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...Warren F. Draper, assistant surgeon-general, United States Public Health Service, addressed the doctors as they dined in Memorial Hall last night. The outstanding speaker at today's session will be Dr. Perrin H. Long of Johns Hopkins, who will speak at 3:30 o'clock on the adoption of sulfanilamide for the treatment of bacteria infections...
Jean Baptiste Perrin has studied the atom all his long life. Born at Lille during the Franco-Prussian War, he became a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Paris in 1910, became an expert on molecular oscillations and the Brownian movement (movement of visible particles in liquids because of impacts from flying molecules). In 1926 he was awarded a Nobel Prize. Today he is president of the French Academy of Sciences. Last week he announced the discovery of naturally occurring ekarhenium-element...
What Professor Perrin reported last week was the existence of ekarhenium in pitchblende ore, mother substance of radium. His collaborators used a powerful spectroscope, which splits up radiations from atoms into significant bands and lines. When the pitchblende was analyzed, four faint new lines appeared. Calculation showed that these lines must belong to ekarhenium...
Scholarships totalling $295 were awarded to five students last night by the Student Council, it was announced following last night's meeting. James H. Brooks '38, Paul D. Davis '40, W. Perrin Fuller '40, Edgar W. Hirshberg '38, and Holland L. Willard '40 were the undergraduates receiving the awards...
...Perrin, niece of Alabama's late, longtime U. S. Senator John Tyler Morgan, TIME'S thanks for reporting an incident far graver than the U. S. press realized...