Harcourt, William

William Seabrook. Asylum. New York Harcourt, Brace Company, 1935. 

In Britain, the security of the British pound had proved key to London s position as the financial capital of the world before World War I. As Sir William Harcourt, Gladstone s chancellor, wrote in 1892 London... is the Metropolis of the Commerce of the World to which all nations resort to settle their business. This I believe... to be owing to the soundness of our monetary system, London being the only place where you can always get gold. It is for that reason that all the exchange business of the world is done in London (quoted in Mayhew 176). But such optimism about the availability of gold was not always justified. 

Haber, Fritz, 129 Haller, Albin, 141, 148 Hammett, Louis, 221, 247, 271 Hannaway, Owen, 60 Hantzsch, Arthur, 54 Harcourt, Vernon, 120, 180, 275 Harkins, William, 239 Harman, Peter, 37... 

Roger J. Williams, The Human Frontier, Harcourt, Brace Company, New York, N.Y., 1946, pp. 7172. 

Greener, E.H., Harcourt, J.K., Lautenschlager, E.P., "Materials Science in Dentistry", Williams and Wilkins Company, Baltimore, 1972. 

Cal] Calvino, I., Cosmicomics, transl. William Weaver Harcourt Brace Jovanovicb, San Diego, 1968. 

Mouledous L, Hunt S, Harcourt R, Harry J, Williams KL, Gutstein HB. Navigated laser capture microdissection as an alternative to direct histological staining for proteomic analysis of brain samples. Proteomics 2003 3(5) 610-615. 

J.R. Bird and J.S. Williams, Ion Beams for Materials Analysis , Academic Press/Harcourt Brace Jovano-vich Publishers (1989). 

The story that W. E. Gladstone and his Liberal henchman Sir William Harcourt frequented a brothel in St John s Wood was nonsense and merely indicated that Ayton voted Conservative. It is unlikely that Ayton knew that Gladstone was privately interested in reforming prostitutes (see Joyce Marlow, Mr and Mrs Gladstone An Intimate Biography, 1977). 

The first to respond publicly to Arago was the President of the British Association, the Reverend William Vernon Harcourt.77 The son of the Archbishop of York, an Oxford graduate with a strong interest in chemistry, and one of the founders of the Association, Harcourt used his Presidential Address to fight back. Although Harcourt did claim experimental and theoretical priority for Cavendish, he rested his case substantially upon the superior quality of what Cavendish had done ... 

Mouledous, L., Hunt, S., Harcourt, R., Harry, J.L., Williams, K.L. and Gutstein, H.B. (2003) Proteomic analysis of immunostained, laser-capture microdissected brain samples. Electrophoresis 24,296-302. Nagy, A. and Delgado-Escueta, A.V. (1984) Rapid preparation of synaptosomes from mammalian brain using nontoxic isoosmotic gradient material (Percoll). J. Neurochem. 43, 1114-1123. 

It was, perhaps, not difficult for Brewster and the Rev. William Vernon Harcourt (son of the Archbishop of York, and formerly an auditor of Kidd s... 

Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson... 

The first non systematic introduction of thermodynamics in Chemical Kinetics is due to the second couple of scientists previously cited Augustus George Vernon Harcourt (1834-1919) and William Esson (1839-1916). Harcourt was an important chemist, member of the Royal society and president of Chemical society, Esson a mathematician and Savilian professor of Geometry. They worked at University of Oxford in a period particularly fruitful for Sciences in Britain. It is the peak of positivism and at the time different sciences, included chemistry, got clearly distinct university courses. Their activity covered a period of fifty years and represented the main passage from natural philosophy speculations to modern scientific reasoning. Influenced by Van t Hoff they will definitively abandon ambiguous terms like Affinity and Chemical Forces. 

Wilhelmy s work remained largely unnoticed until Ostwald drew attention to it over 30 years later. In the meantime, three pairs of workers had performed important work on reaction kinetics and chemical equilibria. They were the Frenchmen Berthelot and Leon Pean de Saint-Gilles (1832-1863), the Norwegians Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836-1902) and Peter Waage (1833-1900), and the Englishmen Augustus Vernon Harcourt (1834-1919) and William Esson (1839-1916). 

Harold Baily Dixon (London, ii August i852-Lytham, Lancs., i8 September 1930), son of William Hepworth Dixon the author, studied at Christ Church, Oxford (1871-5), but failing to gain a degree in classics he took up the study of chemistry imder A. V. Harcourt and achieved a first class in Natural Science in 1875. 79 became Fellow of Balliol College and Millard... 

Noteworthy is the work of Augustus Harcourt and William Esson in England between 1865 and 1867. The chemist Harcourt made detailed experiments on the reactions between hydrogen peroxide and hydrogen iodide as well as between potassium permanganate and oxalic acid, paying particular attention to the influence of the reactant concentrations on the rate. The mathematician Esson analyzed his results in terms of differential equations which are similar to the ones used today. Esson was also the first to treat the kinetics of consecutive reactions, a topic we discuss in the next chapter. 

Duley, W. W. and D. A. Williams (1984). Interstellar Chemistry. London, Harcourt Brace... 

Connelly, R. J., Harcourt, K. J., Chapman, J. Williams, D. 1995. Approach to remediation of ferruginous discharge in the South Wales coalfield and application to closure planning. Minerals Industry International, May 1995, 43-48. 

Baumol, William J., John C. Panzar, Robert D. Willig, 1982, Contestable Markets and the Theory of Industry Structure, New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 

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