Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Dorothy Michelson, 21, daughter of Albert Abraham Michelson, famed scientist (University of Chicago); to Sheldon Dick, son of Albert Blake Dick, president A. B. Dick Co., Chicago, manufacturers of labor-saving devices; suddenly, in Manhattan...
Married. William Beebe, 50, famed scientist, explorer, author; to Miss Elswyth Ricker ("Elswyth Thane"), 27, novelist; on a yacht off Oyster Bay, L. I. Present were Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. & others. Mr. Beebe was divorced from his first wife, the onetime Mary Blair Rice, in 1913. One week later she married one Robin Niles of Manhattan...
Engaged. Miss Dorothy Michelson, daughter of Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, famed Chicago scientist to Sheldon Dick, son of Albert Blake Dick, president of A. B. Dick Co. of Chicago, manufacturers of labor saving devices...
Artificial Life. In 1870, Scientist Huxley declared it would be "the height of presumption" to suppose that chemists would not some day be able to bring together the constituents of protoplasm under such conditions that they would assume vital properties. Professor Treat Baldwin Johnson of Yale cited sulphur-dwelling bacilli as an example of the sort of artificial life chemists might hope to produce first. These bacilli thrive and multiply in a solution of sulphuric acid, needing no sunlight, prime requisite of most other plants. Self-sufficient in an inorganic environment, these bacteria may have been the link between...
...tightly and smoothly does Dr. Zweig draw the membrane of transparent prose over the tissue of his situations that the science-conscious reader cannot help regarding these cases as studies sooner than stories. Yet excellent stories they remain, of a forcible, clinical reality. Their few faults are where the scientist betrays the craftsman in over-insistence upon data. Elsewhere the craftsman dramatizes the data unforgettably, especially in a long passage where the emotions of a dozen people at a roulette table are followed, as in cinema, by watching the restless activity of their hands...