Word: nitrogen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January the Curie-Joliots of Paris pegged alpha particles (helium nuclei) into boron nuclei and got nitrogen. Similarly magnesium became silicon; alumi-num-phosphorus...
With undying hope in his voice, hollow-eyed young Dr. Robert Cornish last week repeated, over and over, the name of the dog he had killed almost two months ago with ether and nitrogen, revived with chemical and mechanical resuscitants (TIME, May 7 et ante). Lazarus gave no sign that he heard...
Month ago Dr. Robert E. Cornish, jet-haired young University of California researcher, killed two fox terriers with ether and nitrogen, brought them back to life (TIME, March 26). One dog lived a comatose life of eight hours, the other five hours. Last fortnight Dr. Cornish killed a third terrier. For dog No. 3, in addition to the oxygen-saturated saline solution, liver extract, adrenalin, canine blood and rocking board with which he resurrected Nos. 1 & 2, Dr. Cornish had a new help-gum-arabic, to keep the heart from overworking. Revived, the third dog clung to life day after...
...brilliance of overhead lamps, a fox terrier listed in the laboratory records as Lazarus II lay last week in a gloomy old building on the University of California's campus. White-clad figures moved in & out of the glare, watching the creature they had asphyxiated with ether and nitrogen. Lazarus II's heart stopped beating and he no longer breathed. His shoe-button eyes were glazed. Lazarus II was dead...
Died. Fritz Haber, 65, Germany's foremost Wartime chemist, 1919 Nobel prizewinner, inventor of a process for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen and of several poison gases, co-inventor of the Haber-Bosch synthetic ammonia process; in Basle, Switzerland...