BSE
A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
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BSE Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; a degenerative brain disease in cattle, transmitted by feeding slaughter‐house waste from infected animals. Commonly known as ‘mad cow disease’. The infective agent is a
prion; it can be transmitted to human beings, causing early‐onset variant Creutzfeld‐Jacob disease.
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/23/1997; 553 words
; ...1754; Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist, 1885; Leonard Constant Lambert, composer and critic, 1905...Thomas Chatterton, poet, committed suicide 1770; Nicolas-Leonard Sadi Carnot, physicist, 1832; Ronald Arbuthnot Knox, theologian...
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Kevin Pratt on geoengineering.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Alexander Graham Bell, but rather an explorer in a universe bounded by mathematics. He has more in common with Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, the founder of modern thermodynamics and the first to recognize the necessity of entropy, than he does with...
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Entropy
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...French mathematician and engineer Comte Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (1753–1823) wrote indirectly about...French physicist, mathematician, and engineer Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot (who was Lazare Carnot’s son...
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Thermodynamics
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...that is, there are limiting factors in the conversion of heat to work. The research of French physicist Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot (1796 – 1832), of British mathematician and physicist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) (1824...
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