Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ives' father, Frederick E. Ives, was himself a scientist of note; invented the half-tone process for printing (TIME...
...Cook, once a milkman and Brooklyn physician, is now 62 and a pauper. Some people believe that he is mentally, unbalanced. (He still says he thinks he reached the North Pole.) Others say that he is a much maligned man. Edwin Swift Balch of Philadelphia, a distinguished scientist and explorer who died last week, firmly upheld Dr. Cook's integrity. Captain Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, said last week: "He [Cook] is one of the finest men I have ever known. As physician, with the Antarctic expedition of 1897-99, which was frozen...
...believe your correspondent refers to John A. Brashear, distinguished astronomer and scientist, who died April 8, 1920, at Pittsburgh, Pa. A year prior to his death, he was voted the most useful citizen of Pennsylvania. Refer to any encyclopedia for further information concerning Dr. Brashear.* Prior to the death of Dr. Brashear, it was considered that no banquet was complete without having on its roster one of the three prominent J. B's of Pittsburgh: James Francis Burke, famed Pittsburgh lawyer, Judge Buffington of the Circuit Court of Appeals, and Uncle John Brashear, as he was affectionately known...
...equitator, when asked to tell what thrush, a disease of the hoof is, described it as a "small, brown bird, frequently seen around the stables." Another student of hippology defined the pastern as a "French scientist, famous for his Institute." A third Freshman came to the captain and complained that his horse would not open its mouth and seize the bit, although he had been holding it out to him for five minutes...
...reputation of Friar Roger Bacon (1214-1294) as a scientist was burnished lately when University of Pennsylvania chemists obtained salts of copper by one of his cryptic formulae (TiME, Dec. 13). But last week Friar...