Dixon, George

Stephen Hales, George Dixon, and Bishop Watson afterward made similar experiments. Professor Minckelers of tile University of Louvain distilled gas from powdered coal and lighted his lecture room with it in 1784—85 ( 26). In 1792 William Murdock lighted his house at Redruth, Cornwall, with gas made by the destructive distillation of coal (28). 

George Dixon has a nwnbor of perpendicular tubes, -in which is placed the sugar end heated by steam hut there is a want of exposure for evaporation. Perpendicular tubes are found to heat the sugar mom equally. 

George M. Dixon, Formulas, 1864-1868, volume 866, Ohio Historical Society Archives, Columbus, Ohio. 

I would like to thank Dr. George W. Coulston (DuPont), Mr. P. S. Venkataraman (Virginia), Dr. David A. Dixon (Pacific Northwest Laboratories), Dr. William D. Provine (DuPont), Dr. Carlonda Reilly (DuPont), Dr. Jan J. Lerou (DuPont), Dr. Kerwin Dobbs (DuPont), Mr. David Kragten (Eindhoven University of Technology)., and Professor Rutger A. van Santen (Eindhoven University of Technology) for their helpful technical discussions. I would also like to thank DuPont Chemical Company and the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society for their financial support of this work. 

Corpus RA, George PB, House JA, Dixon SR, Ajluni SC, Devhn WH, Timmis GC, Balasubramaniam M, O Neill WW. Optimal glycemic control is associated with a lower rate of target vessel revascularization in treated type II diabetic patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43 8-14. 

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