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Gilbert Newton Lewis ForMemRS ( October 23, 1875 – March 23, 1946 ) was an American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond ( see his Lewis dot structures and his 1916 paper " The Atom and the Molecule "), his purification of heavy water, his reformulation of chemical thermodynamics in a mathematically rigorous manner accessible to ordinary chemists, his theory of Lewis acids and bases, and his photochemical experiments.

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Mole Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated among chemists on October 23, between 6: 02 AM and 6: 02 PM, making the date 6: 02 10 / 23 in the American style of writing dates.

This shortage of natural rubber prompted the chemists at American companies such as Du Pont and Standard Oil, and researchers at Harvard University, to strive to develop factory-made alternatives-artificial rubber for all uses, including vehicle tires, tank tracks, gaskets, hoses, medical supplies and rain clothing.

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A formal chemical synthesis was accomplished in 1944 by American chemists R. B.

Category: American chemists

Category: American chemists

Category: American chemists

Category: American chemists

Category: American chemists

Category: American chemists

Category: American chemists

His former house ( originally purchased by chemists from Pennsylvania State University after a colloquium that founded the American Chemical Society ) is a historical museum.

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Today the Perkin Medal is widely acknowledged as the highest honour in American industrial chemistry and has been awarded annually by the American section of the Society of Chemical Industry to many inspiring and gifted chemists.

Category: American chemists

Category: American chemists

Category: American chemists

Category: American food chemists

Category: American chemists

Category: American chemists

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

Art historian Richard Poss took a more flexible approach, maintaining that the astronomical rock art of the North American Southwest should be read employing " the hermeneutic traditions of western art history and art criticism " Astronomers, however, raise different questions, seeking to provide their students with identifiable precursors of their discipline, and are especially concerned with the important question of how to confirm that specific sites are, indeed, intentionally astronomical.

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

Aristide and his wife left Haiti on an American airplane, escorted by American diplomats and military personnel, and were flown directly to Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, where he stayed for the following two weeks, before seeking asylum in a less remote location.

In practice, this means that jury trials are available in American civil cases in most cases seeking money damages on a tort law or contract law theory, but are rarely available when non-monetary damages, such as an injunction or declaratory relief are sought.

Among tribes, qualification may be based upon a required percentage of Native American " blood " ( or the " blood quantum ") of an individual seeking recognition, or documented descent from an ancestor on the Dawes Rolls or other registers.

Webster was by nature a revolutionary, seeking American independence from the cultural thralldom to Britain.

Many of the " Black Poor " were African Americans, who had been given their freedom after seeking refuge with the British Army during the American Revolution, but also included other West Indian, African and Asian inhabitants of London.

Research on perceptions of science among the American public conclude that most religious groups see no general epistemological conflict with science and they have no differences with nonreligious groups in the propensity of seeking out scientific knowledge, although there may be epistemic or moral conflicts when scientists make counterclaims to religious tenets.

Taft won a mere eight electoral votes, in Utah and Vermont, making it the worst defeat in American history of an incumbent President seeking reelection.

Nicholas Stix of Middle American News recounted the mutually contradictory theories that the NTSB had floated immediately following the crash, the statements made by retired fire fighters and police officers who had witnessed the crash, and the history of similar crashes, and concluded that the agency was frantically seeking to calm a public whose faith in commercial aviation had hit rock bottom.

Tourism in Bermuda first developed in Victorian times, catering to a wealthy elite seeking to escape North American winters.

Several Latin American countries approached the U. S. after the announcement, seeking to negotiate their own bilateral free trade agreements with the U. S., but the U. S. refused to negotiate more bilateral PTAs in the region until NAFTA was implemented.

Former President Marc Ravalomanana of MadagascarThe government of former President Marc Ravalomanana was aggressively seeking foreign investment and had planned to tackle many of the obstacles to such investment, including combating corruption, reforming land-ownership laws, encouraging study of American and European business techniques, and active pursuit of foreign investors.

About 1802, the Oneida agreed to allocate about 22, 000 acres of their land to the Stockbridge and Munsee ( Lenape ), who were seeking refuge from anti-Native American conflicts by American settlers after the Revolution.

In the late twentieth century, the three recognized Oneida tribes: of Wisconsin, New York, and the Thames reserve in Canada, filed suit in a land claim against New York State for its treaty and forced purchase of their ancestral lands after the American Revolutionary War, seeking return of thousands of acres.

Late in 1861, the United States federal government suspended specie payments, seeking to raise revenue for the American Civil War effort without exhausting its reserves of gold and silver.

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American pulp Western writer Holly Martins arrives in Post-World War II Vienna seeking his childhood friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job.

Large groups of migrants and immigrants, seeking prosperity in a more industrialized environment, came to urban areas during the years after the American Civil War.

Two decades after the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ) was established in 1746, ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church, seeking autonomy in ecclesiastical affairs in the American colonies, sought to establish a college to train those who wanted to become ministers within the church.