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Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank Jacqueline Ridard, Marie Erard, Agathe Espagne, and Dominique Bourgeois for fruitful discussions and critical reading of the manuscript. 

We thank our editor Matt Lloyd at Cambridge University Press for his positive feedback and support from the first time he read the book synopsis. We also thank Diya Gupta, Anna-Marie Lovett and Alison Lees, who took us through the final stages of editing and production. 

Drs. Mary Gale, Brian Lloyd, and the late Hugh Sinclair helped us with references to early studies on nutrition Mr. Reg Hems and Dr. Dereck Williamson recounted their memories of working with Sir Hans Krebs and Dr. F. L. Holmes very kindly allowed us to read in manuscript the first volume of his authoritative work on Krebs. The late Professors Bill Paton and David Whitteridge directed us to important references in the history of physiology. Professor Bradford, the... 

Then, in 1932, Irene Joliot-Curie (the daughter of Marie Curie) and her husband, Jean Joliot, published a paper reporting that gamma rays were produced when paraffin was bombarded with alpha particles. When Rutherford and Chadwick read the paper, they didn t believe it. They suspected that what the two French physicists had seen was not gamma rays but neutrons. 

We thank Dr. James E. Mnldrey of Tulane University for his valuable advice and comments during the preparation of this article. Thanks are also due Dv. William H. Baricos of Tulane University for reading the manuscript. We express our appreciation to Mrs. Sharon Nastasi and Mrs. Mary Soike lor their assistance in typing and editing. 

My thanks go also to other colleagues who took time to read and comment on the penultimate draft Mary Hartog, Anna-belle Mark, Stephen Hearnden and also Angela Hills, a Manager with Noble Lowndes. Their comments too have been gratefully heeded. 

A 5-qt. enamel pail or bain-marie jar is fitted with two mechanical stirrers (Note 1) placed off center, a thermometer for reading low temperatures, and a dropping funnel, the lower end of which is placed just over the vortex created by one of the stirrer blades, so that each drop of added liquid is immediately mixed with and diluted by the chilled reaction mixture. 

Equatorial Jungle, Henri Rousseau, 1909 Portrait of an Elderly Lady, Mary Cassatt, 1887 Woman with Red Hair, Amedeo Modigliani, 1917 A Young Girl Reading, Jean Honore Fragonard, 1776... 

Wilson began to improve his super-camera which would photograph an electron. It was a tremendous job. Months passed. The Curies had discovered radium, Marie had read her immortal thesis on radioactivity, and still he experimented. 

Mary Johnson,45 a graduate of Newnham, became one of the first women researchers in the Cambridge Chemistry Laboratories. Born on 14 January 1895, Johnson was educated at Bede College School, Sunderland. She had actually wanted to read mathematics at Newnham when she entered in 1913, but inadequate preparation at school resulted in a change of plans and she took chemistry instead. When she completed the Part II of the Natural Science Tripos in 1917, she placed above all of the men in her year. 

The following people have proof read various parts of the manuscript. Some have read a few pages related to their own speciality, while others have read through and corrected several chapters. They include Ian Mercer (who has also helped me with many identifications over the years, and whose patience is unlimited), Mary Burland and Stephen Kennedy at the Gemmological Association of Great Britain Gary Jones, Richard Sabin, Jill Darrell, Dr Brian Rosen and Professor John Taylor at the Namral History Museum in London Dr Paul Jepson at the Institute of Zoology in London Dr Julia Horrocks of the University of the West Indies Christine Woodward Sylvia Katz and... 

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