The spectrum was that of a previously unrecognized isotope of helium, but it would be another ten years before Soddy coined the term ‘isotope’ in the pages of Nature. He would go on to win the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on radioactive elements and isotopes....
All concerned in the production deserve the thanks of chemists who are interested in the history of their subject. The series should be acquired by all chemical libraries, and is a notable contribution to scientific literature.doi:10.1038/162278a0None...
Within the last 100 years, two groups revolutionized plasma protein chemistry. One was the group of Cohn (6) and Edsall working on the preparation and fractionation of plasma; during the Second World War, they generated large amounts of albumin and gamma globulin for therapeutic use. The ...
The advent of modern antibiotics contributed enormously to the dramatic extension of human lifespan since their discovery by virtue of their lethal and selective action against pathogenic microbes. And yet despite our powerful arsenal of weapons against these pathogens, the war against them has not be...
A chemist with a more substantial career in brewing was, O'Sullivan, Cornelius (1841-1907), who became chemist and assistant brewer at Bass in 1866 and was ‘among the first chemists to apply scientific principles specifically to brewing … it was particularly his work on the products of the...
By a quirk (or gift) of nature, they were ravenous for human tissue – but only dead or diseased tissue, not healthy tissue. Maggot therapy goes back to antiquity, with such notable early exponents as Ambrose Paré and Dominique Jean Larrey, Napoleon’s chief surgeon. During Napoleon’s ...
Known For:Study of radiation Daughter of famed Marie Curie, Irene Joliot Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for the finding of artificial radioactivity. She, along with her husband Frederic, also turned boron into radioactive nitrogen as well as aluminim into phosphorus and magnesium...
(morpholin-4-yl)ethyl ester of mycophenolic acid (a prodrug of 1) was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, although not as an antibacterial drug but rather as an Department of Chemistry, BioScience Research Collaborative, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Correspondence: Professor KC...
The First International Congress of Chemists was convened on September 1860 in Karsruhe, Germany. Almost all notable chemists from across the entirety of Europe, as well as many whose name was not yet known, attended this event. The very future of chemistry depended on the results of this co...
Female Grads During the 17th and 18th Centuries Before the formal desegregation of men's and women's higher education, a small number of women graduated from universities. Most were from wealthy or well-educated families, and the oldest examples of such women can be found in Europe. ...