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left, shutting the door behind him firmly. Mendeleev looked at the papers on his desk. There was the letter. Beside it was a sheet of paper with one line written across the top: “The properties of Lithium [...] account in December 1869 in the Annalen für Chemie und Pharma- zie, Mendeleev published a detailed paper in 1871 in the same journal without any reference to Meyer’s work. Yet, it turned out that this was [...] account in December 1869 in the Annalen für Chemie und Pharmazie, Mendeleev published a detailed paper in 1871 in the same journal without any reference to Meyer’s work. Yet, it turned out that this was

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• Mendeleev and the Periodic System

form the basis of his new chemical theory, and he was going once again through the manuscript of the paper he was to deliver at the Royal Institution. Then, the coach finally arrived in London, and Dalton

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• Dalton and the atoms

that would be about the equivalent of shooting a 15-inch artillery shell against a target of tissue paper and having it bounce back towards the gunner!” Geiger laughed, “I hadn’t thought of it quite that

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• Rutherford’s Nuclear Atom

ki presented independently their mathematical analysis of Brownian mo- tion (actually Einstein’s paper was one of the three famous in his annum mirabilis, the other two dealt with the photoelectric effect [...] , PH], almost as incredible, he would say, as if a fifteen-inch shell fired at a piece of tissue paper bounced back and hit the gunner. That the military imagery and the in- credulity are later fabrications

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• Democritus and the atoms

principle of energy conservation. The paper Joule presented in 1843 was not paid much attention to in the scientific world. In the following years Joule presented several papers in which he described various different [...] these papers are noteworthy for completely differ- ent reasons. One was published in the Philosophi- cal Transactions of 1850, it was entitled "On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat". In this paper Joule [...] of this paper in the pres- tigious Philosophical Transactions can be seen as a strong indicator of the acceptance of Joule’s work by the British scientific community. The other important paper Joule presented

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• Mouchot and the solar cooker

constellation-like shapes, named later the Lichtenberg figures. In February, 1778 he presented the paper on this topic during the session of the Göttingen Society of Science, but he was not able to explain

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• Lichtenberg and the electrophorus

constellation-like shapes, named later the Lichtenberg figures. In February, 1778 he presented the paper on this topic during the session of the Göttingen Society of Science, but he was not able to explain

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• Lichtenberg and the electrophorus

me- tabolism” (Funk 1912, p. 341). Funk stated that all but one of the diseases covered in his 1912 paper could be cured simply by adding a new class of organic sub- stances, which he called vitamins (short

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• Eijkman and Beri-Beri
• Lind and scurvy
• Liebig and nutrition
• Rumford and nutrition
• Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier and respiration
• Dr. Andreas Junk
• Dr. Andreas Junk

corner, “Let me introduce myself: my name is Cornelis Winkler from Utrecht.” Eijkman put down his paper and stretched out his hand, “I am Christiaan Eijkman, lately of Am- sterdam, but before that from [...] me- tabolism” (Funk 1912, p. 341). Funk stated that all but one of the diseases covered in his 1912 paper could be cured simply by adding a new class of organic sub- stances, which he called vitamins (short [...] Primary Sources Eijkman, Christiaan: Polyneuritis in Chickens, or the Origin of Vitamin Research: Papers, Basel 1990. Funk, Casimir: The Etiology of the Deficiency Diseases. Beri-beri, Polyneuritis in Birds

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• Eijkman and Beri-Beri

listens and understands. - Yes, Sir! - Lind confirmed. He took out from his pocket a sheet of written paper and with enthusi- asm continued. – Due to which I have already mentioned, I will enrich their diet

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• Lind and scurvy