Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chemistry's great experts, by giving him the Chandler Medal and a salute at Columbia University. Industry long ago crowned him with Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., created expressly by Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. to exploit his discoveries and processes. The industrialists, further, made him vice president, chief chemist and director of research of the chemicals subsidiary...
...Chemist Charles Holmes Herty has been talking for several years about making fine white newsprint paper from young slashpine, of which Southern States have 10,000,000 acres. The Chemical Foundation, which he helped establish, gave him $50,000 to carry out his idea. Georgia, where he was born, has given him $40,000, promised $60,000 more. Last week Chemist Herty produced the first significant run of pine paper at his experimental plant in Savannah. The quantity was sufficient for one edition of an average country weekly newspaper...
Columbia's Dr. Ruth Fulton Benedict, 46, is assistant professor of anthropology, a specialist in the folklore, mythology and religion of Southwest U. S. Indians. Her husband, Professor Stanley Rossiter Benedict, 49, is a Cornell chemist. They have no children. Reflected Mrs. Benedict last week: "I believe women have scientific ability. But there are lots of difficulties confronting them. Marriage and children, for example. . . . Then there is the difficulty of positions. They won't take women in men's colleges or in co-educational undergraduate colleges. That limits women scientists to women's colleges or museums...
...young chemist successfully weathers the storms of these earlier courses (notably Chem 6, which is the transition between elementary and advanced work), he enters those which may be called "advanced." They are Chem 3a-b, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 13. The undergraduate may be able to include these all in his schedule, but ordinarily he doesn't. He begins to turn to one of the sub-divisions of the field: organic, physical, or analytical chemistry...
...spite of the few defects I have pointed out, I maintain that the Department of Chemistry is well run, and that everyman is given a fair chance to prove his worth as a chemist. The early work is exacting, but with its mastery comes the independence and fascination of efforts to push back the boundaries of the Unknown...