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Prize for Promise. The Langmuir Prize of $1,000 is awarded annually by the society to a chemist under 30 years of age who shows promise of an exceptionally brilliant career. Last week's winner was John Gamble Kirkwood, who was born in Gotebo, Okla. 29 years ago, got his Ph. D. at 23 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is now an assistant professor at Cornell. Of little interest to laymen, Dr. Kirkwood's work on the dielectric properties of gases under pressure and on polarization phenomena in methane, nitrogen and hydrogen provided invaluable working tools...
...protoactinium is radioactive. It is 25% rarer than radium in pitchblende. One ton of that mother ore was reduced to extract a half gram of protoactinium oxide. In a phosgene chlorinating bath this was transposed to a chloride. Using the method evolved by General Electric's famed Irving Langmuir. Dr. von Grosse spread the chloride on a tungsten filament in a vacuum, heated the filament, boiled off the chlorine, obtained his bit of pure protoactinium...
Under the auspices of the Harvard Chapter of Sigma Xi, Dr. Irving Langmuir, of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company will give a public lecture today on "Films Consisting of One or More Layers of Molecules" at 8.15 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
...Others: Theodore William Richards (1914), Irving Langmuir...
...Harvard Amateur Radio Club last night voted to build a five-meter transmitter with which to establish communications with the Oak Ridge Observatory station. Officers were elected and an executive committee chosen. The committee consists of Robert S. Foster '37, William J. Hammond '37, Robert V. Langmuir '35, Elmer F. Morgan '37, and MacDonald Nyhen '36, while the officers are: Gurdon R. Abel '37 treasurer; Elmer F. Morgan '37, station manager; and MacDonald Nyhen '36, secretary...