Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Negatives at that time were made on wet plates, a sheet of glass covered with collodion and silver nitrate (sensitive to light) a few minutes before exposure. George Eastman, no scientist himself, tried empirically to invent dry plates covered with silver nitrate and gelatine. After trials and troubles which a thorough knowledge of colloidal chemistry, as he later learned, might have prevented, he succeeded in this effort...
...hour last night the CRIMSON was able to get the following statement from A. C. Hanford, Dean of Harvard College: "In the death of Professor Richards Harvard has lost one of its most eminent professors, and the field of chemistry its most outstanding figure. He was not only a scientist who made revolutionary discoveries in chemistry, but was a great teacher whose influence will live through the many students who have worked under him. Although a busy man he was always ready to give unlimited time to problems of the University, and for friendly advice to his colleagues and students...
Professor Richards received in 1914 the greatest honor a scientist may be accorded, the Nobel Prize...
...trying to broaden the field of our curriculum. An economist, a political scientist, and a psychologist, have recently been added to our faculty, each of whom deals with the legal aspect of his field...
...Scientists have long pondered the possibility of life on Venus. Now conies the theory that the first living organisms on the earth were visitors from Venus. Svante Arrhenius, world famed Scandinavian scientist, used almost every branch of scientific knowledge and gave the world this theory just before he died...