Merton, Thomas

Merton, Thomas R. 1914. Attempts to Produce the Rare Gases by Electric Discharge. Proceeding of the Royal Society. Series A. 9o A62i (August 1, 1914) 549-53-... 

Merton, Egon Stephen. "Science and imagination in Sir Thomas Browne." PhD thesis, Columbia Univ, 1949. 

Merton, Egon Stephen. Science and imagination in Sir Thomas Browne. New York King s Crown P., 1949 reprint, New York AMS P., 1973. viii, 156 p. ISBN 0404043127... 

D.P. Thomas, and R.E. Merton, A low-molecular weight heparin compared with unfractionated heparin. Thromb. Res. 28, 343-350 (1982). 

While some contemporary alchemists such as Hunter, Emmens, Jollivet-Castelot, and Ayton had indeed tried to make gold, Ramsay s attempted transmutations led to a rush toward a different kind of treasure scientific immortality. Multiple chemists pursued the same kinds of experiments that Ramsay had, believing that they too had found positive results. They attempted to position themselves within the scientific world as the first to have proven artificial transmutation. Between 1907, when Ramsay announced his supposed copper transmutations in Nature, and 1914, when he abandoned his efforts, several significant chemists (including J. N. Collie, Hubert Patterson, E. C. C. Baly, Thomas Merton, Irvine Masson, and A. C. G. Egerton) all participated in experiments to use either radium emanation or cathode rays and X-rays to cause chemical transmutation. 

Aldous Huxley had a similar point of view. After writing about how use of psychedelics had deepened his feeling for the spiritual, he received a letter from Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and noted poet. Questioning the validity of drug-induced mystical experience. Merton asked about distinctions that might be drawn between mystical and aesthetic aspects. In January 1959, Huxley responded with his evaluation of the "deeper aspects... 

At the core, LSD enables the users to transcend ordinary reality and feel religious effects. Aldous Huxley described the experience with a term from Catholic theology, "gratuitous grace. He wrote Father Thomas Merton about similarities perceived by one user to spontaneous mystical experience ... 

The question was raised by the Society s Treasurer, Thomas Merton, that the election of a woman was a break in the traditions of the Society. In response, Henry Dale, the previous Director of the National Institute for Medical Research, commented However much one might wrap it up, the question which we should put could only mean one thing — Do you or do you not wish the Council to continue a discrimination against women candidates which the Law has removed 99... 

B. M. and Merton, B., Nematodes as Biological Models, Academic Press, New York, 1980 Emmons, S.W., Mechanisms of C. elegans development. Cell 51, 881-883, 1987 Blumenthal, T. and Thomas, J., Cis and trans... 

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