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Portrait of Samuel P. Massie
- Circa 1987
…Black and white portrait of Samuel P. Massie (1919-2005). Massie was an African American …
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Atomic Bomb Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT Dropped on Japanese Port
- 1945-Aug-06
…In the army 16 years, he was employed previously by the Chattanooga Portrait Company. Sgt. Freeman graduated from the East Lake Junior High School…
- Publisher Chattanooga News - Free Press
- Subject World War (1939-1945), Atomic bomb, Racism in mass media, Racism, Nuclear weapons, Japan
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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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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…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 26 Number 4
- 2008 (Winter)
…Antwerp. There William commissioned two Flemish artists to create a portrait of his wife; Abraham Jansz van Diepenbeeck made the drawing, and Pieter …arranged the printing of Margaret’s books in London, commis- sioned this portrait in Belgium, and likely wrote this poem, the fo- cused eyes of the ……
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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 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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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 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 29 Number 1
- 2011 (Spring)
… …WILLIAMS HAYNES PORTRAIT COLLECTION, CHF COLLECTIONS Driving Forces STORIES FROM CHF’'S COMMUNITY … bride. Providing such portraits before marriage was a common practice during the Renaissance. But…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 27 Number 3
- 2009 (Fall)
…join them in support of the Chemical Heritage Foundation The Shannon portrait of the Hon. Robert Boyle F.D.S. (1691), by Johann Kerseboom. OUR PURPOSE …considered one of the most suc- cessful in the world. Seascapes and portraits were the Boston-born Munsell’s subjects of choice. He attended the …activity of the Dow Chemical Company. # Herbert H. Dow, 1897 [left] A portrait of Dow taken the year he founded the Dow Chemical Company. Believing…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 28 Number 1
- 2010 (Spring)
…toxicity testing of drugs before ee ane Sob Eee CREE ae ieee wed A portrait of Gerhard Domagk by Otto Dix, 1953. marketing. In response Congress … of Ward’s other Vanity Fair illustrations, in- cluding “Steel,” a portrait of Sir Henry Bessemer, and “Natural Philosophy,” a car- icature of…
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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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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 28 Number 2
- 2010 (Summer)
…daguerreotype within a week of hearing the news, the real test was to take a portrait. Draper’s sister, Dorothy, was his model and had to stay absolutely still for almost a minute. Though Alexander S. Wolcott won the portrait race, Draper was the first American to master the form. In 1841 Draper … …[OPPOSITE] BATES COLLEGE 1 NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM Portrait of the Knox family. Parents William J. Knox, Sr. and Es- tella J. …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 27 Number 2
- 2009 (Summer)
… …oF : x Sx: we * a as. ae - ¢ £ [LEFT] A portrait of Max Perutz, drawn by Nobel laureate Willia John Kendrew examine … scholars a generation from now. Her book is a convincing personal portrait of Max Perutz and one that enriches our understanding of scientific…
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemical Heritage Foundation, Science and state, Nuclear energy, Aspirin, Airships
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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 28 Number 3
- 2010 (Fall)
… In 1859 Edouard Manet painted The Absinthe Drinker, a re- alistic portrait of a street bum clad in rags and wearing a gnarled top hat, his left …. We share some of his self-satisfaction as he commissions a large portrait following his scientific triumphs of the early 1660s and distributes …Techniques”: thematic collections ranging from gold, silver, and mosaics to portrait miniatures to photography. As the umbrella title suggests, these collections…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 27 Number 1
- 2009 (Spring)
… …The distinguished innovators and entrepreneurs of the The Shannon portrait of the Hon. Robert Boyle F.D.S. (1691), by Johann Kerseboom. Our PURPOSE … the trans- lucence of flesh, one of the challenges of portrait painting. Encaustic is a beeswax-based painting medium that is kept…
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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 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 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 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 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 ……