Friendly, Alfred

The author wishes to dedicate this work to Mr. T. H. Shen of Yungkoo Paint Varnish Mfg. Co., Taipei, who gave him the rare opportunity of starting a new alkyd plant as the first job assignment for a fresh college graduate, and to the memory of the late chairman of the Department of Polymers Coatings, North Dakota State University, Dr. Alfred E. Rheineck, teacher, mentor, and friend. 

Hall, Alfred Rupert. Newton, his friends and his foes. Aldershot Variorum, 1993. 

In early days Alfred Nobel already replaced mercury fulminate (MF, see above), which he had introduced into blasting caps, with the safer to handle primary explosives lead azide (LA) and lead styphnate (LS) (Fig. 1.17). However, the long-term use of LA and LS has caused considerable lead contamination in military training grounds which has stimulated world-wide activities in the search for replacements that are heavy-metal free. In 2006 Huynh und Hiskey published a paper proposing iron and copper complexes of the type [cat]2[Mn(NT)4(H20)2] ([cat]+ = NH4, Na+ M = Fe, Cu NT = 5-nitrotetrazolate) as environmentally friendly, green primary explosives (Fig. 1.17) [3]. 

A bout two years ago, I asked a friend going abroad to search for the first edition of Alfred Werner s Neuere Anschauungen auf dem Gebiete der inorganischen Chemie which I had lost somewhere unnoticed. Unfortunately, he failed to find my original copy but presented me with a second edition purchased in Vienna. 

This volume must have belonged to a student of Werner because I found a yellowish newspaper cutting pasted inside the cover. It was an obituary of Alfred Werner. So lucid and accurate were the facts about Werner s scientific career that I guessed that the author must have been a close friend of the great chemist. I thought P. Karrer must have written this. And his was the name I found printed at the end. This experience awakened many memories of Alfred Werner. 

Four-time Emmy award winner Alfre Woodard spent a season cooking up plots on Wisteria Lane in ABC s Desperate Housewives, but in her downtime she feeds a passion for food by heading to the islands. She contributed some of her recipes to the new cookbook Morgan Freeman Friends Caribbean Cooking for a Cause ( 35 rodale.com) proceeds go to the Grenada Relief Fund. 

Nobel hired Kinsky, but she served as his secretary for only a few days before eloping to marry a young baron. She and Nobel remained friends however and kept up correspondence as well as visits. Kinsky was a pacifist, but Nobel, both atheist and socialist, had a more reserved view of the possibilities for humanity. Then his brother died, and a newspaper mistakenly printed Alfred Nobel s prepared obituary. After reading it Nobel realized people would remember him as a merchant of death, and he challenged Kinsky to Inform me, convince me then I will do something great for the [pacifist] movement. 

As the war went on Fischer became more pessimistic. He lost his two sons. Walter committed suicide in a fit depression in November 1916, and Alfred died of spotted typhus in March 1917 while working as a doctor s assistant in a hospital in Romania. In a letter to Natalie Leube, a family friend, Fischer wrote of the consequences of this "insane war, which brings Germany and all Europe sorrow and misery. The result for me, as for millions of other fathers and mothers, is a dreadful bitterness toward the mad circumstances and persons responsible for this great misfortune." " He expressed his pessimism and loathing of the war in a letter to the German... 

No Highway was published only one year after the general layout of the Comet had been finished. For some time Shute had been a close friend of Sir Alfred Pugsley, head of the Structural Department at Farnborough, where pioneering work on metal fatigue in military aircraft had been carried out in the early to mid-1940s, and thus the author was in a position to be quite... 

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