... .com/bloodbank/History.htm HISTORY OF BLOOD TRANSFUSION Italian chemist who discovered nitroglycerine. Ascanio Sobrero worked as an assistant to Professor J. T. Pelouze in Paris and then became professor of chemistry in Turino, Italy. His face was badly scarred as a result of an explosion in the 1840s. He considered nitroglycerine to be far too dangerous to be of any practical ... .nsf/0/bb562d06620e7a1f86256d7a0070f3d5?OpenDocument F.R. Engelhardt ENOVA Research Applications Orleans, ON, KIC 7A9, Canada It might seem incongruous that a research focused organisation such as the Internati...

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... , he began looking at different graduate schools. He looked at UC Berkeley, Harvard and the California Institute of Technology. He was especially interested in Cal Tech. The head of the chemistry department there was Arthur Noyes, one of the nation's best chemists. One of Noyes's primary interests was the nature of the chemical bond. Cal Tech offered Pauling a teaching fellowship that ... bonds in inorganic crystals. Pauling also trained others to use his x-ray diffraction technique. William Lipscomb learned this technique from Pauling and later receive a Nobel Prize for his work in chem...

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Marie Curie Marie Curie enormously contributed to the fields of chemistry and physics despite social barriers towards women scientists. Marie Curie was a true scientific pioneer, and one of the first scientists to investigate ... of atomic physics for study and because of her research and achievements she was awarded two Nobel prizes. She received one in physics in 1903 and one in chemistry in 1911. Today only three people, including Marie Curie, have achieved this distinction. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, and her father was a physics ... her husband. The fund enabled her to develop a gro...

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... her out quickly and Maurice did not have good enough reason to fire her. Personally what I see is that Watson is jealous of Franklin, because she possesses knowledge of physical chemistry and or x-ray which was uncommon. Watson could have started to resent Rosalind when she insulted Watson and Cricks model claiming that it was not right. She referred to the ... ...

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