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Ipatieff was born in Russia in 1867. As a member of the privileged (i.e., noble) class, Ipatieff prepared for a military career. Early on in his education, Ipatieff gravitated toward the sciences, and in particular chcmisti y,... 

Structural drawings of carbohydrates of this type are called Haworth formulas, after the British chemist Sir Walter Norman Haworth (St Andrew s University and the University of Birmingham) Early m his career Haworth contributed to the discovery that carbohydrates exist as cyclic hemiacetals rather than m open chain forms Later he col laborated on an efficient synthesis of vitamin C from carbohydrate precursors This was the first chemical synthesis of a vitamin and provided an inexpensive route to its prepa ration on a commercial scale Haworth was a corecipient of the Nobel Prize for chem istry m 1937... 

You were probably taught very early in your professional career that skills in quantum ehemistry are a prerequisite for the study of atomie and moleeular phenomena. I must tell you that this isn t completely true. Some moleeular phenomena can be modelled very accurately indeed using classieal meehanies, and to get us started in our study of moleeular modelling, we are going to study moleeular mechanics. This aims to treat the vibrations of eomplex moleeules by the methods of classical mechanics, and as we shall see, it does so very sueeessfully. 

In 1820 Faraday finished his apprenticeship under Davy and in the following year married and settled into the Royal Institution. Faraday s early reputation as a chemist was so great that in 1824 he was elected to the Royal Society. In 1825 Davy recommended that Faraday succeed him as director of the Royal Institution. The appointment paid only a hundred pounds a year, but Faraday soon received some adjunct academic appointments that enabled him to give up all other professional work and devote himself full-time to research. Faraday s scientific output was enormous, and at the end of his career, his labo-ratoi y notebooks, which covered most of his years at the Royal Institution, contained more than sixteen thousand neatly inscribed entries, bound in volumes by Faraday himself... 

Charles John Pedersen (1904-1989) was born in Pusan, Korea, to a Korean mother and Norwegian father. A U.S. citizen, he moved to the United States in the early 1920s and received an M.Sc. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1927. He spent his entire scientific career at the OuPont Company (1927-1969) and received the 1987 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He is among a very small handful of Nobel Prize-winning scientists who never received a formal doctorate. 

During a full life this great Swedish chemist met practically all the important men of science of his day and won their affection as well as their highest regard. He is said to have had a genius for friendship. Nevertheless, his early career was filled with a battle for acceptance. 

The cocktail was a ritual that included even children. My preference at six—a boyhattan. Hold the whiskey, extra cherry. Who knew it was an early career move ... 

With the experimental results accumulated during his stay in Berlin, Garcia Gonzalez prepared two doctoral dissertations, entitled New Crystalline Phosphoric Esters of o-Fructose and Tests on Some Assumed Phases of Alcoholic Fermentation, which he presented in order to receive his doctorates in Chemistry and in Pharmacy, respectively, at the University of Madrid in 1932. Armed with these two degrees, he decided to pursue an academic career in his own country. His early training in a provincial... 

Born in 1965 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Marjolein van der Meulen received her Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. Thereafter, she received her MS (1989) and PhD (1993) from Stanford University. She spent three years as a biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation R D Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, CA. In 1996, Marjolein joined the faculty of Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She is also an Assistant Scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York. She received a FIRST Award from the National Institutes of Health in 1995 and a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 1999. Her scientific interests include skeletal mechanobiology and bone structural behavior. 

Evidently, every chemistry student who is interested in a career in the chemical industry, or in chemical design in general, should know what catalysis is. This is why the authors teach catalysis early on in the chemistry curriculum of their respective imiversities. 

The last big problem facing early twentieth century physics was Ernest Rutherford s atomic structure. Physicists knew that Rutherford s atom could not exist, but no one could come up with anything better. The man who would resolve this conundrum showed up at Manchester, England, in 1912 to work for Rutherford. Rutherford himself had worked for J.J. Thomson and had disproved Thomson s plum pudding structure of the atom. Now, the new man in Manchester, Niels Bohr, was about to do the same thing to Rutherford. By the end of his career, Bohr would have contributed as much as anyone to understanding Feynman s little particles. Science is a meritocracy. Poor kids can excel and get ahead in the world of science just as easily as the well-heeled. For example. 

In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how an overriding concern with religious salvation was transformed into a concentration on material increase and economic policies, Smith depicts the rise of modern science and early capitalism. In pursuing this narrative, she focuses on that ideal prey of the cultural historian, an intellectual of the second rank whose career and ideas typify those of a generation. Smith follows the career of Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) from university to court, his... 

Henry Harris. To Serve Mankind in Peace and the Fatherland in War The Case of Fritz Haber. German History. 10, no. 1 (1992) 24-38. Source for Haber s baptism early Karlsruhe career Hague Peace Conferences Conant Nationalism in 1900 wedding photo, and Haber as tragic hero. 

For Physiology or Medicine speech 1948 and biography. Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine, 1942-1962. New York Elsevier, (1964) 147-176. Source for Muller s childhood youth early Geigy career insecticide research plan, ideal insecticide, and DDT discovery biologists skepticism and caution about insecticides in complex ecological systems. 

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