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		:: NASA Quest > Women of NASA :: ^Votes:0 SHANNON LUCID Shannon Lucid was born on January 14, 1943, in Shanghai, China, but considers Bethany, Oklahoma to be her hometown. She is married to Michael F. Lucid of Indianapolis, Indiana. They have two daughters and one son. She enjoys flying, camping, hiking and reading. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph O. Wells, reside in Bethany. Shannon graduated from Bethany High School in 1960, received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the University of Oklahoma in 1963, and master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees in biochemistry from the University of Oklahoma in 1970 and 1973, respectively. The recipient of numerous awards, Dr. Lucid most recently was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor by the president of the United States. She is the first and only woman to Read More Go to Site


		About Linus Pauling ^Votes:0 [Linus Pauling Virtual Exhibit] Short Biography By Dr. Robert J. Paradowski Rochster Institute of Technology From HOW TO LIVE LONGER AND FEEL BETTER, 1986 Linus Pauling first came to the notice of many of his countrymen outside of science when he framed the issue on which public opinion compelled, at last, the suspension by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom of the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. From the time the atomic bomb tests began in earnest on Frenchman's Flats near Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1951, the Atomic Energy Commission regularly issued reassuring press releases. High energy radiation had caused no abnormal number of defects in the off-spring of parents exposed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they said. Generations of fruit flies raised in radioa Read More Go to Site

		ALAN G MacDIARMID ^Votes:0 Alan G. MacDiarmid Blanchard Professor of Chemistry Office: 343 Chemistry 231 South 34 th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323 Tel: 215-898-8307 Fax: 215-898-8378 macdiarm@sas.upenn.edu Who is Alan MacDiarmid? Research Academic Collaborations Selected Publications Read More Go to Site

		Alfred Nobel ^Votes:0 Home Email Search Author Site Map Index Page Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1833. The son of an engineer, he moved in his childhood to Russia, where his father was working on an underwater mine. Alfred studied Chemistry in Paris and worked for a time in the USA before returning to Sweden in 1859. In 1866 Nobel produced what he believed was a safe and manageable form of nitroglycerin called dynamite. He established his own factory to produce it but in 1864 an explosion at the plant killed Nobel's younger brother and four other workers. Deeply shocked by this event, he now worked on a safer explosive and in 1875 came up with gelignite. Other inventions followed including ballistite, a form of smokeless power , artificial gutta-percha and a mild steel for armour-platin Read More Go to Site

		Alfred Stock ^Votes:0 Alfred Stock MICROMERCURIALISM given us by Alfred Stock Alfred Stock (1876-1946) a German chemist and first published in 1919. was born in 1876, and when he retired in 1936 he moved from Karlsruhe to Berlin. He died at Aken an der Elbe, a small town near Dessau, in August 1946 at the age of 70. The term ligand (ligare [Latin], to bind) was first used by Alfred Stock in 1916 in relation to silicon chemistry. The first use of the term in a British journal was by H.Irving and R.J.P. Williams in Nature, 1948, 162, 746. For a fascinating review of the origin and dissemination of the term 'ligand' in chemistry see: W.H. Brock, K.A Jensen, C.K. Jorgensen and G.B. Kauffman,Polyhedron, 2, 1983, 1-7. Ligands can be further characterised as monodentate, bidentate, tridentate etc. Where the concept of Read More Go to Site

		Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne > film > television > new media > art ^Votes:0 acmi website lending collection what's on Mixing pop culture sensibilities with avant garde influences, discover the acclaimed video works of artist and musician Christian Marclay. more &#160 it's time to vote At the announcement of the upcoming federal election, the call was issued to local filmmakers for short films designed to encourage young people to enrol to vote. view article subscribe privacy copyright terms of use site map contact search Read More Go to Site

		Chemistry in Action ^Votes:0 50 Nobel Chemists Since the last issue of Chemistry in Action! two Nobel chemists have died - Lord Alexander Todd and Melvin Calvin and brief biographies of both men are given below. It's a test of your chemical knowledge as to whether you've heard of them before and at a higher level, whether you know what their main achievements were! I hope the brief obituaries below will enlighten you and you will want to pursue them further.. Lord Todd 1907-1997 Lord Todd died at the age of 89 on January 10th. 1997. His work laid the foundation for understanding the structure of nucleic acids, which led to Watson and Crick's elucidation of the helical structure of DNA in 1962. Todd won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1957 for his work on nucleic acids, including the synthesis of ATP and ADP. One of th Read More Go to Site

		Dmitri Mendeleev ~ History of the periodic table ^Votes:0 Home Previous Ernest Rutherford Avogadro's Law Mendeleev Henry Moseley Hess' Law Dmitri Mendeleev Who was Dmitri Mendeleev? Dmitri Mendeleev was born at Tobolsk, Siberia in 1834 and died in 1907. Mendeleev studied science at St. Petersburg and graduated in 1856. In 1863 Mendeleev was appointed to a professorship and in 1866 he succeeded to the Chair in the University. Mendeleev is best known for his work on the periodic table; arranging the 63 known elements into a Periodic Table based on atomic mass, which he published in Principles of Chemistry in 1869. His first Periodic Table was compiled on the basis of arranging the elements in ascending order of atomic weight and grouping them by similarity of properties. He predicted the existence and properties of new elements and pointed Read More Go to Site

		Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards ^Votes:0 Distinguished Women of Past and Present First Page Name Index Subject Index Related Sites Search Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842-1911) The founder of home economics, Ellen Henrietta Swallow was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. She was born December 3, 1842 in Dunstable, Massachusetts. As a child, she helped her parents with domestic and farm work. At first, she was educated at home, but later attended Westford Academy for a short while, after her family moved to Westford in 1859. Her family moved again in 1863 to Littleton, Massachusetts, where she helped her father in the store he ran and she taught elementary school. In 1868, she was accepted to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York and graduated wit Read More Go to Site

		Ellen Swallow Richards House -- NRHP Travel Itinerary ^Votes:0 Ellen Swallow Richards House Photograph by Edward Gordon. 67 Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911), chemist Ellen Swallow Richards, a 19th-century advocate for public sanitation and good health, is now recognized as the woman who created the fields of ecology and home economics. From 1876 until her death in 1911, Richards used this house in Jamaica Plain, a part of Boston, as a home laboratory and as an office for the Center for Right Living. Despite her eventual fame, Richard's hopes for a higher education were frustrated until, at the age of 25, she entered Vassar College and studied under Maria Mitchell . In 1873, MIT awarded a B.S. to Richards, the first woman admitted to a scientific school of any kind; nevertheless, despite later years of graduate study, she was never awarded the doctor Read More Go to Site

		Ernest Rutherford - Biography ^Votes:0 Nobel Foundation Nobel Media Nobel Museum Nobel Peace Center Nobel Web SEARCH CONTACT US HOME NOBEL PRIZES ALFRED NOBEL PRIZE AWARDERS NOMINATION PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENTS AWARD CEREMONIES EDUCATIONAL GAMES By Year Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Medicine Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Peace Prize Prize in Economics Ernest Rutherford The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908 Biography Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand, the fourth child and second son in a family of seven sons and five daughters. His father James Rutherford, a Scottish wheelwright, emigrated to New Zealand with Ernest's grandfather and the whole family in 1842. His mother, nÉe Martha Thompson, was an English schoolteacher, who, with her widowed mother, also went to live Read More Go to Site

		Glenn Seaborg Tribute: A Man in Full ^Votes:0 March 5, 1999 ">Advanced Search Search Tips "There is a beauty in discovery." --Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999) W hat is there to say about a career in which you win all the major awards in your field and the accolades you garner come from highly esteemed peers, presidents and other world leaders, celebrities from the sports and entertainment industries, and students of all ages? What is there to say about a life that was shared with a beloved wife of more than 56 years, much of it in a redwood house they designed themselves in which they raised six children? What is there to say about a man whose discoveries altered the course of history, immortalized his name on the periodic table of chemical elements and in the archives of the Nobel Prize Awards, and extended the life of hi Read More Go to Site

		Henry Moseley ^Votes:0 Home Previous Henry Moseley's Published Paper Ernest Rutherford Avogadro's Law Mendeleev Henry Moseley Hess' Law Who was Henry Moseley? Henry Moseley (1887-1915): A British chemist, Henry Moseley studied under Rutherford and brilliantly developed the application of X-ray spectra to study atomic structure; Moseley's discoveries resulted in a more accurate positioning of elements in the Periodic Table by closer determination of atomic numbers. Tragically for the development of science, Moseley was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915. In 1913, almost fifty years after Mendeleev , Henry Moseley published the results of his measurements of the wavelengths of the X-ray spectral lines of a number of elements which showed that the ordering of the wavelengths of the X-ray emissions of Read More Go to Site

		Jewish Heroes in America ^Votes:0 Illustration by Art Seiden Florida Atlantic University Libraries Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America 1900 to World War II: A Judaica Collection Exhibit Julius Stieglitz: A Pioneering Chemist Who Aided The War by Seymour "Sy" Brody Julius Stieglitz was very active in World War I developing war gases, dyes, and chemicals for the American military forces. He served as chairman of the committee on synthetic drugs of the National Research Council. Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on May 26, 1867, the son of Hedwig and Edward Stieglitz, German immigrants who were successful in the woolen business in New York City. He and his identical twin brother, Leopold, attended private and public schools in their early years. They received higher education in Germany, with Julius going in for ch Read More Go to Site

		John Snow - a historical giant in epidemiology ^Votes:0 ? 2006 Last Updated 01 Nov 2007 This site is devoted to the life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology. Click with your left mouse key to see and hear the material or and to see the material. is for broadband transmission. The maps and narrations present the Snow story in place and time. The following articles describe the intent of the John Snow site and comment about his life. "Pioneer..." Chronicle of Higher Education "Cyber Sleuths" UCLA Magazine "History, maps..." SoC Bulletin (PDF) "When Cholera Met its Match" Science "John Snow" BBC Online "The Handle" UAB School of Public Health Magazine "Popularity of Epi site grows" UCLA Schoo Read More Go to Site

		Joseph Priestley ^Votes:0 A Brief Biography of Joseph Priestley offers an excellent summary of his life. An excellent biography can be found on the site Joseph Priestley . A list of source is also given. Brief biographical material can be found on the sites MSC Role: Joseph Priestley , and Hyper Chemistry on the Web . Check out Joseph Priestley on Making Carbonated Water . This site is a complete scan of Priestley's original work which cost just one schilling when printed in 1772. The InfoPlease.com Encyclopedia has an excellent summary on the history and properties of rubber. Check out the excellent book Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science by Royston M. Roberts (1989, John Wiley and Sons). This book describes Priestley's life and discoveries in great detail. This is a fascinating book. The New York Time Read More Go to Site

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		Lavoisier, Antoine (1743-1794) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography ^Votes:0 Branch of Science "> Chemists Nationality "> French Lavoisier, Antoine (1743-1794) French chemist who, through a conscious revolution, became the father of modern chemistry. As a student, he stated "I am young and avid for glory." He was educated in a radical tradition, a friend of Condillac and read Maquois's dictionary. He won a prize on lighting the streets of Paris, and designed a new method for preparing saltpeter. He also married a young, beautiful 13-year-old girl named Marie-Anne, who translated from English for him and illustrated his books. Lavoisier demonstrated with careful measurements that transmutation of water to earth was not possible, but that the sediment observed from boiling water came from the container. He burnt phosphorus and sulfur in air, and proved that Read More Go to Site

		Leo Szilard Online ^Votes:0 Leo Szilard Online Deutsch \| EspaÑol \| Francais \| Italiano \| PortuguÊs - - translation by AltaVista Leo Szilard, near Oxford, spring 1936. Photo copyright U.C. Regents; used by permission. Contact Mandeville Special Collections Library, U.C. San Diego , for information on obtaining Szilard images. Welcome to the world of physicist, biophysicist, and "scientist of conscience" Leo Szilard (1898-1964). How do you say it? Say SIL-ahrd. Szilard's ideas included the linear accelerator, cyclotron, electron microscope, and nuclear chain reaction. Equally important was his insistence that scientists accept moral responsibility for the consequences of their work. In his classic 1929 paper on Maxwell's Demon, Szilard identified the unit or "bit" of information. The World Wide Web Read More Go to Site

		Linus Pauling - Biography ^Votes:0 Nobel Foundation Nobel Media Nobel Museum Nobel Peace Center Nobel Web SEARCH CONTACT US HOME NOBEL PRIZES ALFRED NOBEL PRIZE AWARDERS NOMINATION PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENTS AWARD CEREMONIES EDUCATIONAL GAMES By Year Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Medicine Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Peace Prize Prize in Economics Linus Pauling The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 Biography Linus Carl Pauling was born in Portland, Oregon, on 28th February, 1901, the son of a druggist, Herman Henry William Pauling, who, though born in Missouri, was of German descent, and his wife, Lucy Isabelle Darling, born in Oregon of English-Scottish ancestry. Linus attended the public elementary and high schools in the town of Condon and the city of Portland, Oregon, and entered the Oregon Stat Read More Go to Site

		Linus Pauling Legacy ^Votes:0 Home Dr. Linus Pauling Building On His Life And Legacy Architect's Vision for a Pauling Memorial Linus Pauling is the only individual in history to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes: for Chemistry in 1954 and the Peace Prize 1962. Many people know him for his more recent important work in micronutrient research on the role of Vitamin C in human health and longevity. Linus Pauling was born in 1901, on the outskirts of Portland in the small community of Oswego. When the was five, the family moved to Condon, Oregon. This was where his mother had been born, the daughter of a prominent town father. Linus' father had recognized that his son was intellectually exceptional. There is a famous letter to the Oregonian where the father asks for advice on a reading list for his young son. Shortly ther Read More Go to Site

		medcom-egypt.com ^Votes:0 medcom-egypt.com Click here to go to medcom-egypt.com . Read More Go to Site

		mendel ^Votes:0 DMITRI MENDELEEV B orn in Siberia, the last of at least 14 children, Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907) revolutionized our understanding of the properties of atoms and created a table that probably adorns every chemistry classroom in the world. After his father went blind and could no longer support the family, Mendeleev?s mother started a glass factory to help make ends meet. But just as Mendeleev was finishing high school, his father died and the glass factory burned down. With most of her other children now out on their own, his mother took her son to St. Petersburg, working tirelessly and successfully to get him into college. In the late 1860s, Mendeleev began working on his great achievement: the periodic table of the elements. By arranging all of the 63 elements then known by their atomic Read More Go to Site

		MSC Role ^Votes:0 According to Webster's Biographical Dictionary (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam, 1959), Priestly, an "English clergyman and chemist...announced [the] discovery of 'dephlogisticated air,' now called oxygen (1774), adhered to [the] phlogistic theory of combustion, isolated and described [the] properties of nitrous oxide, ammonia, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sulphide, carbon monoxide, etc., [and] discovered [the] decomposition of ammonia by electricity (1781)" (1213-14). It should be noted that Priestly's younger contemporary, Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), first discovered (in 1799) what Webster's calls "the exhilarating effect of nitrous oxide when inhaled" (396). References Robert E. Schofield, "Priestly, Joseph" in Charles C. Gillispie, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Scribner Read More Go to Site

		MY HERO - SCIENCE ^Votes:0 SCIENTIST HEROES Abner Peeler is credited with the invention of the first airbrush. Alan Turing laid the theoretical groundwork for the first computer. Albert Einstein believed in the power of imagination. Alexander Borodin was an accomplished chemist, composer and staunch advocate of women's rights. Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone. Ameen Abdulrasool is a young inventor who developed a portable navigation system for the blind. Amy Charkowski works on the front lines of protecting Earth's food supply. Andrea Mia Ghez is an astrophysicist best known for her discoveries about the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Ariel Ruiz i Altaba Scientist - Photographer combines art and science to research how cells are generated and formed. Audrey Penn: Just Do It is a medic Read More Go to Site

		noddack5 ^Votes:0 IDA NODDACK Nuclear Physics Reader Comments Homepage Ida Tacke Noddack 1896-1979 Contributions Publications Honors Jobs/Positions Education Additional Information Some Important Contributions Discovered element 75, rhenium, with W. Noddack and O. Berg. {In the same paper, "Die Ekamangane" published in 1925, that the discovery of rhenium was announced Berg, Noddack and Tacke reported evidence for an element 43 which they named masurium. This element was later (1937) found by C. Perrier and E. Segre in a molybdenum foil irradiated in the Berkeley cyclotron, and named technetium. The discovery of element 43 by Berg, Noddack and Tacke in naturally occuring rock was and is disputed because all known isotopes of this element are unstable with half-lives much less than the age of the earth; for d Read More Go to Site

		Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography ^Votes:0 Branch of Science "> Chemists Nationality "> English Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) English chemist and amateur natural philosopher whose scientific works covered physics, electricity, magnetism, and optics, in addition to chemistry. The objects of his chemical studies included "fixed air" (carbon dioxide), "nitrous air" (nitric oxide), "marine acid air" (hydrogen chloride), "alkaline air" (ammonia), "vitriolic air" (sulfur dioxide), "phlogisticated nitrous air" (nitrous oxide, laughing gas), and "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen). Priestley was a firm believer in phlogiston. His chemical writings were published in the three volume Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Airs (1774- 1777) and in the three volume E Read More Go to Site

		Richard A. Passwater - Healthworld Online - HealthWorld Online ^Votes:0 healthy.net Richard A. Passwater Ph.D. home alternative medicine health conditions healthy shopping contact us Tell A Friend Search enter keyword-click Health Conditions Abscess Acne ADD/ADHD Addictions Aggressive Behavior Aging AIDS Alcoholism Allergic Rhinitis Allergies Alzheimer's Amenorrhea Anemia Angina Pectoris Anorexia Nervosa Anxiety Appendicitis Arthritis Asthma Atherosclerosis Athlete's Foot Autism Auto-Immune Avian Flu Back Surgery Backpain Baldness Bedwetting Bipolar Disorder Birth Control Bladder Blindness Body Odor Boils Bowel Toxemia Breast Cancer Broken Bones Broken Teeth Bronchitis Bulimia Burns Bursitis Caffeine Addiction Cancer Candidiasis Cardiovascular Carpal Tunnel Cataracts Celiac Disease Cerebrovascular Cervical Cancer Cervical Dysplasia Chemical Poison Chest Pain C Read More Go to Site

		Schoenbein ^Votes:0 Christian Friedrich SchÖnbein (1799-1868) German-Swiss chemist Christian Friedrich SchÖnbein (1799-1868) made his mark by discovering ozone , a form of oxygen, but went on to other discoveries. In an experiment at his home, in 1845, he spilled a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid and used his wife's cotton apron to mop it up. He hung the apron over the stove to dry, but once dry it went poof! and was gone. He had converted the cellulose of the apron into nitrocellulose . The nitro groups (added from the nitric acid) served as an internal source of oxygen, and when heated the cellulose was completely oxidized, all at once. SchÖnbein recognized the possibilities of the compound. Ordinary black gunpowder exploded into thick smoke, blackening the gunners, fouling the cannon and small arm Read More Go to Site

		Scientific Landmarks ^Votes:0 Pioneers of Science & Wisdom For those who extended the Frontiers of Knowledge Cairo University Landmarks Prof. Ali Moustafa Mosharrafa Prof. Taha Husain Prof. Nayel Barakat Prof. Ahmed Zewail Prof. Osman Badr's Prize Prof. Mohamed Gamal Elfandi Prof. Fahmy Ibrahim Mikhail Prof. Hamed Khalifa Prof. Mohamed A. Kassas Prof. Mohamed Reda Madwar Prof. Hamed Gohar Copyright ? 2000 . EUN, All Rights Reserved. Read More Go to Site

		The Biography Channel - Bios Search ^Votes:0 .trp { padding: 5px 0; margin-left: -4px; background-color: #333333; } .trp { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px;} Send to friend I Biography - Bookmark this page Bio Email Updates Videos Actors/Actresses Bio4Kids Black History Celebrity Fact or Fiction Weekly Highlights People Browse Alphabetical Index Browse By Category BIO's Best Animalographies Black History Boo-ography Deathiversary Profiles of 9/11 TV Moms Women's History U.S. Presidents Games TV ALL SHOWS SCHEDULE Biography Bio4Kids Final 24 Notorious Mystery Programs Born On This Day Shop Holiday Gift Finder Gift Certificates Biography DVDs Mystery DVDs Photo Galleries Discuss SEARCH: Search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present. Enter any or both of the following Person’s Name (e.g. Tom Selleck; Einstein, Al Read More Go to Site

		The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ^Votes:0 LS server (http://www.ls.huji.ac.il/) is down To access the following sites please 1. update your bookmarks 2. follow the links Old url New url www.ls.huji.ac.il/~expression/ http://wolfson.huji.ac.il/expression/ www.ls.huji.ac.il/~purification/ http://wolfson.huji.ac.il/purification/ ? All rights reserved to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Read More Go to Site

		The Tech - Mario Molina Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry ^Votes:0 SITE MENU: FRONT PAGE \| NEWS \| OPINION \| ARTS \| SPORTS \| CAMPUS LIFE \| PHOTOS \| ADVERTISING INFO \| ABOUT Last Published: November 20, 2007 Boston Weather: 56 °F \| Overcast Volume 115 >> Issue 48 : Friday, October 13, 1995 No PDF Available Mario Molina Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry News Office By Shang-Lin Chuang News Editor Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Mario J. Molina will share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in atmospheric chemistry concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone. The Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden awarded the million-dollar prize on Wednesday morning to Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland of the University of California at Irvine, and Paul Crutzen, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Read More Go to Site

		United States-on-Line.com ^Votes:0 United States-on-Line.com United State Online United State History United State Map United State Population If you're looking for United State Online , United State History , United State Map or anything United State Online related... You have come to the right website! Constitution Of The United State United State Flag United State Military United State Demographic United State Marine Corp United State Travel Site Menu United State Immigration United State Navy United State Supreme Court United State Zip Code United State Capital United State Code United States Online United State Copyright © 2007 unitedstates-on-line.com. All Rights Reserved. Home Legal inquire about this domain Read More Go to Site

		Vanderbilt Register: Nobel Prize Laureate to visit Vanderbilt Feb. 10 ^Votes:0 Vanderbilt Register.... Feb 3-9, 1997 Nobel Prize Laureate to visit Vanderbilt Feb. 10 The Department of Chemistry will sponsor a seminar by chemist F. Sherwood Rowland on ozone depletion and global warming. by Staci I. Shipp Nobel Prize-winning chemist F. Sherwood Rowland, one of the first scientists to warn that chlorofluorocarbon gases (CFCs) deplete the ozone layer, will present a seminar titled "Two Atmospheric Problems: Ozone Depletion and Global Warming" sponsored by the Vanderbilt University Department of Chemistry at 4:10 p.m. Feb. 10 in Room 103 of Wilson Hall. A reception will be held in his honor immediately following in the lobby of Wilson Hall. The seminar is free and open to the public. Rowland, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, is a Read More Go to Site

		washingtonpost.com: The Woman Behind the Bomb ^Votes:0 [an error occurred while processing this directive] LISE MEITNER: A Life In Physics By Ruth Lewin Sime University of California Press. 526 pp. $30 Go to the First Chapter of Lise Meitner: A Life In Physics Go to Chapter One The Woman Behind the Bomb By Marcia Bartusiak Sunday, March 17, 1996 In the history of modern physics there are names that perpetually resonate: Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr for unveiling the secrets of atomic structure, Erwin Schroedinger and Werner Heisenberg for establishing the rules of the quantum game, and Albert Einstein for recognizing that mass is frozen energy. In this company the name Lise Meitner has diminished to a footnote. Yet in her day she had a reputation as one of Germany's best experimentalists. Einstein fondly referred to her as "our Marie Curie Read More Go to Site

		Werner Complexes ^Votes:0 Werner Complexes The history of modern coordination chemistry has been the subject of several books, of which perhaps the best known are those by George B. Kauffman. By necessity they all highlight Alfred Werner, "the Father of Coordination Chemistry" who in 1893, proposed the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes and in 1913 received the first Nobel prize in Inorganic Chemistry. In this series of experiments, some simple cobalt(III) complexes are to be prepared, which show some of the properties that Werner was able to interpret using the octahedral model. These include; optical, geometric and linkage isomerism. Reaction Schemes as ISIS Draw .tgf file The oxidation of cobalt sulfate to the tetraamminecarbonate complex can be done by passing air through the solution for 2 Read More Go to Site

		Wilkinson's Catalyst, What is Wilkinson's Catalyst? About its Science, Chemistry and Structure ^Votes:0 Wilkinson's Catalyst @ 3Dchem.com Rhodium Tris(triphenylphosphine) chloride Links : Molecules of the Month , A to Z Index of Structures , Top 50 Prescription Medicines , Gallery , Library of Inorganic Structures (over 1600 structures), Interactive 3D Periodic Table , 3D Stereo Glasses, Desktop Wallpaper , Medical advice and Search 3Dchem.com Home > Wilkinson's Catalyst (Molecule of the Month for October 1996) click on the picture above to interact with the 3D model of the Wilkinson's Catalyst structure (this will open a new browser window) Rh (PPh3)3 Cl Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, FRS, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, died on September 26,1996 His work had a wide effect on inorganic chemistry and started the field of organometallic chemistry. One of his chemical discoveries earned his Read More Go to Site

		Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ^Votes:0 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners 2007-1901 ( also available in alphabetical arrangement ) brought to you by The Nobel Prize Internet Archive 2007 The prize goes to: G ERHARD E RTL for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces. 2006 The prize goes to: R OGER D. K ORNBERG for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription. 2005 The prize is being awarded jointly to: Y VES C HAUVIN , R OBERT H. G RUBBS , and R ICHARD R. S CHROCK for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis. 2004 The prize is being awarded jointly to: A ARON C IECHANOVER , A VRAM H ERSHKO , and I RWIN R OSE for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation 2003 The prize is being awarded for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes with one half of the prize to: Read More Go to Site

		WITI - Hall of Fame ^Votes:0 WITI HALL OF FAME The WITI Hall of Fame was established in 1996 by WITI to recognize, honor, and promote the outstanding contributions women make to the scientific and technological communities that improve and evolve our society. Four outstanding women were honored at The 12th Annual Hall of Fame Awards Dinner on Thursday, September 27. It was held at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara in conjunction with the Women and Technology Summit . To download the press release announcing the 2007 WITI Hall of Fame Inductees... Click Here! If you would like to make a nomination for the 2008 WITI Hall of Fame, please download the 2008 nomination form . A MS Word version of the 2008 nomination form is available to facilitate electronic submissions. Example Nomination Form . Note: Nominees must be personal Read More Go to Site

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