Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Joseph Priestley, Humphry Davy, Linus Pauling, Gilbert N. Lewis, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Robert Burns Woodward, and Fritz Haber also made notable contributions.

Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber.

Dr. Cardew, who, in a later letter to Davies Gilbert, said dryly: “ I could not discern the faculties by which he was afterwards so much distinguished .” Davy said himself: “ I consider it fortunate I was left much to myself as a child, and put upon no particular plan of study ... What I am I made myself .”

The entire collection, plus Fanning and Washington islands ( part of the Line Islands ), was made a British colony, also called Gilbert and Ellice Islands, in 1916, as part of the British Western Pacific Territories ( BWPT ).

Even more sign of Edward's distrust occurred when on 10 October 1305, Edward revoked his gift of Gilbert de Umfraville's lands to Bruce that he had made only six months before.

In Patience, Gilbert made an allusion to Bowdler's preface to the expurgated Shakespeare.

Gilbert was made a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London in 1987.

Carte's assistant, Helen Lenoir, who became his wife in 1888, made fifteen visits to America in the 1880s and 1890s to promote Carte's interests, superintending arrangements for American productions and tours of each of the new Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

Gilbert scholar Andrew Crowther comments, " Effectively, contract made and Sullivan Carte's employees – a situation which created its own resentments.

Gilbert and Sullivan trimmed the work for the London premiere, and Gilbert made further alterations up to and including the 1908 Savoy revival.

The astronomers Thomas Digges and Thomas Harriot made important contributions ; William Gilbert published his seminal study of magnetism, De Magnete, in 1600.

After the unfavourable reception that the opera received on opening night, Gilbert and Sullivan made numerous significant cuts and alterations :< ref > A copy of the libretto, including material cut before the first night and during the initial run, is at at The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive .</ ref > Sullivan recorded in his diary:

Gilbert and Sullivan made the following changes:

The Oxford edition has led to an increased interest in the opera as Gilbert and Sullivan wrote it, and has also made it easier to restore passages deleted from the opera.

Gilbert made sketches of H. M. S.

Gilbert made an effort to write an amusing part for her despite Sullivan's reluctance to use her, but by mid-May 1878, both Gilbert and Sullivan wanted her out of the cast ; unhappy with the role, she left.

Local newspapers made a fuss when Gilbert sent to Georgia for marble, but the result, in which a hemispherical dome caps a high drum not unlike that of St. Peter's Basilica, crowning a building housing the bicameral legislature and the state supreme court, was so nobly handsome that West Virginia and Arkansas contracted for Gilbert capitols as well.

Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld ( 17 February 1818 – 17 January 1861 ), better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a " Spanish dancer ", courtesan and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Countess of Landsfeld.

Shortly after James made his announcement, Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cavaliers, announced in an open letter on the Cavaliers website that James ' decision was a " cowardly betrayal " and promised a NBA championship for the Cleveland Cavaliers before LeBron James wins one, although James would win a championship before the Cavs with the Heat's championship win in 2012.

Gilbert White, in The Natural History of Selborne made note of the increased consumption of vegetables by ordinary country people in the south of England, to which, he noted, potatoes had only been added during the reign of George III: " Green-stalls in cities now support multitudes in comfortable state, while gardeners get fortunes.

" The notion that ' sacrifice is made equally to God and Apollo ', in the same place where homage was due to God and God alone, was as repugnant to Fell and his colleagues as it had been to Laud "; with this in mind they approached the current Archbishop of Canterbury Gilbert Sheldon, for his blessing, his assistance, and a donation.

every heart and every tongue To praise the Saviour's name The day of Jubilee is come ; Return ye ransomed sinners home On March 11, 1792, Nathaniel Gilbert, a white preacher, prayed and preached a sermon under the large Cotton Tree, and Reverend David George preached the first recorded Baptist service in Africa.

The reviewer for the Sunday Times wrote that the score of Ida was " the best in every way that Sir Arthur Sullivan has produced, apart from his serious works .... Humour is almost as strong a point with Sir Arthur ... as with his clever collaborator ...." The humour of the piece also drew the comment that Gilbert and Sullivan's work " has the great merit of putting everyone in a good temper.

Most commonly studied is the one proposed by Edgar Gilbert, denoted G ( n, p ), in which every possible edge occurs independently with probability p. A closely related model, the Erdős – Rényi model denoted G ( n, M ), assigns equal probability to all graphs with exactly M edges.

" with one fearful rush the demonic fire seized upon the doomed cathedral, and sooner than tongue could tell the immense edifice, a gem of Gothic architecture, the masterpiece of Sir Gilbert Scott and the pride of every Newfoundlander, was a seething mass of flame.

The village receives visitors on almost every day of the year because of its links with the world famous naturalist Gilbert White, who was a pioneer of birdwatching.

With the exception of their first opera, Richard D ' Oyly Carte produced every Gilbert and Sullivan opera and had built the Savoy Theatre specifically for productions of their shows.

Chad Gilbert of Shai Hulud and later New Found Glory co-wrote and helped record every song on the album, but he was soon dismissed from Hazen Street by New Found Glory's record label due to a contract dispute.

He travelled to Australia in 1838 with the Goulds, and their young nephew Henry William Coxen, Gould paid Gilbert 100 pounds per annum plus expenses, but Gilbert was expected to account meticulously for every penny and to keep his expenses as small as possible. Gould and Gilbert reached Hobart on the Parsee on 19 September 1838.

Gilbert provided Gould with thousands of specimens of every description, from quadrupeds to insects, from shells to crustacea, from plants to reptiles, but mainly and most importantly, birds and eggs.

Lastewka joined the St. Catharines branch of the Liberal Party in 1972, and worked as campaign manager to federal MP Gilbert Parent in every election between 1974 and 1988.

Later, Gilbert is trapped in the vacuum cleaner after saving Xtreme from it, and meets IQ who wears eyeglasses, is quite fond of collecting things, and loves the " tornadoes " that happen every so often.

The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival is held every summer at the Opera House in Buxton, Derbyshire, England.

The Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company has won the first prize more often than any other company ( six times ); and the South Anglia Savoy Players, the only company to have performed in every Festival since the first one, have won five times and placed second four times.

In April, there is an annual spring concert and every autumn the school runs its perennial theatrical performance ( traditionally productions from Gilbert and Sullivan which had included Iolanthe and The Mikado, but more recently Musical Theatre productions such as Les Misérables ( musical ) and Guys and Dolls ).

The University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society, affiliated with the University's School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, has put on two fully staged performances of a Gilbert and Sullivan operettas every year since 1947, once in fall semester and the other in winter semester.

In an effort to restore a measure of order, the Gilbert Islands and the neighboring Ellice Islands ( now Tuvalu ) were forced to become the British protectorate of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in 1892.

The manual was, according to Dennis Gilbert “ apparently part of an effort the C. I. A.

In the autumn of 1887, after another attempt to interest his collaborator in a plot where the characters, by swallowing a magic pill, became who they were pretending to be ( Sullivan had rejected this idea before ), Gilbert made an effort to meet his collaborator half way.

It was suggested that Mayer deliberately gave Gilbert bad scripts and ineffective directors in an effort to void the contract.

In an effort to end the feud and any further efforts against his father, Gilbert Patterson resigned from Holy Temple effective February 23, 1975.

He counter-attacked Philippe Gilbert on a cobbled section before making a solo effort for the finish.

A number of villains had gathered there that evening to organize a concerted effort to stop the Scourge, all at the urgings of villain " manager " Gary Gilbert, formerly a villain called Firebrand.

Joey Gilbert has been working with corporate partners in an effort to reintroduce the sport of boxing to the mainstream by developing a boxing program for all age groups and levels of athletic ability.

One day, in an effort to escape the restrictions of her royal life, she sneaks out of town, disguised as a man, and ends up snowbound at an inn, where she has to share a bed with also stranded Spanish envoy Antonio ( John Gilbert ) on his way to the capital.