Wilhelm, Richard

Wilhelm, Richard and Carl Gustav Jung, eds.The secret of the Golden Flower a Chinese book of life translated and explained by Richard Wilhelm with a foreword and commentary by C. G. Jung and part of the Chinese meditation text The book of consciousness and life, with a foreword by Salome Wilhelm. New, revised and... 

Wilhelm, Richard. The I Ching or Book of Changes. Translated by Cary F. Baines. New York Princeton Univ. Press, 1964. 

Liu Hua-Yang. "Hui Ming Ching (Book of consciousness and life)." In Secret of the golden flower, ed. Richard Wilhelm, 69-79., 1962. 

If these numbers are known, future events can be calculated with perfect accuracy. This is the thought on which the Book of Changes is based (R. Wilhelm 1964, p. 323) [italics mine]. Another commentary, which Richard Wilhelm calls probably very ancient, pursues this theme . . . counting that which is going into the past depends on the forward movement. 

As so often happens in science, there is some debate about the primacy of the discovery of combinatorial chemistry. After all, it is almost certain that Carl Wilhelm Scheele was the first to discover oxygen (ca. 1771-72) but the discovery was made independently in 1774 by Joseph Priestley who published first. Similarly, Arpad Furka (1931- ), at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, first described the concept that would later be called combinatorial chemistry in a document notarized in May 1982. A Ph.D. thesis by his smdent on this topic was completed in 1987 and presented at conferences in Prague and Budapest in 1988 (a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war). His work first appeared in a refereed journal in 1991. In 1984, H. Mario Geysen (1944— ) at Glaxo Wellcome in North Carolina published research that employed combinatorial chemistry. In that year, Richard A. Houghton (1946- ) started the nonprofit Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies and developed the tea bag method of combinatorial chemistry. 

Steven Bernasek joined the faculty in 1976 and Jeffrey Schwartz in 1970. Both are active one in surface chemistry and the other in catalysis. The work in the Chemistry Department has been complemented by that in the Department of Chemical Engineering by Richard Wilhelm (1934-65), Leon Lapidus (1954-1977), Michel Boudart (1953-1962) and David Ollis (1969-1980). For sixty-three years there has been a continuity of research in catalysis at Princeton University continuity in basic ideas expressed by novel techniques. There was close association between the research activity and training of undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral research associates and visiting professors. The students carried out and are still carrying out the Princeton tradition throughout the world. 

Wieland Theodor bora in 1913 in Munich, he studied chemistry in Freiburg Brsg. and Munich where he received his Dr. phil. in 1937. From 1937 until 1946 he was assistant, (Lecturer 1941), with Richard Kuhn at the Kaiser-Wilhelm/Max-Planck-Institute in Heidelberg. In 1946 he became Prof, at the Univ. of Mainz. Between 1951 and 1968 he was Prof, and Director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the Univ. of Frankfurt. After R. Kuhn s death in 1967, he was appointed Director of the Department of Chemistry, later Natural Products, of the Heidelberg Institute until 1981. He is hon. prof, of the Universities of Frankfurt and Heidelberg. His contributions include electrophoresis on paper of amino acids, peptides and proteins, isoenzymes of lactate dehydrogenase (with G. Pfleiderer), mixed anhydride method of peptide synthesis (p. 79) peptides of Amanita mushroonis (p. 211). 

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