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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 …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 29 Number 3
- 2011 – 2012 (Fall/Winter)
…a subtle role in shaping consumer culture. Humphry Davy, Chemical Philosopher By Richard Holmes There was a time when chemistry was seen as the …artisans fashioned celluloid into artificial ivory or coral, semiprecious stones, and tortoiseshell, which was especially in demand for hair combs and …series, and his general writings on science to turn the “chemical philosopher” (the term scientist first appearing only in 1834) into a figure…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 32 Number 3
- 2014 – 2015 (Fall/Winter)
…white linens. Once made from the costly and semiprecious lapis lazuli stone, synthetic ultramarines were in wide use by 1830. The Kohn- stamms … undergo an act reserved for the worst criminals? Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and father of Utilitarianism, took steps to change the stigma and …Space Age had officially begun. It was an important scientific mile- stone, even though the 184-pound satellite only carried a radio transmitter…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 29 Number 2
- 2011 (Summer)
… High Society Luminous Lives Going Dutch Books to Note End Product A stone church in Centreville, Virginia, photo- graphed between the two battles … tank bottoms from the Cali- fornia wineries. We dissolved the wine- stone and centrifuged it in caustic soda, filtered it, precipitated out the …enters into James Hutton first pre- Joseph Black. intellectuals. Philosophers like David Hume and Adam Smith and natural philosophers like Black…
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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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Chemical Heritage, Volume 25 Number 2
- 2007 (Summer)
…with crushed char- coal 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 …required immense skill and exceptional ingredients, and English cala- mine stone proved to have a high lead con- tent, resulting in weak brass. This…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 15 Number 1
- 1997 (Fall)
…historical and social context. This book integrates the socially conscious philosopher with the chemist. The author shows Soddy, even in his productive …numbers” of nucleons (Nobel Prize in physics, 1963), dies. 1 April Julian Stone reports in Applied Physics Letters on a new type of fiber made of quartz …Robert L. Soulen, Georgetown, TX David W. Stewart, Rochester, NY Herman Stone, Hazleton, PA Sherman Sundet, Wilmington, DE Rodney T. Swain, Darien…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 18 Number 4
- 2000 (Winter)
… positivist views more typical of her day. She collaborated with philosophers as well as historians and believed that the work of the historian …historian as her views on history. The daughter of a trader in precious stones, she first studied crystallography. After earning a diplome d’études …Sterne, Jr. Marguerite Gadel Nathaniel B. Gouse Melvin Merken Herman Stone Wallis Gartside and Godfey F. Grail Phyllis Anderson Meyer —_—_ Gilbert…
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Oral history interview with O. Theodor Benfey
- 1991-May-24
- 1991-Jun-05
…diamond crystallography studies and other work she was doing on kidney stones. She was a Quaker also, and I knew this, and people probably knew of …Earlham, I just called it History of Science, one reason being that a philosopher, Grimsley Hobbs, also from Guilford, was teaching a philosophy of …place. It was the building for a steam engine to run massive wheels like stone mill wheels to crush ore to break out gold. North Carolina was the …
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Isotopes
- 1922
…same atomic weight, and the same total number of nuclear “ building stones.”’ Examples of this class are ionium and uranium Y. (3) Isotopes of …the third class still possess the same number of each nuclear building stone, but they have a different arrangement of these in the atomic nucleus … would be those possessing the same arrangement of nuclear building stones in the atomic nucleus, and thus the same probability of disintegrating…
- 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
…not Daniel— No, that’s someone else. KULIOPULOS: He’s a famous philosopher. I’m not a philosopher, but I have seen his name once in a while …confusing things. Maybe that was Kant’s, but he was a Kantian kind of philosopher. My sister was heavily involved in philosophy for …little sick of it, but I still like having a yard. I built a stone driveway this summer. That’s something I did. Right. I bought, a bunch…
- 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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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 2
- 2015 (Summer)
…architecture, beginning in the mid- 1880s Mattison arranged for the passage of stone artisans and labor- ers from southern Italy. These men built not only … 1930s, the medium was indeed the mes- sage, to echo the words of philosopher of culture Marshall McLuhan. For the first time, an audio- visual…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 22 Number 4
- 2004 (Winter)
…Poland. They took me to a spot in nearby Bébrka, commemorated by a small stone monument, where rock oil (ropa naftova) had been seeping from the ground … Steindler Henry C. Stevens John T. Stock Charles A. Stokes* Fred W. Stone M. Robert Stoner R. Philemon Stout Michael E. Strem James S. Strong …Steinberg Vernon A. Stenger James FE. Stiver Walter H. Stockmayer Herman Stone William F. Suhr Frank X. Sutman Richard Pommier Swanson Raymond M. …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 29 Number 1
- 2011 (Spring)
… Im- mortal Life of Henrietta Lacks raises issues of interest to philosophers perhaps, but to me they seem risible. The idea that I retain any …proteins. A key to breaking the ge- netic code—molecular biology’s Rosetta Stone—had been discovered. In August 1961 Nirenberg traveled to Moscow to…
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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 16 Number 2
- 1998 (Fall)
…challenged Gor- don with a wager: “If you wish to butt your head against a stone wall, go ahead, and if you do have a journal, I will bet you the biggest …Gesellschaft, Giessen. @ 2 2=—rs—em Chemical Heritage 16:2 Chapter 11, “Philosopher of Science: The Bacon Affair,’ and involving him- self in the controversies…
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Colour Measurement and Mixture
- 1891
… where these latter are absolutely fixed ; in fact they act as mile-stones on a road. In the red we have three lines in the solar spec- trum, …Teaching. By the Rev. E. J. NEwELL, M.A. (2s. 6d.) Synesius of Cyrene, Philosopher and Bishop. By ALICE GARDNER. The Apostolic Fathers, ‘By the Rev…
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Oral history interview with Robert C. De Lisle
- 2000-Apr-10 – 2000-Apr-12
… regurgitate their theories--"This is philosophy. This is how us philosophers look at the world"--and if you did anything creative on your own …grow up in. It was also kind of out in the wild--there were woods and stone quarries all around--so it was a lot more interesting than a suburb…
- Interviewee De Lisle, Robert C., 1957-
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Cytologists, Cytology--Research, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Medicine, Gastroenterology, De Lisle, Robert C., 1957-
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Fun with Gilbert Chemistry
- 1954
…lived from 46-120 A.D. In a treatise entitled “Isis or Osiris’ —that philosopher mentions that “Egypt” in the dialect of the country, was called …druggist as Lime Water. COMMON MASON’S MORTAR Mortar, which is used in stone foundations for build- ings, is made by mixing together water, sand …form of mineral carbonate is found in most localities. The build- ing stone, marble, is a very pure form of calcium car- bonate. Carbon constitutes…
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Oral history interview with David E. Fisher
- 2001-Jun-06 – 2001-Jun-08
… lawyer, and I suppose there wasn’t much money to be made being a philosopher, which was probably pretty devastating. I think he became— He learned … how to reach me. The clinic itself and the hospital are literally a stone throw’s away. COHEN: Steps away. FISHER: Yeah, so it’s very…
- Interviewee Fisher, David E. (David Erich)
- Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Fisher, David E. (David Erich), Molecular biology, Oncology, T cells, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Immunology, Orthodox Judaism, Medical scientists