King, Victor

Averairi was a fiiend of the most learned men of his time. King Victor Amedeus n of Savoy (1666-1732) invited him to the facrrlty of the University of Turin, but he refused. In his honor in 1721, his scholarly associates shuck a medal with his effigy. At his death in Florence on 24 August 1738, he left his belongings to the poor and his library to the University of Pisa. 

DuPont, Pierre Samuel (1870—1954). American industrialist and grandson of Alfred Victor DuPont was president of the duPont Co from 1915 to 1919, when he was succeeded by Irenee duPont (Ref 2). He was called in Ger journal SS (Ref 1) der Pulverkonig (Powder King)... 

I would like to thank Professor Victor Gold for the hospitality he extended to me while I was on sabbatical leave at King s College London, where the major part of this book was written. I also owe a particular debt of gratitude to Dr. P. W. Atkins and Dr. B. A. Morrow who read the final typescript in its entirety and to Professor A. D. Westland who read Chapter 12. 

Pennsalt Chemicals Corp., Technological Center, King of Prussia, Pa. t Victor Chemical Division, StauiTer Chemical Company, Chicago Heights, III. 

In addition, I thank those who took the time to review chapters of the book, and made invaluable comments as well as corrections. They are Ellen Baxter (R.W. Johnson), Arthur Cammers-Goodwin (Kentucky), Phil Gamer (Case Western Reserve), Bruce King (Wake Forest), Spencer Knapp (Rutgers), Frederick Luzzio (Louisville), Timo Ovaska (Connecticut College), Robin Polt (Arizona), Jon Rainier (Arizona), Victor Snieckus (Queens University) Douglass Taber (Delaware), and Frederick West (Utah). 

Jonathan D. W. Clarke Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College, London, UK David L. Cockroft Eormerly Imperial Cancer Research Eund, Oxford, UK Peter D. Currie Muscle Development Laboratory, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia Michael J. Depew Department of Craniofacial Development, King s College London, London, UK... 

Figure 18. Victor L. King (1886—1958), codiscoverer in 1911 with Alfred Werner of optically active coordination compounds, Universitat Zurich, 1910. (Courtesy of Victor R. King.) (Reproduced from reference 19, p 132. Copyright 1975 American Chemical Society.)...

In 1897 Werner recognized that a compound such as [Co(C204)(en)2] should be resolvable into optical isomers, and he discussed this in a publication in 1899 (3). He made many attempts to resolve cobalt complexes. His American student Victor L. King carried out some 2000 fractional crystallizations without resolution. Finally, the resolution of cis -[CoCl(en)2(NH3)] and cis -[CoBr(en)2(NH3)] + was successful in... 

Professor Victor R. Preedy, School of Medicine, King s College London, UK... 

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