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...French scientist named Maurice Piettre, when he arrived in the U. S. for a conference on food processing, told of new wrapping material then being tried in France for refrigerated meats. The material was latex-pure natural rubber altered just enough to be workable. The trick sounded good to Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. of Cambridge, Mass., which was already using latex to make low-cost balloons ($2.25) for high-altitude meteorological and cosmic ray observation. The company's researchers set to work devising a commercial method for wrapping poultry and meat in latex...
...October the French Academy of Sciences officially recognized Pasteur's serum, and hostile criticism melted before the warm rush of praise that greeted the scientist from all over the world. Hundreds of persons who had been bitten by mad dogs rushed to his laboratory, and a public international subscription was opened to build larger quarters. Thousands of francs poured in, and in 1888 President Sadi Carnot of France, surrounded by a brilliant throng of cheering scientists, opened the Pasteur Institute. But the new Institute came too late to the old genius who had! suffered taunts and gibes...
...July morning in 1885, feverish little Joseph Meister was dragged by his frantic mother through the streets of Paris in search of an unknown scientist who, according to rumors, could prevent rabies. For nine-year-old Joseph had been bitten in 14 places by a huge, mad dog and in a desperate attempt to cheat death, his mother had fled from their home town in Alsace to Paris. Early in the afternoon Mme Meister met a young physician in a hospital. "You mean Pasteur," he said. "I'll take you there...
...Hahn calls himself a radiologist and his previous record includes discovery of several radioactive elements. Some years ago he lectured at Cornell, is remembered there as an "outstanding scientist"-also as a good lecturer, an amiable and energetic man. Last week the "fission" of the uranium atom definitely looked like a find of Nobel Prize calibre. But present German law forbids Germans to accept Nobel Prizes. Meanwhile, physicists have unofficially distributed some of the credit to Liese Meitner in Stockholm (a woman physicist) and R. Frisch of Copenhagen, who presented a fine interpretation of what happened when the uranium atom...
...idealistic Scientist J. S. Haldane, nephew of the encyclopedic-minded Viscount Haldane who became Britain's Lord Chancellor, John B. S. Haldane was born 46 years ago in Scotland. Growing up in an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity and freedom, he did not find Einstein unintelligible or Freud shocking. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, served in France and Mesopotamia during the War, was twice wounded, became a captain. He said he enjoyed shooting Germans. Nowadays he is known as an authority on poison gas, is an Air Raid Precautions expert...