Word: gottingen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Very Small & Very Large. No meteorologist to begin with, Brooklyn-born Irving Langmuir was educated at Columbia University and Gottingen in Germany, settled down to teach chemistry at Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology. In 1909 he joined General Electric's Research Laboratory, where he found the freedom he wanted to do research...
...editors that last month they used 393 pictures and 1,044,960 words put out by the service. In one week recently, the Braunschweig Zeitung ran an illustrated spread on U.S. Quakers, the Berlin Telegraf filled its children's page with a visit to the White House, the Gottingen Tageblatt told about U.S. cowboys, and a dozen papers carried a character sketch.of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg...
...Technology put aside his lecture notes and boarded a train for Schenectady, N.Y. After long months in classroom and lab, even a temporary summer job at the new General Electric Research Laboratory looked good to 28-year-old Brooklyn-born Irving Langmuir, metallurgical engineer (Columbia) and Ph.D. in chemistry (Gottingen). But the job was better than that...