Heptameron, The
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Heptameron, The, a collection of tales of love, composed by Marguerite, sister of Francis I and queen of Navarre (1492–1549). Only 72 of the intended 100 tales were completed. The name ‘Heptameron’, ‘seven days’, was first given to the collection in 1559, on the analogy of Boccaccio's
Decameron.
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Henry Hallett Dale--chemical transmission of nerve impulses
Magazine article from: Mayo Clinic Proceedings; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Henry Hallett Dale-- Chemical Transmission of Nerve Impulses Robert A. Kyle, MD, and Marc A. Shampo, PhD Henry Hallett Dale was born on June 9,1875, in London, England. He attended...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/23/1998; 624 words
; ...and organist, 1825; Sir Jonathan Hutchinson...1912. Deaths: Sir Henry Percy (Harry Hotspur...Clift, actor, 1966; Sir Henry Hallett Dale, physiologist, 1968...the Percys against King Henry IV, 1403; Charles Stuart...
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Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences museum to open "Dinosaurs Past and Present," the most comprehensive exhibit of dinosaur paintings and sculpture ever assembled.
PR Newswire; 1/23/1987; 700+ words
; ...Ron Seguin and paleontologist Dale Russell. Contemporary paintings...Carpenter, John Gurche, Mark Hallett, Doug Henderson, Gregory Paul...Hawkins worked with paleontologist Sir Richard Owen (who coined the...Knight and paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn, director...
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Sir Henry Hallett Dale
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Henry Hallett Dale The English pharmacologist and neurophysiologist Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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Severo Ochoa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Institute for Medical Research. In England Ochoa met Sir Henry Hallett Dale, who would later win the 1936 Nobel in medicine for...the following year he started working directly under Dale, investigating how the adrenal glands affected the...
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