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...JOHN R. PERKIN...
...growth and prestige of Dow Chemical Co. has been continuous. Long before the World War, Dr. Dow's company had produced results which showed that certain German chemical monopolies were by no means permanent. In 1930, the year of his death. Dr. Dow was awarded the distinguished Perkin Medal for his part in the creation of a national chemical industry...
Warren Kendall Lewis, 53, professor of chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wartime director of U. S. research on gas defense; the Perkin Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry: for "creative activities as the father of modern chemical engineering...
...remarkable brick rewarded the country's important chemical societies for giving the coveted Perkin Medal to Dr. Charles Frederick Burgess at a Manhattan ceremony last week. The medal is for "the American chemist who has most distinguished himself by his services to applied chemistry." In Dr. Burgess' case that refers to his showing factory managers that it pays to hire scholars. Twenty and more years ago he was professor of applied electro-chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Manufacturers hesitated to use his novel ideas concerning the electrolytic purification of iron, dry batteries, corrosion...
...return for the Perkin Medal, Professor Burgess showed chemistry & industry his remarkable new brick. Fearing that its properties were incredible, he tossed one into a pot of water, cried: "Notice that it floats. If I should leave it here for a year it would still be floating. In other words we have a brick which is light, one-fifth the weight of an ordinary brick, of high heat-insulating quality, porous, yet resistant to the entrance of water, and of a crushing strength sufficient to support its weight if built into a tower five times the height...