Scientists still laugh at people who locate water with a witch-hazel branch and foretell a man's way of life by the stars present at his birth. But last week in Manhattan, U. S. chemists apologized for having laughed at people who predict the weather by feelings in their feet. They awarded the William H. Nichols Medal of the American Chemical Society to Dr. John Arthur Wilson, 40, consulting chemist of Milwaukee. Wis. Dr. Wilson was judged worthy of the medal (given for outstanding achievement in colloid chemistry) for his seven years' study of...
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