Louis-nicolas vauquelin biography of michael

  • Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin was a French chemist who discovered the elements chromium (1797) and beryllium (1798).
  • Louis Nicolas Vauquelin 1763 - 1829 ; occupation: Chemist ; Nationality: French ; born in: Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France ; Educated At. University of Paris.
  • French professor of chemistry (1763-1829).

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    100 Distinguished European Chemists

    Celebration of 100 Distinguished European Chemists from the Chemical Revolution to the 21st Century

    The Federation of European kemikalie Societies initiated, as a Millennium Project, the celebration of Distinguished European Chemists spanning a period of over two hundred years.

    Member societies and individuals were invited to submit their nominations of distinguished European chemists from the end of the 18th century until the present day. In addition to Nobel Prize winners, there were nominations of many others from Europe who have, over more than two centuries, transformed the science and influenced science, industry or society worldwide.

    The final list includes a diversity of nationalities. As well as being published in the magazines of the national chemical societies the list is available for viewing here along with a brief biography and details of their achievements.

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    Grammar of Color

    The Grammar of Color Vol. 3 No. 5 Go Big Blue! Ecole Polytechnique vs. The University of Tubingen. Scholastic rivalries have interesting histories. Each year both school athletic teems meet to beat the tar out of each other in an annual football game. This sporting event is preceded bygd a student from one school stealing something of historic or sentimental value from another. These cyclical crimes of larceny can be fairly benign to exceedingly complex. Most go very illa when live animals are involved. In reality, this story fryst vatten not really a rivalry between a French and German university, but is was a very real competition with two scientists who came from universities that provided them with the knowledge, tools and the environment, to vie for an honor that would have significant consequence for the art world. The utmaning in the early 19th century was to create an artificial way of synthesizing ultramarine blue. Genuine ultramarine blue apparently has never been a
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    The element that made the 20th Century shine

    And the director proved, in fact, to be just a little ahead of the competition. Across the Atlantic, the Chrysler Building was under construction in Manhattan.

    Its now world-famous stainless steel apex was kept under wraps - literally and figuratively - until the last moment.

    On 23 October 1929, the day before the Wall Street Crash, without warning the prefabricated 56m-tall spire was erected in just 90 minutes, pipping the aghast backers of a rival tower on Wall Street to the title of world's tallest building.

    Then, on 29 January 1930, the wraps came off, revealing the shimmering steel covering the whole of the top of the building.

    It is hard to comprehend the awe this would have aroused. Stainless steel, like plastic, is a material that we take for granted today, yet a century ago it was virtually unknown, and it was generally accepted that all steels must either be surrounded by some other protective material, or left to inev