Robinson, Eric

I thank David Lovinger, David Sulzer, Eric Nestler, John Dani, Daniel McGehee, Terry Robinson, Bryan Yamamoto, Susan Sesack and Daniele Piomelli for their help in preparing this chapter. I regret that I was able to cite only a limited number of important studies. 

We thank Professor Bruce Robinson for valuable discussions on EPR measurements and Professor Alvin Kwiram for use of his EPR instrument. Michael Russell provided computer fitting routines and Eric Shank I and provided purified samples. This research was supported in part by NSF grant DMR-7823958. 

Musson and Robinson, Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution, Eric Robinson s early treatment of the ketde myth as having a genuine historical basis (Robinson, James Watt and the Tea Kettle ) can plausibly be seen as aiding a general endorsement of Watt s scientific status and therefore a move in these historical debates. See also, M. Jacob and L. Stewart, Practical Matter Newtons Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851 (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 2004). 

Eric D. Galbraith, Daniel M. Sigman, Rebecca S. Robinson, and Thomas. F. Pedersen... 

A classic example is A.E. Musson and Eric Robinson, Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Toronto University of Toronto Press, 1969). 

It all started with a chance observation on 27 March 1933, by Eric William Fawcett and Reginald Oswald Gibson of ICI Research in Winnington, Cheshire, England, who were investigating the effects of very high pressures—above 1000 atmospheres—on chemical reactions [8]. They had started an experiment on Friday 24 March, to react ethylene and benzaldehyde (one of 50 reactions suggested by Sir Robert Robinson, consultant to ICI, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1947) at 170 °C and a pressure of 1900 atmospheres. On Monday 27 March, 1933, the reactor bomb ... 

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