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Section: Concepts > Template-directed synthesis. Molecular recognition and self-assembly may be used with reactive species in order to pre-organize a system for a chemical reaction (to form one or more covalent bonds). It may be considered a special case of supramolecular catalysis. Non-covalent bonds between the react... | Wikipedia - Supramolecular chemistry - Concepts > Template-directed synthesis | 213 | 1,073 | null |
Section: Building blocks > Synthetic recognition motifs. The pi-pi charge-transfer interactions of bipyridinium with dioxyarenes or diaminoarenes have been used extensively for the construction of mechanically interlocked systems and in crystal engineering. The use of crown ether binding with metal or ammonium cations ... | Wikipedia - Supramolecular chemistry - Building blocks > Synthetic recognition motifs | 176 | 861 | null |
Section: Building blocks > Macrocycles. Macrocycles are very useful in supramolecular chemistry, as they provide whole cavities that can completely surround guest molecules and may be chemically modified to fine-tune their properties. Cyclodextrins, calixarenes, cucurbiturils and crown ethers are readily synthesized in... | Wikipedia - Supramolecular chemistry - Building blocks > Macrocycles | 205 | 928 | null |
Section: Building blocks > Structural units. Many supramolecular systems require their components to have suitable spacing and conformations relative to each other, and therefore easily employed structural units are required. Commonly used spacers and connecting groups include polyether chains, biphenyls and triphenyls... | Wikipedia - Supramolecular chemistry - Building blocks > Structural units | 252 | 1,327 | null |
Section: Applications > Medicine. Design based on supramolecular chemistry has led to numerous applications in the creation of functional biomaterials and therapeutics. Supramolecular biomaterials afford a number of modular and generalizable platforms with tunable mechanical, chemical and biological properties. These i... | Wikipedia - Supramolecular chemistry - Applications > Medicine | 209 | 1,066 | null |
Section: Reading. Cook, T. R.; Zheng, Y.; Stang, P. J. (2013). "Metal-organic frameworks and self-assembled supramolecular coordination complexes: Comparing and contrasting the design, synthesis, and functionality of metal-organic materials". Chem. Rev. 113 (1): 734–77. doi:10.1021/cr3002824. PMC 3764682. PMID 23121121... | Wikipedia - Supramolecular chemistry - Reading | 316 | 878 | null |
Section: Molecular networks and equilibrium. A fundamental difference exists between chemistry as it is performed in most laboratories and chemistry as it occurs in life. Laboratory processes are mostly designed such that the (closed) system goes thermodynamically downhill; i.e. the product state is of lower Gibbs free... | Wikipedia - Systems chemistry - Molecular networks and equilibrium | 214 | 1,137 | null |
Section: Overview. Theoretical chemistry unites principles and concepts common to all branches of chemistry. Within the framework of theoretical chemistry, there is a systematization of chemical laws, principles and rules, their refinement and detailing, the construction of a hierarchy. The central place in theoretical... | Wikipedia - Theoretical chemistry - Overview | 329 | 1,815 | null |
Section: Branches of theoretical chemistry. Quantum chemistry The application of quantum mechanics or fundamental interactions to chemical and physico-chemical problems. Spectroscopic and magnetic properties are between the most frequently modelled. Computational chemistry The application of scientific computing to che... | Wikipedia - Theoretical chemistry - Branches of theoretical chemistry | 324 | 1,957 | null |
Chemical kinetics Theoretical study of the dynamical systems associated to reactive chemicals, the activated complex and their corresponding differential equations. Cheminformatics (also known as chemoinformatics) The use of computer and informational techniques, applied to crop information to solve problems in the fie... | Wikipedia - Theoretical chemistry - Branches of theoretical chemistry | 166 | 969 | null |
Section: Closely related disciplines. Historically, the major field of application of theoretical chemistry has been in the following fields of research: Atomic physics: The discipline dealing with electrons and atomic nuclei. Molecular physics: The discipline of the electrons surrounding the molecular nuclei and of mo... | Wikipedia - Theoretical chemistry - Closely related disciplines | 253 | 1,457 | null |
Section: Application. This method is used, for example, in the analysis of fire-fighting foams (aqueous film forming foam), textiles or water samples. Blood serum can also be analyzed in this way. Neutral, anionic and cationic precursor compounds may be distinguished using an extension of the method published in 2025. ... | Wikipedia - TOP Assay - Application | 151 | 600 | null |
Article: Triboluminescence. Triboluminescence is a phenomenon in which light is generated when a material is mechanically pulled apart, ripped, scratched, crushed, or rubbed (see tribology). The phenomenon is not fully understood but appears in most cases to be caused by the separation and reunification of static elect... | Wikipedia - Triboluminescence - Summary | 219 | 938 | null |
Section: History > Early scientific reports. The first recorded observation is attributed to English scholar Francis Bacon when he recorded in his 1620 Novum Organum that "It is well known that all sugar, whether candied or plain, if it be hard, will sparkle when broken or scraped in the dark." The scientist Robert Boy... | Wikipedia - Triboluminescence - History > Early scientific reports | 217 | 1,051 | null |
Section: Mechanism of action. There remain a few ambiguities about the effect. The current theory of triboluminescence—based upon crystallographic, spectroscopic, and other experimental evidence—is that upon fracture of asymmetrical materials, charge is separated. When the charges recombine, the electrical discharge io... | Wikipedia - Triboluminescence - Mechanism of action | 212 | 1,007 | null |
Section: Examples > In common materials. Certain household materials and substances can be seen to exhibit the property: Ordinary pressure-sensitive tape ("Scotch tape") displays a glowing line where the end of the tape is being pulled away from the roll. Soviet scientists observed in 1953 that unpeeling a roll of tape... | Wikipedia - Triboluminescence - Examples > In common materials | 329 | 1,628 | null |
Section: Fractoluminescence > EMR propagation during fracturing. The emission of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) during plastic deformation and crack propagation in metals and rocks has been studied. The EMR emissions from metals and alloys have also been explored and confirmed. Molotskii presented a dislocation mechan... | Wikipedia - Triboluminescence - Fractoluminescence > EMR propagation during fracturing | 269 | 1,298 | null |
Section: Fractoluminescence > EMR propagation during fracturing > Deformation induced EMR. The study of deformation is essential for the development of new materials. Deformation in metals depends on temperature, type of stress applied, strain rate, oxidation, and corrosion. Deformation-induced EMR can be divided into ... | Wikipedia - Triboluminescence - Fractoluminescence > EMR propagation during fracturing > Deformation induced EMR | 158 | 839 | null |
Section: Fractoluminescence > EMR propagation during fracturing > Test methods to measure EMR. The most widely used tensile test method is used to characterize the mechanical properties of materials. From any complete tensile test record, one can obtain important information about the material's elastic properties, the... | Wikipedia - Triboluminescence - Fractoluminescence > EMR propagation during fracturing > Test methods to measure EMR | 213 | 1,070 | null |
Section: Uses. Wet chemistry techniques can be used for qualitative chemical measurements, such as changes in color (colorimetry), but often involves more quantitative chemical measurements, using methods such as gravimetry and titrimetry. Some uses for wet chemistry include tests for: pH (acidity, alkalinity) concentr... | Wikipedia - Wet chemistry - Uses | 207 | 1,006 | null |
Section: Distinction between chemical physics and physical chemistry. While at the interface of physics and chemistry, chemical physics is distinct from physical chemistry as it focuses more on using physical theories to understand and explain chemical phenomena at the microscopic level, such as quantum mechanics, stat... | Wikipedia - Chemical physics - Distinction between chemical physics and physical chemistry | 199 | 1,137 | null |
Section: History. The term "chemical physics" in its modern sense was first used by the German scientist A. Eucken, who published "A Course in Chemical Physics" in 1930. Prior to this, in 1927, the publication "Electronic Chemistry" by V. N. Kondrat'ev, N. N. Semenov, and Iu. B. Khariton hinted at the meaning of "chemi... | Wikipedia - Chemical physics - History | 190 | 927 | null |
Section: What chemical physicists do. Chemical physicists investigate the structure and dynamics of ions, free radicals, polymers, clusters, and molecules. Their research includes studying the quantum mechanical aspects of chemical reactions, solvation processes, and the energy flow within and between molecules, and na... | Wikipedia - Chemical physics - What chemical physicists do | 348 | 1,917 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Armsby was born in Northbridge, Massachusetts, on September 21, 1853, the only child of cabinetmaker Lewis Armsby and Mary A. Prentiss. Armsby earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science in 1871 and taught chemistry there for a year... | Wikipedia - Henry P. Armsby - Early life and education | 233 | 1,182 | null |
Section: Career. In August 1881, Armsby accepted the position of Vice Principal and Professor of Agricultural Chemistry at Storrs Agricultural School, established by the Connecticut General Assembly earlier that year. Following Solomon Mead's retirement in 1882, Armsby was appointed acting principal. During a speech to... | Wikipedia - Henry P. Armsby - Career | 325 | 1,756 | null |
Armsby was internationally renowned for creating an animal respiration calorimeter, which increased efficiency of cattle feeding, in 1901. This nutrition experiment station enabled Armsby to determine how much energy beef cattle and sheep derived from a given food source, measuring respiration, feed intake, water intak... | Wikipedia - Henry P. Armsby - Career | 209 | 1,086 | null |
Section: Awards. Armsby received widespread recognition during his lifetime. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Wisconsin (1904), Yale University (1920), and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1921). He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal ... | Wikipedia - Henry P. Armsby - Awards | 161 | 795 | null |
Section: Personal life. Contemporaries described Armsby as reserved, modest, conscientious, gracious, and hardworking. His hobbies included bridge whist, golf, tennis, and horseback riding. He worked long hours even when his health suffered in consequence. He was a researcher first and foremost and felt administrative ... | Wikipedia - Henry P. Armsby - Personal life | 173 | 832 | null |
Article: Cyril G. Hopkins. Cyril George Hopkins (July 22, 1866 – October 6, 1919) was an American agricultural chemist who initiated the Illinois long-term selection experiment in 1896. He was also noted for his extensive research and writings on the soil of Illinois. Hopkins was born on July 22, 1866, on a farm near C... | Wikipedia - Cyril G. Hopkins - Summary | 182 | 887 | null |
Article: Claud Mackenzie Hutchinson. Claud Mackenzie Hutchinson CIE (29 April 1869 - 2 August 1941) was an English bacteriologist who worked in India as Imperial Agricultural Bacteriologist. Hutchinson studied at Trinity College, Glenalmond before going to St. John's College, Cambridge graduating in 1891. He taught che... | Wikipedia - Claud Mackenzie Hutchinson - Summary | 294 | 1,396 | null |
Section: Career. While studying for his doctorate, Jenkins began working as an assistant chemist for the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven in 1877, only two years after the Station started. Johnson was the Station's director, while Jenkins and future Storrs Agricultural School principal Henry P. ... | Wikipedia - Edward Hopkins Jenkins - Career | 339 | 1,859 | null |
Section: Service. In addition to his services to the State of Connecticut, Jenkins was active in professional associations throughout his life. A founding member of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, he served as its first president in 1887. He was a member of its Committee on Uniform Fertilizer Laws in... | Wikipedia - Edward Hopkins Jenkins - Service | 183 | 972 | null |
Section: Academic work. Lewis is known for her research in agriculture, especially on the evaluation and management of the environmental impact of agriculture. Her early work developed metrics to quantify the impact of agriculture and pesticides on the environment, and applied these tools to agricultural activities in ... | Wikipedia - Kathleen Lewis (chemist) - Academic work | 159 | 843 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Skinner, J. A.; Lewis, K. A.; Bardon, K. S.; Tucker, P.; Catt, J. A.; Chambers, B. J. (1 June 1997). "An Overview of the Environmental Impact of Agriculture in the U.K.". Journal of Environmental Management. 50 (2): 111–128. doi:10.1006/jema.1996.0103. ISSN 0301-4797. Lewis, K. A.; Bardo... | Wikipedia - Kathleen Lewis (chemist) - Selected publications | 342 | 947 | null |
Tzilivakis, John; Green, Andrew; Warner, Doug; McGeevor, Kate; Lewis, Kathy (2012-01-01). "A framework for practical and effective eco-labelling of food products". Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal. 3 (1): 50–73. Bibcode:2012SAMP....3...50T. doi:10.1108/20408021211223552. hdl:2299/10466. ISSN 204... | Wikipedia - Kathleen Lewis (chemist) - Selected publications | 320 | 1,015 | null |
Section: Biography. Norris graduated from Manchester University and worked as an assistant to W.H. Perkin. He then worked at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in London. In 1910 he worked with Professor Arthur Harden on yeast fermentation and received a D.Sc. from London University. In 1914 he took up the pos... | Wikipedia - Roland Victor Norris - Biography | 259 | 1,259 | null |
Section: Publications. Norris' work in England was mostly on glycogen metabolism and yeast fermentation. After moving to India, he worked on a range of topics including human nutrition, soil nutrients and microbiological processes. Harden, Arthur; Norris, Roland V. (1910). "The Fermentation of Galactose by Yeast and Ye... | Wikipedia - Roland Victor Norris - Publications | 326 | 1,082 | null |
Article: Dmitry Pryanishnikov. Dmitry Nikolayevich Pryanishnikov (Russian: Дми́трий Никола́евич Пря́нишников; 6 November 1865 — 30 April 1948) was a Soviet and Russian agrochemist, biochemist and plant physiologist, founder of the Soviet scientific school in agronomic chemistry. Hero of Socialist Labour (1945). Winner ... | Wikipedia - Dmitry Pryanishnikov - Summary | 244 | 1,057 | null |
Section: Early life. Evan Pugh was born to Lewis and Mary (née Hutton) Pugh on February 29, 1828 near Oxford in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was the fourth of six children: Rebecca, who died soon after birth (1823), Susan (1824-1913), Elizabeth (1826-1847), Enoch (1830-1854), and John (1832-1834). The family traced... | Wikipedia - Evan Pugh - Early life | 183 | 774 | null |
Section: European years. After his mother remarried and his brother, Enoch, left for work in Ohio, Pugh decided to sell the family farm to an uncle and use the money earned ($2800) and his savings to travel to Europe. Pugh "determined that he could participate in the field of education if he could advance his own studi... | Wikipedia - Evan Pugh - European years | 342 | 1,738 | null |
Section: Farmers' High School. While Pugh was studying at the Rothamsted laboratory, he communicated with Dr. Alfred L. Elwyn of Chester County, a founder of the Farmers' High School in Centre County, Pennsylvania. Elwyn suggested that he apply for the position and request that the Board allow him a leave of absence to... | Wikipedia - Evan Pugh - Farmers' High School | 318 | 1,695 | null |
Section: Personal life and death. During his visits to discuss mineral composition of the Nittany Valley with notable Bellefonte ironworks master Abram Valentine, Pugh met Abram's daughter. Rebecca and Pugh met frequently to talk about books, German language, and current news, and by early 1863 the two were engaged. In... | Wikipedia - Evan Pugh - Personal life and death | 295 | 1,485 | null |
Section: Life. Born in Rouen to Jacques de Reiset (brother of general Marie-Antoine de Reiset), his brothers were the art collectors Frédéric and Gustave. He was serving as mayor of Anneville-sur-Scie and conseiller général for Seine-Inférieure when on 11 December 1859 he was elected deputy for Seine-Inférieure in the ... | Wikipedia - Jules Reiset - Life | 152 | 614 | null |
Section: Research. As a USDA Research Chemist, Shotwell discovered two new antibiotics (duramycin and azacolutin), and assisted with the discovery of two others (hydroxystreptomycin cinnamycin). She developed novel ways to separate antibiotics from fermenting microbes. By 1974, she was a Supervisory Chemist and Leader ... | Wikipedia - Odette L. Shotwell - Research | 281 | 1,333 | null |
As a member of the American Society of Oil Chemists she helped decide the standards of purity for the grain storage industry. In 1980 she received the USDA's Distinguished Service Award for "contributing to the protection of human health by developing identification standards and analytical methods essential to excludi... | Wikipedia - Odette L. Shotwell - Research | 187 | 968 | null |
Section: Biography. Robert Warington Jr. was the eldest son and second child of the chemist Robert Warington, FRS. After studying chemistry in his father's laboratory and attending lectures by Faraday, Brande, and Hofmann, Robert Warington Jr. became in 1859 an unpaid assistant to Sir John Bennet Lawes at Rothamsted Ex... | Wikipedia - Robert Warington (agricultural chemist, born 1838) - Biography | 340 | 1,593 | null |
Section: Personal life. In 1884 Robert Warrington Jr. married Helen Louisa (1855–1898), third daughter of George H. Makins, M.R.C.S., chief assayer to the Bank of England. Robert Warington Jr. and his first wife had five daughters: Elizabeth (Betty) born in 1888; Margaret born in 1890; Dorothy, born in 1892; and twins,... | Wikipedia - Robert Warington (agricultural chemist, born 1838) - Personal life | 158 | 636 | null |
Section: Academic career. Despite completing his training and earning an honorary M.D. degree from the Vermont Academy of Medicine, Aikin turned away from the medical profession and took a position in 1833 teaching natural sciences at the Western Female Collegiate Institute in Pittsburgh. In Baltimore, he became an ass... | Wikipedia - William Edward Augustin Aikin - Academic career | 168 | 921 | null |
Section: Other accomplishments. Aikin held an interest in a broad range of sciences. A colleague said of him: If you want a pretty good practical mathematician, one of the best botanists in America, an experimental chemist, of the first order, a very superior Geologist, Mineralogist, and Zoologist, you have him in Dr. ... | Wikipedia - William Edward Augustin Aikin - Other accomplishments | 267 | 1,237 | null |
Section: Publications. Aikin, William E. A. (1834). "Some Notices of the Geology of the Country between Baltimore and the Ohio River, with a Section illustrating the Superposition of the Rocks". American Journal of Science. 26 (2): 219–232. Retrieved January 20, 2024. Aikin, William E. A. (1837). Catalogue of phænogamo... | Wikipedia - William Edward Augustin Aikin - Publications | 327 | 1,210 | null |
(1841). Address delivered before the Philomathian Society of Mount St. Mary's College, near Emmittsburg, Maryland, at the annual commencement, June 30th, 1841, by Wm. E. A. Aikin. Baltimore: John Murphy. OCLC 16120550. Aikin, William E. A. (1842). Report of a geological examination of some tracts of land in Allegany co... | Wikipedia - William Edward Augustin Aikin - Publications | 299 | 1,106 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Herrera, E.; Barbas, C. (2001). "Vitamin E: action, metabolism and perspectives". Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry. 57 (1): 43–56. doi:10.1007/BF03179812. hdl:10637/720. ISSN 1138-7548. PMID 11519885. S2CID 7272312. Armitage, Emily G.; Barbas, Coral (2014-01-18). "Metabolomics in c... | Wikipedia - Coral Barbas - Selected publications | 349 | 977 | null |
pp. 191–204. doi:10.1007/978-1-61737-985-7_11. ISBN 978-1-61737-984-0. PMID 21207291. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) Mamani-Huanca, Maricruz; Gradillas, Ana; López-Gonzálvez, Ángeles; Barbas, Coral (2020-10-06). "Unraveling the Cyclization of L-Argininosuccinic Acid in Biological Samples: A Study via Mass Spectro... | Wikipedia - Coral Barbas - Selected publications | 195 | 474 | null |
Section: Biography. Alain Berton was born in Coro Coro in Bolivia on 27 August 1912. He was the son of Adrien Berton, a mining engineer, and Justine Rodriguez. He was educated at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles, and became a chemical engineer at the Chemical Institute of the University of Paris in 1933. From 1935 to 1937... | Wikipedia - Alain Berton - Biography | 213 | 966 | null |
Section: The Osmopile. By the end of the war in 1944, post war recovery started: Alain Berton's work on the application of absorption and emission spectroscopy in the ultraviolet and infrared, and within the frame of concerns about labor force protection, the specific dosage of atmospheric pollutants became of vital in... | Wikipedia - Alain Berton - The Osmopile | 304 | 1,477 | null |
Section: Patents. Berton, Alain Edgard : Montre-bracelet-réveil tactile. 5 décembre 1949 : FR953313-A Berton Alain Edgard : Photomètre infrarouge utilisable en analyse physique et chimique. 24 janvier 1955 : FR1084823-A Berton Alain: Photomètre simple ultraviolet, avec enregistreur photographique à lecture instantanée,... | Wikipedia - Alain Berton - Patents | 274 | 829 | null |
Section: Education and academic career > Research. He started his research in the chemistry of natural products. At Washington State University he established early steps in the metabolism of d-neomethyl-α-D-glucoside in pipermint (Mentha piperita) rhizomes via in vivo studies. Bhushan developed a de novo method for di... | Wikipedia - Ravi Bhushan - Education and academic career > Research | 225 | 1,099 | null |
Section: Research career. His first post was with the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) near the village of Harwell where he lived, working at the Wantage Research Laboratory, then in Berkshire. His early work started an interest in radioisotopes and trace elements that he maintained throughout his working li... | Wikipedia - Humphry Bowen - Research career | 325 | 1,699 | null |
Although not entirely successful in reality at the time due to the rough seas, this lateral thinking combined his interest in chemistry with his love of nature and has since been effectively deployed to protect ports and harbours against encroaching oil slicks. Bowen wrote a number of professional books in the field of... | Wikipedia - Humphry Bowen - Research career | 313 | 1,554 | null |
Section: Career > Floyd Landis trials. Brenna was the key expert witness in the action of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) against 2006 Tour de France first place finisher Floyd Landis, adjudicated in a hearing of the Tribunal Arbitral du Sport/Court for Arbitration in Sport held in Malibu, California. He t... | Wikipedia - Tom Brenna - Career > Floyd Landis trials | 197 | 963 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Herman T. Briscoe was born on November 6, 1893, in Shoals, Indiana. Briscoe received his teaching certificate in 1912 from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and began teaching at his home high school in Shoals for three academic years before becoming principal of Shoals high ... | Wikipedia - Herman T. Briscoe - Early life and education | 278 | 1,242 | null |
Section: Career. After receiving his Ph.D., Herman T. Briscoe was appointed assistant professor of chemistry at Indiana University, working his way to professor of chemistry in 1928. Throughout his career, Briscoe authored or coauthored 23 publications on conductivity, physical properties, and the reactions of organic ... | Wikipedia - Herman T. Briscoe - Career | 220 | 1,195 | null |
Section: Career and research. Burks became an assistant professor of chemistry at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, in 2016, where she taught and conducted research until 2020. She then moved to Washington, D.C., to join the faculty at American University as an associate professor of chemistry. Her current rese... | Wikipedia - Raychelle Burks - Career and research | 185 | 1,010 | null |
Section: Public engagement. Burks is a popular science communicator, using pop culture as an anchor to explore chemistry. She appeared on the Science Channel's Outrageous Acts of Science and Reactions, the video series for the American Chemical Society. She has appeared on Mother Jones' Inquiring Minds podcast to share... | Wikipedia - Raychelle Burks - Public engagement | 328 | 1,579 | null |
Section: Academic and research career. Campbell was a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Otago from 1948 to 1988. He was appointed as an assistant lecturer in 1948, rising to become a professor in 1971, and the Mellor Professor of Chemistry in 1983. He served as a member of the Universit... | Wikipedia - Arthur Campbell (chemist) - Academic and research career | 232 | 1,221 | null |
Article: Melvin Barnett Comisarow. Melvin Barnett Comisarow is a Canadian physicist and analytical chemist who co-invented the Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance technique of Mass spectroscopy, together with Alan G. Marshall, at the University of British Columbia. Comisarow was born in Alberta to a Ukrainian-Can... | Wikipedia - Melvin Barnett Comisarow - Summary | 208 | 1,078 | null |
Article: Sir John Conroy, 3rd Baronet. Sir John Conroy, 3rd Baronet, FRS (16 August 1845 – 15 December 1900) was an English analytical chemist. Conroy was born in Kensington, west London, the son of Sir Edward Conroy, 2nd Baronet (1809–1869) and Lady Alicia Conroy. He was descended from the Ó Maolconaire family of Elph... | Wikipedia - Sir John Conroy, 3rd Baronet - Summary | 335 | 1,531 | null |
Section: Chromatographic study of carotenoids. Because of her interest in nutrition and nutrients, Coward was one of the early adopters of chromatography following its introduction in 1906–1911 by Mikhail Tsvet. Carotenoids, a class of structurally similar pigment molecules that include carotenes and xanthophylls, were... | Wikipedia - Katharine Coward - Chromatographic study of carotenoids | 274 | 1,325 | null |
Section: Select Publications. Optimization of the ultrasonic assisted removal of methylene blue by gold nanoparticles loaded on activated carbon using experimental design methodology Kinetics, thermodynamics and equilibrium evaluation of direct yellow 12 removal by adsorption onto silver nanoparticles loaded activated ... | Wikipedia - Ali Daneshfar - Select Publications | 194 | 946 | null |
Section: Background. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1842. He graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia in 1859, and then went on to study medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1862. He went abroad to Germany to study chemistry in Freiberg, Saxony, and mining at the Universi... | Wikipedia - Thomas Messinger Drown - Background | 228 | 1,148 | null |
Section: Massachusetts activity. He helped start MIT's chemical engineering curriculum in the late 1880s. In 1887, he was appointed by the newly formed Massachusetts Board of Health to a landmark study of sanitary quality of the state's inland waters. As consulting chemist to the Massachusetts State Board of Health, he... | Wikipedia - Thomas Messinger Drown - Massachusetts activity | 211 | 1,122 | null |
Section: Lehigh presidency. In 1895 he left MIT to become the fourth president of Lehigh University. Lehigh's endowment was predominantly in the stock of the major company of its founder, Asa Packer's Lehigh Valley Railroad. The Panic of 1893 crashed the market, brought the country into depression that lasted years, an... | Wikipedia - Thomas Messinger Drown - Lehigh presidency | 333 | 1,726 | null |
Richards). Many new degrees in the technical school were now being offered, such as Metallurgy (1891), Electrometallurgy, and Chemical Engineering (1902). The curriculum leading to a degree in arts and engineering was established, as was the department of zoology and biology. New courses (majors, that is, or degree off... | Wikipedia - Thomas Messinger Drown - Lehigh presidency | 214 | 993 | null |
Section: Career. Duncan was born in Hull, Yorkshire. He became a vegetarian as a young man through reading the work of T. L. Nichols. He contacted R. Bailey Walker and joined the Vegetarian Society in 1877. He worked as an analytical chemist in Manchester and for James Woolley, Sons and Co., manufacture chemists. Dunca... | Wikipedia - A. W. Duncan - Career | 252 | 1,249 | null |
Section: Personal life and early career. Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a professional musician-father and a housewife-mother, Ted Ellis' earliest hints of artistic talent began to show at five-years-old. Ellis' first attempt at art was a third-grade freehand sketch of a dog from Archie Comics, which he ... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Personal life and early career | 345 | 1,685 | null |
Section: Art career. Ted Ellis maintained a passion for art that preceded his professional art career; he painted throughout his time in the Army and as an environmental chemist, generally working out of a studio in his garage. His first commissions were produced for two co-workers at Rollins. They had wanted to purcha... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Art career | 289 | 1,373 | null |
Section: Art career > Art Business. An entrepreneurial-minded Ted Ellis has marketed and sold his art throughout his career. He was already monetizing his creative talents in high school when his classmates and he sold their custom designed T-shirts, first to their school's juniors and seniors, and then throughout the ... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Art career > Art Business | 329 | 1,617 | null |
In 2005 he signed for representation with art licensing agency "Alaska Momma" with the intent of opening new merchandising avenues in home décor, furnishings, calendars, apparel and stationery. Ellis has affiliated with and had art commissioned by corporations like Walt Disney Studios, Minute Maid, Coca-Cola, Marathon ... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Art career > Art Business | 209 | 1,008 | null |
Section: Art career > Hurricane Katrina. Ted Ellis and his wife are both natives of New Orleans, and much of his art along with his passion for art are inspired by the vibrant city. As a young man, he would search the colorful French Quarter for subjects to paint. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the devastati... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Art career > Hurricane Katrina | 337 | 1,650 | null |
Section: Art career > Obama Portrait. One of Ted Ellis' more famous works is an abstract depiction of Barack Obama's signature 'hope' pose. Ellis painted the portrait in honor of Obama's 2008 Presidential inauguration. In Obama, the 44th President, Ellis uses red, blue, yellow, and green acrylic paint to portray Obama ... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Art career > Obama Portrait | 158 | 770 | null |
Section: Art career > African-American history. In 2009, Ted Ellis produced an exhibit focusing on the theme of African-American history in light of slavery and emancipation. The exhibit, American Slavery: The Reason Why We're Here, tied into the Juneteenth commemoration of slavery's abolition in the State of Texas. It... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Art career > African-American history | 332 | 1,601 | null |
T. Ellis has been pictorially documenting African-American lifestyle, history and culture for thirty years. Ellis paintings are in the permanent collection of the DuSable museum, Charles Wright museum, the McKenna museum, Free People of Color Museum, and the Amistad Research Center. The City of Selma, Alabama, commissi... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Art career > African-American history | 259 | 1,224 | null |
Section: Educational work. Ted Ellis views education as one of his primary missions, and he is involved with several educational initiatives. He has a run a number of art workshops with children, including drawing and touching up the school mural which local sixth-graders paint every year, and joining with his wife Era... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Educational work | 348 | 1,833 | null |
Section: Style. Ted Ellis has over his career created art in a number of styles and has incorporated several primary influences. African American history and African American culture play central roles in Ellis' art, which regularly feature themes like Buffalo Soldiers, cotton fields, and Jazz music; his Jazz works esp... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Style | 350 | 1,668 | null |
My sole purpose has always been to educate through my art". He draws inspiration from people's memories of family or from history, and says that he's "a history buff at heart. I read a lot, and I have more books than paint." As an artist who focuses on African American history, Ellis intentionally does not approach its... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Style | 305 | 1,373 | null |
Section: Achievements. Ted Ellis and his artwork have been widely recognized and honored in many venues. Ellis's art was featured in 1992 and 1993 for Black History Month at the Irving Arts Center in Irving, Texas, near Dallas. The 1993 exhibit, Realism, Symbolism, and Abstraction: Images from the African American Expe... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Achievements | 347 | 1,751 | null |
A reception held in Uptown New Orleans' Audubon Tea Room included an exhibition of Ted Ellis' works entitled A Celebration of African American Art and Culture: Paintings by Ted Ellis. Ellis donated two of the exhibition's pieces to the center: We Are Americans (2002) and The Struggle Continues (2003). He also chose the... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Achievements | 322 | 1,592 | null |
Wesley Perry, the mayor of Midland, Texas. In 2009, Houston Citizens Chamber of Commerce awarded Ted Ellis one of four 15th Annual African-American Business Achievement Pinnacle Awards for his success in his art business. In 2010, New Orleans African American Museum recognized Ellis as an Art Ambassador and hosted an e... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Achievements | 303 | 1,528 | null |
Section: Views on African American art. In a column published in Images Magazine, Ted Ellis calls on the younger generations of black artists to recognize the hardship faced by and the effort put in by the previous generation of black artists in order to pave the way for the newer generation to be able to succeed, and ... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Views on African American art | 158 | 844 | null |
Section: Featured as Cover Art. Go Down Old Hannah: the Living History of African American Texans Naomi Mitchell Carrier ISBN 0-2927224-2-7 They Dance Alone Christine LeVeaux (2005) ISBN 0-9764844-0-4 Harlem Renaissance by Ella O. Williams ISBN 1-4343814-0-4 National Medical Association journal covers Summer 2007, Volu... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Featured as Cover Art | 185 | 857 | null |
Section: Works > Art Series. Champions of justice- 1996 Justice: Collection of Artwork inspired by the Legal Profession – New Orleans City Hall, 1999 Capturing Our Heritage – University of Texas Medical Branch Moody Medical Library, Galveston, 2001 Born in the Spirit – Penn State Harrisburg Library, 2003 Katrina: The H... | Wikipedia - Ted Ellis (artist) - Works > Art Series | 172 | 870 | null |
Section: Career and research. Faulds worked as a postdoctoral researcher for Duncan Graham on the detection of DNA using surface-enhanced resonant Raman spectroscopy (SERRS). She became increasingly interested in the use of analytical chemistry to improve people's lives. Faulds was appointed as a lecturer in 2006. Faul... | Wikipedia - Karen Faulds - Career and research | 350 | 1,608 | null |
Silver nanoparticles are functionalised with a biorecognition molecule, such as an aptamer, and Raman reporter, resulting in a SERS signal when a nanoparticle binds to the bacterial target. The magnetic component can then be studied further using portable Raman spectrometers. Faulds is a founding member of Renishaw plc... | Wikipedia - Karen Faulds - Career and research | 174 | 791 | null |
Section: Academic positions. Gemperline joined the chemistry faculty at East Carolina University (ECU) as an assistant professor in 1982. He was promoted to full professor in 1993. According to The Daily Reflector he had a long and distinguished teaching and research career at ECU with "more than 30 years of research e... | Wikipedia - Paul J. Gemperline - Academic positions | 312 | 1,646 | null |
Section: Scientific career. Gemperline came to the notice of a larger scientific community in 1984 with the publication of a paper describing DISNET in the Journal of Automated Methods and Management in Chemistry. (The journal title was changed to Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry in 2013.) Gemperline and his ... | Wikipedia - Paul J. Gemperline - Scientific career | 262 | 1,335 | null |
It can be decades before the implications of particular advances are intuited, especially those related to the basic training of the next generations of chemists. His research in chemometrics has been "focused on development of new algorithms and software tools for analysis of multivariate spectroscopic measurements us... | Wikipedia - Paul J. Gemperline - Scientific career | 305 | 1,635 | null |
His research and publications in this area furthered his international recognition. Cutler notes that Gemperline, "built his career and has produced world-renowned chemometrics research with the limited resources of mostly undergraduates and master's level students." Gemperline also has had research collaborations with... | Wikipedia - Paul J. Gemperline - Scientific career | 267 | 1,309 | null |
Section: Life and work. Emanuel Gil-Av was born 1916 in Pensa of Tzarist Russia. After the death of his father, a physician, the family moved first to Central Europe and in 1928 to Tel-Aviv, Israel, where Gil-Av attended High School. Gil-Av studied petroleum chemistry at the University of Strasbourg. In 1940 he escaped... | Wikipedia - Emanuel Gil-Av - Life and work | 321 | 1,321 | null |
carried out in 1966 the first gas-chromatographic enantioseparation of racemic amino acids as N-trifluoroacetyl-O-alkyl derivatives. Many racemic compounds, amenable for enantioselective interaction via hydrogen bonding with the CSP, could be analytically enantioseparated by GC. Further contributions of Gil-Av and asso... | Wikipedia - Emanuel Gil-Av - Life and work | 172 | 684 | null |
Section: Literature. Emanuel Gil-Av, Present status of enantiomeric analysis by gas chromatography, J. Mol. Evol. 6 (1975) 131–144. Nelu Grinberg: Emanuel Gil-Av (1916–1996): A man with a legacy, In: Chirality, 1998;10(5):372. Volker Schurig: In Memoriam – Emanuel Gil-Av. In: Journal of High Resolution Chromatography 1... | Wikipedia - Emanuel Gil-Av - Literature | 170 | 537 | null |
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