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...first experimentation was done by Schee's in 1773 when that famous scientist discovered the absorptive power of charcoal for gases. It has been only in very recent years that its importance has been realized when absorption has been responsible for dyeing cloth with ease and economy, and gas masks were invented, depending solely on the principle of the absorption qualities of charcoal. Professor McBain exhibited very many interesting examples of dyeing showing very peculiar colors and shapes that resulted from tests applied to find the absorption qualities of commercial dyes...
When interviewed in his subterranean laboratory yesterday. Mr. Mulliken said that he had been started upon his research by an article published in 1915 by Dr. W. Jevons, a noted English scientist. In this article Jevons had described his observations of the band spectra of boron nitride; he had measured the heads of two systems of spectrum bands of boron nitride and located two subsidiary systems of bands and also extra bands apparently filling no system...
Died. Langdon Gibson, naturalist, scientist, explorer, brother of Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, suddenly, at Crieshaven, near Rockland...
Ivan Petrovitch Pavloff (Pavlov of Pawlow-take your choice of Russian transliterations), physiologist, Nobel Prizewinner and indubitably the most distinguished living scientist of Russia, sailed from New York for France, July 14, on the Majestic, after a series of mishaps that would furnish plot for a modern Comedy of Errors. He had been in America three weeks, but few, even in scientific circles, knew it until he was about to leave. Pavloff has no stomach for publicity. Scarcely had he set foot on our soil, in company with his son, Dr. Vladimir Pavloff, a professor of physics, who studied under...
...Mackenzie King, American-trained Liberal Premier of Canada, moved in the House of Commons at Ottawa an appropriation for an annuity of $7,500 for Dr. Frederick G. Banting, of the University of Toronto, discoverer of insulin (new remedy for diabetes). This stipend, which will enable the scientist to devote his life to medical research, gives evidence that a great democratic people can learn to recognize its true benefactors...