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vitamin.” Funk also illustrated the method and the amount of the beriberi vitamin that could be precipitated from an aqueous solution, as well as the chemical formula for the vitamin. g He also gave an il [...] fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and seven years later became its treasurer. He also became a member of the Philosophical and Medical Society of Edinburgh. But his important scientific [...] that the water obtained from a vapour of heated sea water was fresh and was suitable for drinking. He also proposed the use of solar energy for water distillation. Unfortunately, the technology at that time
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his military career. Along with this work, he also became the director of the Javanese Medical School, where he taught physiology and organic chemistry. He also remarried in 1888. With his wife Bertha Julie [...] Using the findings of Eijkman’s study, scientists were able to isolate a nutrient called thiamin, also known as vitamin B1. Eijkman had, through his research, formed the basis for understanding the role [...] new field of medicine called bacteriology. He worked in Josef Forster's laboratory in Amsterdam and also in Robert Koch's bacteriological laboratory in Berlin, where he stayed for one year. During this time
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had been considered as absurd, not just because it contradicted Aristotle’s doctrine directly, but also as the Catholic Church had accepted the Earth being in the center as the truth. On the other hand [...] precisely than the Aristotelian one even though the movement of the Earth was not noticeable and the also question of how the moving Earth could possibly pull the moon with her remained. Another remaining
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wealthy middle-class family in Magdeburg. His family was the owner of many buildings in the city and also of manors nearby. At the age of 15, Otto enrolled the faculty of Art at the University of Leipzig [...] Emperor, Leopold I. since then he could use the nickname ‘von’. With the agreement of the emperor, he also changed the spelling of his surname to Guericke from Gericke, converging it to the French spelling [...] vessel by the sudden sucking the air out of it, and many more. Guericke’s stay in Regensburg resulted also in establishing the contact with the maths and physics professor in the Jesuit College in Würzburg
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experimental setup and the underlying principle in several various types. In- stead of the 16 horses he also used a few men and later masses to determine a numerous value of the force that holds a similar c [...] the force of the outer atmospheric pressure that bears against the vessel. In Figure 4 one can see also the reasoned pro- duction of the scenery: With the help of the cylin- drical vessel and an evacuated [...] rather thought, that the void inside the hemispheres re- sembles the same thing, which fulfills the uni- verse. The theories of Nikolaus Kopernikus (1473- 1543) and Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) ques- tioned
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him the cause of the complexes. What is more, Georg had an asthma, and later in his life he suffered also from heart insufficiency, states of anxiety, depression. Despite all above- mentioned and many other [...] Georg’s upbringing. His main occupations were in the area of poetry, music and architecture. He was also interested in sciencce subjects and he instilled this interest in his two youngest sons. Throughout [...] g teacher of young Georg was the physics and maths lecturer, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, who worked also in the astronomical observatory in the university. The time of studies was not easy for Lichtenberg
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known by the Italian Alessandro Volta (who is best known for his invention of the battery). Volta also claimed to have invented the device. However, it is unclear whether he had been familiar with Wilcke’s [...] took a completely different, and in some respect new, perspective: He explained that the result could also be explained with a one fluid theory, and thus the instrument’s be- havior was inconclusive in this
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– these are electric eels.’ The main Lichtenberg achievements in the area of sciences can be added also to this collection. Our story touches the matters of the discoveries concerning the field of the [...] thought of. ‘They are really amazing’ – said Henry with the cutest voice he could come up with. He added also his cute, snow-white smile. John smiled to him in the same way. Andrew didn’t give up, he walked up [...] metal, earthed bowl. To create and separate the charges, the electrophorus has to be chafed. And I use also my cat for this chafing, with ‘huge benefit’: ‘I put it on the isolated table, I chafe it a little
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