Nichols, Claude

On September 18, 1981, Claude Nichols fought with someone in a bar parking lot. He went into the bar, shooting wildly at his opponent with a. 25 caliber revolver. Three bystanders were wounded, including Joseph Perkins, who, as a result of the gunfire, became permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Nichols was convicted of aggravated battery and sentenced to five years at hard labor. Perkins sued F.I.E. Corporation, the manufacturer of the handgun used by Nichols. The suit was transferred to federal court. 

The district court noted The plaintiff admitted in answers to interrogatories—that there was no defect in the design of the gun, no defect in the manufacture or assembly of the component parts of the gun, no statutory prohibition to the manufacture or distribution of the gun, and that Claude Nichols was not at the time of the shooting an agent, employee, or servant of F.I.E. Corp. The plaintiff (Perkins) thus did not claim any of these traditional causes of possible liability for the manufacmrer. 

According to Claude Bernard the action of anesthetics is very general. They react not only with animals but also with plants. Bose has found that plants anesthetized with ether go through a preliminary period of increased irritability or stimulation. A dilute alcohol solution acted as a stimulant, whereas a concentrated alcohol solution acted as a depressant. Nichols applied chloroform to the wall of an intemode of Nitella by means of a capillary pipette. An area of non-motile protoplasm was produced at the point of application of the anesthetic. This area of non-motile protoplasm resumed its movements later, so the process appears to be a reversible one. Nichols considers the effect to be due to gelation, thus providing us with a case of reversible coagulation in plants accompanied by anesthesia of the part affected. 

Claude Hudson was the recipient of the Nichols (New York Section, American Chemical Society, 1916), Willard Gibbs (Chicago Section, 1929), Richards (Northeastern Section, 1940), Borden (American Chem-... 

Technicians operate remote manipulators in cobalt-60 hot cells at Tunneys Pasture in the late 1950s. Left to right, Frank Amyot, Claude Ouellette and Lawson Nichols. 

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