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...young Canadian has now gained practically all the scientific and financial honors possible. He will have a life income of at least $15,000, besides other fat perquisites, enabling him to devote all his time to productive medical research. It is no disparagement to Dr. Banting's admitted genius and modesty to say that scores of other comparatively little known scientists, who may not have made so spectacular a ten-strike but have produced a constant stream of valuable research, deserve equal recognition and reward...
...principle of which has not yet been isolated, and a " medulla " or core, source of adrenalin (TIME, April 4). Failure or insufficiency of suprarenal action causes various disorders, depression, neurasthenia, discolored skin and the so-called Addison's disease. The exact objective of Dr. Banting's new research is not known. He plaintively protests: " The greatest service people could render me would be to leave me alone to my work...
...campaign for $350,000, to be used for a student relief fund and for research work, is now being conducted by the University Graduate School of Business Administration...
...Lieb gained international fame as an engineer through his research and developments in the general field of municipal utilization of electricity. He made many tests and experiments in the first electrical station in the United States, the Pearl Street Station in New York city, supplying current for incandescent lighting and power from an undergound system. This system he has installed in many cities in the country and also in Milan, Italy, for the Italian Edison Company. He is now back in New York as vice-president of the New York Edison Company and president of the Electrical Testing Laboratories...
...modern development, of course, is not due to him; but it was during his lifetime that great manufacturing companies began to organize research departments, laboratories of the finest kind, and consulting staffs of scientific men. As everyone knows, he was the first consulting engineer of the General Electric Company, and developed its first consulting body; and under his hands their grew up at Schenectady one of the best electircal laboratories in the world. Once shown the possibilities of science, the commercial world has not been slow; but it had to be shown. Among the first of those who could really...