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...observers hope to "shoot" the eclipse from airplanes, among them Dr. Clyde Fisher, president of the Amateur Astronomers Association, near Fryeburg, Me.: Dr. Irving Langmuir of General Electric at Concord, N. H. John Wells of Southbridge, Mass, will fly over the White Mountains in an autogiro...
...Rice, instructor in Chemistry at Harvard, was yesterday presented by the American Chemical Society with the $1000 Langmuir award, which is annually given to the most promising chemist in North America under 30 years...
...awarding of the Langmuir prize for research to Dr. Oscar K. Rice, Instructor in chemistry, is an eminently fitting recognition of his work in machanics and in the application of physics to chemistry. He has already secured a high place among scholars in his department, and his pleasing personality has enabled him to impart his discoveries to students with unusual success...
...Brown's Body which won a Pulitzer Prize); Playwrights Lynn Riggs (Green Grow the Lilacs) and Paul Eliot Green (The House of Connelly); Walter Francis White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch); Linus Carl Pauling, Langmuir Prize-winner (scientific research); Arthur Holly Compton. Nobel Prizewinner...
...Irving Langmuir, 51, General Electric associate director of research, Popular Science Monthly's, $10,000 prize; in general for his many researches on fundamental physical and chemical subjects, in particular for his inventions of hydrogen arc welding and the gas-filled incandescent lamp which saves the U. S., it is estimated, $1,000,000 per night on its $1,000,000,000 per year electric light bill...