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Chemical Heritage, Volume 21 Number 4
- 2003 (Winter)
…Rangaswamy Srinivasan James M. Steel Henry C. Stevens John T. Stock Fred W. Stone M. Robert Stoner Top: Guests enjoy a close-up look at a flaming demonstration …Stiver Alan F. Weir Walter H. Stockmayer Patricia H. Weisberg Herman Stone Judith Weiss Joyce B. Storey Percy A. Wells* Donald M. Stromquist Rick …Jr. Dean Ray Stafford Basil G. Staples Heinz W. Sternberg Stanley S. Stone Michael T. Tanouye Luh C. Tao Arthur L. Thomas Charles A. Thomas, Jr…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 1
- 2005 (Spring)
…Sessions Future Energy Sources Job Rijssenbeek, GE Global Research Charles Stone, Ballard Power Systems Paul Clark, NOVA Chemicals (moderator) Health …paradigm shift” is supposed to be. Most of these “concepts” and “mile- stones” in fact merely name vast re- search areas and lengthy eras. The editors …. Bensted, John; Nichola J. Coleman. “Cement and Concrete—from Their Stone Age Origins.” Education in Chemistry 41 (2004), 126-129. Chang, Hasok…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 20 Number 2
- 2002 (Summer)
… …it Cali pts De U.0 coe POTTER and the Philosopher's Stone Departments 2. Editorial Chemical Heritage Surveyed 3 Our …Dioscorides 42 Historian at Work: Harry Potter, Nicolas Flamel, and the Philosophers’ Stone 43 Meetings and Conferences: Chemical History at HSS 2001…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 14 Number 2
- 1997 (Summer)
… In developing Kem-Tone, the Sherwin-Williams chemists—Nathan E. Van Stone, James V. Hunn, and Donald A. Kohr, Jr.—emulsified the traditional …obtained by sending a $20.00 check, made out to Clemson University to D. B. Stone, 206 Sikes Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-5170. The conference … the majority of speakers were chemists rather than professional philosophers. Not that philosophers failed to con- tribute significantly. Jeff…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 26 Number 2
- 2008 (Summer)
…apparently only edition (1810) of this de- tailed study of the use of pearl stone from the _ Eugenean Hills i in glass making. PAUL EHRLICH, Das Sauerstoff-Bediirfniss …cruel, to us today. But Robert Boyle, the famous 17th-century natural philosopher, posed these and many other questions in his General Heads for the…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 2
- 2005 (Summer)
…Privilege dis Roy. CI Found in the Othmer Library A Possible Link to the Philosopher’s Stone seemingly occult experiences that he became ill. After his …finally learned the nature of the “prime material,” from which the philosopher’s stone— with its ability to transmute base metals into gold and …ransacked by hordes searching for the alleged key to his wealth, the philosopher’s stone. It was In real life, Nicolas Flamel (1330-— 1418), a Paris…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 19 Number 2
- 2001 (Summer)
…delivering, ahead of schedule, the most visible and spectacular mile- stone of all in the project to map the human genome. This achievement was …skilled adminis- trator, an adept organizer, a world-class sportsman, a philosopher, and a humani- tarian.” Born in Pennsylvania to a Quaker couple, …’s Advisory Board. Focusing on the con- tributions of the chemist-philosopher Michael Polanyi, she showed how the shift from treating science …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 25 Number 4
- 2007 (Winter)
…somewhat theoretical question. In the 17th century the German natural philosopher Johannes Kepler hypothesized that the symmetry of snowflakes must …that would admit them to the all-male Central High School, the crowning stone in the arch of the city’s public education system. CHEMICAL HERITAGE …frescoes, and techniques to remove oil and stains from marble and other stone. has been used continually since the 1300s, the red was not help- ful…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 3
- 2005 (Fall)
…debate. The second day saw three panels of papers from historians, philosophers, sociologists, and communications scholars on the histories of various …explained how Genentech got started and discussed some of the mile- stones on the way to it becoming the largest biotechnology company in the … and every new product was enthusiastically embraced as a step- ping stone to a better life. After four years of wartime priva- tions and a somewhat…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 13 Number 2
- 1996 (Summer)
…Small Organic Molecules to Large: A Century of Progress. 1992. E.G. A Stone. Leaving No Stone Unturned: Pathways in Organometallic Chemistry. 1993 …There was no fume hood, but there was another little annex that held a stone water basin which fed the two water taps in the lab, and a door was …two hundred hiero- glyphic symbols and helped decipher the ' Rosetta stone. Photograph courtesy Mary | Virginia Orna. “Declaration of Students…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 26 Number 1
- 2008 (Spring)
… a worthy, enlightened alchemist the secret of how to create the philosophers’ stone, a substance that could turn common metals into gold. The stories woven around recipes for the philosophers’ stone, both in texts and through images, for the most part have …Prelog (1906-1998)— appear in both photographs shown here. A prominent stone-block building serves as the backdrop. With them in the bottom photo…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 19 Number 3
- 2001 (Fall)
…34:1 (Mar. 2001), 29-50. A. T. Baker; I. D. Rae. “More Than Bugs and Stones: Chemistry in the Royal Society of New South Wales. “Historical Records …matéria. Florianépolis, Brazil: Papa-Livro, 1999. Peter Marshall. The Philosopher’s Stone: A Quest for the Secrets of Alchemy. London: Macmillan, 2001 … Porto. “Michael Sendivogius on Nitre and the Preparation of the Philosopher’s Stone.” Ambix 48 (Mar. 2001), 1-16. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Jaap …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 14 Number 1
- 1996 (Winter)
…fire to forge iron tools to the medieval alchemists’ search for the philosopher's stone, the secrets of the elements have been pursued by human civilization …aspects of the career of the Renaissance mathematician, magus, natural philosopher, imperial propagandist, and alchemist John Dee—was a signal success …whole, and outlined the continued interest in Dee and other occult philosophers among anti-Calvinist clergymen of the sev- enteenth century. The…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 20 Number 4
- 2002 (Winter)
…age 15 until his death at 71. (The brewery of John Joule and Sons at Stone in Staffordshire was producing Joule’s Stone Ale at least into the …Stanitski Richard O. Steele Charlene J. Steinberg John T. Stock Fred W. Stone M. Robert Stoner R. Philemon Stout Michael E. Strem James S. Strong …G. Stearns Vernon A. Stenger Henry C. Stevens Jack H. Stocker Herman Stone Stanley S. Stone Andrew Streitwieser Donald M. Stromquist Lee A. Subluskey…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 21 Number 1
- 2003 (Spring)
…Ernest Rutherford, J. J. Thom- son, John Tyndall, and Charles Wheat- stone. One book, Rudolf Clausius’s copy of Sadi Carnot’s Réflexions sur la …using natural materials. Animal skins formed cloth- ing and housing, stones served as tools and weapons, and wood fueled fires for cooking meat …advising on min- ing projects, and selling recipes for the precious philosophers’ stone. These workaday alchemists’ wide-ranging skills found a ready…
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Oral history interview with Thomas C. Alber
- 1993-Mar-15
- 1993-Apr-09
- 1993-Jul-16
- 1993-Jul-23
- 1993-Jul-28 – 1993-Jul-29
- 1993-Dec-15
…looked out on the garden and the sun coming in, moss had grown on the stones. It's an image, I think, that's very non-Western in that sense. And …yeah, it was fine, but at the time, it looked like there was a lot of stone, and when I-- On the plane, when we took off from Logan [International … HATHAWAY: Who were they? Were they historians? I mean, a mix of philosophers, scientists, biologists? ALBER: Dick [Richard G.] Olson, history…
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A Tale of Soap and Water
- 1928
…the signs of their presence—the bones of animals they had eaten, the stone and flint tools which they had made, the charred sticks of fires which … they threw water over the hot stones until the room was full of steam. They beat each other with bundles …bath they descended through this hole, taking with them several heated stones and jugs of water. After they were seated they threw water on the stones…
- Author Hallock, Grace T. (Grace Taber), 1893-
- Publisher Cleanliness Institute
- Subject Hygiene, Bathing customs in literature, Baths, Soap
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Various works including Lucidarium artis transmutationis metallorum, extracts from the Sommeta and Violetta, and Epistola
- Transmutation de' mettali
- 1557
…first book, Lucidarium, is theoretical, including definitions of the philosophers’ stone or elixir, the possibility of transmutation of imperfect …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 15 Number 2
- 1998 (Spring)
… fire assay. The touchstone, a black fine- grained slightly abrasive stone, is used to obtain a streak from the object under test. The color of …Riddle opened his account of premodern treatment of cancers by quoting Stone (Isis 76 [1985], 1916-69). “Ancient and Medieval Chemother- apy for Cancer” also proves Stone correct as Riddle outlines the history of cancer chemo- therapy by …
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Oral history interview with George A. Olah
- 2000-Feb-03
…but it is an alchemist's story. He wants to make gold, using the philosopher's stone. The second part of Faust, which he wrote much later in his …things. His conclusion is that whereas attempts to make gold with the philosopher's stone failed, wealth was really achieved in a different way, through…
- Interviewee Olah, George A. (George Andrew), 1927-2017
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Traynham, James G.
- Subject University of Southern California, Dow Chemical Company, Chemists, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, Chemists--Biography, Nobel Prize winners, Olah, George A. (George Andrew), 1927-2017, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Herbert Morawetz
- 1986-Apr-01
… might turn up. He was often compared to the Platonic idea of the philosopher-king. He had been a professor of philosophy. In retrospect, one …Nature of the Chain Backbone," ibid., A-2, 9 (1971): 1657-1658. Irwin M. Stone, Philip P. Gray and Herbert Morawetz, "Production of Stable Malt Beverages…
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Oral history interview with Orlando Aloysius Battista
- 1992-Feb-23
…They never knew each other before they met in Canada. My father was a stone mason by trade and he worked for the Canadian government all his life …the ACS, sponsored by the Phillips Petroleum Company, and I told Clem Stone that I would be able to stop in Chicago en route to Denver and bring …buildings. They committed billions of dollars around the world, and Clem Stone had guaranteed to back them up with major financial support. He said…
- Interviewee Battista, O. A. (Orlando Aloysius), 1917-1995
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Hemostasis, Surgical, American Viscose Corporation, O. A. Battista Research Institute, Psychotropic drugs, Viscose process, Battista, O. A. (Orlando Aloysius), 1917-1995, Cellulose--Chemistry, FMC Corporation, University of Texas, Microcrystalline polymers, Chemists--Biography, Emigration and immigration
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Oral history interview with Pradip Raychaudhuri
- 1997-Nov-01 – 1997-Nov-02
… religions preach. There are people who are well-respected Hindu philosophers. They're, again, like this person [Swarupananda]. Being a scientist …do not study the basic science--the biology of it--we'll be throwing stones in the dark when it comes to thinking about disease--how to treat patients…
- Interviewee Raychaudhuri, Pradip, 1958-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Raychaudhuri, Pradip, 1958-, Medicine--Research, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Enzymology, Cancer--Research, Antioncogenes, Proteins--Research, Drug resistance in cancer cells, Emigration and immigration
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Dynamite Stories and Some Interesting Facts about Explosives
- 1916
…, is one of the most virulent of poisons. Both of these workmen were stone dead in less time than it has taken to tell this story of their fatal …over which I had been walking, cut a rail off, saw it strike the old stone fort beyond me, and ricochet high into the air. There was an immediate shower of stones and débris falling around me, which I dex- terously dodged. On examining…
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Oral history interview with Lee W. Riley
- 1997-Dec-29 – 1997-Dec-31
…Thailand the third time, you know I realized I couldn’t do much as a philosopher either in Thailand. [laughs] So that’s when I decided to go to medical …practicing clinician or--? RILEY: No, no, no. Use that as a stepping stone to doing international health, as I mentioned; go to the London School…
- Interviewee Riley, Lee W., 1949-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Riley, Lee W., 1949-, Public health, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Escherichia coli--Research, Tuberculosis--Research, Communicable diseases--Transmission, Tuberculosis--Pathogenesis