Younger, George

If George Merck the elder officially created the American Merck 8c Co., George the younger created the conglomerate it would become. 

Daubeny s retirement from the chair of chemistry in 1854, while retaining those of botany and rural economy, left uncertain the future of the chemistry laboratory in the new Museum. One man who had a strong claim to the chair was Benjamin Collins Brodie, " the son of the baronet Sir Benjamin Brodie, a surgeon at St George s Hospital and soon to be President of the Royal Society. The younger Brodie, who was to inherit the baronetcy in 1862, had attended Balliol College where he studied mathematics under Powell, in which he obtained second-class honours in 1838, and chemistry under Daubeny, before... 

The 1987 and 1988 Statements on the Defence Estimates did not quantify the Soviet CW stockpile. The 1988 Defence White Paper simply stated The Soviet Union has produced and stockpiled a wide variety of chemical agents and munitions and has a massive tonnage of nerve agent alone. . but the Defence Secretary, George Younger, confirmed to the House of Commons that the Ministry of Defence still held by its estimate. He did, however, acknowledge that there was a degree of uncertainty. ... 

For example. Defence Secretary George Younger told the House of Commons Select Committee on Defence (subsequently referred to as the HCDC) in 1986 ... there are no chemical weapons in any of those [US] bases. There is no suggestion there should be chemical weapons in any of those bases and there are therefore no arrangements particularly related to chemical weapons because they are not here and we are not likely to have them . House of Commons, Second Report from the Defence Committee, Session 1985-86, Statement on the Defence Estimates 1986, Evidence, Q. 176. 

For example. General Sir Nigel Bagnall, Chief of the General Staff, told the HCDC in 1986 Every NATO exercise takes the chemical warfare threat into account... but you cannot carry this too far . [HC 399]. Defence Secretary George Younger told the Committee that the equipment of other allies was much less good than that of the British Armed forces. Evidence, 18 May 1988, Q. 77. Major Adrian Bambini Jnr, Chemical Warfare and the NATO Alliance , Military Review, Vol. LXI, April 1981, No. 4, pp. 27-34. 

To date there are three scholariy societies dedicated to studying the iife and work of Michaei Poianyi the Michael Polanyi Liberal Philosophical Association in Budapest, which pubiishes the journal Polanyiana-, the Polanyi Society in the United States, which pubiishes Tradition and Discovery and the Society for Post-Critical and Per-sonalist Studies in Britain, which publishes Appraisal. He and his wife Magda had two sons. The elder, George Polanyi, became a successful economist. The younger, John Charles Polanyi, shared the 1986 Nobel Prize In Chemistry for his contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes. ... 

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