Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life of the chemist in Harvard College can easily be reckoned in terms of Mallinckrodt laboratory. Here it is that the greater part of his four years is spent, getting an intimate acquaintance with the chemicals and procedures from which the whole of chemical knowledge has been derived. Professor Forbes once said that it is impossible to become a chemist by swapping small talk about the subject through smoke rings while sitting in an easy chair before a log fire. Much--perhaps the most important part--of the work in the field is that done in direct contact with...
...nauseous, vomits, has cramps, twitches. Attendants stop all this by giving the patient plenty of salty water. The sweating causes another inconvenience. The healing radio waves collect in the sweat droplets, scald the patient. General Motors' Engineer Charles Franklin Kettering who bought the radiotherm from General Electric (whose Chemist Willis Rodney Whitney built it after accidental discovery that short radio waves cause fever), figured that a draft of dry, hot air would evaporate the sweat, cool the uncomfortable patient. Mr. Kettering invented a successful blaster, using air almost hot enough to make water boil...
...eighth-inch beard. The flabbergasted barber shaved, learned later that "he" was Jean, Auguste's right-handed twin. Last week as he waited for redoubtable Professor Auguste Piccard's ship to come into New York Harbor, Jean Piccard, who until last year was a Hercules Powder Co. chemist and lives at Marshalltown, Del., voiced some cogent observations concerning twins...
...Manhattan pier were Twin Jean Piccard, Mrs. Jean Piccard (also a twin), their sons Jean Auguste, Paul, Donald. Physicist Auguste and Chemist Jean embraced,† Uncle Auguste pulled a black beret from an overcoat pocket, offered it to Nephew Jean Auguste...
...York Evening Post was the only Metropolitan newspaper to develop the story in Chemist Jean Piccard. The article swiftly became a significant, lucid disquisition on identical twins, i.e., twins conceived in the same ovum as were Auguste & Jean Piccard.* Said Chemist Jean Piccard: "It is a well-known fact that usually one of two identical twins is left-handed while the other one is righthanded. It is well known also that there are many more left-handed persons who never had any twin...