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Edward Livingston Youmans, Interpreter of Science for the People
- 1894
…time of my first visit lo Youmans, tn thts very street and within a stone’s throw rom where [ now sit writing ; and as the last of this memorial …surroundings of which he had not the slightest experience, friendless, stone-blind, baffled in his hopes of the infirmary, how should he make a …Story the triumphs of ob- servers, explorers, experimenters, and philosophers. At once brother and sister began the work of gather- * In this …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 31 Number 1
- 2013 (Spring)
… of Sweden.” But Cavendish was a rarity: she was a female natural philosopher—what we would today call a scientist. Cavendish was one of the first …chemical extracted from the nut of the tung tree and used to give wood and stone a durable surface, is used to make a pun about politicians talking …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 27 Number 2
- 2009 (Summer)
…Despite this long history, it was not until 1763 that the Reverend Edward Stone of the Royal Society of London conducted one of the first clinical …Inspired by Enlightenment beliefs in reason and 18th-century natural philosophers were seeking to unlock nature’s mysteries, y ® la e 6 r ° e 4s y…
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemical Heritage Foundation, Science and state, Nuclear energy, Aspirin, Airships
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 27 Number 1
- 2009 (Spring)
… designated the development of aqueous acrylic emulsion tech- : ile Stones nology by Rohm and Haas as a National Historic Chemical Landmark on …town famous as the American home of British theologian and natural philosopher Joseph Priestley from 1794 to 1804. Jackson had arrived in 1813,…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 17 Number 1
- 1999 (Spring)
…chemists, among them Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Joseph Macquer, and philosophers including Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot, the garden was …NY Henry C. Stevens, Akron, OH David W. Stewart, Rochester, NY Herman Stone, Williamsville, NY M. Robert Stoner, Vermillion, SD Charles E. Stoops…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 21 Number 2
- 2003 (Summer)
…prosperity of the early and mid-20th century. Documents of an important mile- stone in ACS history, the stamps and envelope complement the many col- lections …” he begins by explaining the claim of the French En- lightenment philosopher Montesquieu that only the labor of human beings creates lasting …
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A Professor's Theory and It's Practical Uses: The Work of J. Willard Gibbs & Some Applications to Industry
- 1939
…Lud- wig Boltzmann, characterized him as ‘‘the greatest synthetic philosopher since Newton. ” … the principles first enunciated by Gibbs became a veritable Rosetta stone. These principles have since done equal service as each new internationally…
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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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Oral history interview with Roger E. Karess
- 1996-Apr-23 – 1996-Apr-26
…of museum. It had a cemetery. Some local hoodlums knocked down some stones a couple of years ago, and it made the news. So, you know, that kind …that is. Don’t get mad with me, but I don’t have much patience for philosophers who say, “What is truth?” I took one course in philosophy in college…
- Interviewee Karess, Roger E., 1955-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Karess, Roger E., 1955-, Reform Judaism, Oncogenic viruses, Reverse transcriptase, Retroviruses, RNA, Protein kinases, Oncogenes, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), Genetics, Drosophila, Discoveries in science, Biochemists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Jonathon Howard
- 1995-Jan-23 – 1995-Jan-25
…answer to that question. NOVAK: Now, those are questions that philosophers have posed for thousands of years as well. Had you taken any philosophy …protein subunits that make up the microtubule as being a little stepping-stone. And we know the path on that surface that the motor steps; the steps…
- Interviewee Howard, Jonathon, 1957-
- Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Howard, Jonathon, 1957-, Neurobiology, Photoreceptors, Hair cells, University of Washington, Kinesin, Myosin, Neurobiologists, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Gary H. Gibbons
- 2001-Feb-20 – 2001-Feb-22
… thoughts on the subject? GIBBONS: No, I'm not a good enough philosopher [mutual laughter] to opine on that. I guess I'd have to say that …sense that, "Okay, they're here." And again there weren't epithets or stones or police dogs or anything like that, but there was also a sense that…
- Interviewee Gibbons, Gary H., 1956-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Gibbons, Gary H., 1956-, Segregation, Cardiovascular system--Diseases, Cardiology, Stanford University, Morehouse School of Medicine, African Americans--Civil rights, Harvard Medical School, Renin-angiotensin system, Medical scientists, Scientists, Black
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Oral history interview with Stephen J. Elledge
- 1995-Aug-16 – 1995-Aug-18
… that, but in the late sixties, early seventies? Thomas Kuhn, the philosopher— ELLEDGE: No. I know of him, but no, I didn't. MAESTREJUAN …won't want to take the risks for fear that they'll miss the stepping stone and fall into the pond. [laughter] MAESTREJUAN: Yeah. Well, given…
- Interviewee Elledge, Stephen Joseph, 1956-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Elledge, Stephen Joseph, 1956-, Davis, Ronald W. (Ronald Wayne), 1941-, Cyclin-dependent kinases, Cell cycle, Cancer--Research, Baylor University. College of Medicine, Antioncogenes, Molecular cloning, Medical scientists
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Oral history interview with Charles E. Connor
- 2004-Jul-19 – 2004-Jul-20
…coded in the brain—as Ken has always said, it’s almost like a Rosetta Stone—you’d be able to look at neural activity and understand what was being … the Mitteleuropa Foundation, which is mainly a phenomenological philosophers and phenomenological cognitive science, so there’s this whole tradition…
- Interviewee Connor, Charles Edward, 1955-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Connor, Charles Edward, 1955-, Johns Hopkins University, Neurosciences, Artificial vision, Neural transmission, Brain--Data processing, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Neuroscientists, Medical scientists
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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 Eugene Garfield
- 1997-Jul-29
…his stuff, and his stuff is written really— GARFIELD: He’s a philosopher. Dogmatic? WILLIAMS: —sort of “devil take the hindmost” kind …What were the best papers on the way? What were some of the stepping stones? These were the kinds of things we had anticipated in our original …
- Interviewee Garfield, Eugene, 1925-2017
- Interviewer Williams, Robert V.
- Subject Citation indexes, Science--Abstracting and indexing, Garfield, Eugene, 1925-2017, Chemistry--Nomenclature, Chemistry--Notation, Information scientists, Information science, Communication in science, Technology--Abstracting and indexing, Information scientists--Biography, Humanities--Abstracting and indexing
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 1
- 2006 (Spring)
…. Edinburgh’s chemically trained natural- ists were keen to observe stones and rocks in their natural habitat, and their interest took them to …experiments in which he used water, fire, and acids to reduce stones to what he thought to be the most basic “primary” Earths: Vit- rescible … into limewater (a cure for blad- der stones), Black transferred the word gluten into the mineral realm by using…
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Einstein at 75
- 1954-Mar-14
…but, in a deep, per- sonal sense, a flesh-and-blood neighbor ‘ and philosopher of great kindness and compassion. To them he is never so detached …searches for the way, one recalls his words which have been etched in stone on a fireplace in Fine Hall: “Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, Aber Boshaft…
- Publisher New York times
- Author Samuels, Gertrude
- Subject Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955, New York times, Physicists, Newspapers
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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 24 Number 4
- 2006 (Winter)
…was normally found: namely, the metal [chin] radical for metals, the stone [shih] radical for solid nonmetals, or the water [shut] radical for …and the broader public has discovered Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Scholars now recognize that some of the most learned people in the … Spliethoff James M. Steel Daniel J. Steffek Lorraine Stetzel Herman Stone Joyce B. Storey Donald M. Stromquist Francis X. Sutman Robert D. Swain…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 26 Number 4
- 2008 (Winter)
…pile of 70-down Winter precipitation Latin for 8-across Semiprecious stone Miss Muffet & Jack Horner both did this Meat eater A kitchen necessity … first edition (1 686) of a rare trea- tise by the Jesuit natural philosopher Paulo Casati contains 13 dissertations on fire in oa logue form. …lectures— the first in June and another in Decem- ber—that marked stepping stones in his climb to an apex of scientific and social celebrity status in…
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Oral history interview with Elizabeth Dyer
- 1986-Oct-13
…library in Haverhill too. SKOLNIK: Did you ever read any of the philosophers by the time you were in high school? DYER: No. SKOLNIK: You never …but I started it as a freshman. I took general chemistry with Louisa Stone Stevenson, whom you have never heard of. She was a marvelous teacher … 30, 33 Skinner, Glenn S., 17 Spurlin, Harold, 19 Stevenson, Louisa Stone, 9 Sturtevant, Julian, 15 Styrene, 18-20, 23 Sun Oil Company, 14, …
- Interviewee Dyer, Elizabeth, 1906-1995
- Interviewer Skolnik, Herman
- Subject Women in science, Dyer, Elizabeth, 1906-1995, Chemistry, Polymers, University of Delaware, Women chemists, Chemists
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 3
- 2006 (Fall)
…1/th century, chymists AM TE ate 3 ‘Glohemists and those natural philosophers with an interest in - matter) had waxed enthusiastic about microscopy … systematic methods of the new empiricism to microscopy, natural philosophers hoped that the hidden, invisible (or occult) properties of matter …Administration Laws regulating food and drugs have been found chiseled into stone tablets dating from ancient Sumeria. Yet, as a remarkable set of speakers…
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The Fairy-Land of Science
- 1883
… …Fig. 29.—-GLACIER CARRYING DOWN STONES. See p. 119. Frontispiece. … in the Frontispiece, you will see that these stones come from those long lines of stones and boulders stretching along …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 32 Number 2
- 2014 (Summer)
…the air pump in front of a small audience of like- minded natural philosophers in Oxford and the widespread public, educational uses of air pumps … he thought the great philosopher would have written. One such creation was Albert’s Liber de mineralibus …mentioning two underground exhalations, a “dry smoke” that produces stones and a “watery vapor” that produces metals. Flesh- ing out this explanation…
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The Hercules Mixer Volume 4, Number 4
- 1922-Apr
…impels, Of labors and battles galore, The myriad ages before. And the stone in our towers that soar, How Hercules conquers and quells, But what …rubbed, gave its owner anything he ‘desired — silver, gold, precious stones, fine build- ings, and fair gar- dens. Dynamite also does the bid- …times Job mentions that iron and gold and silver were mined. Precious stones were also obtained. We know, too, that gold was mined by Solomon 2 …