Tides Foundation

Walton, K. D. (1996). In retrospect Dame Rosemary Murray. In Walton, K. D. (ed.), Against the Tide Career Paths of Women Leaders in American and British Higher Education, Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, Bloomington, Indiana. 

Hemmert, W.H. 1975. The public health implications of Gymnodiniurn breve red tides, a review of the literature and recent events. In Toxic Dinoflagellate Blooms, ed. LoCicero, V.R. Wakefield, MA Massachusetts Science and Technology Foundation, 489-497. 

Jensen AC. The economic halo of a red tide. In LoCicero VR, ed. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Toxic Dinoflagellate Blooms. Boston, MA Massachusetts Science and Technology Foundation, 1975, pp. 507-516. 

The apparently simple example of a eaisson foundation inFigure 1 in faeteontains a number of issues requiring careful consideration. The walls of the hollow caisson are 0.2 m thick. The river is tidal but there are artesian pressures and at a depth of 8 m below the river bed, pore pressures remain constant with a head of 12 m at all states of the tide. 

This fear of the reduction of chemistry to physics has recently resurfaced in the form of a revival of the philosophy of chemistry in the United States. In 1999, the chemist Eric Scerri founded a new journal. Foundations of Chemistry, addressing precisely these kinds of issues. Indeed, the tide echoed that of the famous series of publications by the logical positivists in the US, Foundations of the Unity of Science, which, symptomatically, had nothing to say about chemistry. Eric Scerri himself sees the philosophy of chemistry as the major weapon in the fight against the reduction of chemistry to quantum mechanics, the goal being to demonstrate that the foundations of chemistry are to be found in chemistry itself and not in physics. 

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