Grew, Joseph

Grew, Joseph C. 1942. Report from Tokyo. Life. Dec. 7. 

Some 500 years ago during Columbuss second voyage to what are now the Americas he and his crew saw children playing with balls made from the latex of trees that grew there Later Joseph Priest ley called this material rubber to describe its ability to erase pencil marks by rubbing and in 1823 Charles Macintosh demonstrated how rubber could be used to make waterproof coats and shoes Shortly there after Michael Faraday determined an empirical for mula of CsHs for rubber It was eventually determined that rubber is a polymer of 2 methyl 1 3 butadiene... 

News of Davy s success had traveled to France, where emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769—1821) grew concerned about the scientific reputation of his country. He ordered larger and better equipment built for his scientists. He wanted them to surpass Davy in his work on metals. This equipment was designed especially for two French chemists, Louis Jacques Thenard (1777-1857) and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850). 

In its first ten years HMC s faculty grew from 7 to 37, its student body from 48 to 283. Joseph B. Platt, Harvey Mudd College The First Twenty Years (Santa Barbara, CA Fithian Press, 1994), 194—207. 

Joseph Groeger has more than 30 years of practical experience in development, selection, formulation, testing, and analysis of rubber, thermoplastics, adhesives, foams, composites, and polymer coatings. This experience grew primarily from troubleshooting packaging and sealing materials for food and pharmaceutical applications, where non-disclosed and often application-... 

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