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The next phase which resulted in the worldwide acceptance of eddy current technology for testing metals was the work of Dr Friedrich Foerster. Dr Foerster, a modem Giant, has rightly been called the father of modern eddy current testing (Ref 5). His early work was driven by the priorities of the Second World War, after which he embarked upon major research and... 

The original works by the Flartree father and son team appear in ... 

Gr. Tantalos, mythological character, father of Niobe) Discovered in 1802 by Ekeberg, but many chemists thought niobium and tantalum were identical elements until Rowe in 1844, and Marignac, in 1866, showed that niobic and tantalic acids were two different acids. The early investigators only isolated the impure metal. The first relatively pure ductile tantalum was produced by von Bolton in 1903. Tantalum occurs principally in the mineral columbite-tantalite. 

Whereas most chemists focused their attention on speculation about atoms and the question of atomic weights, the constant multiplicity in compounds occupied an increasingly central role. The new concept of substitution, i.e., the replacement of one element by another in a compound, started to make a major impact on chemistry in the 1840s. It was probably Dumas, who in the 1830s at the request of his father-in-law (who was the director of the famous Royal Sevres porcelain factory) resolved an event that upset a royal dinner party at the Tuil-... 

I was born in Budapest, Hungary on May 22, 1927. My father, Gyula Olah, was a lawyer. My mother, Magda Krasznai, came from a family in the southern part of the country and fled to the capital, Bndapest, at the end of World War I, when it became part of Yugoslavia. 

With my father in Austria during a European visit in 1965. 

My day, which had started out in its regular routine, from this point on became quite hectic. I barely had time to call my sons, who for some years at this time in October used to make polite and understanding remarks on the fact that their father was again not on the list of Nobelists (not that anyone really can or should expect this). I also called a few close friends, including my colleague Surya Prakash,... 

After Strike wrote the first edition and started up the old web site, a lot of new theories came in. The most promising was a proposition from our founding father of cyber chemistry Eleusis. This was his proposal ... 

H. A. Wallace and W. L. Brown, Com and Its Earlj Fathers, Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, Mich., 1956, p. 35. 

Acetylene-Based Routes. Walter Reppe, the father of modem acetylene chemistry, discovered the reaction of nickel carbonyl with acetylene and water or alcohols to give acryUc acid or esters (75,76). This discovery led to several processes which have been in commercial use. The original Reppe reaction requires a stoichiometric ratio of nickel carbonyl to acetylene. The Rohm and Haas modified or semicatalytic process provides 60—80% of the carbon monoxide from a separate carbon monoxide feed and the remainder from nickel carbonyl (77—78). The reactions for the synthesis of ethyl acrylate are... 

The idea of red cell substitutes is not new. In Ovid s Metamorphosis the witch Medea restored Jason s aged father, Aeson, by slitting his throat to let out old blood, replacing it with a magic brew she had concocted (1). Sir Christopher Wren was one of the first to apply the new knowledge about circulation to blood substitutes. In 1656 he infused ale, wine, scammony, and opium into dogs and from these efforts conceived the ideal of transfusing blood from one animal to another. Lower actually carried out the first transfusion experiments (2). 

About the time that Ostwald moved to Leipzig, he established contact with two scientists who are regarded today as the other founding fathers of physical chemistry a Dutchman, Jacobus van t Hoff (1852-1911) and a Swede, Svante Arrhenius (1859 1927). Some historians would include Robert Bunsen (1811-1899) among the founding fathers, but he was really concerned with experimental techniques, not with chemical theory. 

The crucial experiments that determined the structures of a number of very simple crystals, beginning with sodium chloride, were done, not by von Laue and his helpers, but by the Braggs, William (1862-1942) and Lawrence (1890-1971), father... 

Jenkin, J. (1995) Lecture to a history of science group at the Royal Institution, London. Prof. Jenkin, of LaTrobe University in Australia, is writing a joint biography of the Braggs, father and son, at the time they were in Adelaide (The episode is confirmed in an unpublished autobiography by W.L. Bragg, in possession of his son Stephen.). 

This chapter is dedicated to my father, Dr. Kurt C. Frisch (1918-2000), urethane pioneer, founder and director of the Polymer Institute-University of Detroit Mercy. In pace requiescat. 

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