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Sports Central
May 9, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Ben Chapman, Once and For All Jackie Robinson suffered few baitings more vicious than those led by Ben Chapman, the former outfielder who managed the Philadelphia Phillies, when Robinson broke into the Show with the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers.   |
Chemistry World
April 23, 2013
Andrea Sella |
Anschutz's manometer Richard Anschutz, German organic chemist (1852 -- 1937) codified the emerging practice of vacuum distillation. |
Chemistry World
April 23, 2013
Derry Jones |
A history of the electron: JJ and GP Thomson In the absence of full biographies of father and son, this book by Jaume Navarro, provides a short joint history of the electron and the Thomsons (especially JJ), and their interactions, with an emphasis on emerging science in the 1920s and early 1930s. |
Chemistry World
April 17, 2013
Jennifer Newton |
Reconstructing how the Romans made glass By analyzing samples of Roman glass, researchers in Belgium and the UK hope to uncover clues about how the glass was made and the geographical provenance of the raw materials. |
Chemistry World
April 8, 2013
Philip Robinson |
The truth about snake oil? US scientists have carried out the first analyses of old 'patent medicines' - medicinal preparations from the turn of the last century - to identify the chemical constituents of the medications and perhaps determine if there was any truth in the wild health claims they made. |
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