In love

It is 1766 and phlogiston, a last remnant of alchemical thought, has held sway for nearly 100 years. In England, Henry Cavendish, an eccentric genius mil- 

During the same time sixty thousand children have been bom in America.  

Enter Pierre du Pont and his son Eleuthere Irenee who will later find a small measure of success with a start-up chemical company in wild and remote Delaware. Pierre is dashing and ebullient. Antoine is analytical and totally devoted to his beakers, flasks, and balances. Pierre and Marie begin an affair starting in 1781 that will last over 10 years without damaging the friendship between Pierre and Antoine (or, for that matter, Marie and Antoine)—ah, the French. From a scene  

Antoine There are 26 of Pierre s robes in my armoire. 1 can t seem to find my 

Marie It s in the laboratory with your clean underwear. I ll see you next 

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My interest in the periodic table has at least two aspects. Firstly, like so many people before me, I fell in love with the rational beauty of the periodic chart that appears to systematize all the kinds of elementary substances that a student of chemistry would ever encounter.1 The extent to which students are exposed to the periodic table and the stage at which this takes place seems to vary a good deal depending on geographical location and on the era in which they learn chemistry. In my own case it was in London in the 1960s where we were not initially taught the periodic table, although it was displayed on the classroom walls. 

In loving memory of Ant, whose love of intelligent technology promised so much, and to Amanda, Neil and Sarah, in the hope that your children inherit a more sustainable world than my generation leaves behind. 

In loving memory of Cyril and Valerie Pellissier Dedicated to their so little children, Tess and Clement... 

Better, and worse. .. Have you ever been in love ... 

Would it have been like this then If I d had this, my heart s desire, when I first fell in love with him If he had loved me Or would it have been as young love is awkward, embarrassed, urgent, clumsy Secret, it would have been, almost defiant. Would we have given in to our need even so, and grabbed for each other as the young do It s maturity that s wise enough to savor every lick and kiss and shiver. 

David, Linda Fierz-. The drean of Poliphilo the soul in love translated by Mary Hottinger. Dallas (TX) Spring Publications, 1987. 

At some point along the way, Leblanc fell in love with chemistry, which was an intrinsic part of upper-class culture in eighteenth-century France. Rich aristocrats studied chemistry and installed laboratories in their chateaus even the king, Louis XVI, believed that the science could help solve a host of society s medical and technological problems. 

During the summer of 1901, Haber met Clara Immerwahr at a chemistry conference. Like Haber, Clara came from an assimilated Jewish family in Breslau. Her father was a well-to-do chemist who operated a beet sugar factory on his estate. As students, Clara and Fritz had met in a dancing class and fallen in love, but parental opposition had prevented the match. When they met again, Haber immediately proposed. 

He was also never entirely sure that he was in love. Asking Machetanz about Jesse, he wrote, A man can t gush about emotions he doesn t feel, can he . .. I once actually thot myself in love there, and even yet, there are times when she appears supernaturally beautiful and desirable—but the feeling is so damned intermittent, and I ask myself is this the way with love ... 

Secondary Metabolites (All s Fair in Love War). Biological Chemistry—Lecture 5, Wayne Best, University of Western Australia, http //www.cygnus.uwa.edu.au/ wmbest/biolchem/lecture-05.pdf... 

But if a man, having the gold of truth, lazily hoards it, too idle to seek to put it out to interest, or from any other motive misuses it, then is that man rich in knowledge but poor in love to his fellowman and thus intellectually despising him, he will find it hard to enter into the kingdom, and regeneration will not come near him. 

When people are in love, they may find their beloved s —... 

Walter Kohn has been a great help to many scientists over many years, an expert consultant and helpmate and a fine, unobtrusive, even-handed host of good meetings in lovely places. We thank him. In recent years I have discussed with him (among other things), circulant orbitals, the monotonic density theorem, and the information theory point of view on what constitutes an atom in a molecule, the latter during a stolen few minutes in a Stockholm hotel in December of 1999 [6]. Walter may or may not like chemistry [7], and he claims not to have studied chemistry in the university. But what does one call a great teacher of chemical principles I would say, CHEMIST, full caps. 

The paper ends with some practical advice on how to obtain reliable rate-constants, but the writer is not too optimistic about finding his view heeded, because most practising chemists are too much in love with their own methods, and seem not to mind squandering resources on re-inventing the wheel. 

Narcissistic, from Narkissos, youth who fell in love with his reflection in water". The Oxford English Dictionary. 

I had a very interesting junior high school science teacher. I was the best student in my science class. I was his prize student. Once I came in contact with chemistry — symbols, formulas, equations, and all the different things you could do — I just fell in love with chemistry ... 

I nodded. Tarot has limitations, but even the Maestro admits I am good with it. But I m not a fairground fortune-teller, love. I won t babble pap about being lucky in love or old friends re-entering your life. If the news is bad, I ll tell you. I might desensitize my deck if I misquoted it. ... 

I realized my jaw had fallen open, and closed it. Fortunately she was looking down at her hands, not at me. I was very young and very poor, so I was married off to a man very old and very rich. Then I met Zorzi, who showed me what I lacked. We were so in love... I simply cannot describe the difference he made to my life. It was spring after winter, it was daybreak. After his father s murder, he insisted I must not come forward to testify, but I was terrified that he might be accused of the killing. I went to my husband and told him what had happened. I said that I would have to report this to the Ten. He ordered me out of his house— but by then Zorzi had already fled to the mainland. After that I needed to earn a living, and I knew only one way I could do it. She gave Jacopo a wistful smile. 

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