Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Science. The science articles are so written as to be of value to layman and scientist alike. William Beebe, for instance, reveals that the wild animals on the Galapagos Islands are tame. L. H. Dudley Buxton, Anthropological reader at Oxford, recalls that Jenghiz Khan was born "with a piece of clotted blood in his hand...
...volumes, Alternating Current. His popular book is America and the New Epoch, showing why he was pro-German in the War, also how the merger of small companies into a trust was a step toward Socialism. After indulging in Socialist politics, a Western lecture tour, a denial as scientist, of immortality and God's existence, Steinmetz died...
Died. Baron Karl Auer von Welsbach, 72, famed Austrian scientist and inventor (Welsbach gas mantle); at his castle in Corinthia...
Dartmouth College Frank Pierce Carpenter, paper manufacturer LL.D. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of New York LL.D. Harry Bates Thayer, onetime (1919-25) President of American Telephone & Telegraph Co LL.D. Harvey Gushing, surgeon Litt.D. Charles W. Tobey, Governor of New Hampshire A.M. Glasgow University (Scotland) Marie Curie, scientist LL.D. Fritz Kreisler, violinist LL.D...
Died. Charles Francis Brush, 80, famed scientist, inventor of an arc light and storage battery, lately appointed national chairman of a campaign for a $2,250,000 endowment fund by the American Philosophical Society; in Cleveland...