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    John Wilson, CBE, MC & Bar, FRIC (6 September 1890 – 8 September 1976) was Director of the British Rayon Research Association from 1948 to 1958. He was...
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  • (Egyptologist) (1899–1976), American Egyptologist John Wilson (industrial chemist) (1890–1976), British chemist John Wilson Jr. (professor), American professor of...
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  • Alan D. Roberts Adolf Schallamach Alan G. Thomas LRG Treloar John Wilson (industrial chemist), Director of Research 1938-47 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows...
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  • Renaissance literature John Wilson (1910s pitcher) (1890–1954), American MLB pitcher for the Washington Senators John Wilson (industrial chemist) (1890–1976),...
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    from the alkali. The Solvay process was developed by the Belgian industrial chemist Ernest Solvay in 1861. In 1864, Solvay and his brother Alfred constructed...
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    Leicester Tigers, Yorkshire & England 'B' Rugby Union Player John Wilson (industrial chemist) Juno Dawson, British transgender activist, and writer of young...
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    George Wilson PRSSA FRSE (21 February 1818 – 22 November 1859) was a 19th-century Scottish chemist and author. He was Regius Professor of Technology at...
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    Samuel Wilson Parr (January 21, 1857 – May 16, 1931) was an American chemist and academic from Illinois. A graduate of the Illinois Industrial University...
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  • American chemist Arthur Aikin (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist Adrien Albert (1907–1989), Australian medicinal chemist John Albery (1936–2013)...
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    comprehensive school) in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. His father, working as an industrial chemist, was made redundant in December 1930, and it took him nearly two years...
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    The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of rapid scientific discovery, standardisation, mass production...
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  • and Wilson. In 1857 John Wilson married the sister of Rachel Albright (Albright's wife). The Sturge Brothers continued as manufacturing chemists at Birmingham...
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    parents were Elizabeth Judith Frances (born Walton) and John Pattison Gibson. Her father was a chemist who was interested in photography and antiquarianism...
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    Manon Leslie, and Dino Steinberg. Robinson, Carol V. (2011). "John Fenn (1917–2010) Chemist who enabled mass spectrometry to weigh up biology". Nature....
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    burgeoning industrial area. The refinery was directly owned by Andrews, Clark & Company, which was composed of Clark & Rockefeller, chemist Samuel Andrews...
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    Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor. He is known as an independent early developer...
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    Young FRS FRSE FCS DL LLD (13 July 1811 – 13 May 1883) was a Scottish chemist best known for his method of distilling paraffin from coal and oil shales...
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    tons of iron per annum. Bell was a professional metallurgist and industrial chemist, constantly pioneering processes such as the recycling of heat from...
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    Charles Tennant (category Scottish chemists)
    – 1 October 1838) was a Scottish chemist and industrialist. He discovered bleaching powder and founded an industrial dynasty. Charles Tennant was born...
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  • Pendleton, then in the band The Deez, and Cornelius, then in the band Jr. Chemists, knew each other from shows around Phoenix, Arizona and from skateboarding...
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    above all, when chemists sell arsenic for a toothpowder and label it mercury? Arsenic trioxide—also known as white arsenic—is an industrially produced inorganic...
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    The Honorable Dr John Macadam (29 May 1827 – 2 September 1865), was a Scottish-Australian chemist, medical teacher, Australian politician and cabinet minister...
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    acid-stable penicillin for oral administration, penicillin V. American chemist John C. Sheehan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) completed...
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  • sports sociologist Christopher Dyer, medieval historian Colin Eaborn FRS, chemist Norbert Elias, German sociologist Brian J. Ford, scientist, visiting professor...
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    The Chemists' Club is a private club in New York whose membership is open to research and industrial chemists from all areas. The Chemists' Club filed...
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  • Edgerton Aiken (1881), missionary: 196 : 6  Thomas Burr Osborne (1881), chemist, co-discoverer of Vitamin A: 83–84  Benjamin Brewster (1882), Bishop of...
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    dismemberment" in the sciences; while highly specific terms proliferated—chemist, mathematician, naturalist—the broad term "philosopher" was no longer satisfactory...
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    August Wilhelm von Hofmann (category 19th-century German chemists)
    August Wilhelm von Hofmann (8 April 1818 – 5 May 1892) was a German chemist who made considerable contributions to organic chemistry. His research on...
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    History of candle making (category Industrial history)
    accidental discovery swept all his ambitions aside when his son George Wilson, a talented chemist, distilled the first petroleum oil in 1854. George also pioneered...
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    McCormack, writer John McCusker, musician Ethel MacDonald, anarchist Paul McGuigan, filmmaker David MacMillan, Nobel Prize winning chemist Billy Moffatt,...
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