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>The great 18th-Century British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish (discoverer of nitric acid, the chemical composition of water, etc.) was so unsociable that he "was known to flee from a company of strangers uttering a queer cry like a frightened animal"; he was also so unworldly that when asked...
>William Hyde Wollaston (discoverer of the elements palladium and rhodium), a silent, austere recluse, once had a visitor who asked to see his laboratory. Wollaston rang for his butler, had his "laboratory" wheeled in on a tea tray.
Died. Dr. Karl Landsteiner, 75, world-famed discoverer of the four human blood types, 1930 Nobel Prize winner; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Shy, grey-mustached Landsteiner got his M.D. in his native Vienna in 1891, was stricken in the laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute in which he worked...
"Man," he wrote in his latest excoriation, "appears to be the only mammal which habitually consumes milk after the period of lactation has ceased." To prove milk unnecessary, Dr. Soper cited Nutritionist Elmer Verner McCollum, discoverer of several vitamins and advocate of a quart of milk a day. McCollum described...
Died. Nikola Tesla, 86, "electrical wizard," inventor of the Tesla transformer, the Tesla induction motor, discoverer of the rotary magnetic field principle; in Manhattan. Croat-born, he came to the U.S. in 1884, worked briefly for Thomas Alva Edison, became a great electrical inventor on his own. In his old...