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Chemical Heritage, Volume 19 Number 2
- 2001 (Summer)
…schedule, the most visible and spectacular mile- stone of all in the project to map the human genome. This achievement was led by two individuals—one …adept organizer, a world-class sportsman, a philosopher, and a humani- tarian.” Born in Pennsylvania to a Quaker couple, Price entered Swarthmore …chemical bonding. To an audience mainly of philosophers, Eric Scerri (UCLA) presented a philosophi- cal analysis of whether atomic orbitals were…
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 1
- 2018
…ards, such as dust from the grinding of flint stones, lead in glazes, and smoke. Priestley pitched in and tried to come up with a way of provid …annoying scholars 2,000 years later. Natural philosopher Robert Hooke devotes an engraving to the book- worms he studied under early microscopes ……
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The Hercules Mixer Volume 4, Number 4
- 1922-Apr
…battles galore, The myriad ages before. And the stone in our towers that soar, How Hercules conquers and quells, But what is the force that dispels …hardly say that, because some of the greatest philosophers, greatest scientists, ereatest engineers, statesmen, musicians, painters, explorers, orators …iron and gold and silver were mined. Precious stones were also obtained. We know, too, that gold was mined by Solomon 2 |…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 30 Number 2
- 2012 (Summer)
…selected a group of historians, biologists, and philosophers to workshop biological individuality from their different viewpoints. They also invited …stem-cell research,” says Kurzweil, “end up being stones in the water: the stream of progress just flows around them.” In that sense the video-game …the 1990s, historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science were pilloried as being anti- science for making claims remarkably similar to…
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemical Heritage Foundation, Neon, Vitamins, Vanadium ores
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 29 Number 3
- 2011 – 2012 (Fall/Winter)
… consumer culture. Humphry Davy, Chemical Philosopher By Richard Holmes There was a time when chemistry was seen as the civilizing science—a …into artificial ivory or coral, semiprecious stones, and tortoiseshell, which was especially in demand for hair combs and eyeglass frames. Early …kinds of questions a 16th-century natural philosopher would have to consider before writing a treatise on witches. Today, say there are real …
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Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical, and Analytical, as Applied and Relating to the Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 1
- 1860
… advisable. In the one case, a flat circular stone rotates and crushes beneath it the malt, which flows between it and a lower fixed stone: in … …60 ALCOHOL——MAsHING. stones grind all the raw grain; while the malt is passed through a crushing-mill, consisting of two…
- Author Muspratt, Sheridan, 1821-1871
- Publisher Mackenzie, William
- Contributor Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893
- Engraver Cook, Conrad
- Subject Chemistry, Technical, Chemistry--Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Science--Study and teaching, Science--Encyclopedias, Science--Terminology
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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 1
- 2015 (Spring)
…first was Charles Blagden—chemist, natural philosopher, and longtime Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Blagden, then aged 53, was serving …whereas ancient thinkers, such as Chinese philosopher and poet Lao-tzu, extolled self-knowledge as a route to spiritual growth, today we seek … obses- sions. This latest work is a Rosetta stone to the literary oeuvre of Djerassi—how to interpret his fictional body of literature. In the…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 32 Number 3
- 2014 – 2015 (Fall/Winter)
…from the costly and semiprecious lapis lazuli stone, synthetic ultramarines were in wide use by 1830. The Kohn- stamms manufactured ultramarine … for the worst criminals? Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and father of Utilitarianism, took steps to change the stigma and fear that most people … begun. It was an important scientific mile- stone, even though the 184-pound satellite only carried a radio transmitter. Just as significant…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 29 Number 2
- 2011 (Summer)
…Lives Going Dutch Books to Note End Product A stone church in Centreville, Virginia, photo- graphed between the two battles of Bull Run, July …Cali- fornia wineries. We dissolved the wine- stone and centrifuged it in caustic soda, filtered it, precipitated out the KHT with good old sulfuric … first pre- Joseph Black. intellectuals. Philosophers like David Hume and Adam Smith and natural philosophers like Black and James Hutton walked…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 13 Number 2
- 1996 (Summer)
…to Large: A Century of Progress. 1992. E.G. A Stone. Leaving No Stone Unturned: Pathways in Organometallic Chemistry. 1993. Bruce Merrifield. …, namely that chemists should be natural philosophers with a broader perspective and agenda than that of mere analysts; chemists explain physical …Pittsburgh), one of a small but growing band of philosophers of chemistry (see Chemical Heritage 13:1 [Winter 1995-96], 33), explored the conceptions…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 15 Number 2
- 1998 (Spring)
…exchanges of materials and ideas between natural philosophers and the instrument mak- ers. One such exchange is recorded in the twelve-year correspondence …founded in supersti- tions and stupidities, asked Stone. Researching old practices might reveal solutions to the medical obstacles of today—or at …of premodern treatment of cancers by quoting Stone (Isis 76 [1985], 1916-69). “Ancient and Medieval Chemother- apy for Cancer” also proves Stone…
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Dynamite Stories and Some Interesting Facts about Explosives
- 1916
…inventors and discoverers, scien- tists and philosophers, have been far in- ferior to the poets. The poets would have us believe that all the triumphs …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 … though their nascency had a priority on the Stone Age and they had been vouchsafed to us among the antediluvian survivors of Noah’s Ark. The…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 25 Number 2
- 2007 (Summer)
…and zinc ore, such as zinc carbonate calamine stone (ZnCO;). Upon reaching temperatures between 900°C and 1000°C, the zinc held by the calamine stone vapor- izes and is absorbed by the surrounding copper to form brass. Producing brass in this …disappeared. Raleigh sent a well-esteemed natural philosopher, Thomas Hariot, on a voyage to reconnoiter the area in 1584. We can infer from Hariot’s…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 15 Number 1
- 1997 (Fall)
…a brilliant practical chemist, was also a philosopher. During his period of collaboration with Ernest Rutherford in Canada, Rutherford was considered …This book integrates the socially conscious philosopher with the chemist. The author shows Soddy, even in his productive Glasgow years, begin- …Prize in physics, 1963), dies. 1 April Julian Stone reports in Applied Physics Letters on a new type of fiber made of quartz and filled with tetra…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 10 Number 1
- 1992 – 1993 (Winter)
…talk of Continued on next page Polychromatic stone and glass decoration at the main entrance of the RCA building in Rockefeller Center, New York …Volume 13 of Histoire du monde. Metzger, a philosopher as well as histo- @ CHEMICAL HERITAGE 10:1 WINTER 1992-93 rian, taught historians of science … visit to Hofmann’s grave (the present head- stone replaces a grander monument de- stroyed during the war) and general lec- tures on Hofmann’…
- Creator Of Work Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation
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Oral history interview with Herbert Morawetz
- 1986-Apr-01
…often compared to the Platonic idea of the philosopher-king. He had been a professor of philosophy. In retrospect, one might question the depth …" ibid., A-2, 9 (1971): 1657-1658. Irwin M. Stone, Philip P. Gray and Herbert Morawetz, "Production of Stable Malt Beverages," U.S. Patent "…
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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 Dista Products. In 1981 …anatomy and its questioning of classical Greek philosopher and physician Galen. To investigate this idea he worked with the astronomer Pierre- / Simon…
- Publisher Science History Institute
- Subject Science History Institute, Opioids, Opioid abuse, Digestion, Gastrointestinal system
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 20 Number 4
- 2002 (Winter)
…welcome his description as “the English natural philosopher.” True, his father was born in England, and Robert carried out all his major work there …at 71. (The brewery of John Joule and Sons at Stone in Staffordshire was producing Joule’s Stone Ale at least into the 1960s.) The business gave … Charlene J. Steinberg John T. Stock Fred W. Stone M. Robert Stoner R. Philemon Stout Michael E. Strem James S. Strong Mr. and Mrs. Rodney T.…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 18 Number 4
- 2000 (Winter)
…typical of her day. She collaborated with philosophers as well as historians and believed that the work of the historian was to clarify types …history. The daughter of a trader in precious stones, she first studied crystallography. After earning a diplome d’études supérieures in physics …Gadel Nathaniel B. Gouse Melvin Merken Herman Stone Wallis Gartside and Godfey F. Grail Phyllis Anderson Meyer —_—_ Gilbert J. Stork Lydia E. …
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 3
- 2018
…water again when it condenses.” However, the philosopher never suggested such a process should be used to create drinking water; he was merely describing …inscribed massive geoglyphs into hillsides with stone. They also practiced the art of mummification, just as other South American civilizations …differentiate between clade A and clade B lice, Stone- king determined that clothing lice diverged from head lice between 30,000 and 114,000 years…
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Oral history interview with O. Theodor Benfey
- 1991-May-24
- 1991-Jun-05
…studies and other work she was doing on kidney stones. She was a Quaker also, and I knew this, and people probably knew of my interest in her visit …History of Science, one reason being that a philosopher, Grimsley Hobbs, also from Guilford, was teaching a philosophy of science course, and later …for a steam engine to run massive wheels like stone mill wheels to crush ore to break out gold. North Carolina was the major gold-supplying region…
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Oral history interview with Rudolph E. Tanzi
- 1998-Nov-16 – 1998-Nov-18
- 1998-Nov-24
…And that's what some of these great early philosophers did. With their words and their explanations, they created a very usable pattern, which … things. So what we can learn from great philosophers like Lao Tzu or Buddha or Christ is that it's not only the substance of what you say or … We decided we had to play our share of the Stones and Bowie and Aerosmith and stuff to make some money, because you couldn’t play the clubs …
- 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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Isotopes
- 1922
…the second alternative never occurred to philosophers during the time when the decision hung in the balance—indeed it was far more likely to …the same total number of nuclear “ building stones.”’ Examples of this class are ionium and uranium Y. (3) Isotopes of the third class still …atoms appealed strongly to the mind of the philosopher and the physicist. Herbert Spencer, in his hypothesis of the constitution of matter, says…
- Author Aston, Francis William, 1877-1945
- Publisher Edward Arnold (Publishers)
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Isotopes, Neon, Mass spectrometry, Radioactivity
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Oral history interview with Athan Kuliopulos
- 2002-Dec-02 – 2002-Dec-04
…philosophy and she worked for this famous guy, a philosopher named [Daniel C.] Dennett. Dennett, I think his name is. VAN BENSCHOTEN: That’s not …someone else. KULIOPULOS: He’s a famous philosopher. I’m not a philosopher, but I have seen his name once in a while. It comes up. He’s one … was Kant’s, but he was a Kantian kind of philosopher. My sister was heavily involved in philosophy for years and she has that…
- Interviewee Kuliopulos, Athan, 1961-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Kuliopulos, Athan, 1961-, Biochemistry, Enzyme kinetics, Vitamin K, New England Medical Center Hospital, Tufts University, G proteins, G proteins--Receptors, Blood--Coagulation, Cell interaction, Medical scientists, Geneticists
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Colour and Methods of Colour Reproductions
- 1923
…and the late Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, philosophers first, but something of artists too. In reading for the purposes of the present book I …Ray Paths in Prisms and Lenses.—The great philosopher Newton was well aware of the wave theory of light, but the mathematics of the subject seemed …Bracxs——These are Cobalt yellow. often pulverized stone or carbon Permanent yellow. products, and are generally quite Lemon yellow.+ permanent. The…
- 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
