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...Vagabond crept out from behind a post and approached the pile carefully. He stumbled over a book. It was F. Wutenfeld's "Geschichte der Fatimiden Challfen" (Gottingen 1831). The figure came back dragging another corpse. He looked at the Vagabond, screamed and fainted. Again the Vagabond had detected the hireling of Lehman Hall rounding up the bodies of graduate students lost in Widener's stacks...
...German-Jewish winners of Nobel Prizes were without jobs last week. Both are full of years and distinction. Dr. James Franck, 51, was a professor at Gottingen University. He won his Prize in 1925, for experimental physics. Professor Fritz Haber, 64, was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical & Electrical Chemistry in Berlin. He invented the important synthesis of atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia which supplied Germany with explosives and fertilizers during the War. Like Nobel Laureate Albert Einstein, Laureates Haber and Franck resigned their German jobs to avoid Adolf Hitler's white pogrom...
...serene Gottingen the university faculty last week talked pridefully concerning knowledge and its fruits, pointed particularly at sage Professor Adolf Windaus and two of his scholastic offshoots. Professor Windaus, 1928 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, was first man to crystallize a vitamin-Vitamin D, in 1931. The same year one of his former pupils, Dr. Ottar Rygh, announced that he had crystallized Vitamin C, the anti-scurvy ingredient of food. Last week another Windaus student, young Dr. Fritz Micheel, who has become a Gottingen professor, reported that he had analyzed the chemical nature of Vitamin C. The three items, reinforced with...
...occurs in raw lemons, cabbages, oranges, lettuce, grapefruit, green peppers, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, turnips, spinach. It seems to be identical with hexuronic acid which Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, able Hungarian biochemist, discovered in cabbage leaves and adrenal glands. With knowledge of Vitamin C's chemical structure in hand, the Gottingen men expect speedily to synthesize that vitamin, as Hindus have synthesized Vitamin B, Americans Vitamin...
...Doom lay ill the onetime Kaiser. Gottingen, with a third of its pupils ill, closed all schools. Brunswick closed part of its schools. Nuremburg and Hamburg had heavy morbidity...