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Adam Cuthbertson

In 2007, Cuthbertson credited finding Christianity a year ago as the catalyst for his rise from obscurity.

Alkane metathesis

One such class of catalyst systems, discovered and developed by the group of Jean-Marie Basset, comprises tantalum hydride supported on silica (SiO2)TaH at temperatures of 25°C to 200°C.

Anne M. Mulcahy

In addition to serving on the Xerox board, she has been a member of the boards of directors of Catalyst, Citigroup Inc., Fuji Xerox Co.

Ariel Fenster

Among them are the 1989 "Catalyst Award for Excellence in Chemistry Teaching" by the United States Chemical Manufacturers Association, the 1992 inaugural "McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science" from the Royal Society of Canada, the 1999 Raymond Gervais Award for Exceptional Contribution to Science Education given by the Quebec Association of Science Teachers, and the 2005 Michael Smith Award for the Promotion of Science by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada.

Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

It is also a Harvard Catalyst site, and incorporates research projects from Boston University, McLean Hospital, and other Boston institutions.

Bosch process

Bosch reaction - produces elemental carbon from CO2 and hydrogen using a metallic catalyst

Caribbean Voices

Kamau Brathwaite has described Caribbean Voices as "the single most important literary catalyst for Caribbean creative and critical writing in English".

Catalyst Institute of Management and Advance Global Excellence

Catalyst Institute of ,,m,m, Management and Advance Global Excellence (CIMAGE) is a college located in Patna, Bihar, India.

Center for Urologie Regional Entrepreneurship

The funding received from the Heinz Endowments through CURE is a significant catalyst for advancing ideas, bringing new treatments to the Urologic arena while contributing to the economic development of the Pittsburgh region.

Chiral Lewis acid

Hisashi Yamamoto and coworkers have developed a practical Diels-Alder catalyst for aldehyde dienophiles.

Chris Crass

Movement elders Elizabeth 'Betita' Martinez, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Paul Kivel were also key mentors to the younger generation organizers in Catalyst Project.

Conservation medicine

Gary Tabor, wildlife veterinarian, conservation biologist, conservation catalyst

Crabtree's catalyst

Crabtree, graduate student George Morris and John Derek Woollins discovered this catalyst in the 1970s while working on iridium analogues of Wilkinson's rhodium-based catalyst at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles at Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris.

David Milstein

While a postdoc, Milstein and his adviser, John Kenneth Stille, discovered the Stille reaction for new carbon-carbon bond formation using a palladium catalyst to couple an organic halide with an organotin compound.

Derek Taylor

Taylor was also a catalyst in Harry Nilsson's musical career; hearing Nilsson's song "1941" on a car radio, he bought a case (twenty-five copies) of his album Pandemonium Shadow Show, sending copies to different industry people – including all four Beatles, who became enamored of his talent and invited Nilsson to London.

Diphenylethylenediamine

DPEN and BINAP are the key ingredients of Noyori's 2nd Generation Ruthenium based chiral hydration catalyst, Ryōji Noyori earned the Nobel Prize in 2001.

East African Development Bank

The revitalization of the regional cooperation among the Member States through the establishment of the new East African Community (EAC) has accorded the Bank the opportunity to play a catalyst role in regional integration through provision of development finance.

Economy of Malawi

Economic grivences was a catalyst that resulted in the 2011 economic protests in Malawi in July.

Edward C. Papenfuse

Since June 2010, he has also been the acting City Archivist for the Baltimore City Archives, becoming a catalyst for change in an archives in disrepair.

Enrique Líster

A catalyst for the split was the condemnation by the PCE of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Fundageek

Harwin is a graduate of CSUN with BS in Accounting/Law and co-founder of the software development company Catalyst Development Corporation.

Galeazzo Maria Sforza

The Duke's assassination is the catalyst for the action in the Da Vinci's Demons television series, where he is depicted to be in his late 40s (while Sforza was actually 32 when he was killed), played by Hugh Bonneville.

Hoplology

With Matt Larsen, the father of the MAC program, as a catalyst, research departments are growing at universities across the United States.

Irvin Baxter, Jr.

He also said that the Berlin Wall would be torn down, Germany would be reunited, and that these events would be the catalyst which would inaugurate a permanent New World Order.

Kadeco

The catalyst of the foundation was the deactivation of the Naval Air Station Keflavik which had been operated by the United States for the previous 60 years.

Kimono

The 1932 fire at Shirokiya's Nihonbashi store is said to have been the catalyst for the decline in kimonos as everyday wear.

Koch reaction

Usage of a Ni(CO)4 catalyst with CO and water as a nucleophile is known as the Reppe carbonylation, and there are many variations on this type of metal-mediated carbonylation used in industry, particularly those used by Monsanto and the Cativa processes, which convert methanol to acetic acid using acid catalysts and carbon monoxide in the presence of metal catalysts.

Lovin' the Day

It was the launch album of Gotee Records, and was the catalyst for the creation of the record label; founders of the label Toby McKeehan, Todd Collins, and Joey Elwood had wanted to produce the album, but after not being able to find a label to sign the act to, they formed Gotee Records and began distributing the band's material on their own.

Maddy Darrall

This was the catalyst for Maddy’s career in children’s television and Billy Macqueen gave her a break as researcher on ITV’s children’s show Ghost Train.

McLennan County, Texas

(One such public lynching is the catalyst behind a "Lynching Resolution" being discussed by both the Waco City Council and the McLennan County Commissioners Court.) McLennan County's contributions to World War II include the reopening of Rich Field, Doris Miller (awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism at Pearl Harbor, also the first African American to earn such distinction), and James Connally (a locally famous World War II fighter pilot).

Metaraminol

Upon reaction with butyl nitrite, it undergoes nitrosation into the isonitrosoketone, which by reduction using hydrogen over Raney nickel turns into 1-(3-benzyloxyphenyl)-2-aminopropan-1-ol, the protecting benzyl group is removed by reduction using hydrogen over palladium catalyst, to give racemic metaraminol.

Mike Greenly

In an article for The Futurist magazine (March-April, 1987), Greenly credited the Alvin Toffler book, The Third Wave, as being a catalyst in his decision to change his life and become an active part of the Information Age.

Nuclear Disarmament Party

Jo Vallentine continued as a catalyst of the Australian Greens through her status as a WA Greens senator from 1990 until her resignation on health grounds in 1992.

O. P. Caylor

Oliver Perry Caylor (December 14, 1849 – October 19, 1897) was an American baseball newspaper columnist for The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Commercial before becoming one of the principal figures in the founding of the American Association in 1881 as well as the catalyst in the formation of the modern-day Cincinnati Reds.

Parma F.C. strip

The catalyst for the change from yellow and blue to white was the club's re-foundation and renaming from Parma Associazione Calcio to Parma Football Club after Parmalat's financial meltdown.

Prepolymer

A variety of catalysts can polymerise lactide to either heterotactic or syndiotactic polylactide, which as biodegradable polyesters with valuable (inter alia) medical properties are currently attracting much attention.

Project Morpheus

For instance the Sabatier reaction could be used to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) found on Mars into methane, using either found or transported hydrogen, a catalyst, and a source of heat.

Prudence Bushnell

Responsibility for the assassinations has never been clearly established, however, the resulting chaos was the catalyst for the masacre of Tutsis at the hands of Rwanda's Hutu majority.

Resin casting

Styrene is a similar liquid monomer at room temperature, which will also polymerize into clear glass-like polystyrene plastic, with addition of a suitable catalyst.

Ron Pederson

In September 2009 he starred in the Dora Award Nominated Mimi: The Poisoners Comedy at the Tarragon Theatre and then returned to the Citadel Theatre in 2011 playing Quasimodo in Catalyst Theatre's production of Hunchback, a role that he would reprise in Vancouver in 2012.

Shane Duffy

This decision was a catalyst in the IFA's decision to take a case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to prevent players switching allegiance from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland.

Terry Norman

That revelation in return resulted in an accusation by Senator Birch Bayh that Norman may have been "the fatal catalyst" of the tragedy.

The Holdup

Some notable locations are: The Roxy - Los Angeles, CA; Slims -San Francisco, CA; The Catalyst -Santa Cruz, CA; BB King’s Blues Club - New York, NY; House of Blues - Boston, MA; House of Blues - Anaheim, CA; Shoreline Amphitheater - Mountain View, CA; The Bellyup - San Diego, CA; and Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA.

The Post-Standard

The Post-Standard gained some national exposure when mentioned briefly in Laurie Halse Anderson's Catalyst in 2002.

The Yorkshire Musical Saw Player

As well as taking part in the "BBC music live" festival he has also played in a skip outside Belfast City Hall for a "Catalyst Arts" Festival, in a folk festival at Broadstairs and as part of the International Gilbert and Sullivan festival in Buxton.

UNX

UNX built the Catalyst Portal using the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.

Vanuatu branch of The Scout Association

In 1999 Norvan Vogt a Rover Scout from Queanbeyan Rovers, who was deployed with the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development, was able to register the organisation, to establish a national HQ and to run a series of training activities This proved to be the catalyst for a sustained period of growth of Scouting in Vanuatu.

Watts Up With That?

Because of WUWT's high traffic count, according to Fred Pearce of the Guardian, this was the catalyst which broke the story to the media.

White-Chen Catalyst

The White-Chen Catalyst is an Iron based coordination complex named after Professor M. Christina White and her graduate student Mark S. Chen that is now commercially available through Aldrich and Strem.

Zinc–air battery

Cobalt oxide/carbon nanotube hybrid oxygen reduction catalyst and Nickel-iron layered double hydroxide oxygen evolution cathode catalysts exhibited higher catalytic activity and durability in concentrated alkaline electrolytes than precious metal Platinum and Iridium catalysts.


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