Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rice, instructor in Chemistry at Harvard, was yesterday presented by the American Chemical Society with the $1000 Langmuir award, which is annually given to the most promising chemist in North America under 30 years...
...establishing a prize for the most promising chemist under thirty years of age, the American Chemical Society has done more than merely provide another award. It has encouraged research by recognizing promise rather than by merely honoring completed achievement. Most awards made by learned societies have been designed to add laurels to men who are already burdened with them and who have for the most part completed their work. In giving an award to young men according to their promise the Chemical Society gives encouragement where it is most needed and where it can do the most good in promoting...
James Bryant Conant, 38. Harvard chemist, Nichols medal; for investigating chlorophyl; also the Chandler medal for general chemical research...
...operator of a blast furnace is a graduate of correspondence and night schools, Ora E. Clark of Hamilton, Ohio. The American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers marked him so at their annual meeting in Manhattan last week. With International Correspondence School instruction Ora E. Clark was, at 19, chief chemist for a small Pennsylvania blast furnace. At 35 and with several years of night schooling he is chief chemist, foreman and blast furnace superintendent of the Hamilton Coke & Iron Co. When the Hamilton furnaces operate (they have been cold since November), he runs them at remarkable efficiency. The thing iron...
...being president 29 years. Fortnight ago Mr. Firestone pleased stockholders when he told them the company had earned almost four times as much in 1931 as in 1930. Last week, they were reassured, the new title did not mean his retirement. John Thomas started as Firestone's first chemist. He was then 28, got a salary of $100 a month, a $10 raise from his previous job. The company employed about 700 men, and a corner of one shop was partitioned off for the laboratory. He had gone to Buchtel College, now Akron University, had a degree...