Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...represent Illinois in the realm of scholarship and science. When he, with his wife and daughter, takes up residence in the president's house on Urbana's Nevada street next autumn, he will meet Professor Samuel Wilson Parr of the Chemistry department. It is to Professor Parr that Illinois chemists turn for solace and inspiration in chemical experimentation. More important than his own work in the chemistry of coal, is the part Professor Parr played in encouraging the sort of research which ultimately led Professor B. Smith Hopkins to discover Element No. 61. This, the only element so far revealed...
Died. Dr. William Henry Nichols, 78, Manhattan chemist, copperman, banker, board chairman of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., world's greatest chemical enterprise; at Honolulu; of heart disease...
Synthesis. Now that the pure substance is available for study, it becomes the chemist's (and manufacturer's) goal to make it artificially. That may not be for a long time, because the molecular structure of any hormone is extremely complicated...
...school could go to an employer and say he was specifically fitted to perform a given task. Now they say: 'I went through high school' or 'I went through college.' That doesn't mean anything. But if they said they are a machinist, a chemist or a cabinetmaker, that does mean something. . . . I would not be surprised if I spent one hundred million dollars in the project [building schools throughout the country...
...Bingham Sr. pushed deep into the tropic wilderness to translate the Bible into heathen dialects, his son remained in Hawaiian schools. He was sent to the U. S. at 18, was graduated from Yale in 1898, returned to Hawaii to serve briefly as superintendent of Palama Chapel Mission, as chemist at Molokai for American Sugar Co. A year later he returned to the U. S., studied at the University of California, at Harvard. Equipped with a Harvard Ph. D. he taught history and politics for a year at Princeton...