Word: fieser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gurgle and spout like coffee percolators. Students in rugged Chemistry 20 must sense it presence, for they are willing to trade a normal outdoor life for one of box lunches and laboratory pallor. They say that a good deal of this fascination is because of their teacher, Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emory Professor of Chemistry...
Were he a students, Fieser would be classified as a character, since he drives a sleek Jaguar convertible and breeds Siamese cats which be names after chemical compounds. But since he is a world famous organic chemist, his quirks--though legendary--leave him no whit less respected...
...Fieser's personality overflow into every part of his life. In class he is the absent-minded professor who, to the amusement of his class, frequently loses track of ten carbon atoms in his blackboard equations. In his laboratory, he is a craftsman, who runs through experiments with precision technique. He wipes his hands on the white towel that perennially hangs from his hip pocket, he blows clouds of cigarette smoke toward his embryo compounds, and blanks his butts in a water faucet. Outside the lab, he writes books on arson and lectures in all parts of the world...
...Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, remarked yesterday. "In prohibition days there were many devices." Now there is no longer, any need for makeshift, unsafe devices. One last word of caution, however. The CRIMSON's consultants wish to point out that the entire process, of course, is highly illegal...
Woodward's process, consisting of 30 steps, begins with ortho toluidine and ends with a compound close to cortisone. A process recently completed by Louis F. Fieser, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, and Hans Heymann, research fellow in Chemistry, takes four steps and adds a vital oxygen atom to the molecule...