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Priestley Medal

Ahmed H. Zewail
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Allen J. Bard
Allen J. Bard (December 18, 1933 - ) is the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair Professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Among his awards were the Priestley Medal in 2002 and the 2008 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
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Bryce Crawford
Bryce L. Crawford, Jr. (born November 27, 1914) is an American scientist. He worked for decades as a professor of physical chemistry in the University of Minnesota.
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Charles A. Kraus
Charles August Kraus (1875–1967) was an American chemist. He was professor of chemistry and director of the chemical laboratories at Clark University, where he directed the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I. Later, he became professor of chemistry and director of the chemical laboratories at Brown University, and was a consultant to the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. His research contributed to the development of the ultraviolet lamp, to pyrex, and to the production of ethyl gasoline (a leaded gasoline), and he published more than 225 research papers. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, was awarded several medals from the American Chemical Society, including the Priestley Medal in 1950. He was awarded the Franklin Medal in 1938 and the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award in 1948.
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Charles A. Thomas
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Darleane C. Hoffman
Darleane C. Hoffman (born November 8, 1926) is an American nuclear chemist who was among the researchers who confirmed the existence of Seaborgium, element 106. She is a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and a professor in the graduate school at UC Berkeley.
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Edgar Fahs Smith
Edgar Fahs Smith (May 23, 1854 – May 3, 1928) was an American scientist who is best known today for his interests in the history of chemistry. He accumulated a large collection of pictures, books, and papers related to the history of chemistry, and which today forms the nucleus of the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection.
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Edward R. Weidlein
Edward Ray Weidlein (born July 14, 1887) was a chemist and later Director, Chairman, and President at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. He served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1937 and of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. His awards included the Priestley Medal in 1948 and the AIChE Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering in 1966.
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Edwin J. Vandenberg
Edwin J. Vandenberg (September 13, 1918–2005) was a chemist at Hercules Inc. and a researcher at Arizona State University. Among his awards were the Priestley Medal in 2003.
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Ernest H. Volwiler
Ernest Henry Volwiler (August 22, 1893-October 3, 1992) spent his entire career at Abbott Laboratories working his way from staff chemist to CEO.
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Ernest L. Eliel
Ernest Ludwig Eliel (December 28, 1921 – September 18, 2008) was a chemist born in Cologne, Germany. Among his awards were the Priestley Medal in 1996 and the NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society in 1997.
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F. Albert Cotton
Frank Albert Cotton (April 9, 1930 – February 20, 2007) was the W.T. Doherty-Welch Foundation Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M; University. He authored over 1700 scientific articles. Cotton was recognized for his research on the chemistry of the transition metals.
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Farrington Daniels
Farrington Daniels (1889-1972), an American physical chemist, is considered one of the pioneers of the modern direct use of solar energy.
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Francis P. Garvan
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Frank H. Westheimer
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Frederick D. Rossini
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Gabor A. Somorjai
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George A. Olah
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George C. Pimentel
George Claude Pimentel (May 2, 1922 – June 18, 1989) was the inventor of the chemical laser. He also developed the modern technique of matrix isolation in low-temperature chemistry. In theoretical chemistry, he proposed the three-centre four-electron bond which is now accepted as the best simple model of hypervalent molecules.
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George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides (b. August 3, 1939, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology. Whitesides is also known for his "outline system" for writing scientific papers. , he has the highest Hirsch index rating of all living chemists.
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George S. Hammond
George S. Hammond (1921 - October 5, 2005) was a chemist at Iowa State University and the California Institute of Technology. Among his awards were the Norris Award in 1968 and the Priestley Medal in 1976. Hammond's postulate, also known as the Hammond-Leffler postulate, was based on his 1955 publication.
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Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements", contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed the actinide concept, which led to the current arrangement of the actinoid series in the periodic table of the elements. He spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley where he became the second Chancellor in its history and served as a University Professor. Seaborg advised ten presidents from Truman to Clinton on nuclear policy and was the chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971 where he pushed for commercial nuclear energy and peaceful applications of nuclear science. Throughout his career, Seaborg worked for arms control. He was signator to the Franck Report and contributed to the achievement of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Seaborg was a well-known advocate of science education and federal funding for pure research. He was a key contributor to the report "A Nation at Risk" as a member of President Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education and was the principal author of the Seaborg Report on academic science issued in the closing days of the Eisenhower administration.
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Harold C. Urey
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Harry Gray (chemist)
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Henry Gilman
Henry Gilman (May 9, 1893, - November 7, 1986) was an American organic chemist known as the father of organometallic chemistry, the field within which his most notable work was done. He discovered the Gilman reagent, which bears his name.
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Henry Taube
Professor Henry Taube, Ph.D , M.Sc , B.Sc , FRSC (November 30, 1915 – November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the first Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize. Taube completed his undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Herbert C. Brown
Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 – December 19, 2004) was a chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for his work with organoboranes.
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Howard E. Simmons
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Ian Heilbron
Sir Ian Morris Heilbron DSO FRS (1886-1959) was a British chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1931). He was knighted in 1946. The American Chemical Society honored him with its highest prize, the Priestley Medal, in 1945.
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Ira Remsen
Ira Remsen (February 10, 1846 - March 4, 1927) was a chemist who, along with Constantin Fahlberg, discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University.
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James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was a chemist, educational administrator, and government official. As the
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Joel H. Hildebrand
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John C. Bailar, Jr.
John Christian Bailar, Jr. (1904-1991) was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.A. at the University of Colorado and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. At Illinois he developed an active research program on coordination chemistry, and he is referred to as the “Father of Coordination Chemistry in the United States,” since prior to his time, this area of chemistry received little attention in the U.S. He helped found the book series Inorganic Syntheses and the journal Inorganic Chemistry.
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John D. Roberts
John D. Roberts (born 8 June 1918) is an award-winning American chemist. He has made contributions to the integration of physical chemistry, spectroscopy and organic chemistry for the understanding of chemical reaction rates.
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Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley (13 March 1733 (Old Style) – 6 February 1804) was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have a claim to the discovery.
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Karl A. Folkers
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Kenneth S. Pitzer
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Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists of the 20th century. Pauling was among the first scientists to work in the fields of quantum chemistry and of molecular biology.
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Mary L. Good
Mary Lowe Good is an inorganic chemist who does industrial research and has worked in government. She received her BS from the University of Central Arkansas and in 1955 received her PhD in from the University of Arkansas. In 1980 she was appointed to the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation by Jimmy Carter and then in 1986 she was appointed to it again by Ronald Reagan. Former President Bush (41) appointed her to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Later Dr. Good in 1993 served four years as the Under Secretary for Technology for the Technology Administration in the Department of Commerce, under the Clinton Administration. She is currently Donaghey University Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. and the founding Dean of EIT (the George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology.
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Max Tishler
Max Tishler (October 30, 1906 – March 18, 1989) was a scientist at Merck & Co. who led the research teams that synthesized ascorbic acid, riboflavin, cortisone, miamin, pyridoxin, pantothenic acid, nicotinamide, methionine, threonine, and tryptophan. He also led a microbiological group that developed the fermentation processes for actinomycin D, vitamin B12, streptomycin, and penicillin. Tishler invented sulfaquinoxaline for the treatment for coccidiosis.
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Melvin Calvin
Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 - January 8, 1997) was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Paul J. Flory
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Paul S. Anderson
Paul S. Anderson is a retired chemist. Prior to his retirement, he worked at Merck, DuPont-Merck, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Among his awards were the Perkin Medal in 2002, the NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society in 2003 and the Priestley Medal in 2006.
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Peter Debye
Peter Joseph William Debye (March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
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Richard Zare
Richard Neil Zare (born November 19, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American physical chemist. He is Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.
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Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937) is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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Robert S. Langer
Robert S. Langer (born August 29, 1948 in Albany, New York) is an American engineer and the David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and maintains activity in the department of chemical engineering and the department of biological engineering at MIT. He is also a faculty member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. He is a widely recognized and cited researcher in biotechnology, especially in the fields of drug delivery systems and tissue engineering. Dr. Langer's research laboratory at MIT is the largest biomedical engineering lab in the world, maintaining about $10 million in annual grants and over 100 researchers.
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Robert S. Mulliken
Robert Sanderson Mulliken (June 7, 1896 – October 31, 1986) was an American physicist and chemist, primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital theory, i.e. the elaboration of the molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules. Dr. Mulliken received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1966. He received the Priestley Medal in 1983.
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Robert W. Parry
Robert W. Parry (October 1, 1917 - December 1, 2006) was a professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan and the University of Utah. Among his awards were the Priestley Medal in 1993.
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Roger Adams
Roger Adams (January 2, 1889 – July 6, 1971) was an American organic chemist. He is best-known for the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and his work did much to determine the composition of naturally occurring substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids. As the Department Head of Chemistry at the University of Illinois from 1926 -1954, he also greatly influenced graduate education in America, taught over 250 Ph.D. students and postgraduate students, and served the U.S. as a scientist at the highest levels during World War I and World War II.
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Ronald Breslow
Ronald C. D. Breslow (born 14 March 1931, Rahway, New Jersey) is an American chemist. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University, where he is based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology; he has also been on the faculty of its Department of Chemical Engineering. He has taught at Columbia since 1956 and is a former chair of the university's chemistry department.
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Samuel C. Lind
Samuel Colville Lind (June 15, 1879 - February 12, 1965) was a radiation chemist, referred to as "the father of modern radiation chemistry". He was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1930. He served as president of the American Electrochemical Society in 1927 and the American Chemical Society in 1940. Among his awards were the Priestley Medal in 1952.
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Thomas Midgley, Jr.
Thomas Midgley, Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944), was an American mechanical engineer turned chemist. He developed both the tetraethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and held over a hundred patents. While lauded at the time for his discoveries, today his legacy is seen as far more mixed considering the serious negative environmental impacts of these innovations. One historian remarked that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."
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W. Albert Noyes, Jr.
William Albert Noyes, Jr. was a chemist and the son of a famous chemist, William A. Noyes. They are the only father and son who have each won the Priestley Medal.
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Wallace R. Brode
Wallace Reed Brode (12 June 1900 – August 1974) was an American chemist. He was president of the American Chemical Society in 1969 and of the Optical Society of America in 1961. He received the Priestley Medal in 1960.
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Warren K. Lewis
Warren Kendall Lewis (21 August 1882-9 March 1975) was an MIT professor who has been called the father of modern chemical engineering. He co-authored an early major textbook on the subject which essentially introduced the concept of unit operations. He also co-developed the Houdry process under contract to The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil) into modern fluid catalytic cracking with Edwin R. Gilliland, another MIT professor.
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William A. Noyes
William Albert Noyes (1857-1941) was an American analytical and organic chemist. He made pioneering determinations of atomic weights, chaired the Chemistry Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1907 to 1926, was the founder and editor of several important chemical journals, and received the American Chemical Society's highest award, the Priestley Medal, in 1935.
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William Gould Young
William Gould Young (July 30, 1902 - July 5, 1980) was a physical organic chemist and professor at UCLA. Among his awards were the Priestley Medal in 1968.
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William J. Sparks
William Joseph Sparks (February 26, 1905 - October 23, 1976) was a chemist at Exxon. As an inventor, his most important contribution was the development of butyl rubber.
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William O. Baker
William Oliver Baker (born July 15, 1915 in Chestertown, Maryland; died October 31, 2005 in Chatham, New Jersey) was a former President of Bell Labs who had advised five Presidents on scientific matters. He received his degree from Washington College and went on to get a doctorate from Princeton University. He later did research for Bell Labs that helped lead to synthetic rubber. He held 11 patents in all. He headed Bell Labs from 1973 to 1979. Prior to being named president, he had served as Bell Labs Vice President for Research since 1955. Baker was a longtime resident of Morristown, New Jersey.
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Nobel Laureates Receiving Pioneer Awards in 2002

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Published: 24 Apr 2011
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The Boron in the Americas Organization presented the Pioneer Awards in 2002 to Three Nobel Laureates in Chemistry (William N. Lipscomb, Herbert C. Brown and George Olah) and a Priestley Medalist Robert W. Parry (former president of the American Chemical Society) at its eighth meeting held in Death Valley, California.

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Powell Lecture 2011: Part I

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The W. Allan Powell Lectureship in Chemistry has been held annually since 1988 and is hosted by the University of Richmond and the Virginia Section of the ACS. The Powell Lectureship was established to honor Dr. W. Allan Powell who served the University for 34 years, 23 of which he chaired the chemistry department. Harry B. Gray is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and the founding director of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology. After graduate study and research at Northwestern University and the University of Copenhagen, he joined the chemistry faculty at Columbia University, where he worked on the electronic structures and reactions of inorganic complexes. He moved to Caltech in 1966, where his work in biological inorganic chemistry has shed light on the factors that control electron flow through proteins. He has received the National Medal of Science from President Ronald Reagan (1986); the Priestley Medal (1991); the Harvey Prize (2000); the Wolf Prize (2004); the Welch Award (2009); and 16 honorary doctorates. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences; the American Philosophical Society; the Royal Danish Academy; the Royal Swedish Academy; the Royal Society of Great Britain; and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

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Powell Lecture 2011: Part II

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The 13-metal medal - Periodic Table of Videos

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Published: 23 Mar 2009
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The Professor visits a secret vault and discusses no fewer than 13 elements in this video about the Royal Society of Chemistry's presidential badge of office. More at www.periodicvideos.com

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Dr. Darleane C. Hoffman: WITI Hall of Fame 2000 Induction Video - Women In Technology International

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Published: 29 May 2008
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Dr. Darleane C. Hoffman Professor of the Graduate Schoool Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley (profile updated in 2007) When she enrolled at Iowa State University in 1944, Dr. Darleane C. Hoffman planned to become a commercial artist. But the influence of the extraordinary teaching of a female professor in a required freshman chemistry course diverted her into a scientific career that would make her one of the world's leading experts in the nuclear and radiochemistry. In the 1950s when she sought a position in the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the radiochemistry goup, she was told, "We don't hire women in that division." Undeterred, Dr. Hoffman did obtain a position in the group due to an enlightened male group leader and became a division leader of the isotope and nuclear chemistry division, the first woman to head a scientific division there. After 30 years, she accepted a position as Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley (only the second woman with tenure in the department), and also served as Leader of the Heavy Element Nuclear & Radiochemistry Group of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In the 1970s, Dr. Hoffman discovered traces of primordial plutonium 244 in natural ores. Until then, the radioactive element had been thought to be only man-made. She is also a pioneer in the study of the chemical and nuclear properties of the elements 104 through 108, far beyond plutonium. In 1991, she helped establish and ...

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Shannon Priestley - Semi Contact Final - WKC World Championships 2010

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Published: 04 Dec 2010
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Shannon Priestley competing in her Semi Contact Final at the 2010 WKC World Championship in Albufiera, Portugal.

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Preservation Matters: Eugene Cizek - Tulane School of Architecture

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Tulane University School of Architecture:Preservation Matters Symposium, Commentary by Eugene Cizek. Professor Eugene Cizek holds the Richard Koch Chair at the Tulane School of Architecture. In addition to the teaching of preservationist principles, he has enriched the curriculum with extensive travel, cultural and academic exchange programs. His international focus has allowed him to become associated with numerous universities such as the National Archives and University of Havana, the Rafael Landivar and Francisco Maroquin universities in Guatemala and national universities throughout Europe. Locally, his academic focus has extended to the elementary and secondary school education, sitting as a board member of the Priestley School. As a world-renowned preservationist, he has received numerous local, state, national and international awards for his work in preservation education, restoration and environmental conservation. They include the College of Fellows American Institute of Architecture, Honor Award: National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Freedom Foundation Medal. His professional work has been published in various national journals and books such as New Orleans Style, Past and Present and The National Trust Guide to New Orleans. His projects include such important landmarks as Destrehan, Laura, Lombard, Belle, Alliance, Oak Alley, Glendale, St. Joseph, and Woodland Plantations as well as regional historic urban structures such as Sun Oak in Historic ...

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Thomas Midgley, Jr.

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Published: 23 Jul 2010
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"Thomas Midgley, Jr. (May 18, 1889 -- November 2, 1944), was an American mechanical engineer turned chemist. He developed both the tetraethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and held over a hundred patents. While lauded at the time for his discoveries, today his legacy is seen as far more mixed considering the serious negative environmental impacts of these innovations. One historian remarked that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history." -Wikipedia entry, "Thomas Midgley, Jr." en.wikipedia.org Thanks to a "Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson for the inspiration and introduction to the work of Thomas Midgley, Jr. www.amazon.com Some sources: Inventor's Hall of Fame www.invent.org Charles F Kettering's memoirs, on Midgley books.nap.edu Ozone Watch ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov

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One in the Chamber with the Beastly Priestly

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Published: 08 Dec 2010
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Bringing on my buddy, hope you all enjoy

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Thought has not been exiled from Catholic Universities

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Published: 25 Nov 2009
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On Monday, November 16th, Professor Philippe Capelle-Dumont opened the work sessions of the International Federation of Catholic Universities 23rd General Assembly. After his keynote address on The Catholic University in Post-Moderns Societies: Challenges and Promises, Professor Capelle-Dumont, Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic Institute of Paris, was awarded the Ex Corde Ecclesiae Medal that the Federation has granted to leading academics since 2004. It is a medal that carries an admirable name: Ex Corde Ecclesia, from the heart of the Church. I accepted it as a gift. In fact, all my academic and priestly life has come from the heart of the Church and serves the heart of the Church. Perhaps we do not sufficiently acknowledge that the Church is also a source of intellectual inspiration for thousands and millions of academics, and that faith as such generates thought, to use Gabriel Marcels expression. Thought has not been exiled from the Catholic university. It is present and is in some way inspired by what the Church is in her reviving principle, in her creative principle. Father Capelle-Dumont, who said that receiving this medal encourages him in his efforts, recalled that Catholic Universities and their professors have a very specific role to play in post-modern societies.I believe their role is to point out that difference is not the same thing as fragmentation; it requires a principle of differentiation, hence a principle of acknowledgment ...

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Uptown CCMA Gift Lounge - Claudia Alan

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Published: 12 Nov 2009
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Claudia Alan Inc. was a proud sponsor of The Uptown GiftBox Company's 2009 CCMA Gift Lounge. This private, invitation-only VIP event was held backstage at General Motors Place in Vancouver on Sep 13th, 2009, and was an all-out smash! Celebrities, artists, media and special guests were treated like superstars in a West-Coast-style lounge setting. A celebration of this year's Canadian Country Music Awards nominees, performers, hosts and presenters, guests mingled and sampled amazing products by local artisans and hot brands, most of which were Canadian-made. Claudia Alan Inc. was launched in 2003 with a mission to create beautiful eyewear accessories that make a difference. Focused on designing reading glasses, sunglasses and other eyewear fashions, Claudia Alan incorporates an element of giving back to the community or the environment. Claudia Alans newest line is called AYA Accessories. Created by DAngelo, the line includes original artwork by First Nations artist Corrine Hunt. The collection includes high quality ready-to-wear reading glasses, sunglasses, embossed cases and cleaning cloths. Partial proceeds from the sale of every AYA Accessory is contributed to ONEXONE First Nations Nutritious School Breakfast Program.

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"Another Brick in the Wall" Talbot.blake's photos around Berlin, Germany

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Published: 03 Apr 2011
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Preview of Talbot.blake's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Berlin, Germany Entry Title: "Another Brick in the Wall" Entry: "Rewind again (to the same German lady I had dinner with in Turino) This woman from Dusseldorf told me a story about when the wall came down. She rushed across the country to be there for the momentous occasion. She got there pretty late and the crowd had dispersed and gone home, but she was still ready to embrace the event. Instead she embraced a stranger. In fact, it was the stranger who embraced her and asked her frantically: "Where am I?" "What do you mean?" Where is this?" "Berlin" "East or West?" "West" Upon learning that he was finally in West Berlin, he hugged her and cried on her shoulder for fifteen minutes. I asked if she was exaggerating, but she stood firm saying it was a good fifteen minutes of tearful expression, all the while hugging her like a child would. He finally lifted his head and said that the maps in East Berlin did not show the final 10 kilometers so that people would not know how close they were to the West (and freedom). A hundred years is only a blink of an eye in the scope of history, and this was only 17 years ago. How could someone not be excited about visiting Berlin? Our train ride was not eventful, but rather amusing. Munich to Berlin takes a few hours by train and some people are more ...

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American Chemical Society Meeting Video - 238th National Meeting: Washington-2009

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Published: 10 Aug 2009
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Welcoming video, featuring Tom Lane, Judy Benham, and Madeleine Jacobs, with promos attached, including an episode of Bytesize Science introduced by Adam Dylewski.

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Meryl Streep, Barnard Commencement Speaker 2010, Columbia University

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Duration: 28:08
Published: 18 May 2010
Uploaded: 16 Oct 2011
Author: columbiauniversity

Meryl Streep speaks at Barnard College, Columbia University Commencement 2010. Running transcript of speech included. An American actress who has worked in theater, television, and film, Streep has received 16 Academy Award nominations and 15 Golden Globe nominations. She won two Oscars and seven Golden Globes. She made her first appearance in a play called The Playboy of Seville in 1971, and since then, she has been known for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Mamma Mia (2007), Doubt (2008) and more recently Julie & Julia and Its Complicated in 2009.

http://wn.com/Meryl_Streep,_Barnard_Commencement_Speaker_2010,_Columbia_University

The Catholic Church - Builder of Civilization, Episode 12: Anti-Catholic Atrocities

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Duration: 26:33
Published: 16 Oct 2011
Uploaded: 16 Oct 2011
Author: PerHedetun

EWTN: Contrary to popular opinion, the Catholic Church has been responsible for the vast bulk of what we treasure in Western Civilization. Dr. Thomas Woods Jr. takes you beyond pseudo-historical attempts to minimize the Church's contributions to society, revealing how She has played an integral role in the sciences, the university system, western moral principles, law, economics, and much else besides. Grab your compass and get ready to take a journey through history, you're sure to see the Catholic Church everywhere you turn.

http://wn.com/The_Catholic_Church__Builder_of_Civilization,_Episode_12_Anti-Catholic_Atrocities

Indulgências

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Duration: 10:00
Published: 17 Aug 2010
Uploaded: 30 Apr 2011
Author: MAMCJCOM

Momentos de Reflexão - Indulgências Indulgências Meus irmãos, hoje vamos falar das Indulgências, que a igreja nos faz ganhar. Há muitos Católicos que não conhecem as grandezas, nem as riquezas espirituais que a nossa Santa Madre Igreja mete à disposição das nossas almas e das almas do Purgatório. Há outros que gostariam de as conhecer melhor. Estas riquezas chamam-se INDULGÊNCIAS. O Papa Paulo VI, no dia 14 de Junho de 1968, com o decreto da Sagrada Penitenciaria Apostólica, aprovou o novo "MANUAL DAS INDULGÊNCIAS" . O QUE SÃO AS INDULGÊNCIAS? "A Indulgência é a remissão, o perdão, diante de Deus, da pena temporal devida pelos nossos pecados já perdoados quanto à culpa, mas remissão que o fiel, devidamente disposto e em condições determinadas, alcança por meio da Igreja, a qual, como dispensadora da Redenção, distribui e aplica com autoridade o tesouro das satisfações, isto é: dos méritos Infinitos de Cristo e dos Santos." Pega nos méritos de Cristo e aplica-os à nossa alma. Que quer dizer isto? Quer dizer que, quando morremos, se não tivermos pago toda a pena merecida pelos nossos pecados, deveremos pagá-la no Purgatório, visto que para o Paraíso se pode ir só sem pecado e sem pena. Quem então pagará a pena? Será a própria alma que está no Purgatório, sofrendo com paciência e com esperança, e os que ainda vivem neste mundo, ganhando Indulgências por ela. Há 2 classes de Indulgências: Plenária e Parcial. A Indulgência Plenária apaga toda a pena que a alma ainda tem para ...

http://wn.com/Indulgências

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Nobel Laureates Receiving Pioneer Awards in 2002