Meyer, Adolph

Anonymous (1944). Meyer, A.F. American men of science 7 1210. Science Press Lancaster. Anonymous (1964). Meyer, Adolph Frederick. Trans. ASCE 129 945-946. 

Some indication of the differences can be found by analysing some criticisms. .. upon the periodic classification solicited in 1881 by the editor of the Chemical News from Adolphe Wurtz, a celebrated Parisian chemist of the time. (Wurtz s note follows notes from Mendeleev and from Lothar Meyer forming their famous priority dispute.)... 

Methods for accurately assessing the longitudinal course of mood disorders were first described by Adolph Meyer in 1951 ( 41). More recently, Post et al. (42) have encouraged retrospective and prospective historical graphing as an invaluable guide to the disorder s progression and response to therapy. They recommend grading episodes by three levels of severity ... 

The collected papers of Adolph Meyer. Vol. 3 Medical teachings. Am J Psychiatry 1988 145 844-848. 

Adolph Meyer described it as a sensational discovery reported with modesty. He could not recall a greater impression being made at a scientific meeting. Sir Henry Gilbert was the chairman at this momentous occasion. His feelings must have been mixed in view of his and Lawes unsuccessful but equally careful experimentation over the previous several decades, already discussed. 

For the impact sensitivity determination, several types of impact testing apparatus, known also as Fallhammer Apparatus, are used US Bureau of Explosive Impact paratus (BoE), US Bureau of Mines Impact Apparatus (BoM), Picatirmy Impact. >paratus (PA), German Bundesanstdt fur Materialpriifung. paratus (BAM), and others (Baum et al., 1959, 1975 Impact Sensitivity Test, 1962 Kamlet and Adolph, 1979 Koenen et al., 1961 Kohler and Meyer, 1993 McIntyre, 1980 Safety and Performance Tests, 1972 Sensibilite auchoc, 1987 Wollert-Johansen, 1978). 

In the early days of chemistry, especially organic chemistry, between roughly 1820 and 1895, academic genealogy was a way for proud professors (and proud former students) to show their common roots, their similar research interests and their influence upon the world of chemistry. This was a great period for organic and physical chemistry (1-7), when the students of Jons Jakob Berzelius, Friedrich Wohler, Friedrich Strohmeyer, Robert Bunsen, Justus von Liebig, Friedrich Kekule, August von Hoffman, and later of Adolph von Baeyer, Viktor Meyer, Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, Otto Wallach and Hermann von Helmholtz were the leaders of the chemical (and physical in the case of Helmholtz) research and education world. 

Probably the most distinguished assembly of chemists in the history of science (8) could be found at the First International Chemical Congress which was held in Karsruhe in the Kingdom of Baden in 1860. Aside from Kekule, Liebig, Wohler, Bunsen and von Baeyer, there were also present Jean Baptiste Dumas, Hermann Kopp, Adolph Kolbe, Sir Edward Frankland, Dmitri Mendeleev, Friedrich Beilstein, Lothar Meyer and Charles Friedel, all of them "academically related." It was at this meeting that Stanislao Cannizzaro, a young Italian chemist who was working in Sardinia, and a former assistant of Michel Chevreul in Paris, burst in an... 

In 1879 Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884) sent a letter to the German Chemical Society complaining about the incorrect changes in the translation of his book. La thiorie atomique. He believed that the translated text favored Meyer s work. Wurtz stressed that only Mendeleev had the idea to arrange the elements according to their atomic weight in two rows, and that Meyer just completed this idea. 

This is clearly mentioned by the editor, J. Rosenthal, in the forew ord of the book. He assumed that Wurtz used Meyer s explanations for his book and changed the content of some paragraphs to emphasize Meyer s contribution. See J. Rosenthal, foreword to Die atomistische Jheorie by Adolphe Wurtz (Leipzig Brockhaus, 1879). Lothar Meyer, Zur Geschichte der periodischen Atomistik, Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft 13 (1880) 259-265, p. 259. 

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