Proteins : lectures given in the United States of America in 1924 / by S.P.L. Sørensen.

  • Sørensen, S. P. L. (Soren Peter Lauritz), 1868-1939.
Date:
1925
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Credit: Proteins : lectures given in the United States of America in 1924 / by S.P.L. Sørensen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    industry. I have had the best opportunity of closely studying your technical scientific institutes for the investigation of all the substances and all the processes which have any significance for the manufacture of flour and bread—this branch of the fermentation industries which only recently has taken up the rational and systematic co-operation between science and prac- tice. I admire your Institute of Baking in Chicago, as well as The Fleischmann Laboratories in New York—and I venture to say that America is in this respect better equipped than any other country, both with regard to its scientists and its labora- tories, and the organization of their work. I believe that this state of things is not without relation to a fact which often meets us in America. Your great business men desire to make a great deal of money, but when they have gained this money they also know the old saying “Noblesse oblige,” [Rank imposes obligation]. It is of the greatest im- portance for your science, for your industry and for the pro- gress, welfare and prosperity of this country, that it is so. I know how to fully appreciate this, because The Carlsberg Institution in my homeland is founded upon the same basis. I have had several inquiries about the nature and character of The Carlsberg Laboratories, and therefore I think it will not be amiss at this time to tell you a little about the Carlsberg institutions. The Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen was founded in 1847 by the brewer, Captain J. C. Jacobsen, and later on enlarged by union with “The New Carlsberg Brewery,” founded by his son, the “young” Jacobsen, Carl Jacobsen. A son of Carl Jacobsen, Vagn Jacobsen, is now a Director of The United Carls- berg Breweries, the managing Director being P. C. Poulsen.