Word: rabinowitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hecht calls Solomon Rabinowitch "the greatest humorist the Jews ever produced." Rabinowitch was born in Pereyaslav, the Ukraine, in 1859. In his father's inn Sol grew from boyhood to manhood-and observed the customers. At 23, he began to write-about the customers-for Hamelitz, a Jewish periodical. He took the pen name Sholom Aleichem, the Jewish equivalent of "How do you do?", and turned out copy like a mimeograph...
...Solomon Rabinowitch died in The Bronx. He left a massive literature: 300 short stories, five novels, four plays, innumerable articles. Last week, 30 years after his death, the English-reading world got its first wide sampling of the stories. Translators Butwin caution that the flavor of all 27 stories in The Old Country is weakened by translation. Even so, they taste pretty strong...
...this current Rabinowitch arranged a simple device. "If now two metal electrodes are immersed in such a solution," he explained last week, "and if the liquid around one electrode is illuminated and the other is kept dark, the system becomes a galvanic cell in which chemical energy, formed by the conversion of light, is itself immediately converted into electrical energy." Galvanic cells and batteries-usually making current from the slow dissolving of zinc in sulfuric acid-are not uncommon, but Rabinowitch's is unique in that it will never wear...
...output of Rabinowitch's cell is measured in thousandths of amperes, but he is working to improve its efficiency. Not over .1% of the absorbed light is converted into electrical energy, as compared to chlorophyll, which utilizes about 1% of the light it absorbs...
...Quantitatively, the result at present is not significant," concedes Rabinowitch. (Neither, he might have added, was Galvani's first circuit, in 1790.) "But qualitatively it is important...