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Section: Political career. Golding ran for the 18th district of the Iowa Senate in a special election in 2011 to fill a vacancy left by Swati Dandekar's resignation, but lost to Democrat Liz Mathis. Golding announced her candidacy for the 83rd district of the Iowa House of Representatives shortly after decennial redist... | Wikipedia - Cindy Golding - Political career | 191 | 903 | null |
Section: Personal life. Golding has a husband, Joe, six adult children, and 21 grandchildren. She resides in rural Linn County. She is the co-founder of Advancement Resources, a training services and research company, and also owns several farms. She worked as an analytical chemist prior to her business ventures. Goldi... | Wikipedia - Cindy Golding - Personal life | 180 | 925 | null |
Article: Jeanette Grasselli Brown. Jeanette Grasselli Brown (born Jeanette Gecsy; August 4, 1928) is an American analytical chemist and spectroscopist who is known for her work with Standard Oil of Ohio (now BP America) as an industrial researcher in the field of spectroscopy. Spectroscopy is a technique used to measur... | Wikipedia - Jeanette Grasselli Brown - Summary | 179 | 977 | null |
Section: Education. Grasselli Brown attended Harvey Rice Elementary School, Alexander Hamilton Junior High and John Adams High School in Cleveland, Ohio. At John Adams, she was in a college track program and planned to major in English in college. However, when she took her first chemistry class, she fell in love with ... | Wikipedia - Jeanette Grasselli Brown - Education | 289 | 1,406 | null |
Section: Career > Standard Oil (BP America). After graduating from Ohio University in 1950, Grasselli Brown was offered a job position at Standard Oil (now BP America) in Cleveland as a project leader. From 1950 to 1978, she worked closely with an instrument called an infrared spectrometer. This device is used to measu... | Wikipedia - Jeanette Grasselli Brown - Career > Standard Oil (BP America) | 243 | 1,293 | null |
Section: Career > Post-retirement. From 1989 to 1995, Grasselli Brown worked as a distinguished visiting professor and director of research enhancement at her alma mater, Ohio University. She has also served as a chair of the board of trustees, chair of the Ohio Board of Regents, a Foundation Board trustee for nine yea... | Wikipedia - Jeanette Grasselli Brown - Career > Post-retirement | 344 | 1,812 | null |
Section: Legacy and honors. Grasselli Brown has over ninety publications, nine books, and a patent in the field of infrared and Raman spectroscopy. In 1985, she was selected as one of the Foremost Women of the 20th Century. She is the first woman to be inducted into the Hungarian and Austrian Chemical Societies. In 200... | Wikipedia - Jeanette Grasselli Brown - Legacy and honors | 253 | 1,213 | null |
Section: Awards. Distinguished Service Award of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (1985) Garvan Medal from the American Chemical Society (1986) Fisher Award in Analytical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (1993) Wilfred R. and Ann Lee Konneker Award from Ohio University (2003) Founder's Citation Award fro... | Wikipedia - Jeanette Grasselli Brown - Awards | 170 | 822 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Guadalupe was born in 1956. She attended the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (UPR-RP). She earned a B.Sc. in chemistry in 1979 and a M.Sc. in analytical chemistry in 1984. Her master's thesis was titled, Polymer-Modified Electrodes: Electrochemical Characterization and A... | Wikipedia - Ana Guadalupe - Early life and education | 219 | 1,069 | null |
Section: Career. In 1988, Guadalupe became an assistant professor of chemistry at UPR-RP. Her research during this period focused on electrochemical processes, specifically the study of redox reactions and the development of electrochemical sensors. In 1989, she joined a collaborative project on the use of polymer-modi... | Wikipedia - Ana Guadalupe - Career | 344 | 1,661 | null |
In 1998, Guadalupe was promoted to professor of chemistry. Her work on electrochemical materials and nanostructured polymers garnered further recognition, and she began collaborating on interdisciplinary projects involving materials science and sensor technology. She also served as president of the Puerto Rico Science ... | Wikipedia - Ana Guadalupe - Career | 338 | 1,839 | null |
Section: Scientific career. Hartinger studied chemistry at the University of Vienna, earning his MSc in 1999 and his PhD in 2001 under Bernhard Keppler. He was an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow with Paul Dyson at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from 2006 to 2008 and obtained his habilitation at the University of... | Wikipedia - Christian Hartinger - Scientific career | 284 | 1,371 | null |
Section: Selected research outputs. Meier, S. M.; Novak, M. S.; Kandioller, W.; Jakupec, M. A.; Roller, A.; Keppler, B. K.; Hartinger, C. G., Aqueous chemistry and antiproliferative activity of a pyrone-based phosphoramidate Ru(arene) anticancer agent. Dalton Trans, 2014, 43 (26), 9851–9855 Meier, S. M.; Babak, M. V.; ... | Wikipedia - Christian Hartinger - Selected research outputs | 327 | 823 | null |
K.; Hartinger, C. G., Identification of the structural determinants for anticancer activity of a ruthenium arene peptide conjugate. Chem Eur J, 2013, 19 (28), 9297–9307 Kandioller, W.; Balsano, E.; Meier, S. M.; Jungwirth, U.; Göschl S.; Roller, A.; Jakupec, M. A.; Berger, W.; Keppler, B. K.; Hartinger, C. G., Organome... | Wikipedia - Christian Hartinger - Selected research outputs | 346 | 868 | null |
S.; Roller, A.; Jakupec, M. A.; Keppler, B. K.; Hartinger, C. G., Am(m)ines make the difference: organoruthenium am(m)ine complexes and their chemistry in anticancer drug development. Chemistry, 2013, 19 (13), 4308–4318 Kurzwernhart, A.; Kandioller, W.; Bächler S.; Bartel, C.; Martic, S.; Buczkowska, M.; Mühlgassner, G... | Wikipedia - Christian Hartinger - Selected research outputs | 237 | 583 | null |
Section: Life and work. Jaroslav Heyrovský was born in Prague on December 20, 1890, the fifth child of Leopold Heyrovský, Professor of Roman Law at the Charles University in Prague, and his wife Clara, née Hanl von Kirchtreu. He obtained his early education at secondary school until 1909 when he began his study of chem... | Wikipedia - Jaroslav Heyrovský - Life and work | 338 | 1,634 | null |
Section: Honors, awards, legacy. Many universities and seats of learning honored Heyrovský. He was elected Fellow of University College, London, in 1927, and received honorary doctorates from the Technical University, Dresden in 1955, the University of Warsaw in 1956, the University Aix-Marseille in 1959, and the Unive... | Wikipedia - Jaroslav Heyrovský - Honors, awards, legacy | 338 | 1,598 | null |
Section: Research. Hicks' research focuses largely on the development and implementation of mass spectrometric methods for protein identification and characterization. Recent work in the Hicks Lab has focused primarily on two areas. The first is the study of post-translational modifications and their role in regulation... | Wikipedia - Leslie M. Hicks - Research | 299 | 1,529 | null |
Article: Gary M. Hieftje. Gary M. Hieftje is an analytical chemist, Distinguished Professor, and the Robert & Marjorie Mann Chair of Chemistry at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Gary M. Hieftje received his A.B. degree at Hope College in Holland, Michigan in 1964, and his PhD from University of Illinois at ... | Wikipedia - Gary M. Hieftje - Summary | 286 | 1,390 | null |
Section: Awards and honors. 1979 Can Test Award by the Chemical Institute of Canada 1983 Science & Engineering Research Council Senior Fellowship 1983 Co-recipient of an IR-100 Award 1984 Meggers Award by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy 1984 Lester W. Strock Award by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy 1984 Anach... | Wikipedia - Gary M. Hieftje - Awards and honors | 267 | 1,521 | null |
Strock Award 1993 Distinguished Faculty Award from the College of Arts and Sciences alumni of Indiana University 1993 Golden Key National Honor Society, Honorary Member 1995 Honorary Professor of Jilin University, Jilin, China 1996 Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists 1996 Meggers Award from the Society f... | Wikipedia - Gary M. Hieftje - Awards and honors | 263 | 1,489 | null |
Section: Career. Müller moved to United Kingdom in 1855 to work with Warren De la Rue as recommended by Liebig. De la Rue and Müller developed a chloride of silver battery. He earned a Legum Doctor degree from the University of St Andrews and a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Manchester. He also worked ... | Wikipedia - Hugo Müller - Career | 345 | 1,655 | null |
However, the same year Müller also published the synthesis of trichloroacetic acid with potassium cyanide without notifying Kolbe. From that point forward, the two ceased all communication. The same year, Müller also synthesized the compound hexachlorobenzene by the reaction of benzene and antimony pentachloride. Mülle... | Wikipedia - Hugo Müller - Career | 158 | 759 | null |
Article: Svetozar Lj. Jovanović. Svetozar Lj. Jovanović (1895–1951) was a Serbian chemist and assistant professor of chemistry from 1925 to 1941. He specialized in the field of analytical chemistry. Jovanović developed a new electroanalytical method for the quantitative determination of antimony and a method for the se... | Wikipedia - Svetozar Lj. Jovanović - Summary | 175 | 779 | null |
Section: Research and career. After earning his doctoral degree, Kanu started a postdoctoral fellowship at Washington State University. He worked alongside Herbert H. Hill, Jr. on the development of ion mobility mass spectrometry. He proposed that this work could be used to reduce false positives in airport screening f... | Wikipedia - Abu Bakarr Kanu - Research and career | 317 | 1,667 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Kanu, Abu B.; Dwivedi, Prabha; Tam, Maggie; Matz, Laura; Hill, Herbert H. (2008). "Ion mobility–mass spectrometry". Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 43 (1): 1–22. Bibcode:2008JMSp...43....1K. doi:10.1002/jms.1383. ISSN 1096-9888. PMID 18200615. Kanu, Abu B.; Haigh, Paul E.; Hill, Herbert H.... | Wikipedia - Abu Bakarr Kanu - Selected publications | 294 | 779 | null |
Section: Career > University professor. In 1972 he joined the chemistry faculty at Colorado State University as an assistant professor. He moved to the University of Washington in 1974 where he stayed until his retirement in 1999. He became a full professor in 1979 and an endowed professor of analytical chemistry in 19... | Wikipedia - Bruce R. Kowalski - Career > University professor | 195 | 1,010 | null |
Section: Career > Director of CPAC. Kowalski served as the inaugural director of the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry (CPAC), established in 1984, at the University of Washington. Initially CPAC was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC). It has since been ren... | Wikipedia - Bruce R. Kowalski - Career > Director of CPAC | 170 | 862 | null |
Section: Career > Editor of Journal of Chemometrics. Kowalski was the founding editor of the Journal of Chemometics, the first issue of which came out in January 1987. The editorial of the first issue, written by Kowalski, Steven Brown and Bernard Vandeginst, explains that after 10 years of the founding of the field of... | Wikipedia - Bruce R. Kowalski - Career > Editor of Journal of Chemometrics | 179 | 894 | null |
Section: A Founder of Chemometrics. A foundational discourse on the field of chemometrics by Kowalski, "Chemometrics: Views and Propositions," was published in 1975. In it he defines chemometrics as "any and all methods that can be used to extract useful chemical information from raw data." Kowalski takes up the questi... | Wikipedia - Bruce R. Kowalski - A Founder of Chemometrics | 335 | 1,592 | null |
Section: Research. In his presentation at a 2019 chemometrics conference in France, Steven Brown called Kowalski the "father" of the following areas of chemometrics: 'NAS methods (with K. Booksh), multiway methods (with E. Sanchez), heuristics in chemistry (with C. Bender), multi-algorithms in chemistry for “big data” ... | Wikipedia - Bruce R. Kowalski - Research | 190 | 884 | null |
Section: Legacy. The Society for Applied Spectroscopy was selected by Kowalski's family to administer an award in Kowalski's name, the Bruce R. Kowalski Award in Chemometrics - Administered by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, "to honor the legacy of Professor Kowalski by recognizing outstanding young researchers i... | Wikipedia - Bruce R. Kowalski - Legacy | 209 | 1,061 | null |
Section: Research. Larive worked in the field of bioanalytical chemistry, applying analytical tools such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and mass spectrometry to the products of chemical separations. Much of her research focused on reducing the amount of sample needed for analysis, such as constructing... | Wikipedia - Cynthia Larive - Research | 268 | 1,334 | null |
Section: Awards. Larive has received a number of awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1995. She received the American Chemical Society Analytical Division's J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education in 2007 and served as chair of the Analytical Division in 2013. In 2015, Larive r... | Wikipedia - Cynthia Larive - Awards | 157 | 773 | null |
Section: Controversies. Larive has been the subject of multiple recent controversies regarding her relationship with the student body at UC Santa Cruz. In the early morning hours of May 31st, 2024, Larive authorized hundreds of police officers clad in riot gear from 13 different California police departments to dispers... | Wikipedia - Cynthia Larive - Controversies | 297 | 1,577 | null |
On September 9th, 2024, the ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit against Chancellor Larive and UC Santa Cruz for banning over 100 students and faculty from campus grounds. The UCSC police subjected every person who was arrested at the encampment to penal code 626.4, which allows school officials to “withdraw con... | Wikipedia - Cynthia Larive - Controversies | 336 | 1,706 | null |
On August 6th, 2024, UCSC released a report that an investigation conducted by the UC Santa Cruz Police Department found no evidence of mechanical failure on the bus that could have resulted in the December crash and therefore attributed it to driver error. Concerns over the safety of on-campus transportation remain in... | Wikipedia - Cynthia Larive - Controversies | 153 | 773 | null |
Article: Ceremonial magic. Ceremonial magic (also known as magick, ritual magic, high magic or learned magic) encompasses a wide variety of rituals of magic. The works included are characterized by ceremony and numerous requisite accessories to aid the practitioner. It can be seen as an extension of ritual magic, and i... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Summary | 290 | 1,401 | null |
Section: Definitions and general purpose > Qabalah and the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is a tool used to categorize and organize various mystical concepts. At its most simple level, it is composed of ten spheres, or emanations, called sephiroth (sing. "sephira") which are connected by twenty two paths. The sephiroth... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Definitions and general purpose > Qabalah and the Tree of Life | 345 | 1,584 | null |
Section: Components > Body of light. The body of light, sometimes called the 'astral body' or the 'subtle body,' is a "quasi material" aspect of the human body, being neither solely physical nor solely spiritual, posited by a number of philosophers, and elaborated on according to various esoteric, occult, and mystical ... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Components > Body of light | 319 | 1,435 | null |
Section: Components > Grimoires. A grimoire is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, deities, and demons. In many ... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Components > Grimoires | 255 | 1,243 | null |
Section: Components > Magical formulae. A magical formula or 'word of power' is a word that is believed to have specific supernatural effects. They are words whose meaning illustrates principles and degrees of understanding that are often difficult to relay using other forms of speech or writing. It is a concise means ... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Components > Magical formulae | 208 | 1,087 | null |
Section: Components > Magical record. A magical record is a journal or other source of documentation containing magical events, experiences, ideas, and any other information that the magician may see fit to add. There can be many purposes for such a record, such as recording evidence to verify the effectiveness of spec... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Components > Magical record | 255 | 1,375 | null |
Section: Components > Magical weapons. The practice of ceremonial magic often requires tools made or consecrated specifically for this use, called magical weapons, which are required for a particular ritual or series of rituals. They may be a symbolic representation of psychological elements of the magician or of metap... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Components > Magical weapons | 259 | 1,160 | null |
Section: Techniques. According to Crowley, there is a single definition of the purpose for ritual magic: to achieve Union with God through "the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm." Since this process is so arduous, it is also acceptable to use magic to develop the self (i.e. one's body of light) or to create i... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Techniques | 342 | 1,512 | null |
Section: Techniques > Vibration of god-names. In magical rituals, a vocal technique called vibration is commonly used. This was a basic aspect of magical training for Crowley, who described it in "Liber O." According to that text, vibration involves a physical set of steps, starting in a standing position, breathing in... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Techniques > Vibration of god-names | 207 | 1,036 | null |
Section: Techniques > Banishing. The purpose of banishing rituals is to eliminate forces that might interfere with a magical operation, and they are often performed at the beginning of an important event or ceremony (although they can be performed for their own sake as well). The area of effect can be a magic circle or... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Techniques > Banishing | 339 | 1,523 | null |
Section: Techniques > Purification. Purification is similar in theme to banishing, but is a more rigorous process of preparing the self and her temple for serious spiritual work. Crowley mentions that ancient magicians would purify themselves through arduous programs, such as through special diets, fasting, sexual abst... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Techniques > Purification | 280 | 1,390 | null |
Section: Techniques > Invocation. Invocation is the bringing in or identifying with a particular deity or spirit. Crowley wrote of two keys to success in this arena: to "inflame thyself in praying" and to "invoke often". For Crowley, the single most important invocation, or any act of magic for that matter, was the inv... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Techniques > Invocation | 294 | 1,337 | null |
In each case the magician identifies himself with the Deity invoked." Devotion—where "identity with the God is attained by love and by surrender, by giving up or suppressing all irrelevant (and illusionary) parts of yourself." Calling forth—where "identity is attained by paying special attention to the desired part of ... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Techniques > Invocation | 226 | 1,065 | null |
Section: Techniques > Evocation. There is a distinct difference between invocation and evocation, as Crowley explains: To "invoke" is to "call in", just as to "evoke" is to "call forth". This is the essential difference between the two branches of Magick. In invocation, the macrocosm floods the consciousness. In evocat... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Techniques > Evocation | 246 | 1,075 | null |
Section: Techniques > Eucharist. The word eucharist originally comes from the Greek word for thanksgiving. However, within magic, it takes on a special meaning—the transmutation of ordinary things (usually food and drink) into divine sacraments, which are then consumed. The object is to infuse the food and drink with c... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Techniques > Eucharist | 265 | 1,223 | null |
The first is a ritual designed for the individual, which involves sacrificing a "Cake of Light" (a type of bread that serves as the host) to Ra (i.e. the Sun) and infusing a second Cake with the adept's own blood (either real or symbolic, in a gesture reflecting the myth of the Pelican cutting its own breast to feed it... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Techniques > Eucharist | 215 | 901 | null |
Section: Techniques > Divination. The art of divination is generally employed for the purpose of obtaining information that can guide the adept in his Great Work. The underlying theory states that there exists intelligences (either outside of or inside the mind of the diviner) that can offer accurate information within... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - Techniques > Divination | 337 | 1,637 | null |
Section: History > Renaissance magic. The term originates in 16th-century Renaissance magic, referring to practices described in various Medieval and Renaissance grimoires and in collections such as that of Johannes Hartlieb. Georg Pictor uses the term synonymously with goetia. James Sanford in his 1569 translation of ... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Renaissance magic | 210 | 973 | null |
Section: History > Francis Barrett. Among the various sources for ceremonial magic, Francis Barrett, a late 18th-century Englishman, called himself a student of chemistry, metaphysics, and natural occult philosophy. Barrett was enthusiastic about reviving interest in the occult arts, and published a magical textbook ca... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Francis Barrett | 193 | 951 | null |
Section: History > Éliphas Lévi. Éliphas Lévi (1810–1875) conceived the notion of writing a treatise on magic with his friend Bulwer-Lytton. This appeared in 1855 under the title Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, and was translated into English by Arthur Edward Waite as Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual. I... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Éliphas Lévi | 339 | 1,485 | null |
Section: History > Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (founded 1888) was a secret society devoted to the study and practice of the occult, metaphysics, and paranormal activities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known as a magical order, the Hermetic Order of the Golde... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn | 293 | 1,348 | null |
Section: History > Aleister Crowley. English author and occultist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) wrote about magical practices and theory, including those of theurgy ("high magic") and goetia ("low magic"). In The Book of the Law and The Vision and the Voice, the Aramaic magical formula Abracadabra was changed to Abrahad... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Aleister Crowley | 282 | 1,171 | null |
Section: History > Dion Fortune. Dion Fortune (1890–1946) was a Welsh occultist, ceremonial magician, novelist and author. She was a co-founder of the Fraternity of the Inner Light, an occult organisation that promoted philosophies which she claimed had been taught to her by spiritual entities known as the Ascended Mas... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Dion Fortune | 330 | 1,667 | null |
The lodge was opened by walking around the room in a circle chanting, with the intent of building a psychic force up as a wall. Next, the cosmic entities would be invoked, with the members believing that these entities would manifest in astral form and interact with the chosen officers. Fortune was particularly concern... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Dion Fortune | 346 | 1,728 | null |
Graf agreed, adding that Fortune's works found "resonance" in the work of the later feminist Wiccan Starhawk, and in particular in the latter's 1979 book, The Spiral Dance. In researching ceremonial magic orders and other esoteric groups active in the London area during the 1980s, Luhrmann found that within them, Fortu... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Dion Fortune | 184 | 872 | null |
Section: History > Jack Parsons. John Whiteside Parsons (1914–1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons converted to Thelema, the new religious movement founded by the English occultist Aleister Crowley. Together with his first wife, Helen Northrup, Parsons joined the Agape Lodge,... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Jack Parsons | 327 | 1,550 | null |
Ron Hubbard. This ritual was essentially designed to manifest an individual incarnation of the archetypal divine feminine called Babalon. The project was based on the ideas of Crowley, and his description of a similar project in his 1917 novel Moonchild. When Parsons declared that the first of the series of rituals was... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Jack Parsons | 299 | 1,475 | null |
Section: History > Phyllis Seckler. Phyllis Seckler (1917–2004), also known as 'Soror Meral', was a ninth degree (IX°) member of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), and a lineage holder in the A∴A∴ tradition. She was a student of Jane Wolfe, herself a student of Aleister Crowley. Sek... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Phyllis Seckler | 269 | 1,050 | null |
Eshelman) the Temple of Thelema, and later warranting the formation of the Temple of the Silver Star. Seeking to guide her students to an understanding of the Law of Thelema, especially deeper understanding of oneself and of one's magical will, Sekler published the bi-annual Thelemic journal In the Continuum which feat... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Phyllis Seckler | 189 | 847 | null |
Section: History > Kenneth Grant. Kenneth Grant (1924–2011) was an English ceremonial magician and advocate of the Thelemic religion. A poet, novelist, and writer, he founded his own Thelemic organisation, the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis—later renamed the Typhonian Order—with his wife Steffi Grant. Grant was fascina... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Kenneth Grant | 319 | 1,473 | null |
in the UK, writing in his diary, "value of Grant. If I die or go to the USA, there must be a trained man to take care of the English O.T.O." Grant drew eclectically on a range of sources in devising his teachings. Although based in Thelema, Grant's Typhonian tradition has been described as "a bricolage of occultism, Ne... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Kenneth Grant | 318 | 1,443 | null |
Grant adopted a perennialist interpretation of the history of religion. Grant's wrote that Indian spiritual traditions like Tantra and Yoga correlate to Western esoteric traditions, and that both stem from a core, ancient source, has parallels in the perennial philosophy promoted by the Traditionalist School of esoteri... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Kenneth Grant | 343 | 1,627 | null |
Section: History > James Lees. James Lees (August 22, 1939 – 2015) was an English magician known for inventing the system he called English Qaballa. Lees was born in Bolton, Lancashire. He established a career as an analytic chemist. In his search for truth, he also studied psychology. Not finding the answers he wanted... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > James Lees | 329 | 1,523 | null |
Lees subsequently assumed the role of publisher of The New Equinox and, starting in 1981, published additional material about the EQ system over the course of five issues of the journal, extending into 1982. In 1904, Aleister Crowley wrote out the text of the foundational document of his world-view, known as Liber AL v... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > James Lees | 337 | 1,497 | null |
Section: History > Nema Andahadna. Nema Andahadna (1939–2018) practiced and wrote about magic (magical working, as defined by Aleister Crowley) for over thirty years. In 1974, she claimed to have channelled a short book called Liber Pennae Praenumbra. From her experience with Thelemic magic, she developed her own syste... | Wikipedia - Ceremonial magic - History > Nema Andahadna | 210 | 932 | null |
Section: Early life > Education and early career. Locascio attended James Madison University from 1979 to 1983 where she earned her B.Sc. in chemistry with a minor in biochemistry. In 1982, Locascio was a research assistant in the department of chemistry at West Virginia University. She attended the University of Utah ... | Wikipedia - Laurie E. Locascio - Early life > Education and early career | 314 | 1,484 | null |
Section: Career. Locascio is an interdisciplinary researcher. She worked at NIST for 31 years, rising from a research biomedical engineer to eventually leading the agency's material measurement laboratory. Locascio also served as the acting associate director for laboratory programs, the number two position at NIST, pr... | Wikipedia - Laurie E. Locascio - Career | 350 | 1,866 | null |
She also served as a professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the A. James Clark School of Engineering with a secondary appointment in the department of pharmacology in the School of Medicine. In 2021, Locascio inducted as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. At the University of Maryland tha... | Wikipedia - Laurie E. Locascio - Career | 216 | 973 | null |
Section: Early life. John Macadam was born at Northbank, Glasgow, Scotland, on 29 May 1827, the son of William Macadam (1783-1853) and Helen, née Stevenson (1803-1857). His father was a Glasgow businessman, who owned a spinning and textile printing works in Kilmarnock, and was a burgess and a bailie (magistrate) of Gla... | Wikipedia - John Macadam - Early life | 338 | 1,573 | null |
Section: Australian academic career. In 1855 he was a lecturer on chemistry and natural science at Scotch College, having been engaged for the position before leaving Scotland. In 1857 he was awarded an MD ad eundem from the University of Melbourne in acknowledgment of his MD from the University of Glasgow. In 1857-185... | Wikipedia - John Macadam - Australian academic career | 179 | 921 | null |
Section: Royal Society of Victoria > Burke and Wills expedition. Between 1857 and 1865, Macadam served as honorary secretary to the Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria, which organised the Burke and Wills expedition. The expedition was organised by the society with the aim of crossing the continent o... | Wikipedia - John Macadam - Royal Society of Victoria > Burke and Wills expedition | 344 | 1,786 | null |
Section: Family. On 18 September 1856, a year after he arrived from Scotland, he married Elizabeth Clark in Melbourne, Australia. She had arrived three days before the wedding with her maid on the Admiral, the same ship on which he had travelled out a year earlier, which reached Hobson's Bay (Melbourne's port) on 15 Se... | Wikipedia - John Macadam - Family | 346 | 1,602 | null |
Section: Death. In March 1865 Macadam sailed to New Zealand to give evidence at the trial of Captain W. A. Jarvey, accused of fatally poisoning his wife, but the jury did not reach a verdict. During the return voyage, Macadam fractured his ribs during a storm. He was advised, on medical grounds, not to return for the a... | Wikipedia - John Macadam - Death | 255 | 1,161 | null |
Section: Funeral. The funeral was large. The newspapers carried tributes and subsequently lengthier obituaries from learned societies were published, such as that in the Australian Medical Journal and elsewhere. The Melbourne Leader described the funeral: "The coffin was drawn by four horses. Four mourning coaches cont... | Wikipedia - John Macadam - Funeral | 208 | 1,005 | null |
Article: Walter McCrone. Walter Cox McCrone Jr. (June 9, 1916 – July 10, 2002) was an American chemist who worked extensively on applications of polarized light microscopy and is sometimes characterized as the "father of modern microscopy". He was also an expert in electron microscopy, crystallography, ultra-microanaly... | Wikipedia - Walter McCrone - Summary | 172 | 879 | null |
Section: Biography. Walter McCrone was born in Wilmington, Delaware, but he grew up mostly in New York State. His father was a civil engineer in charge of one of the first DuPont plants to manufacture cellophane. McCrone received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Cornell University in 1938 and a Ph.D. in organic ch... | Wikipedia - Walter McCrone - Biography | 344 | 1,695 | null |
According to chemist and forensic scientist John A. Reffner, "during McCrone's life, he taught microscopy to more students than anyone else in history". For more than thirty years McCrone edited and published The Microscope, an international quarterly journal of microscopy that had been established in 1937 by the Briti... | Wikipedia - Walter McCrone - Biography | 336 | 1,672 | null |
Section: Vinland Map. The Vinland Map appears to be a 15th-century mappa mundi showing a landmass in the Atlantic Ocean, directly south-west of Greenland, labelled Vinlanda Insula ("Isle of Vinland"). It first came to light in 1957 and was acquired by Yale University in 1964. The map's authenticity would have demonstra... | Wikipedia - Walter McCrone - Vinland Map | 310 | 1,470 | null |
Section: Shroud of Turin. As a result of McCrone's work on the Vinland Map, British author and researcher Ian Wilson approached McCrone in 1974 about the possibility of scientifically analyzing the Shroud of Turin, a length of linen cloth that has been venerated for centuries as the burial shroud of Jesus upon which hi... | Wikipedia - Walter McCrone - Shroud of Turin | 338 | 1,521 | null |
McCrone's results were rejected by other members of STURP and McCrone resigned from STURP in June 1980. Two other members of STURP, John Heller and Alan Adler, published their own analysis concluding that Shroud did show traces of blood. Other STURP members also disputed McCrone's conclusion that the Shroud image was p... | Wikipedia - Walter McCrone - Shroud of Turin | 310 | 1,533 | null |
Section: Other investigations. McCrone's work as a microscopist first attracted widespread public attention when he helped exonerate Lloyd Eldon Miller, a cabdriver who had been sentenced to death for the 1955 murder of an 8-year-old girl in Canton, Illinois. McCrone was able to show that the stains in a pair of unders... | Wikipedia - Walter McCrone - Other investigations | 197 | 970 | null |
Article: Ram Charan Mehrotra. Ram Charan Mehrotra (16 February 1922 – 11 July 2004) was an Indian analytical and organometallic chemist, academic, educationist and the vice chancellor of the Universities of Delhi and Allahabad. He was known for his studies on the chemical theory of indicators, alkoxides and carboxylate... | Wikipedia - Ram Charan Mehrotra - Summary | 173 | 843 | null |
Section: Biography. Ram Charan Mehrotra was born in a middle-class family on 16 February 1922 in Kanpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to Ram Bharose Mehrotra, a small-time cloth merchant and his homemaker wife, Chameli Devi. He lost both his parents before he turned 10 and had to continue his studies depending o... | Wikipedia - Ram Charan Mehrotra - Biography | 314 | 1,568 | null |
Before starting his formal academic career by joining Allahabad University in 1944 as a member of faculty of inorganic chemistry, Mehrotra worked at Vigyan Kala Bhawan, Daurala, a local learning centre involved in teaching science to prospective young entrepreneurs, for ten months during 1943–44 and was also associated... | Wikipedia - Ram Charan Mehrotra - Biography | 323 | 1,585 | null |
In 1962, on invitation of Mohan Sinha Mehta, the then vice chancellor of the University of Rajasthan, he took up the post of a professor and head of the newly formed chemistry department and served the institution for two decades. In between, he had a five-year stint as the vice chancellor of Delhi University (from 197... | Wikipedia - Ram Charan Mehrotra - Biography | 333 | 1,591 | null |
Section: Legacy > Academics. While serving Rajasthan University as a professor, Mehrotra was known to have contributed in organizing a research school there and successfully tried to obtain Special Assistance Program as well as University Leadership Program from UGC. The research school has since published several orig... | Wikipedia - Ram Charan Mehrotra - Legacy > Academics | 219 | 1,123 | null |
Section: Legacy > Administration. Mehrotra was involved in policy-making bodies from early stages of his career when he sat in the Review Committee in Chemistry in 1960 and the committee made a number of recommendations on improvement of curriculum, research environment, and examination procedures of chemistry educatio... | Wikipedia - Ram Charan Mehrotra - Legacy > Administration | 345 | 1,766 | null |
Section: Awards and honors. During his early years at Allahabad University, Basu received the E. G. Hill Memorial Prize of the university in 1949 for the best research work by a member of the science faculty. The Indian National Science Academy elected Basu as a fellow in 1964 and the University of London honored him w... | Wikipedia - Ram Charan Mehrotra - Awards and honors | 335 | 1,616 | null |
Chatterjee Award in 1991, Acharya Narendra Dev Award in 1992 and Ashutosh Mukherjee Award in 1993. In between, he received the inaugural Atmaram Award of the Central Institute of Hindi. The Chemical Research Society of India awarded him Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 and the Indian Chemical Society awarded him the ... | Wikipedia - Ram Charan Mehrotra - Awards and honors | 229 | 1,190 | null |
Section: Biography. Nemes has been an associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) since January 2018. Prior to his appointment there, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry at George Washington University (Washington, DC), where he taught bioanalytical chemistry. Nemes gr... | Wikipedia - Peter Nemes - Biography | 336 | 1,581 | null |
He completed postdoctoral training in analytical neuroscience with Jonathan V. Sweedler at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, IL. There, he developed capillary electrophoresis ESI MS instruments7 and built a unique matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI–C60 secondary ionization mass spectrometry (... | Wikipedia - Peter Nemes - Biography | 331 | 1,627 | null |
In January 2018, Nemes became an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), where he has been teaching instrumental analytical chemistry and biological mass spectrometry. Research in the Nemes Laboratory develops ultrasensitive and microanalytical ... | Wikipedia - Peter Nemes - Biography | 350 | 1,838 | null |
Section: Representative publications (*Corresponding author). 1P. Nemes, G. Schlosser, and K. Vekey*, Amino acid cluster formation studied by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, J. Mass Spectrom. 2005, 40, 43, https://doi.org/10.1002/jms.771 2P. Nemes, I. Marginean, and A. Vertes*, Spraying mode effect on drople... | Wikipedia - Peter Nemes - Representative publications (*Corresponding author) | 326 | 966 | null |
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