool. Last June Dr. E. Laqueur of Amsterdam discovered still another, more potent male sex hormone. Professor Ruzicka now expects to make...
...crash from which he would have emerged with nothing but bruises had not his fuel burst into flame. A new fuel designed to stop such tragedies was demonstrated this week at New York University's Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics by its inventor, a towering, beefy, Prussian-born chemist named Adolph Prussin. The fuel, called "Solene," is gasoline which has been turned into a solid...
...Chemist Prussin has been tinkering with fuels for 16 years. Five years ago he went to the Guggenheim School with a solid fuel that ran a test engine-but the engine stopped after a few minutes. Nevertheless the Guggenheim officials were interested, and six months ago gave him facilities for further research. Now all he needs to make Solene is a big kettle, twelve minutes, two solidifying agents which he has decided to keep secret for a while...
...Schwartz and Peck first queried the most revered pharmaceutical chemist in the country, Frederick Barnett Kilmer, 83, head of Johnson & Johnson's laboratories at New Brunswick, N. J. since 1889. Mr. Kilmer told them that, as the result of his investigations, he considered the ingredients of adhesive tape not irritating as such; that the skin secretions are retained under the moisture-repellent coating with a resultant maceration of the epidermis. This, rather than idiosyncrasy, said Mr. Kilmer, is the most frequent cause of the irritation...