Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another prime supporter of Dean Rusby's contentions was a Manhattan importer and consulting chemist named Howard W. Ambruster. He specializes in arsenic and arsenical preparations for insect control. Three years ago he heard that U. S. ergot preparations were adulterated. He believed the situation was opportune for him to make money by importing clean Spanish ergot. He bought 70,000 Ib.?virtually a "corner" of the supply at that time?for $1.60 to $1.70 per Ib. The U. S. market price for ergot was then $1.15. He offered manufacturing druggists his ergot at $1.50. None would buy. Although...
...thirty years as Chief Chemist in the Department of Agriculture have been marked by a continuous fight against adulterants in food and patent medicines, a fight which culminated in the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Like Roosevelt, a fighting personality, he also was opposed to the Trusts and more especially food industries founded on products injurious to public health...
...history of medicine it is known that Pasteur was the discoverer of germs and their part in the production of disease, and thus founded the science of bacteriology and established the basis of modern medicine and surgery. Pasteur, strange to say, was himself not a physician but a chemist and was studying fermentations when he made his monumental discovery. Thus it was left for one of his followers, Koch, a medical man. to identify certain disease germs. Considerably later Ehrlich, working with colors as an index of the susceptibility of micro-organisms to drugs, succeeded in formulating one invaluable remedy...
This theory was advanced by Dr. Gilbert Newton Lewis, University of California's famed chemist and physicist. For this and other work he was presented in Manhattan last week with the annual gold medal of the Society of Arts & Sciences and will, it was predicted, receive the 1930 Nobel Prize...
...Schreiber, U. S. Bureau of Standards chemist, in association with other workers at Anniston, Ala., has been producing xylose on a semi-commercial basis. Each year the U. S. produces a million and one-half tons of cottonseed hull bran which might be converted into xylose...