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Oral history interview with Vishva M. Dixit
- 2022-Feb-28
- 2022-Apr-18
…like, you should Google it. Red carpets. Clean. Quiet. Sterile. Big portraits of famous physicians hanging from the walls. Carpeted. I was just…
- Interviewee Dixit, Vishva
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Schneider, Sarah, 1991-
- Subject Emigration and immigration, Physicians, Molecular biology, Apoptosis, Cancer--Research, Genentech, Inc., Biotechnology, University of Michigan. Medical School, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Thrombospondins, Cancer--Treatment, Dixit, Vishva
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 3
- 2018
… his illness in a series of paintings and sketches, including Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu (1919). In 2011 the case of a two-year-old suffer…
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 2
- 2018
…INSTITUTE oe Ce COREE Re ee Sees See ee ESS A copy of Eugene Montgomery’s portrait of engineer Vannevar Bush, which accompanied Bush’s 1955 article for …access to the same archive of clip art. Often these are straightforward portraits, but occasionally some- thing appears that is weird enough to be …
- Publisher Science History Institute
- Subject Science History Institute, Opioids, Opioid abuse, Digestion, Gastrointestinal system
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 1
- 2018
…intertwined and tumultuous. |O Sketch of a Scientist The story behind a portrait of Nobel Prize— winning biochemist Dorothy Hodgkin. GALLERY 2. A Sorry … between the Tory prime minister and the socialist artist. At the portrait’s official unveiling in 1954 Churchill smilingly described it as “a ……
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Distillations, Volume 3 Number 3
- 2017 (Fall)
… …A Portrait of Violence Thank you for your story on Rolf Dessauer and his family … a more independent life. She accepted. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON…
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Distillations, Volume 3 Number 2
- 2017 (Summer)
…pleased to learn that a number of years earlier Voigt had painted a portrait of the physician and scientist Paul Ehrlich for a magazine article … and held him in great esteem, commissioned Voigt to reproduce the portrait as an oil painting. Adolf’s purchase was notable in part because the …Rolf, who had a successful career as a chemist at DuPont, gave the portrait to CHF. But the painting he donated is dif- ferent in crucial ways…
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Distillations, Volume 2 Number 4
- 2017 (Winter)
…face, of his curious ways, of his eerie trick of spotting details.” A portrait of Bell hangs in the museum; with his direct stare and boyish face…
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Distillations, Volume 2 Number 3
- 2016 (Fall)
…, still lifes of bright oranges and blooming sunflowers, and Dutch portraits of long-dead patrons. She turns a corner and sud- denly encounters…
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Distillations, Volume 2 Number 1
- 2016 (Spring)
…They wanted someone to at least paint the tie black or put the whole portrait in the basement so nobody sees it. I suppose that will happen soon…
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Oral history interview with Martin Karplus
- 2015-Dec-09
- 2016-Mar-04
- 2016-May-25
…gotten into trouble, once I wanted to submit some of the photographs, portrait photographs, and they asked me did I have permission. I said, “Well…
- Interviewee Karplus, Martin, 1930-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Eardley-Pryor, Roger
- Subject Karplus, Martin, 1930-, Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory, Quadrupole moments, Harvard University, Biology, Nobel Prize winners, Bird watching, Molecular dynamics, Photography
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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 3
- 2015 (Fall)
…the moment in his autobiography: When we had arrived in front of the portrait, I pointed it out as the object to which I solicited the Prince’s … not an engraving.” The prince had seen another copy of Jacquard’s portrait, based on a painting by Claude Bonnefond, and knew its secret. As …and Company used approximately 24,000 cards to produce the Jacquard portrait that had caught Babbage’s eye. Babbage realized that this new loom…
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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 2
- 2015 (Summer)
… …FABIAN BACHRACH/WILLIAMS HAYNES PORTRAIT COLLECTION, OTHMER LIBRARY, CHF Im deca il of HUN! Im called. | Silly …invited a young Finnish artist, Albert Edelfelt, to paint a large formal portrait. They had become close friends a few years earlier through Pasteur…
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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 1
- 2015 (Spring)
… …NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LEFT An etching of Charles Blagden …soothing ointment called Russian Salve. Uncle Sam shakes his fist at a portrait of King Andy, as the president was mockingly called. Johnson was widely…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 32 Number 3
- 2014 – 2015 (Fall/Winter)
… …Hall Monitor In this summer’s magazine we wrote about a portrait of Charles II that resides in the halls of CHF (“King in the Hall, … New York. By 1854 he 18 CHEMICAL HERITAGE Fall 2014/Winter 2015 A portrait of Edward Robinson Squibb, pharma- ceutical pioneer, that hangs in…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 32 Number 2
- 2014 (Summer)
… England. He was in such demand that assistants often finished the portraits he began, as is likely the case with this painting of Charles I. …Davy, and Michael Faraday. Another con- nection indirectly links the portrait to CHF: one of Lely’s apprentices was Robert Hooke, who went on to …CHEMICAL HERITAGE Summer 2014 of forensic-based crime fiction. © NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 32 Number 1
- 2014 (Spring)
…business cards, and sent many, LL LL TA ST TL ST IT TET ISTE STIS] This portrait of Howard Bishop was found tucked inside a menu for a Sterling Products …RADIOISOTOPES IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE ANGELA N. H. CREAGER “A striking portrait of the emergence of Cold War science. The book contributes to a growing …- ness the atom is history of science at its best: a crystal clear portrait of just how untidy the impacts of science can be.” Science “The Manhattan…
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Oral history interview with Gábor Somorjai
- 2014-Jan-30 – 2014-Jan-31
…pieces. And he focused on [Gustav] Klimt, you know, the gold lady [Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I]. It is a fantastic museum. And they have an…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 31 Number 1
- 2013 (Spring)
…Cavendish | wrote, “Though Bodyes mortal be, the Soul’s divine.” NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY; CHF COLLECTIONS; WIKIMEDIA; BEINECKE RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT …be proven. Specula- tions are hard to repress, however, and one win Portrait of Niccolo Paganini by Edwin Landseer. such inspires the title of …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 30 Number 3
- 2012 (Fall)
…Bs 5 Oi st ee A depiction of Jabir ibn Hayyan, after a 15th century portrait. Experiments involved such methods as distillation, crystallization…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 30 Number 2
- 2012 (Summer)
…the surface of ponds, and flowers droop by the roadside. This grim portrait, first published 50 years ago, gripped readers, urging them to take…
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemical Heritage Foundation, Neon, Vitamins, Vanadium ores
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 30 Number 1
- 2012 (Spring)
…light. Certain U.S. denomi- nations have magnetic ink embedded in the portraits of founding fathers, and other countries use ink swatches that shift …Prize in 1908, it did so in chemistry. And now Rutherford’s mustached portrait peers out from the New Zealand $100 bill—a portrait imbued with, and…
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Oral history interview with Jean H. Futrell
- 2012-Oct-28 (First session)
- 2012-Oct-29 (Second session)
…at a very famous club in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania]. They had more portraits of Yankee generals than I ever expected to see in my life. [laughter…
- Interviewee Futrell, J.H.
- Interviewer Grayson, Michael A.
- Subject University of Utah, Mass spectrometers, University of Delaware, Mass spectrometry
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Oral history interview with Rolf Dessauer
- 2012-Aug-07 – 2012-Aug-08
- 2012-Oct-01
…Opfer der Schoa (Nuremberg: Nuremberg City Archives, 1998). "Group portrait of students at the Juedische Realschule in Fuerth with their teacher…
- Interviewee Dessauer, Rolf, 1926-
- Interviewer Hunter, Sarah L., 1985, Domush, Hilary
- Subject E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Chemists, Chemistry--Research, Chemistry, Technical, Research, Industrial, Photochemistry, Photopolymers--Industrial applications, Dessauer, Rolf, 1926-, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Gabriel Schmergel
- 2011-Dec-15
- 2012-Sep-18
…Okay. THACKRAY: It’s extraordinary, Gabe. You’ve painted this portrait of two halves of your life so far: the Hungarian one world, then translation…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 29 Number 2
- 2011 (Summer)
…Germany’s William Crookes, chemist and physicist, in a 1903 Vanity Fair portrait. Earlier in his life, Crookes engaged in a feud over thallium with …Redniss opens the story with Pierre’s birth in 1859. The half-page portrait ac- companying the introductory text reveals a soft-eyed man holding…