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Ciba and Geigy
Some of the businesses remaining in the town are Scotch whisky blenders and bottlers Chivas Brothers now a subsidiary of Pernod Ricard, Stellar a global contact centre provider and the pigment manufactory of the Swiss company Ciba Geigy.
In the late 1990s, STI-571 ( imatinib, Gleevec / Glivec ) was identified by the pharmaceutical company Novartis ( then known as Ciba Geigy ) in high-throughput screens for tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
In the 1960s, the lower river was found to have been polluted for many years from the open discharge of waste from a Ciba Geigy dye manufacturing plant.
Part of the merger agreement of 1997 between Ciba Geigy and Sandoz was that the former's industrial chemicals business would be spun off as a separate business, leading to the formation of Ciba Specialty Chemicals plc.
* 1985: Ciba Geigy Drew Award in Biomedical Research
Since 1983 it has been under foreign ownership, first by the Swiss pharmaceutical corporation Sandoz ( Later merged with Ciba Geigy to become Novartis ), and from 1999 by the Italian food producer Barilla Alimentare S. p. A ..
( Frozen Moments-Richard C. Miller ) In the 1960s, the Cibachrome process was originally engineered by the Ciba Geigy Corporation of Switzerland.

Ciba and ;
* Ciba Vision: Owned by Novartis ; when Novartis purchased Alcon in August 2010, Ciba Vision was absorbed by Alcon, though products continue to carry the Ciba name.
The Jinshan Ciba dictionary confused the cooking and medical meanings of guanchang "( make ) a sausage ; ( give ) an enema ".

Ciba and such
as well as non-degree courses for business executives, welcoming around 1, 500 practising managers on shorter courses each year from corporations such as Emirates airlines, RBS, Pace, Skipton Building Society and Ciba Specialtiy Chemicals.
Among Cramer ’ s clients were some of the most influential Swiss families, as well as companies such as Roche Chemicals and Ciba Chemical Industries.
companies have factories in Huningue, mainly Swiss firms such as Novartis, Ciba, Clariant, Hoffmann-La Roche, Weleda etc.

Ciba and where
In the U. S., where it was manufactured by Ciba, Montrose Chemical Company, Pennwalt and Velsicol Chemical Corporation, production peaked in 1963 at 82, 000 tonnes per year.

Ciba and there
Novartis, Syngenta, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Clariant, Hoffmann-La Roche, Basilea Pharmaceutica and Actelion are headquartered there.

Ciba and are
The patents on phthalocyanine CD-Rs are held by Mitsui and Ciba Specialty Chemicals.

Ciba and .
In 1953 Frederik F. Yonkman, a chemist at the Swiss based Ciba pharmaceutical company, first used the term tranquilizer to differentiate reserpine from the older sedatives.
Newport has several several small industries within it borders, including a Ciba Corporation pigment manufacturing plant.
The company agreed to acquire Ciba ( formerly part of Ciba-Geigy ) in September 2008.
Dr. Castan's work was licensed by Ciba, Ltd. of Switzerland, which went on to become one of the three major epoxy resin producers worldwide.
Angiotensin was independently isolated in Indianapolis and Argentina in the late 1930s ( as ' angiotonin ' and ' hypertensin ', respectively ) and subsequently characterised and synthesized by groups at the Cleveland Clinic and Ciba laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
Other industries in or close to the town include plastics, textiles, and pharmaceutical companies including Ciba, Aguettant and Tetra Médical.
Working here, Ružička achieved financial independence, but not as big as he did plan so he left Zurich to start working for the Ciba, Basel-based company.
Correspondents soon felt the need to meet to discuss research and teaching and the first formal meeting took place at the Ciba Foundation in London at the end of June 1956.
In 2004, the company divested its paper chemical division, Raisio Chemicals, to Ciba Specialty Chemicals.
Ciba was a chemical company based in and near Basel, Switzerland.
In 2008, Ciba was acquired by the German chemical company BASF and, in April 2009, integrated into the BASF concern.

Geigy and DDT
Trade names that DDT has been marketed under include Anofex ( Geigy Chemical Corp .), Cezarex, Chlorophenothane, Clofenotane, Dicophane, Dinocide, Gesarol ( Syngenta Crop.

Geigy and where
He received his PhD in 1925 and went to work for J. R. Geigy AG in Basel where he made his discovery in the autumn of 1939.

Geigy and are
* Autumn – DDT's properties as an insecticide are discovered by Paul Müller of Geigy.

Geigy and .
Carbamazepine was discovered by chemist Walter Schindler at J. R. Geigy AG ( now part of Novartis ) in Basel, Switzerland, in 1953.
Some testing of Geigy ’ s imipramine, then known as Tofranil, took place at the Münsterlingen Hospital near Konstanz.
Geigy later became Ciba-Geigy and eventually Novartis.
Maprotiline was developed and has been marketed by the Swiss manufacturer Geigy ( now Novartis ) since the early 1980s under the brand name Ludiomil.
First synthesized in 1965, it was patent protected by Geigy in 1969 through.
He then became director of the Department of Biochemistry at the Geigy Research Laboratories.
After leaving Geigy in 1967 he worked briefly at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Vanderbilt University before taking a position as Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Yale University.
Art Director of " The Architectural Record "' for Geigy In Ardsley, New York, and as Art Director at the Erwin Halpern advertising agency in Zurich, Switzerland.
It was developed in the 1960s by the Swiss drug manufacturer Geigy ( now known as Novartis ) and has been in clinical use worldwide ever since.
Atrazine was invented in 1958 in the Geigy laboratories as the second of a series of 1, 3, 5-triazines.

DDT and ;
soil pollution from toxic chemicals such as DDT ; energy blockade, the result of conflict with Azerbaijan, has led to deforestation when citizens scavenged for firewood ; pollution of Hrazdan ( Razdan ) and Araks Rivers ; the draining of Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ), a result of its use as a source for hydropower, threatens drinking water supplies ; restart of Metsamor nuclear power plant without adequate ( IAEA-recommended ) safety and backup systems
Commercial product ( Powder box, 50 g ) containing 10 % DDT ; Néocide.
DDT and DDE are very resistant to metabolism ; in humans, their half-lives are 6 and up to 10 years, respectively.
It is an endocrine disruptor ; The DDT metabolite DDE acts as an antiandrogen ( but not as an estrogen ).
The two cost-effectiveness estimates of DDT residual spraying examined were not found to provide an accurate estimate of the cost-effectiveness of DDT spraying ; furthermore, the resulting estimates may not be good predictors of cost-effectiveness in current programs.
; Politics and DDT
; Malaria and DDT
shrinkage of the Aral Sea is resulting in growing concentrations of chemical pesticides and natural salts ; these substances are then blown from the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification ; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides is the cause of many human health disorders ; increasing soil salination ; soil contamination from agricultural chemicals, including DDT
Egg collection is no longer popular ; however historic museum collections have been of value in determining the effects of pesticides such as DDT on physiology.
Birds include Osprey, Great Blue Heron, Bald Eagle and Peregrine Falcon, the last two of which were threatened by DDT ; their numbers plummeted but have risen in recent years.
According to the The Dedalus Book of Absinthe by Phil Baker, it was made by combining gin with a pinch of DDT ( also known as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane ), an insecticide that would later be banned in most countries ; consumers of this concoction claimed that its effects were similar to absinthe.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the main threats to Osprey populations were egg collectors and hunting of the adults along with other birds of prey, but Osprey populations declined drastically in many areas in the 1950s and 1960s ; this appeared to be in part due to the toxic effects of insecticides such as DDT on reproduction.
Seabirds, being apex predators, suffered from the ravages of DDT until it was banned ; among other effects, DDT was implicated in embryo development problems and the skewed sex ratio of Western Gulls in southern California.
* 1970-Peregrine Falcon listed as an Endangered Species in the U. S., due primarily to the use of DDT as a pesticide ( 35 Federal Register 8495 ; June 2, 1970 ).
Other tasks included work with camouflage ; canteen disinfectants ; DDT to control malaria ; and insulation for small electronics.

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