Word: slosson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Edwin Emery G. Slosson, 64, onetime (1891-1903) professor of chemistry in Wyoming, author Creative Chemistry, director of Publisher Edward Wyllis Scripps' Science Service (news syndicate); at Washington; of heart disease. His wife, May Preston Slosson, poetess, was Cornell's first woman Ph. D. "To get even with her" he studied several summers for a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. He was the fountain head of the modern school of journalized science, making abstruse scientific processes into simple stories...
Editor-Chemist Edwin Emery Slosson, 63, a man discreetly sought after because his Science Service at Washington rewrites scientific reports in popular language and despatches them to the country's newspapers...
...Synthetics. When Carnegie Tech's President Baker asked Director Edwin Emery Slosson of Science Service to speak at this bituminous coal conference, he did not expect Dr. Slosson "to make any serious contribution to the practical and technical problems" which engaged the attention of the Congress. So Dr. Slosson, learned journalist, made a brilliant survey of synthetic chemistry, in which soft coal is the great raw material...
...plus hydrogen gives methane, and its myriad; carbon plus nitrogen gives cyanogen, and its myriad; C plus N plus H gives hydrocyanic acid; C plus N plus H plus O gives urea. There are 400,000 carbon derivatives. All can be made from soft coal. They constitute, in Dr. Slosson's fine phrase, the Fourth Kingdom (after animal, vegetable, mineral...
Character Chemistry. Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson, director of Science Service, described chemistry's effect on character...