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Show SCIENTIST NOT PLEASED Prof. Oswald Leaves University of Leipzig. NEW YORK. May 19. A. cable dispatch dis-patch from Berlin says that Professor "Wllhelm Oswald has resigned the professorship pro-fessorship of chemistry at the University Univer-sity of Leipzig, aB a result of his displeasure dis-pleasure at the lack of support accorded ac-corded to his chemical researches. He will establish a private laboratory. Dr. Oswald lectured at Harvard a few months ago under 'the arrangement arrange-ment for tho exchange of professors between American and German universities. univer-sities. Has Made Discoveries. Apart from his broader work as a scientific philosopher, Oswald has made various important chemical discoveries, among them a new process of photographic photo-graphic printing and a method for obtaining ob-taining nitrogen direct from the air. The latter discovery is of great importance, im-portance, owing to the recent recognition recogni-tion of the possibility of fertilizing the soil by the return to it of the nitrogen nitro-gen It Is constantly Imparting to life. |