Word: windburn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skin Specialist Charles Howard White of Cambridge, England, and Physicist William Henry Crew of New York University became good friends last year while the latter spent a sabbatical year at Cambridge University. Result of that friendship was the first demonstration that "windburn" is really sunburn, proof of which they published in Science last week...
...covered with perspiration people sunburn very slowly because sweat filters out the burning actinic rays of the sun. When Dr. Whittle and Professor Crew recollected this fact, they concluded that a strong wind evaporates sweat, exposes the skin to unfiltered sunlight which causes the sunburn usually believed to be windburn. Wind by itself, they are sure, does not injure human skin...