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  • Jöns Jacob Berzelius/Definition
    (1779 - 1848) Swedish chemist.
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  • Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier/Definition
    Eminent late 18th century French chemist.
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  • Richard Zsigmondy/Definition
    Austrian colloid chemist; Nobel Prize 1925.
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  • Marie-Anne Paulze/Definition
    Wife of 18th century chemist Antoine Lavoisier.
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  • Thomas Anderson/Definition
    (1819 – 1874) Scottish chemist remembered for discovering pyridine.
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  • Daniel Rutherford/Definition
    (1749 - 1815) Scottish chemist, best known for the discovery of nitrogen.
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  • Robert Boyle/Definition
    Robert Boyle (1627 – 1691). British chemist and physicist.
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  • Helen Sharman/Definition
    First British person in space (1991); science communicator and chemist (born 1963).
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  • John Davy/Definition
    (1790 – 1868) British chemist most noted for his discovery of phosgene.
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  • Dmitri Mendeleev/Definition
    Russian chemist (1834–1907) who devised the [[periodic table of elements]] in 1869.
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  • John Dalton/Definition
    English pioneer chemist and meteorologist (1766-1844), formulated the first quantitative atomic the
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  • James Dewar/Definition
    (1842 – 1923) Scottish chemist and physicist best-known for his invention of the Dewar flask.
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  • Felix Haurowitz/Definition
    (1 March 1896 - 2 December 1987) Czech-born immunoligist and protein chemist, who pioneered research into antigens.
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  • Isaac Asimov/Definition
    (1920-92) [[United States of America|American]] chemist and prolific author, especially of [[science fiction]].
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  • Willard F. Libby/Definition
    <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>American chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960 for developing radiocarbon da
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  • Jean-Baptiste Biot/Definition
    ...1774 &ndash; Paris 1862) French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and chemist best known for the Biot-Savart law.
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  • Alfred Nobel/Definition
    ...21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden – December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) A Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite.
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  • Joseph Black/Definition
    (1728 – 1799) Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxid
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  • Benjamin Rush/Definition
    (1745 - 1813) American physician, educator, chemist, writer, and Founding Father who is known as the "Father of American Psychi
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  • Dalton's law of partial pressure/Definition
    A law first stated by the English chemist John Dalton, governing the pressure of a system containing mutually inert g
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  • Jean-Claude Bradley/Definition
    A [[chemist]] working on [[solubility]]; created the first [[open notebook]], which lai
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  • Marie Curie/Definition
    (1867-1934), Polish-French physicist (Nobel Prize in 1903) and chemist (Nobel Prize in 1911), famous for her work on radioactivity.
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  • Ellen Richards/Definition
    (3 December 1842 – 30 March 1911) American industrial and environmental chemist in the United States in the 1800s, pioneering the field of home economics.
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  • Antony Williams/Definition
    A [[chemist]] and [[open science]] advocate; [[Vice President]] for Strategic Developme
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  • Fritz Haber/Definition
    German chemist, inventor of the Haber-Bosch process for the production of ammonia, Nobelis
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  • Hans Christian Oersted/Definition
    ...g, August 14, 1777 &ndash; Copenhagen, March 9, 1851) Danish physicist and chemist best known for his discovery of the influence of an electric current on the
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  • Michael Faraday/Definition
    (1791 – 1867) Was an English physicist and chemist whose best known work was on the closely connected phenomena of electricity
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  • Chemist
    A '''chemist''' is a practitioner of the science of [[chemistry]]. Chemists and [[chemic
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  • Clara Immerwahr/Definition
    (1870 &ndash; 1915) [[German]] [[chemist]] and the first female to obtain a [[doctorate]] at the [[University of Bre
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  • John Deutch/Definition
    A [[physical chemistry|physical chemist]], currently Institute Professor at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Techno
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  • Open science/Video
    *An introduction to Open science by chemist [[Matthew Todd]] who uses it to synthesize chemicals that help fight [[schi
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  • Physicist/Related Articles
    {{r|Chemist}}
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  • Sublimation
    ...ng through a liquid phase. The example most likely to be observed by non-[[chemist]]s is the conversion of [[dry ice]] into [[carbon dioxide]] gas. In chemis
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  • Nobel Prize/Definition
    A prestigious annual [[prize]] awarded according to the [[will]] of Swedish [[chemist]] and [[entrepreneur]] [[Alfred Nobel]] in the categories [[Nobel Prize for
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  • Fritz Haber/Bibliography
    *Dietrich Stoltzenberg, ''Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew'', translated from the German by Charles Passa
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  • Daltonism
    ...theory. Through his lifetime John Dalton became a well known and respected chemist and physicist.
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  • Dimitri Mendeleev/Definition
    (1834-1907) [<small>MEN</small>-de-LAY-ev), Russian chemist, discovered that ordering the then (1869) known [[chemical elements]], sixt
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  • William Cookworthy
    ...]], where he lived for the rest of his life, and set up as a manufacturing chemist under the name of Bevans and Cookworthy. In 1735 he married Sarah Berry, w == Chemist and mineralogist ==
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  • Ellen Richards
    '''Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards''' (1842-1911) was a prominent American chemist best known for pioneering domestic science or [[home economics]]. She also
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  • Joseph Black/Bibliography
    ...s were compiled by William Henry (1774-1836), the Manchester physician and chemist, some of whose own lecture notes are also preserved."'' |title=Irish links of the multinational chemist Joseph Black (1728-1799).
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  • Richard Zsigmondy
    ...April 1, 1865 &ndash; [[Göttingen]], September 23, 1929 ) was an Austrian chemist. Together with [[Heinrich Siedentopf]] he invented in 1903 the [[ultramic
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  • Avogadro's number/External Links
    * Alfred Bader and Leonard Parker, ''Joseph Loschmidt, Physicist and Chemist'', Physics Today, vol. '''54'''(3), p. 45 (2001) [http://ptonline.aip.org/
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  • Chemistry/Catalogs/Chemists
    *[[Emil Abderhalden]], (1877&ndash;1950), Swiss chemist *[[Richard Abegg]], (1869&ndash;1910), German chemist
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  • Willard F. Libby
    ...F. Libby''' (December 17, 1908 &ndash; September 8, 1980) was an American chemist. In 1960 he was the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for his work on developin
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  • Scientist/Related Articles
    {{r|Chemist}}
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  • Clara Immerwahr/Related Articles
    {{r|Chemist}}
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  • Helen Sharman
    ...itish]] person to go into [[outer space|space]]. Sharman was a [[chemistry|chemist]] who answered an advertisement to go into space as part of a [[Soviet Unio
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  • Avogadro's law
    ...ro]], but it was not generally accepted until after 1858, when the Italian chemist, [[Stanislao Cannizzaro]] constructed a logical system of chemistry based o
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  • Magnesium
    ...Elemental magnesium was first isolated by Sir [[Humphrey Davy]], a British chemist.
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  • Color Blindness
    The first detailed report on color blindness was written by the British chemist [[John Dalton]], who was himself afflicted with it.
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  • Jöns Jacob Berzelius
    ...versunda]] ([[Sweden]]) 20 Aug 1779 - Stockholm, 7 Aug 1848) was a Swedish chemist and naturalist. He is considered one of the founders of modern chemistry.
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  • Glucose
    ...ranose]], respectively, as shown in the illustration. In 1891, the German chemist [[Emil Fischer]] elucidated the structure of D-glucose.
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  • Periodic table of elements/Bibliography
    ...ignificant contributions to science. However, Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist, had predicted their existence years before. In 1871. Mendeleev had publish
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  • Jean-Baptiste Biot
    ...Biot''' (1774-1862) was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and chemist.
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  • Unified atomic mass unit
    ...hysicist's ''amu'' ( = 1/1.000&thinsp;317&thinsp;9 ''u'') and there is the chemist's ''amu'' ( = 1/1.000&thinsp;043 ''u''). Because chemists and physicists no Much earlier, the first standardization of atomic mass was made by the chemist [[John Dalton]] in the early nineteenth century, who introduced the mass of
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  • John Mc Bride
    ...r in [[Westport]]. Originally he studied [[Medicine]] but later became a [[Chemist]]. He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood and later became involved wit
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  • Marie-Anne Paulze
    ...y 20, 1758&ndash;February 10, 1836) was the wife of the great 18th century chemist [[Antoine Lavoisier]], whom she married on December 16, 1771 when she was n
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  • Hippocratic Oath
    ...armth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.<br/>
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  • Chemical biology
    ...mentally 'bottom-up' approach to understanding biology in keeping with the chemist's natural enthusiasm and appreciation for molecular structure and behaviour
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  • Allotrope
    The German chemist [[Eilhard Mitscherlich]] first discovered allotropy, in sulfur.
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  • Isaac Asimov
    ...at [[Boston University]]. He described himself as a mediocre experimental chemist and academic researcher; his talents did not run to producing the type of f
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  • Technical Alliance
    ...its secretary. The organisations membership also included scientists; the chemist [[Carl l. Alsberg]] and the physicist [[Richard C. Tolman]], some medical d
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  • Progressive Era/Catalogs
    *[[George Washington Carver]], black chemist
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  • Radiocarbon dating
    The process of radiocarbon dating was invented by American chemist [[Willard Libby]] in the 1940s and received a [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|No
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  • Chemical glassware
    ...his is just a brief survey to illustrate the various pieces of glassware a chemist might use on a daily basis.
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  • Discovery of penicillin
    ...distributed the original mould, unsuccessfully trying to get help from any chemist that had enough skill to make a stable form of it for mass production.
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  • Chemical engineering/Citable Version
    ...ant in France in 1837. However, its use was not widespread until a British chemist, [[John Glover]], invented an improved version of the tower, patented in [ ...el's process were unsuccessful. In 1863, some fifty years later, a Belgian chemist, Ernest Solvay, successfully applied Fresnel's process using a tall gas abs
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  • Technocracy Inc.
    ...quality''. The use of energy also has similarities to the works of British chemist Professor Fredrick Soddy.
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  • Chemical engineering
    ...ant in France in 1837. However, its use was not widespread until a British chemist, [[John Glover]], invented an improved version of the tower, patented in [ ...el's process were unsuccessful. In 1863, some fifty years later, a Belgian chemist, Ernest Solvay, successfully applied Fresnel's process using a tall gas abs
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  • Neutron activation analysis
    ...esent the results of the analysis, but his subjective interpretation, as a chemist, is worthless; an expert in statistics is required to present a legal inter
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  • Environmental chemistry
    Environmental [[chemist]]s draw on a range of concepts from [[Chemistry|chemistry]] and various env
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  • International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
    ...704jt077r226106/fulltext.pdf Jöns Jacob Berzelius A Guide to the Perplexed Chemist] Jaime Wisniak, Chemical Engineering Department, [[Ben-Gurion University of
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  • Scottish Enlightenment
    ...mist, James Anderson, a lawyer and agronomist, Joseph Black, physicist and chemist, and James Hutton, the first modern geologist.<ref> Denby, op. cit. Repchec
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  • Warren K. Lewis
    ...returned to MIT for a year as a research associate followed by a year as a chemist in a leather [[tannery]]. He then joined the faculty of MIT as an assistant Lewis's early work as a chemist at a leather tannery got him interested in [[colloid|colloidal phenomena]],
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  • University of Manchester/Catalogs/Nobel Prize winners
    * [[Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith]] (awarded 1993), for his fundamental contributions to the e
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  • Prohibition (United States)
    | title = The Chemist's War: The Little-Told Story of How the U.S. Government Poisoned Alcohol Du
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  • API gravity
    In 1675, hydrometers were developed by [[Robert Boyle]], a British chemist and physicist. Around 1798, [[Antoine Baumé]], a French scientist, designe
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  • Nitroglycerin
    ...tml Alfred Nobel biography]</ref> visited the Paris laboratory of a famous chemist, Professor T. J. Pelouze. There, he met Ascanio Sobrero who, three years ea
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  • Partial pressure/Citable Version
    [[John Dalton]], an [[English]] chemist, meteorologist and physicist, first propounded his law of partial pressures William Henry, an English chemist, formulated Henry's law in 1803. It stated that:
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  • Partial pressure
    [[John Dalton]], an [[English]] chemist, meteorologist, and physicist, first propounded his law of partial pressure William Henry, an English chemist, formulated Henry's law in 1803. It stated that:
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  • James Hutton
    ...came a prominent member of the [[Scottish Enlightenment]], a friend of the chemist [[Joseph Black]], the political economist [[Adam Smith]], the philosopher a
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  • Electronegativity
    ...ectronegativity scale|Pauling scale]] (named after [[Nobel Prize]] winning Chemist [[Linus Pauling]]) is the first proposed<ref>http://osulibrary.oregonstate.
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  • Alfred Kantorowicz
    ...ch (1940) who had already relocated to UCLA from Istanbul, and theoretical chemist Fritz London who was at Duke University, Kantorowicz was released because
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  • Alan Turing
    }}</ref> Turing was an amateur [[chemistry|chemist]] and it is possible he died from accidentally inhaling [[cyanide]] rather
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  • Physical chemistry
    * [[John Ross (chemist)|John Ross]]
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  • Catalysis
    ...reaction is known a [[Fischer esterification]], named after the [[German]] chemist [[Hermann Emil Fischer]] (1852 - 1919). ...800 by [[Joseph Priestly]] in [[England]] and by the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] chemist [[Martinus van Marum]], both of whom made observations on the [[dehyrogenat
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  • Hans Christian Oersted
    ...ust 14, 1777 &ndash; Copenhagen, March 9, 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist. He is best known for his discovery of the influence of an electric curren
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  • Howard Vincent
    ...sly carried out, led to the mini-scandal over the case of Thomas Titley, a chemist who was suspected of providing abortifacients. Under the incautious hand of
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  • Alexander Fleming
    ...their research.</ref> and he continued, until 1940, to try and interest a chemist skilled enough to further refine usable penicillin. ...uld for twelve years, and continued until 1940 to try to get help from any chemist that had enough skill to make a stable form of it for mass production. Ther
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  • The Unquiet Sleep
    ...ready known to the police, has secured a supply of Mecron and, while their chemist in Turkey attempts to duplicate the drug, has killed at least one man in Lo
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  • Physical system
    ...separate a physical system from the surroundings. For instance, a physical chemist studying a system consisting of
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  • Atomic number
    ...was known. The arrangement of atoms by mass was thought of by the Russian chemist [[Dimitri Mendeleev|Dmitri Mendeléev]], who discovered that chemically sim
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  • Oxidation-reduction
    As modern chemistry began to emerge, with the work of the French chemist, [[Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier]] (1743-1794), chemists viewed '''oxidation''' Prior to Lavoisier, the chemist, [[Georg Ernst Stahl]] (1660-1734), taught that oxidation, as it came to be
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  • Memory of water
    ...tor of ''Nature'', John Maddox, American scientific fraud investigator and chemist Walter Stewart, and "professional [[pseudoscience]] debunker" [[James Randi ...thdrawn, and his lab was eventually closed. According to Lionel Milgrom, a chemist and homoeopath who corresponded with Benveniste, "The knocks that he took m
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  • Hydrodesulfurization
    ...e.g., ([[ethylene]], [[benzene]]) was discovered by the [[France|French]] chemist, [[Paul Sabatier]].<ref>Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences (C.R.Aca Soon after Sabatier's work, a [[Germany|German]] chemist, Wilhelm Normann, found that catalytic hydrogenation could be used to conve
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  • Matter (chemistry)
    A minimal account of matter from the chemist´s classical perspective requires discussion of the meanings of the terms ' ...it or unit of matter, to a tangible sample of matter &mdash; matter from a chemist's perspective.
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  • Hydrodesulfurization/Citable Version
    ...e.g., ([[ethylene]], [[benzene]]) was discovered by the [[France|French]] chemist, [[Paul Sabatier]].<ref>C.R.Acad.Sci. 1897, 132, 210</ref><ref>C.R.Acad.Sci Soon after Sabatier's work, a [[Germany|German]] chemist, Wilhelm Normann, found that catalytic hydrogenation could be used to conve
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  • Robert Boyle
    ...Ireland, January 25, 1627 &ndash; London, December 30, 1691) was a British chemist and physicist, mainly known for [[Ideal gas law|Boyle's law]] (1662) that s ...the first to describe [[hydrogen]] gas. Although he was probably the first chemist in the modern sense of the word, he still believed, as the alchemists did,
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  • Fermentation (biochemistry)
    [[France|French]] chemist [[Louis Pasteur]] was the first ''zymologist'', when in 1857 he connected y
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  • Gas
    ...ord "gas" was apparently proposed by the 17th century [[Flanders|Flemish]] chemist [[Jan Baptist van Helmont]], as a phonetic spelling of his [[Dutch language
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  • Atomic hypothesis
    ...]] and proposed the Law of Simple Multiple Proportions (later confirmed by chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius). Dalton’s hypothesis differed from earlier version
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  • Alfred Nobel
    ...[Sweden]] &ndash; December 10, 1896, [[Sanremo]], [[Italy]]) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of [[dynamite
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  • Gas stoichiometry
    In 1792, the [[Germany|German]] chemist [[Jeremias B. Richter]] first proposed the concept of the quantitative [[ma
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  • Mary Shelley
    The poet Samuel Coleridge held readings and speeches for the family. The chemist Humphrey Davy was a frequent guest in Godwin’s house and so was the Veget ...in, was discussing questions of electricity together with his friends, the chemist Humphrey Davy and the surgeon Anthony Carlisle, who had discovered the phen
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  • Michael Polanyi
    In 1920, he emigrated to Germany and ended up working as a research chemist, and in 1926 a professor, at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fiber Chemist
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  • Dmitri Mendeleev
    ..., as the new element, [[gallium]], according to its discoverer, the French chemist, [[Paul Lecoq de Boisbaudran]], had a much different [[specific gravity]] t ...6%; font-size: 0.99em; font-family: Gill sans MT, Trebuchet MS;">Brilliant chemist, first-class physicist, a fruitful researcher in the field of hydrodynamics
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  • Quantum chemistry
    ...ican theoretical physicist [[John C. Slater]] and the American theoretical chemist [[Linus Pauling]] to become the '''Valence-Bond (VB)''' [or '''Heitler-Lond
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  • Charles Marie de La Condamine
    ...came a member of the [[Académie des Sciences]] and was appointed Assistant Chemist at the Academy.
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  • Streptococcus pneumoniae
    ...1881 simultaneously by U.S. Army physician [[George Sternberg]] and French chemist [[Louis Pasteur]]. ''S. pneumoniae'' has been used to prove that genetic ma
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  • Fission device
    ...the responsibility of George Kistiakowsky's teams, making him, a physical chemist, as critical as any of the nuclear physicists. Kistiakowsky was later to b ...the responsibility of George Kistiakowsky's teams, making him, a physical chemist, as critical as any of the nuclear physicists. Kistiakowsky was later to b
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  • Asphalt (paving)
    In 1870, [[Belgium|Belgian]] chemist Edmond J. DeSmedt laid the first true asphalt pavement in the [[United Stat
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  • Law of multiple proportions (chemistry)
    Jaffe reports that the Swedish chemist, [[Jöns Jacob Berzelius]] (1779-1848), a contemporary of Dalton, stated Da
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  • Chemistry/Citable Version
    ...h, and later the suffix "-ry" was added to this to describe the art of the chemist as "chemistry".
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  • Benjamin Rush
    ...cember 24, 1745 - April 19, 1813) was an [[American]] physician, educator, chemist, writer, and [[Founding Father]]. He was one of [[Pennsylvania (U.S. state
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  • Henry's law/Citable Version
    '''Henry's law''' is one of the [[gas laws]], formulated by the British chemist, William Henry, in 1803. It states that:
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  • Cobalt
    Swedish chemist [[Georg Brandt]] (1694–1768) is credited with isolating cobalt sometime b
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  • Condensate polishing
    ...Reaction] [[Encyclopedia Britannica]]</ref> In 1858, a [[Germany|German]] chemist, H. Eichhorn, proved that the ion exchange process in soil was a reversible
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  • Johannes Diderik van der Waals/Citable Version
    ...l University of Amsterdam. Two of his notable colleagues were the physical chemist [[Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff]] and the biologist [[Hugo de Vries]]. As co
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  • Johannes Diderik van der Waals
    ...l University of Amsterdam. Two of his notable colleagues were the physical chemist [[Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff]] and the biologist [[Hugo de Vries]]. As co
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  • Hydrometer
    ...for liquids heavier than water, were developed by the [[France|French]] chemist [[Antoine Baumé]] in 1768. It is widely used in industrial chemistry, [[ph
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  • Chemistry
    ...h, and later the suffix "-ry" was added to this to describe the art of the chemist as "chemistry".
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  • Chemical reaction
    ...ndothermic''''' ... terms which were first coined by the [[France|French]] chemist [[Marcellin Berthelot]] (1827 − 1907). The meaning of those terms and the
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  • Fermentation (food)
    [[France|French]] chemist [[Louis Pasteur]] was the first ''zymologist'', when in 1857 he connected y
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  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers/Citable Version
    ...pose of establishing chemical engineers as a profession independent from [[chemist]]s and [[mechanical engineer]]s.
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  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers
    ...pose of establishing chemical engineers as a profession independent from [[chemist]]s and [[mechanical engineer]]s.
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  • Nobel Prize
    ...age|Swedish]]) is a Swedish prize, established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist [[Alfred Nobel]]; it was first awarded in [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]], [[No ...by the final [[will (law)|will]] of [[Alfred Nobel]], a [[Sweden|Swedish]] chemist and industrialist, who was the [[inventor]] of the high explosive [[dynamit
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  • Henry's law
    '''Henry's law''' is one of the [[gas laws]], formulated by the British chemist, William Henry, in 1803. It states that:
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  • Parapsychology
    ..., Seers & Psychics. Thomas Y. Crowell Co.</ref> Another criticism, made by chemist [[Irving Langmuir]], among others, was one of [[Selection bias|selective re
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  • George Kistiakowsky
    ...istiakowsky''' (November 18, 1900 &ndash; December 7, 1982) was a physical chemist who taught and conducted research in thermochemistry and reactions at Harv
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  • Tetraethyl lead
    In 1924, New York City Medical Examiner Charles Norris, and his forensic chemist, Alexander Gettler, were asked to investigate possible occupational exposur
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  • Atomic mass
    ...d weight is used as "the" mass of an element. By using averaged masses the chemist accounts for the fact that different isotopes occur in nature. For instance
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  • Joseph Black
    '''Joseph Black''' (1728-1799), was a Scottish chemist and physicist, known for the concepts of [[latent heat]] and [[specific hea
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  • U.S. Progressive Party 1912
    [[Image:Chemist.JPG|thumb|300px| Roosevelt concocted a heady brew in 1912 speeches]]
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  • John Dalton
    Jaffe reports that the Swedish chemist, [[Jöns Jacob Berzelius]] (1779-1848), a contemporary of Dalton, stated Da ...ologist, Elihu Robinson, who gave him much attention. According to English chemist, H.E. Roscoe, who first isolated the element, vanadium, Dalton wrote of his
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  • Claus process
    ...]. The original Claus process was developed by [[Carl Friedrich Claus]], a chemist working in England, for the purpose of recovering sulfur from the waste [[c
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  • Orbital hybridisation
    The hybridisation theory was promoted by [[chemist]] [[Linus Pauling]]<ref>L. Pauling, [[J. Am. Chem. Soc.]] 53 (1931), 1367</
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  • Inorganic chemistry
    ...a very complicated variety of substances which the distinguished American chemist, [[F. Albert Cotton]] (1930 − 2007), grouped into these four classes:<ref
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  • Michael Faraday/Citable Version
    ...(September 22, 1791 &ndash; August 25, 1867) was an English physicist and chemist who is one of the most influential scientists of all time.<ref>Simmons, Joh The chemist [[John Hall Gladstone]] (1827&ndash;1902), who knew Faraday well, wrote:
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  • Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids
    [[Linus Pauling]] was a chemist who was very influential in developing an understanding of the structure of
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  • Michael Faraday
    ...(September 22, 1791 &ndash; August 25, 1867) was an English physicist and chemist who is one of the most influential scientists of all time.<ref>Simmons, Joh The chemist [[John Hall Gladstone]] (1827&ndash;1902), who knew Faraday well, wrote:
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  • University of Manchester
    ...o Manchester's emergence as the world's first industrial city. The English chemist [[John Dalton]], together with Manchester businessmen and industrialists, e ...[[Malaysia]], [[Canada]] and [[Singapore]] and also [[Chaim Weizmann]], a chemist and the first President of [[Israel]].
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  • Periodic table of elements
    ...fication were so obviously based on some fundamental truth that the modern chemist can only wonder at the negligible attention they attracted, or the ridicule
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  • Volatility (chemistry)
    ...e]]l in 1888. The term "ionic liquids" was first coined in 1961 by another chemist, [[H. Bloom]], at a [[Faraday Society]] discussion.<ref name=Freemantle/><r
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  • Cooking
    ...ns have been made by scientists, chefs and authors such as [[Herve This]] (chemist), [[Nicholas Kurti]] (physicist), [[Peter Barham]] (physicist), [[Harold Mc
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  • Garrett Morgan
    ...as mask]]", however, the first practical gas mask was invented by Scottish chemist [[John Stenhouse]] in 1854. A precursor to the "gas mask" had been invented
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  • Polymer
    ...unknown force, a concept known as [[association theory]]. In 1922, German chemist [[Hermann Staudinger]] proposed that polymers were comprised of "[[macromol
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  • Zionism
    ...hat constituted Palestine. Partially in gratitude to [[Chaim Weizmann]], a chemist who had made tremendous contributions to the British war effort, Foreign Se
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  • Delayed coking
    In 1913, William Merriam Burton, working as a chemist for the Standard Oil of Indiana refinery at Whiting, [[Indiana (U.S. state)
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  • Chemical bond
    ...ry accounts of all kinds of bonds.<ref>As late as 1916 the famous American chemist [[Gilbert Newton Lewis|G. N. Lewis]] disagreed strongly with this statement ...as floating among contemporary chemists and that, for instance, the German chemist [[Richard Abegg]] presented already in 1902 some bonding concepts that came
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  • Robert Ley
    ...rned to university, gaining a doctorate in 1920. He was employed as a food chemist by a branch of the giant [[IG Farben]] company, based in [[Leverkusen]] in
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  • Catalytic reforming/Citable Version
    ...tion and other manufacturing industries. In the 1940s, an eminent research chemist named Vladimir Haensel<ref>[http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11807
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  • Catalytic reforming
    ...tion and other manufacturing industries. In the 1940s, an eminent research chemist named Vladimir Haensel<ref>[http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11807
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  • Nitrogen cycle
    |quote= A young, high-strung German chemist named Fritz Haber rose to the challenge. Around 1908, he discovered a way t
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  • Chemical thermodynamics
    ...face section to popular book ''Basic Chemical Thermodynamics'' by physical chemist Brian Smith, originally published in 1973, and now in the 5th edition, we f
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  • Vestiarium Scoticum
    ...721 copy, and had it subjected to chemical testing by Stevenson Macadam, a chemist. Macadam reported that the "document [bore] evidence of having been treated
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  • Fritz Haber
    ...ecember 1868, [[Breslau]] &ndash; 29 January 1934, [[Basel]]) was a German chemist. He was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 1918 for the synthesis
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  • Amphetamine
    Amphetamine was first synthesized in 1887 by the [[Romania]]n [[chemist]] [[Lazăr Edeleanu]] at the [[University of Berlin]], who called it "'''ph
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  • Hokkaido
    ...presented it in terms with which the Japanese were familiar. The American chemist William Smith Clark (1826-1886), president of Massachusetts Agricultural Co
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  • Phosphorus/Citable Version
    ...ogen and phosphorus. However, in the early eighties the German theoretical chemist [[Werner Kutzelnigg]]<ref>W. Kutzelnigg, ''Chemical Bonding in Higher Main
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  • Phosphorus
    ...ogen and phosphorus. However, in the early eighties the German theoretical chemist [[Werner Kutzelnigg]]<ref>W. Kutzelnigg, ''Chemical Bonding in Higher Main
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  • Thermodynamics
    ...e abhors a vacuum'. Shortly thereafter, [[Britain|British]] physicist and chemist [[Robert Boyle]] had learned of Guericke's designs and in 1656, in coordina
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  • Steroid
    The 1927 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to German chemist [[Heinrich Otto Wieland]] (1977-1957) "for his investigations of the consti
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  • Chemical plant
    Many times [[chemist]]s research chemical reactions or other chemical principles in a [[laborato
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  • Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
    Around 1715 the German chemist [[Georg Ernst Stahl]] hypothesized that a "fiery substance", which he calle
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  • Asphalt (petroleum)
    In 1870, [[Belgium|Belgian]] chemist Edmond J. DeSmedt laid the first true asphalt pavement in the [[United Stat
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  • Adam Smith
    His literary executors were two old friends: the physicist and chemist [[Joseph Black]], and the geologist [[James Hutton]]. Smith left behind man
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  • Ether (physics)
    ...repeated the experiment in collaboration with [[Edwin Williams Morley]], a chemist from Western Reserve University, also in Cleveland. They built an new inter
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  • Count Rumford
    ...newed his acquaintance with the widow, [[Marie-Anne Paulze]], of the great chemist [[Lavoisier|Antoine Lavoisier]] who was decapitated during the [[Reign of T
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  • Oxidative stress
    To quote chemist Peter Atkins, "''The central quantum mechanical idea on which the modern de
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  • Standard Oil Company
    ...y [[John D. Rockefeller]], his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, chemist Samuel Andrews, and a silent partner financier Stephen V. Harkness. Using h
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  • Scientific method/Citable Version
    ...sh of inspiration" which motivated them. One of the best known is from the chemist [[August Kekulé]] (1829-1896), who proposed that structure of molecules fo In his 1958 book, ''Personal Knowledge,'' the chemist and philosopher [[Michael Polanyi]] (1891-1976) criticized the view that th
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  • Quantum mechanics/Advanced
    ...developed by a large number of workers, including the American theoretical chemist [[Linus Pauling]] at Cal Tech, and John Slater into various theories such a
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  • History of Quakers in Britain and Ireland
    ...n Franklin]].<ref>Raistrick chs 8 & 9</ref> Of a later generation was the chemist [[John Dalton]] (1766-1844)
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  • Scientific method
    ...sh of inspiration" which motivated them. One of the best known is from the chemist [[August Kekulé]] (1829-1896), who proposed that structure of molecules fo In his 1958 book, ''Personal Knowledge,'' the chemist and philosopher [[Michael Polanyi]] (1891-1976) criticized the view that th
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  • Macromolecular chemistry/Citable Version
    ...calculated from the longer chain polymer molecule. For instance, when the chemist uses the monomeric unit as the building block, statistical methods lead to
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  • Macromolecular chemistry
    ...calculated from the longer chain polymer molecule. For instance, when the chemist uses the monomeric unit as the building block, statistical methods lead to
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  • British and American English
    |chemist ...American drugstore often incorporates something of a café, which a British chemist does not</ref>
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  • Energy (science)
    ...s is not a conserved quantity, contradictory to what was postulated by the chemist [[John Dalton]] in the early nineteenth century. However, in contrast to ma
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  • Nazi euthanasia program
    ...in an improvised [[gas chamber]] developed by Dr [[Albert Widmann]], chief chemist of the German Criminal Police (''[[Kripo]]''). In December 1939 the SS head
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  • Food and Drug Administration
    * 1862 — President Lincoln appoints chemist, Charles M. Wetherill to the Department of Agriculture. This appointment le
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  • Homeopathy/Signed Articles/NCCAM
    In the late 1700s, Samuel Hahnemann, a physician, chemist, and linguist in Germany, proposed a new approach to treating illness. This
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  • Venus (planet)
    ...nlein]]'s ''[[Future History]]'' series was set on a Venus inspired by the chemist [[Svante Arrhenius]]'s prediction of a steamy [[carboniferous]] [[swamp]] u
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  • Action T4
    ...in an improvised [[gas chamber]] developed by Dr [[Albert Widmann]], chief chemist of the German Criminal Police (''[[Kripo]]''). In December 1939 the SS head
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  • Autism
    ...ry's foremost scientists, may have been autistic. George Wilson, a notable chemist and physician, wrote a book about Cavendish entitled, "''The Life of the Ho
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  • Intelligence analysis
    ...k insight in dreams, hoping for an insight such as that from which a noted chemist inferred the structure of benzene, as snakes chasing snakes.
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  • Albert Einstein
    ...r, [[atom]]s were recognized as a useful concept, but [[physicist]]s and [[chemist]]s hotly debated whether atoms were real entities. Einstein's statistical d
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  • Theodore Roosevelt
    [[Image:Chemist.jpg|thumb|right|TR as chef adding too many ingredients]]
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  • Vitamin C
    Nobel laureate chemist Linus Pauling stated that "chronic scurvy" or "subclinical scurvy" is a con
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  • Life/Citable Version
    ...ganisation processes, that may occur either on the basis of design [by the chemist] or with selection of their components.</blockquote>
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  • Life
    ...ganisation processes, that may occur either on the basis of design [by the chemist] or with selection of their components.</p>
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