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Beyond the Laboratory
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A sampling of NEH-supported projects on the history of science and technology
The Wizard of Menlo Park
The latest volume of the Papers of Thomas Aha Edison covers the years 1878 through 1881, when Edison invented a complete system of electric light and power. This is the fifth book of a projected fifteen-volume series edited by the Edison Papers project at Rutgers University and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Since 1982, NEH has supported the project through ten grants totaling $2,252,550. Besides the print edition, a microfilm version is in the works that will eventually ...
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Rivalling nature in the beauty and brilliancy of their coloring: Synthetic dyes and fashionable colors in Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine 1856-1891
Magazine article from: The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc.
; ...synthetic dyeing. William Henry Perkin, a student of August Wilhelm von Hofmann's at the Royal College of Chemistry in London...methyl violet, imperial violet, and the series of Hofmann violets, which ranged in shade from blue-violet...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Froude, engineer and naval architect, 1879; Carl von Ossietzky, pacifist journalist and Nobel prizewinner...Joseph- Nicolas Robert-Fleury, painter, 1890; August Wilhelm von Hofmann, chemist, 1892; Francis Bret Harte, author, 1902...
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Penn State University Selected to Host First Honeywell-Nobel Lecture Visit of 2007.
PR Newswire
; ...Rochester Section of the ACS in 1990, and an Alexander von Humboldt Award in 1995. In 1996, he received the...2001, the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Medal in 2002, the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal from the German Chemical Society in 2005, and...
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They see, and take care of, dead people.(Metro & National News)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...Fredrick Ruysch. This is when embalming fluid, composed of formaldehyde -- which was discovered by German chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann in 1867 -- is flushed through the veins. It is broken up into three parts: disinfection, preservation, and...
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Wiley Congratulates 2005 Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry.
M2 Presswire
; ...347, Issue 2-3). Last month, Grubbs and Schrock also received the German Chemical Society's prestigious August Wilhelm Von Hofmann Medal. For more information, please visit www.wiley.com and www.interscience.wiley.com. About John...
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Wiley congratulates 2005 Nobel Prize winners in chemistry.
M2 Presswire
; ...347, Issue 2-3). Last month, Grubbs and Schrock also received the German Chemical Societys prestigious August Wilhelm Von Hofmann Medal. For more information, please visit www.wiley.com and www.interscience.wiley.com. About John...
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Synthesis of a genius.(synthesis of urea by chemist Friedrich Wohler)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry
; ...discoveries with which a new era in science has commenced.' In his 1882 obituary of Wohler, German organic chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann exaggeratedly eulogised his work: 'The synthesis of urea is in the true sense of the word an epoch-making...
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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY HONORARY DEGREES TO BE AWARDED TO RECIPIENTS OF NOBEL, PULITZER PRIZES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Synthesis. He recently became associated with the August-Wilhelm-Con-Hofmann-Denkmunze, German Chemical Society and the Fellows...Arturo Toscanini Music Critics Award, the Ernst von Dohnanyi Citation, an Academy Award from the American...
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Darwinismus und Literatur. Naturwissenschaftliche und literarische Intelligenz in Osterreich, 1859-1914.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies
; ...and the Germanist Wilhelm Scherer, who was professor...Anzengruber, Andrian, Beer-Hofmann, Altenberg, Bertha von Suttner, and more briefly...blood' in Beer-Hofmann's Der Tod Georgs is...the conflict between August Weismann's theory...
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