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...that unlocked the sources of money that now pay for Notre Dame's increasing academic quality. The more scholarly graduates nowadays like to recall that Coach Rockne was also a magna cum laude graduate ('15), a brilliant chemistry student who worked with Father Julius Nieuwland, discoverer of the base for synthetic rubber. In 1952, Notre Dame honored Nieuwland with a first-rate science building that bears his name and the inscription. "All Things God Hath Made Are Good and Each of Them Serves Its Turn...
...impossible to hear the announcer until after the point after touchdown. -The university is just completing a $10 million building program which includes a $2,400,000 liberal-arts building and art gallery, and a $3,600,000 science building, named for Notre Dame's Father Julius Arthur Nieuwland, chemist-pioneer in the making of synthetic rubber. The building program has been paid for by the gifts of alumni and Notre Dame's many nonalumni friends, not by football receipts...
...Nieuwland & Neoprene. In 1900 the late Julius Arthur Nieuwland, Belgian-born chemist, Catholic priest and longtime teacher at the University of Notre Dame, made a poisonous black tar by treating acetylene with metallic chlorides.-At a scientific meeting in 1925 Nieuwland described one of his experiments producing acetylene rubber. A Du Pont chemist heard him, started his company on the trail. With Nieuwland's collaboration Du Pont workers made a good rubbery material first called DuPrene, now neoprene, which is highly resistant to oil. Its dozens of uses include hose linings, gaskets, conveyor belts, rubber gloves, printing plates, refrigerator...
Died, Rev. Dr. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, 58, chemist, priest of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Holy Cross, onetime dean of Notre Dame University's College of Science; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. His researches gave mankind Lewisite (deadliest of war gases) and chloroprene (artificial rubber...
...Villanova College last week went the Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, Belgian-born professor of organic chemistry at Notre Dame, to receive the Mendel Medal as Catholic scientist-of-the-year for his researches on acetylene which led to the development of synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Before the ceremony a newshawk questioned the famed priest on another outgrowth of his researches, lewisite, only war gas deadlier than mustard gas. Said Father Nieuwland...