Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Farnham Heyroth, 36, of Cincinnati, is a doctor of medicine turned chemist. He assists Professor George Sperti Jr., 31, an electrical engineer turned biochemist. They work in the Basic Science Research Laboratory of the University of Cincinnati which graduated them both. Recently Professor Sperti, with Dr. Heyroth's aid, perfected a method of irradiating foods without spoiling their taste. General Foods Corp. snatched up the rights to the Sperti process to commercialize...
...Donald Hatch Andrews, 32, Johns Hopkins chemist, announced last week that he has transposed the inaudible high pitch of atomic vibrations into piano sounds. The quavers of grain alcohol thus became a harmonic chord out of which Professor Andrews composed a pretty melody. Water's translated sound was a soft murmur, wood alcohol sounded harsh and sharp, gasoline was a crash...
...Harold Clayton Urey, chemist of Columbia University: "The experiment may cause another industrial revolution of greater magnitude than that caused by the use of steam and electricity...
...Nichols. Already aged, in 1920 Dr. William Henry Nichols, a skilled chemist with an eye for business, helped form Allied and was its chairman until his death last year. In 1921 his son, Charles Walter Nichols, was made president of Nichols Copper Co. (long rumored about to merge with Phelps-Dodge Corp.). Previous to that, the son had worked in many of his father's chemical plants, added to the knowledge of chemistry he acquired in Cornell (1898- 1902). In 1928 the son was made a director of Allied. Last week it was announced that, during Mr. Weber...
Before the War a comparatively small number of low-grade Egyptians smoked hashish and opium, with little appreciable social harm. At the War's end a Greek chemist introduced cocaine to high Egyptian society. The middle classes took up the fad. Then came heroin. Now, it is estimated, one out of 28 Egyptians is a dope addict, and one out of 56 dazzles himself with heroin...