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Glauber and could
Eventually it was discovered that metallic zinc could be alloyed with copper to make brass ; a process known as speltering and by 1657 the German chemist Johann Glauber had recognised that calamine was " nothing else but unmeltable zinc " and that zinc was a " half ripe metal.
Glauber was prompted to do this to provide a description of the Hanbury-Brown & Twiss experiment that generated very wide baseline ( hundreds or thousands of miles ) interference patterns that could be used to determine stellar diameters.
Glauber reported on the overall high quality of songs, noting that " almost any of these songs could work as a single ", and calling the lyrics of " Creepin ' Up Slowly " " perpetually catchy ".
In the case of Glauber, the goal was to have an autonomous application that could estimate or even perfectly describe the nature of a given chemical compound by comparing it to related substances.

Glauber and 2005
Half of the 2005 prize was awarded to Roy J. Glauber " for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence ".

Glauber and
* March 10 Johann Glauber, German chemist ( b. 1604 )
* March 10 Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist ( approximate date ; d. 1670 )
Others have suggested Johann Rudolf Glauber ( 1604 1670 ) for his development of processes for the manufacture of the major industrial acids.
Glauber de Andrade Rocha ( March 14, 1939 August 22, 1981 ) was an influential Brazilian film director, actor and writer.

Glauber and was
The website was founded in 1997 by William Bastone and Daniel Green, former reporters for The Village Voice, and graphic designer Barbara Glauber.
He was a popular teacher and his pupils were Abraham Begeyn, Johannes van der Bent, his son Nicolaes, Isaack Croonenbergh, Simon Dubois, Karel Dujardin, Johannes Glauber, Pieter de Hooch, Jacob van Huchtenburg, Justus van Huysum, Dirk Maas, Hendrick Mommers, Jacob Ochtervelt, and Willem Romeyn.
Glauber — who initially derided the former representations, later produced the same P-representation under a different name, viz., Sudarshan-Glauber representation or Sudarshan diagonal representation — was the winner instead.
Gary Glauber of PopMatters praised the album, noting it had not lost the quality of its predecessor, although it was a good deal heavier.
Most film historians agree that Glauber Rocha, " one of the most well-known and prolific filmmakers to emerge in the late 1950s in Brazil ", was the most powerful advocate for Cinema Novo in its first phase.
Houbraken wrote that his brother Engel was also a painter, and that Adriaen was already living in Lyon when Johannes Glauber made his grand tour.
Glauber was written by Pat Langley, Herbert A. Simon, G. Bradshaw and J. Zitkow with other programs in order to show how scientific discovery may be achieved by problem solving methods.
Glauber was named after Johann Rudolph Glauber, a 17th century alchemist whose work helped to develop acid-base theory.
Glauber was designed by Pat Langley as part of his work on discovery heuristics in an attempt to have a computer automatically review a host of values and characteristics and make independent analyses from them.
From this knowledge, Glauber was to figure out which substances were acids, bases, and salts without any quantitative information.
Glauber was a very successful advance in theoretical chemistry as performed by computer, and it, along with similar systems developed by Herbert A. Simon including Stahl ( which examines oxidation ) and DALTON ( which calculates atomic weight ) helped form the groundwork of all current automated chemical analysis.

Glauber and Nobel
** Nobel Prize in Physics: Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch

Glauber and Prize
* Havana Film Festival: Audience Award ; Glauber Rocha Award ; House of the Americas Award ; OCIC Award ; Radio Havana Award ; Saúl Yelín Award ; Special Jury Prize ; for: Carandiru ; 2003.

Glauber and .
In the 17th century, Johann Rudolph Glauber produced hydrochloric acid and sodium sulfate by reacting sulfuric acid and sodium chloride.
Later, those as Robert Boyle, John Mayow, Johann Glauber, Isaac Newton, and Georg Stahl put forward ideas on elective affinity in attempts to explain how heat is evolved during combustion reactions.
In past years, physics professor Roy Glauber swept the stage clean of the airplanes as the official " Keeper of the Broom " for years.
Following the work of Paul Dirac in quantum field theory, George Sudarshan, Roy J. Glauber, and Leonard Mandel applied quantum theory to the electromagnetic field in the 1950s and 1960s to gain a more detailed understanding of photodetection and the statistics of light.
Fresnel, Huygens, R. Glauber ( 1963 )
In the quantum theory of light ( quantum electrodynamics ) and other bosonic quantum field theories, coherent states were introduced by the work of Roy J. Glauber in 1963.
While minimum uncertainty Gaussian wave-packets were well-known, they did not attract much attention until Roy J. Glauber, in 1963, provided a complete quantum-theoretic description of coherence in the electromagnetic field.
Schrödinger found minimum uncertainty states for the linear harmonic oscillator to be the eigenstates of, and using the notation for multi-photon states, Glauber found the state of complete coherence to all orders in the electromagnetic field to be the right eigenstate of the annihilation operator — formally, in a mathematical sense, the same state.
* Johann Rudolf Glauber discovers sodium sulfate ( sal mirabilis or " Glauber's salt ", used as a laxative ) in Austrian spring water.
* German scientist Johann Glauber publishes Opera omnia chymica ( Complete Works of Chemistry ), a description of different techniques in chemistry.
Following the work of Dirac in quantum field theory, George Sudarshan, Roy J. Glauber, and Leonard Mandel applied quantum theory to the electromagnetic field in the 1950s and 1960s to gain a more detailed understanding of photodetection and the statistics of light ( see degree of coherence ).
* Carole Glauber, Isabella Bird Bishop: Korea, the Yangtze Valley, and Beyond, Photo Review, Summer 2002.

could and attend
Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.
The philosophy has been that if they could find the time to attend class why not encourage them to get the credit and perhaps provide an incentive to do the work more effectively.
Although metics had no direct political influence many were wealthy business owners who could, and sometimes did, influence policy by not allowing their citizen employees time off to attend the assembly, as well as having the simple expedient of wealth.
It was introduced by Massee because, as a female, Potter could not attend proceedings or read her paper.
This was the great cathedral of the Orthodox Church, whose dome was said to be held aloft by God alone, and which was directly connected to the palace so that the imperial family could attend services without passing through the streets.
Given the bias of the Victorian age, female students were denied direct study in anatomy and could not attend drawing classes with live models ( who were often prostitutes ) until a decade later.
Politics could only be practiced by those who had freed themselves from the necessities of life, so that they could attend to the realm of political affairs.
He says that, though his father's funeral was set during the penultimate month, he did not attend because he could not be distracted from training.
However, the verb " attend " in English is translated as assister in French and asistir in Spanish, both of which could be further misinterpreted as equivalent to the English " assist ", which means " to help " ( which is also another meaning of the Spanish's asistir ).
He dictated the manual of Regulations for State Officials, containing 35 chapters and 297 paragraphs in which every public servant in Prussia could find his duties precisely set out: a minister or councillor failing to attend a committee meeting, for example, would lose six months ' pay ; if he absented himself a second time, he would be discharged from the royal service.
However, twelve members could not attend, eleven of them trapped in besieged Jerusalem and one abroad.
In his last years in office, Adenauer used to take a nap after lunch and, when he was traveling abroad and had a public function to attend, he sometimes asked for a bed in a room close to where he was supposed to be speaking, so that he could rest briefly before he appeared.
In 1724, his father took Sterne to Roger's wealthy brother, Richard, so that Sterne could attend Hipperholme Grammar School near Halifax ; Sterne never saw his father again as Roger was ordered to Jamaica where he died of a fever in 1731.
A number of health centers, or spas, catered to the physical well-being of those who could afford to attend.
Since women could not yet attend the École des Beaux-Arts, she applied to study privately with masters from the school and was accepted to study with Jean-Léon Gérôme, a highly regarded teacher known for his hyper-realistic technique and his depiction of exotic subjects.
Abu Daoud was allowed safe passage through Israel in 1996 so he could attend a PLO meeting convened in the Gaza Strip for the purpose of rescinding an article in its charter that called for Israel's eradication.
Most evidence suggests that girls could not attend the less ambitious town schools, the lower-tier writing-reading schools mandated for townships of over fifty families.
Finding himself now in secure surroundings, Innocent summoned as many bishops as could get to Lyon to attend what became the 13th General ( Ecumenical ) Council of the Church, the first in Lyon.
That year, his father fell ill and could not attend the Imperial Feng Sacrifice.
The Arizona program was challenged in court by a group of state taxpayers on the grounds that the tax credit violated the First Amendment because the tuition grants could go to students who attend private schools including schools with religious affiliations.
Brian Harrison of Puerto Rico, for example, has argued that Pope Pius XII's conclave legislation permitted excommunicated cardinals to attend, from which he argues that they could also be legitimately elected.
Tinker passed the first audition, but could not attend the second because her train was delayed due to a bomb scare, and she did not want to go in late.
Chisholm passed the first audition, but could not attend the second because she had problems with her tonsils.

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