Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Villanova College last week went the Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, Belgian-born professor of organic chemistry at Notre Dame, to receive the Mendel Medal as Catholic scientist-of-the-year for his researches on acetylene which led to the development of synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Before the ceremony a newshawk questioned the famed priest on another outgrowth of his researches, lewisite, only war gas deadlier than mustard gas. Said Father Nieuwland...
UNDER THE AXE OF FASCISM-Gaetano Salvemini-Viking ($3). The case against Mussolini, forcefully presented by an exiled political scientist, now lecturing at Harvard...
Summary of concentrators comments on men in the Biochemistry Department: Edsall--good director, inspiring tutor. Henderson--superb lecturer on philosophy and method, but he does not cover his field. Detached, uninterested in students, unavailable. Greenstein--good lecturer and organizer, clear and understandable when lecturing in Chem 15, Junes--good scientist, fair tutor, not very interested in tutees. Ferry--superb tutor, available and inspiring, Ritchings good scientist, fair tutor Danielson and Forter fair scientists not enthusiastic tutors. Forbes, Keys and Morisou good tutors
Beagle, told what a young scientist thinks about on the threshold of his career. But Huxley's diary, unlike Darwin's, was not preoccupied by scientific fact nor visited by intimations of a great theory. A young medico of wide interests, with a keen eye and a susceptible heart, he wrote surprisingly little about his first big research...
...with diamond-pointed ruling machines it is extremely difficult to rule hundreds of thousands of such infinitesimal lines accurately on hard metal or glass. Last week at the Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (see above), Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins showed how a brilliant scientist may adapt for his own use a technique worked out for a wholly differ ent purpose. At California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum...