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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Bergius, bald and 52, was spotlighted in Pittsburgh at the convention of the American Chemical Society...
Last week busy Nobelist Bergius bustled from Pittsburgh to Cambridge, Mass, to address the Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts & Sciences which got under way last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 14), continucd last week. At Cambridge, without going into much detail as to method, the German declared that he is getting a digestible sugar, equal in food value to barley, from sawdust, which is mostly a waste product or burned as an inferior fuel in lumber mills. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar, 5% acetic acid, 30% lignin which again can be used to make charcoal or wallboard. The sugar...
Another figure spotlighted at the Pittsburgh meeting, which 3,000-odd chemists attended, was not a chemist at all but an old and frail man of high finance, diplomacy and government: Andrew William Mellon. Chemistry feels that it owes much to Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research which will soon move into a huge, classic building girt by tall pillars...
...tackled in the Institute's laboratories. In Andrew Mellon's pale thin fingers was placed a bronze plaque showing a young man in laboratory smock, holding up a test-tube and bestriding a smoky factory, with clouds in the shape of chemical retorts. Inscription: "The Pittsburgh Award to Andrew W. Mellon-For Outstanding Service to Chemistry. American Chemical Society, Pittsburgh Section." A similar award made posthumously to Brother Richard Beatty Mellon was received by his son, Richard King ("Dick") Mellon...
Other highlights of the Pittsburgh meeting...