Word: perkins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congeners." The hangover victim who argued, "It isn't the alcohol, it's the congeners," was largely right, but chemists did not know which congeners were to blame. A new technique for separating minute amounts of congeners, said Consultant Robert Carroll, working with Connecticut's Perkin-Elmer Corp., has made it possible to identify eight congeners already, with more to come. Definitely harmful among those identified are acetaldehyde and isoamyl alcohol...
...Perkin Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. Each "eye" is 3 in. in diameter but weighs only 3.5 oz. The telescopes are not producing photographic images, but are capable of detecting contrasts of light (clouds are usually brighter than land, land brighter than oceans...
Paul E. Doherty '58 has been awarded the Perkin-Elmer Corporation Prize of $200, according to Sargent Kennedy, secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Prize is awarded annually for outstanding work on a research problem in the general field of metallurgy...
...quiet morning soon after sunup, a big polyethylene balloon took off from near Minneapolis with a weird apparatus dangling far below it. Suspended in a frame was a reflecting telescope of 12-in. aperture built by Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. Its mirrors were made of quartz so that they would not be distorted by solar radiation, and it had an ingenious device to change the focus slightly during each sequence of 20 pictures. This would ensure that one of these pictures would be in good focus. Another device, assembled at the University of Colorado, had the duty...
...Perkin-Elmer has since hired two other engineers who joined the firm after reading the TIME articles...