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The Chemist

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Alphonse Lavallée

He founded in 1829 the École centrale des arts et manufactures, now also known as the École Centrale Paris, with the help of three scientists : the chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas, the physicist Jean Claude Eugène Péclet and the mathematician Théodore Olivier.

André Berthelot

André Berthelot (1862–1938) was the son of the chemist and politician Marcellin Berthelot and a député of the Seine.

Arthur Giry

He prepared a new edition of the monk Theophilus' celebrated treatise, Diversarum artium schedula, and for several years devoted his Saturday mornings to laboratory research with the chemist Aimé Girard at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, the results of which were utilized by Marcellin Berthelot in the first volume (1894) of his Chimie au moyen âge.

Arthur Jones, 2nd Viscount Ranelagh

Her brothers included the chemist Robert Boyle and Lord Broghill, the later Earl of Orrery who was a prominent politician in Cromwellian and Restoration times.

B. G. Henry

Glynn Henry was well known in Cookham Berkshire during the 1950s and 1969s where he owned the chemist shop on the High Street for over twenty years, 'The Old Apothecary'.

Bird baronets

It was created on 27 January 1922 for the chemist and food manufacturer Alfred Frederick Bird.

Collège des Quatre-Nations

Notable students of the college include the encyclopedist Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783), the painter Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), the critic Julien Louis Geoffroy (1743–1814) and the chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794).

Crooks fluctuation theorem

The CE is named after the chemist Gavin E. Crooks (then at University of California) who discovered it in 1998.

David Pall

David Boris Pall (2 April 1914 – 21 September 2004), founder of Pall Corporation, was the chemist who invented the Pall filter used in blood transfusions.

Entropy and life

Similarly, according to the chemist John Avery, from his recent 2003 book Information Theory and Evolution, we find a presentation in which the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution, as well as human cultural evolution, has its basis in the background of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory.

Facing the Flag

Following publication of the book, Verne was sued by the chemist Eugène Turpin, inventor of the explosive Melinite, who recognized himself in the character of Roch and was not amused.

Ferme générale

His wife, the chemist Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, who escaped the guillotine, was herself the daughter of another farmer-general, Jacques Paulze.

Iceane

The name "iceane" was proposed by the chemist Louis Fieser about a decade before the compound was first prepared.

Ivano Marescotti

In films, after some small film roles Marescotti had his breakout role in 1991 as Tobia the chemist in the Silvio Soldini's comedy film L'aria serena dell'ovest.

Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent

Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemist: A study in Business History by Stanley Chapman (Detail from a copy of the book with black and white plates of Jesse Boot and published by Hodder and Stoughton UK as a special edition for The Boots Company Nottingham in 1973 with an ISBN 0-340-17704-7.)

Johan Gottlieb Gahn

He was the chemist for The Swedish Board of Mines Bergskollegium from 1773-1817.

John R. Park

In 1855 Park entered medical school at New York University where he was a student of the chemist, historian and philosopher, John William Draper.

Le Bugue

Le Bugue owes part of its fame to the chemist and physician Jean Rey who discovered the Law of Conservation of Mass 200 years before Lavoisier.

Lechler

Lechler originated from the German company Christian Lechler und Sohn Nachfolger established in 1858 in Stuttgart by the chemist-pharmacist Christian Lechler.

Louis-Martin Berthault

Château de Jouy-en-Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, Yvelines: Reconstruction of the château for the chemist and ammunition manufacturer Armand Seguin, who bought the estate in 1801

Ludwig Meyn

After the move to Kiel in 1840, he started a degree in natural sciences in Berlin, where he also assisted the chemist Richard Felix Marchand.

Nobel Fire Systems

As the name suggests the company is one of the many that has its derivations from the explosives site founded in 1870 by the chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel for the production of dynamite.

Photosynthetic reaction centre

In 1772, the chemist Joseph Priestley carried out a series of experiments relating to the gases involved in respiration and combustion.

Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh

He was the eldest son of Arthur Jones, 2nd Viscount Ranelagh and Katherine Boyle, daughter of the Earl of Cork who counted amongst her brothers the chemist Robert Boyle and Lord Broghill, the later Earl of Orrery who was a prominent politician in Cromwellian and Restoration times.

Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award

In 1999, Paul Farley's The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You "was so well received", according to the Encyclopedia of British Writers, that "it was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award".

The Irish Washerwoman

A folk song called "The Chemist's Drinking Song" is set to this tune with lyrics by John A. Carroll, based on an idea by Isaac Asimov.

Winterborne Kingston

The chemist and botanist Humphry Bowen (1929–2001), author of The Flora of Dorset (2000), lived near the village during his retirement when he wrote the Flora.