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and where Dr. Schweitzer claimed that my work on the subject was not new. and [[strikethrough]] got [[/strikethrough]] where Dr. Loeb and my other friends denounced him as an agent of German manufacturers Notwithstanding his insulting attitude I received a week later a letter from Dr. von Withinghous (?) in Germany who is the owner and publisher of the Chemiker Zeitung in Germany. [[strikethrough]] I answered s [[/strikethrough]] He wants to publish in full [[strikethrough]] my address. [[/strikethrough]] my lecture as I presented it. Other publishers later on wrote or cabled to obtain the same favor.
All this occured in the [[underlined]] winter of 1908. [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] In 1909. [[/underlined]] The "Chemiker Zeitung No 35. My lecture at the Chemists Club; a meeting of the New York Section of the American Chemical Society. France and the Russians also [[strikethrough]] p [[/strikethrough]] copied the lecture
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and published it in their chemical publications.
The title in the Chemiker Zeitung publication was: [[underlined]] "Bakelit [[/underlined]] ein neues synthetisches Harz."
All this attracted the chemists of the world to repeat and study my work and its important possibilities; [[strikethrough]] in s [[/strikethrough]] and [[strikethrough]] everyb [[/strikethrough]] everywhere men sit at work to repeat and study my work; this led to many applications.
[[left margin vertical underlined]] November 7 [[/left margin vertical underlined]]
On [[strikethrough]] Saturday [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Friday]] November [[strikethrough]] 7 8 [[/strikethrough]] 7 = 1941
A special meeting, this evening [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] was held at the . New York Chemists Club. At this meeting Dr. E. K. [[double underline]] Bolton [[/double underline]] (Dr. Elmer K. Bolton), Research Chemist of the E. I. duPont de Nemours Company, received the Chemical Industry Medal for 1941 Dr. Wallace P. Cohoe presiding:
The researches of Dr. Bolton leaded to "Nylon" and "synthetic rubber. I was invited by Cohoe to sit