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Show BRAINY GERMAN GIVES UP JOB Men Who Made Extremely Extreme-ly Important Discoveries Discov-eries LocksSupport. NEW TORK, May 19. A cable dispatch dis-patch from Berlin says that Professor WUhelm Oswald ha resigned th professorship pro-fessorship ef chemistry at the University Univer-sity of Leipslg, a a result of his displeasure dis-pleasure at the lack of support accorded ac-corded to bis chemical researches. He will establish private laboratory. Dr. Oawald lectured at Harvard a few month ago under the arrangement arrange-ment for the exchange of professor between American and German univer. sitles. Apart from his broader work as a scientific philosopher, Oswald ha made various Important chemical discoveries, among them a new process of photographic photo-graphic printing and a method for obtaining- nitrogen direct from the air. The latter discovery is of great importance, im-portance, owing to the recent recognition- of the possibility of fertilising the sou by the return to It of the nitrogen nitro-gen it I constantly imparting to life. |