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...Irving Langmuir of General Electric is going skiing over the hills back of Stockholm next month,'if events do not interfere. But his serious reason for traveling the thousands of miles between Stockholm and Schenectady will be to receive the 1932 Nobel Prize for Chemistry ($30,000) which the Swedish Academy of Science assigned him last week...
...with General Electric was happier over Dr. Langmuir's new honor than Dr. William David Coolidge. Drs. Coolidge and Langmuir are good old friends and General Electric collaborators. They have worked together in the same laboratory the past 23 years. Dr. Langmuir now holds the top place in U. S. chemical learning. (Only other U. S. savant to earn a Nobel Prize for Chemistry was Harvard's late Professor Theodore William Richards, 1914.) On the other hand Dr. Coolidge last fortnight attained what may well be considered the top job of U. S. industrial scientific research,* when President...
...Willis Rodney Whitney, who once averred that he "would rather teach than be President." He has been entirely responsible, as organizer and stimulator, of G. E.'s scientific staff and progress. Dr. Coolidge once said of him: "It is because Dr. Whitney is there that [Dr. Irving] Langmuir and I can play around. He stands between us and the demands that we do something practical." Dr. Whitney is now 64, and worn out. Apart from his executive duties he has done research on his own account-solubility, colloids, suspensions, corrosion of iron, chromium sulphate compounds. His latest work...
...five years ago to foster interest among college men in this section of the country in world affairs. Harvard has been active in the work of the organization for the last three years; last year and in the year previous, Harvard men officiated at the league meetings. A. D. Langmuir '31 was president of the organization two years ago, while D. H. Popper '32, acted as president of the Executive Committee last year...
Junior Kudos. The Langmuir $1,000 prize for the stimulus of brilliant young chemists went to Dr. Oscar Knefler Rice, 29, son of an immigrant Viennese scientist, Harvard instructor, a prodigy in the application of higher mathematics to the problems of atomic and molecular physics...