A detective with his murder mystery a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions surmises fancies they stumble upon the right explanation and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach. ~ Gilbert Lewis 1875 – 1946
The legend that every cipher is breakable is of course absurd though still widespread among people who should know better. ~ J.E. Littlewood 1885 – 1977 - Mathematician
Gustaf Erik Pasch (1788–1862) Sweden – safety match.
Albert Hofmann (1906–2008) Switzerland – LSD.
Giacomo da Lentini (13th Century) Italy – Sonnet.
Hans Tropsch (1889–1935) together with Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947) Germany – Fischer–Tropsch process (refinery process).
Gail Borden (1801–1874) USA – a.o. Condensed milk produced by vacuum.
Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov (1875–1960) Russia – feathering spectrograph.
Toshitada Doi (born 1943) Japan together with Joop Sinjou Netherlands – Compact disc.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) USA – the pointed lightning rod conductor bifocal glasses the Franklin stove the glass harmonica.
Alfred William Gallagher (1911–1990) New Zealand – Electric fence for farmers.
Arogyaswami Paulraj (born 1944) India/USA – MIMO.
George de Mestral (1907–1990) Switzerland – Velcro.
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf (1526–1585) Syria/Egypt/Turkey – steam turbine six-cylinder 'Monobloc' suction pump framed sextant.
Alexander Mikulin (1895–1985) Russia – Mikulin AM-34 and other Soviet aircraft engines co-developer of the Tsar Tank.
Hyman George Rickover (1900–1986) USA – Nuclear submarine.
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) and Thomas Sutton Scotland – color photography.
Vladimir Baranov-Rossine (1888–1944) Ukraine/Russia/France – Optophonic Piano pointillist or dynamic military camouflage.
Michael Smith (1932–2000) USA – Site-directed mutagenesis (molecular biology).
Charles Simonyi (born 1948) Hungary – Hungarian notation.
Katharine B. Blodgett (1898–1979) UK – nonreflective glass.
Wallace Carothers (1896–1937) USA – Nylon and Neoprene (together with Arnold Collins).
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Did the genome of our cave-dwelling predecessors contain a set or sets of genes which enable modern man to compose music of infinite complexity and write novels with profound meaning? …It looks as though the early Homo was already provided with the intellectual potential which was in great excess of what was needed to cope with the environment of his time.” - Susumu Ohno 1928 to 2000 Geneticist
A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high. ~ Isaac Newton 1642 to 1727
Things are as they are because they were as they were. - Thomas Gold 1920 to present Astrophysicist
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken. ~ Humphry Davy - 1778 to 1829
The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of which if you don’t Nature at once tells you you are wrong. ~ James Clerk Maxwell 1831 to 1879
Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject. ~ Peter Atkins - 1940 to present
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data and its principles supported by evidence from facts. ~ Michael Faraday - 1791 to 1867
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- Designed for Runners: Ultra-slim, lightweight, and waterproof watch designed for runners. An extra-large display and one-button control make it the perfect runner's watch.
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