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Chemical Heritage, Volume 13 Number 1
- 1995 (Winter)
…been “Better things for better living through chemistry.” An unadorned stone marks Pierre Samuel's grave in Wilmington. A tribute from Thomas Jefferson …has also added an offprint of his personal reminiscences, “Stepping Stones,” to his own archive collection. The piece cov- ers his years in Munich …Eastman chemical engineering team that contruct- ed Building 9206 with Stone & Webster, and he found his old dormitory (M-8 Corning Hall) on the…
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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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Oral history interview with Rudolph E. Tanzi
- 1998-Nov-16 – 1998-Nov-18
- 1998-Nov-24
…blackout." And he didn't like that. I think he just looked at me completely stone-faced. But there was just the idea that I believed more in fate and …then that's now on the classic hits stations--[David] Bowie, [Rolling] Stones, Talking Heads, stuff like that. So I found a band. It was a punk band …band and half-cover band. We decided we had to play our share of the Stones and Bowie and Aerosmith and stuff to make some money, because you couldn…
- Interviewee Tanzi, Rudolph E.
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Tanzi, Rudolph E., Neurobiology, Neurobiologists, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Genetic disorders, Genetics--Research, Alzheimer's disease--Research
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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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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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Colour and Methods of Colour Reproductions
- 1923
…Aureolin. Greys and Bracxs——These are Cobalt yellow. often pulverized stone or carbon Permanent yellow. products, and are generally quite Lemon …immensely under the name of chromo-lithography. It was found that the stone, which is used for printing, could be grained so that when drawn on … was due to the skill of the artists who worked the drawings on the stones. At the present day chromo-lithography in that form has been superseded…
- Author Martin, L. C. (Louis Claude)
- Contributor Gamble, William, 1864-1933
- Publisher Blackie
- Subject Colors, Color printing, Color photography, Spectrum analysis, Light, Photometry, Diffraction, Color vision, Color blindness, Vision disorders
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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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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 1
- 2018
…occupational health haz- ards, such as dust from the grinding of flint stones, lead in glazes, and smoke. Priestley pitched in and tried to come …Bookworms were still annoying scholars 2,000 years later. Natural philosopher Robert Hooke devotes an engraving to the book- worms he studied ……
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 30 Number 2
- 2012 (Summer)
…expressed against stem-cell research,” says Kurzweil, “end up being stones in the water: the stream of progress just flows around them.” In that …strength of science. In the 1990s, historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science were pilloried as being anti- science for making claims …did science move into the immortality business, and at what cost? Philosopher John Gray, author of The Immortalization Commission: Science and…
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemical Heritage Foundation, Neon, Vitamins, Vanadium ores
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 28 Number 3
- 2010 (Fall)
…combine and transform. In his 1618 book, Atalanta fugiens, natural philosopher Michael Maier employs the then well- known myth about the reluctant …Boyle’s thoughts, where he went and when, how he became a natural philosopher, the way he organized his papers, what he ate for breakfast, and … display; an intriguing example shows the procedure for creating the stone mosaics in the gold, sil- ver, and mosaics gallery, a procedure as …
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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 1
- 2015 (Spring)
…rushed to Paris. One of the first was Charles Blagden—chemist, natural philosopher, and longtime Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Blagden, then …in the West as Rhazes, a medieval Persian physician, chemist, and philosopher. During the 10th century Rhazes developed a water-soluble version …” thoughts, motives, and obses- sions. This latest work is a Rosetta stone to the literary oeuvre of Djerassi—how to interpret his fictional body…
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Oral history interview with Lester F. Lau
- 1992-Nov-06 – 1992-Nov-08
…. It seems to me that, while there have been all these philosophers talking about the same issues, there hasn’t been all that much progress …certainly. I mean, I think that’s how Bertrand Russell and great philosophers of the twentieth century see what they’re doing as well. LAU …over a longer term. But it doesn’t offer you anything except, you know, stone-cold faces, evaluating very seriously. They take these meetings as …
- Interviewee Lau, Lester F., 1955-
- Interviewer Hathaway, Neil D.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Lau, Lester F., 1955-, Molecular biology, Genetic engineering, Yeast--Genetics, SV40 (Virus), Cell cycle--Regulation, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Medical School, College of Medicine at Chicago, Nucleotide sequence
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The Development of the Periodic Law
- 1896
…at the present time to be ranged among the poetic day dreams of a philosopher : to be regarded as some of the poetic illum- inations of the mental …Taking the elements next by groups, as given in Gmelin’s Handbook, Glad- stone found the numerical relations to be of three kinds. 1. The atomic weights … is impossible not to draw the attention of the critic and of the philosopher to the convenient trick, by the aid…
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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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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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Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Chemical Philosophy
- 1804
…They are composed of masses, which are either aggregates, or simple stones: granite, and the granitic rocks, the porphyries and sienites, are …to them are grunstein, schist- ose phorphyry, ‘toadstones, and sand- stones; and the simple rocks are lime- …6 stone, chalk, gypsum, ironstone, wacké, — and secondary schist; and these…
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 2
- 2018
… …CREAR i COLLECTIONS : Alan Stones’s oil painting of the fermentation room at the Eli Lilly subsidiary …frank depiction of anatomy and its questioning of classical Greek philosopher and physician Galen. To investigate this idea he worked with the…
- Publisher Science History Institute
- Subject Science History Institute, Opioids, Opioid abuse, Digestion, Gastrointestinal system
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Dyestuffs, Volume 23 Number 1
- 1922-Jan
…Reprinted from Asia, The American Magazine on the Orient NE of the old philosophers said that there are only five fundamental principles which underlie …. Whether this is so or not, and whether words of the still older philosopher “There is no new thing under the sun” are true, it 1s certain that … mankind. Linen was known and used by the Swiss Lake dwellers in the Stone Age, and in Genesis we are told that it was employed for robing the…
- Creator Of Work Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation. National Aniline Division
- Subject Dyes and dyeing, Periodicals, Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation. National Aniline Division, Dye industry, Textile fabrics, Dyes and dyeing--Chemistry, Dyes and dyeing--Textile fibers, Textile industry, Silk industry, Dyes and dyeing--Silk
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Spectrum Analysis: Six Lectures, Delivered in 1868, Before the Society of Apothecaries of London
- 1873
…colourless flame three feet long. If I hold in this flame pieces of pumice-stone moistened with solutions of the chlorides of sodium, potassium, lithium …. It was, however, chiefly through the expe:iments of the Swedish philosopher Angstrom, that we gained an intimate knowledge of the nature of …surprised at the si Fig. 80. accuracy of the observing powers of those philosophers who have given us this information.- By means of this beautiful …
- Author Roscoe, Henry E. (Henry Enfield), 1833-1915
- Publisher Macmillan & Co.
- Contributor Bunsen, R. (Robert), 1811-1899, Kirchhoff, G. (Gustav), 1824-1887
- Printer R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Electronic excitation, X-ray spectroscopy, Alkalies, Alkaline earth metals, Scientific illustration
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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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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 3
- 2018
…vapor does not form salt water again when it condenses.” However, the philosopher never suggested such a process should be used to create drinking …geometric designs and inscribed massive geoglyphs into hillsides with stone. They also practiced the art of mummification, just as other South …the one Reed used to differentiate between clade A and clade B lice, Stone- king determined that clothing lice diverged from head lice between…
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Chemistry : a Text-Book for High Schools
- Macmillan's Canadian School Series
- 1917
… …JOHN DALTON (1766-1844) English chemist and natural philosopher. He was the son of a poor weaver. He spent twelve years as an assistant …Eccentric wheel. is a diagrammatic representation of the apparatus. The stone cell is six feet long, three feet wide, and six inches high. Near each…
- Author Cornish, George Anthony, 1901-1989
- Contributor Smith, Arthur
- Publisher Macmillan Company of Canada
- Subject Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Chemistry--Study and teaching (Secondary), Education, Secondary, Science--Study and teaching, Cornish, George Anthony, 1901-1989, Textbooks, Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829, McCarthy, J. P. (Joseph Priestly), 1933-1995, Ramsay, William, 1852-1916, Dalton, John, 1766-1844, Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867, Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794, Cavendish, Henry, 1731-1810
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Oral history interview with John E. Woolston
- 2001-Nov-19 – 2001-Nov-21
…managing a service. I think it was on tropical fruits. But he was also a philosopher. He was also somebody who [. . .] thought very deeply about what … became Deputy Director. IDRC had [recruited] a lady [. . .] Martha Stone [. . .]. I don’t really know [. . .] the circumstances [of] her coming … 85, 86, 88 STI. See Scientific and Technical Information Division Stone, Martha, 87, 88, 89 Syria, 57, 90 T Tell, Bjorn, 54 Tennessee, …
- Interviewee Woolston, John E.
- Interviewer Rayward, W. Boyd
- Subject Woolston, John E., 1924-2017, Mass spectrometry, Nuclear physics, Science publishing, Information science, INIS (Information retrieval system)
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Oral history interview with Stephen Buratowski
- 2001-Jun-11 – 2001-Jun-13
… BURATOWSKI: Yeah, yeah. Keyboard. Well, the organ was a stepping stone and then what I really wanted was a synthesizer. So this is now probably …something you enjoyed, so much the better. You know, it was a stepping stone, I guess, basically, in a career. And then for me, the academics and … it. You know, just say "Well, we'll let the politicians and the philosophers debate about whether this is a good thing or not." COHEN: …
- Interviewee Buratowski, Stephen, 1962-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Buratowski, Stephen, 1962-, Khoury, George, Recombinant DNA, Sharp, Phillip A., Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School, Biology--Research
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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…