Stein, Gertrude

Stein, Gertrude. Picasso. Beacon Press, Boston. 1959. 

Avant-garde American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) began her now-legendary American lecture tour in 1934. It amazes me that perhaps no one, maybe not even the author herself, knew what Stein s writing was all about. I wonder if you know what I mean, she mused to her audience on one occasion. I do not quite know whether I do myself Yet Stein was such a celebrity that 15 reporters sailed out to meet her ship in New York harbor. 

The approach to be used here is, to be sure, well known in parts of theoretical physics, but is novel as far as chemistry is concerned. It is based on the view that macroscopic matter is to be described by a suitably generalized formulation of quantum mechanics, namely Quantum Field Theory the traditional postulate that matter is made up or composed of microscopic elementary constituents (in the classical building-block sense) is given up, and instead the fundamental postulate of the quantum theory of matter is, to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, Matter is Matter is Matter. Then if our interest is chemistry we have of course to confront the obvious question as to how we may construct the particles we call atoms and molecules i.e. we must establish how the notions of atom and molecule emerge from quantum theory construed in a general and modem way as the theory of matter. This is the subject matter of the next section of the review... 

From The Alice B Toklas cook book 1954 Michael Joseph, London. The author was companion to Gertrude ( rose is a rose is a rose ) Stein (1874-1946). 

In order to shape their notion of Paris, the filmmakers use a variety of shaping devices—five narrators, readings from Baudelaire and Gertrude Stein about Paris, and the nature of the tourist—some happy to be photographed as visitors, others probing, searching for some mystery, a formula that will alter the part of their life they feel needs altering—art, relationships, ideas. 

Mit einem Geleitwort von Prof. Dr. Friedrich Richter f, vorm. Direktor des Beil-stein-Institutes. Neu bearbeitet von Dipl.-Chem. Gertrud Hornke und Werner Kunz 4., unveranderte Auflage. XXIV / 764 Seiten. Ganzleinen mit Schutzumschlag DM 56.-... 

On her deathbed, Gertrude Stein was asked, What is the answer Exasperating to the last, she replied, What is the question Part of the problem with any discussion of thermostability is that there is more than one way to pose the question. For some investigators thermostability means how long a protein survives at some elevated temperature, usually close to 1(X)°, before it is inactivated. For others, it means whether thermal denaturation (usually measured by the loss of catalytic activity or the disappearance of structure as determined spectroscopically) occurs at relatively high temperature. These do not necessarily reflect the... 

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American writer who lived in Paris for the last forty-three years of her life. She greatly influenced Hemingway and other modern writers [Editor],... 

Simon Karlinsky Simon Karlinsky, "Portrait of Gogol as Word Glutton, with Rabelais, Sterne and Gertrude Stein as Background Figures, from California Slavic Studies, vol. 5 (1970), 170-85. Copyright 1970 by The Regents of the University of California, reprinted by permission of the University of California Press. 

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