Alexander, Hope

Dusha, although adopted and therefore no actual relation, was still, in some remote corner of his mind, as dear a sister as Irena or even little Natasha. The more those feelings had dwindled, to be replaced by their more passionate cousins, the greater the conscious effort required to push the new feelings aside. Soon, Alexander hoped, he might forget that she had ever been anything other than his wife. 

In his Story of the University of Edinburgh, Sir Alexander Grant said that Hope was fully alive to the importance of the quantitative age in Chemistry. .. he had learnt Lavoisier s views from himself, and in personal communication with Dalton had imbibed his ideas of atomic constitution. Professor Hope s two greatest contributions to science were his research on strontia and his observation of the curious and beneficent property that water has of attaining its maximum density at a certain temperature (now fixed accurately at 4°C.). He abandoned research, however, in order to devote all his time to the improvement of his lectures. 

The author wishes to thank his many collaborators and colleagues in this field, almost too numerous to mention. However, special thanks to the collaborators and colleagues at both IBM and Denmark and to Mats Persson, Geert-Jan Kroes, and Bret Jackson who have read parts of this review and offered comments. Nevertheless, the opinions presented here are the sole responsibility of the author. Discussions and arguments with many of the participants in this field, both in print and over many a bottle of wine/beer, and in many parts of the world, over the past 25 years have led to the opinions presented in this review. It has been a fun journey of discovery. Of course since this is still an active research field, some of the concepts/opinions are not yet etched in stone, but hopefully time will prove those presented here to be more fact than fiction. The author also wishes to thank the Alexander von Humboldt foundation for support of visits to Berlin where this chapter was initiated and Bonnie for her patience while this chapter was written. 

Impossibly so, Dusha whispered, but her expression told a greater story. So honest a face could never lie convincingly, and this was the first occasion Alexander ever had to doubt her. Still, there was hope in the way she squeezed his hands. 

In order to investigate the internal organization of the surface-anchored chains, we now consider the concentration profile of the layers when swollen by a good solvent. Such concentration profiles have been investigated in details theoretically, since the Alexander-de Gennes model, and we can hope to be able to dis-... 

Chemistry was required for admission to medical school, and the Professor of Chemistry, Alexander Crum Brown,75 gave separate lectures to the women students, insisting they were identical to those which he was concurrently giving to the men. Pechey attained third place in the chemistry examinations. Forty years earlier, Hope had instituted awards known as the Hope Scholarships, and these were presented to the top four students in the first-year chemistry examinations. The recipients were entitled to free use of the facilities of the University chemistry laboratory for the next term. The two students above Pechey in the list were repeating the course and were therefore ineligible. 

Toxicology is multidisciplinary science and one individual cannot hope to be an expert in all the various fields involved. We have, therefore, plagiarised the works of friends and colleagues who are specialists in the areas covered by this chapter. We would particularly like to thank Andrew Sullivan, Steve Damment, John Hyde, Malcolm Tucker, Mark Sutherland, David Gatehouse, Pete Sibley, David Alexander and Keith Capel-Edwards for their help and advice. Finally our thanks go to Ms Samantha Robertson and Ms Cassie Hill for their expertise in typing the manuscript. 

The chapters of the Handbook are written by leading experts in solid-state electrochemistry from Australia, China, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Sadly, one of the authors of Chapter 3, Professor Alexander N. Petrov, died during the finalization stages of the Handbook. His professionalism and love of science will be well remembered by all of his colleagues, and the intellectual contributions made by Professor Petrov will continue to live on in the form of the inspiration that he has provided to his students, coworkers and, hopefully, the readers of this book. 

Even before the smoke cleared, investigations began into the causes of the mysterious disaster. Few, at this point, doubted that the zinc works were the source of the poisonous emissions. Pittsburgh s health director, Hope Alexander, told the Associated Press on Sunday that most of the Donora deaths had occurred within two or three blocks of the zinc smelter. The next night he was joined in blaming the zinc mill by local doctor William Rongaus and Frank Burke, national safety director of the United Steelworkers of America, which represented the workers at both Donora plants. Unidentified plant... 

Work began in June, 1941, but progress was very slow and it soon became obvious that there was no hope of finishing the job by the provisional completion date of 6 July, 1942. The first machine tools were installed in November, with full production achieved by May, 1943. Asked by the Treasury to account for the delay, the Minister of Aircraft Production explained that construction was overseen by contractors directly appointed by the MAP, which was not the usual practice. Such contracts were usually let by the appointed factory operator, but in this case, because no end user had been selected, responsibility fell upon the Ministry. Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners were contracted to superintend the project on the basis of costs plus 2,500 per annum. Gibb s... 

This is the Quick Index to Alexander and Ann Shulgin s Phenethylamine s i Have Known and Loved. It is not a comprehensive list, but hopefully points out the major chemia Is and things which people "should" be familiar with. I m quite sure i ve overlooked someone i favorite chemical in here and that grave injustices have been done. Such is the nature pf trying to provide a condensed version. 

A number of investigators began to use the procedure developed by Alexander (24a) to measure the rate of reaction of specific polysilicic acids with molybdic acid. This, in effect, was a measurement of the rate of depolymerization in the colorimetric reagent. It was hoped that once the reaction rates of individual polyacids were known, the more complex reaction rate of a mixture of polymers could be interpreted as a distribution of molecular weights. 

Guino-o MA, Alexander JS, McKee ML, Hope H, Englich U, Ruhlandt-Senge K (2009) ChemEur J 15 11842... 

Alexander, D. (2004). Forty Acres and a Mule the Ruined Hope of Reconstruction. NEH Humanities, 25(1) (January/February). Retrieved January 6, 2009, from http //www.neh.gov/ news/humanities/2004-01/reconstruction.html... 

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