From the 16th century, researchers including Jan Baptist van Helmont, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton tried to establish theories of the experimentally observed chemical transformations.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

Many notable actors appeared on the series, including Ed Asner, Mary Astor, Roscoe Ates, Gene Barry, Ed Begley, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charles Bronson, Edgar Buchanan, Macdonald Carey, Art Carney, John Cassavetes, Jack Cassidy, Dabney Coleman, Tom Conway, Joseph Cotten, Bob Crane, Hume Cronyn, Robert Culp, Bette Davis, Francis De Sales, Bruce Dern, Brandon deWilde, Angie Dickinson, Diana Dors, Robert Duvall, Denholm Elliott, Peter Falk, John Forsythe, Anne Francis, Lorne Greene, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Herbert, Dame Wendy Hiller, Skip Homeier, Lou Jacobi, Joyce Jameson, Carolyn Jones, Don Keefer, Brian Keith, Jack Klugman, Jessie Royce Landis, Peter Lawford, Christopher Lee, Cloris Leachman, Peter Lorre, John McIntyre, E. G. Marshall, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Darren McGavin, John McGiver, Lee Majors, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen, Tyler McVey, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Meadows, Vera Miles, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joanna Moore, Roger Moore, Vic Morrow, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Newton, Fess Parker, George Peppard, James Philbrook, Sydney Pollack, Judson Pratt, Robert Redford, Michael Rennie, Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, Dan Sheridan, Henry Silva, Barbara Steele, Jan Sterling, Dean Stockwell, Stella Stevens, Beatrice Straight, Jessica Tandy, Torin Thatcher, Rip Torn, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Vaughn, Richard Waring, Dennis Weaver, Estelle Winwood, Joanne Woodward, Fay Wray, and Keenan Wynn.

Backed by retired retail millionaire Chairman Lionel Newton, former Liverpool star Jan Mølby was appointed as manager for the 1999 – 2000 season.

Jan Newton, oceanographer at the University of Washington, said it was important to note that Hood Canal has had very low oxygen for a long time.

Early modern alchemists who are renowned for their scientific contributions include Jan Baptist van Helmont, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton.

* Jan Wositzky, Dobe Newton, Barry Olive: The Bushwackers Band Dance Book, Greenhouse Publications 1980 ISBN 0-909104-25-5

Fred Gaisberg of EMI arranged for a test recording of Elgar ’ s La Capricieuse ( Op. 17 ) with accompanist Ivor Newton at the Abbey Road Studios on 9 Jan. 1939 when Hassid had just turned 15 and then Walter Legge produced a further eight recordings on 12 and 28 June and 29 Nov. 1940, this time accompanied by Gerald Moore.

The Germans ' late attempt to blow the road bridge was probably foiled by a local Dutch resistance hero, Jan van Hoof, who is said to have cut the wires to the bridge.

According to Jan Michiel Otto, Professor of Law and Governance in Developing Countries at Leiden University, " Anthropological research shows that people in local communities often do not distinguish clearly whether and to what extent their norms and practices are based on local tradition, tribal custom, or religion.

* The Dutch East India Company sends 2000 soldiers under the command of Jan Pieterszoon Coen to the Banda Islands in order to force the local inhabitants to accept the Dutch trade monopoly on the lucrative nutmeg, grown almost exclusively on the Banda islands.

In Jan 2012, the residents of Ambridge voted to vaccinate the local population of badgers to prevent potential spread of Bovine Tuberculosis, rather than instigating a cull.

In 1999, prominent media personalities Henk Westbroek and Jan Nagel, chairs of the highly successful Leefbaar Utrecht and Leefbaar Hilversum parties respectively, founded Leefbaar Nederland as a spin off from their local parties.

He cites several recent lines of investigation, by anthropologist Jan Vansina and others, examining local sources from police records, religious records, oral traditions, genealogies, personal diaries, and " many others ", which generally agree with the assessment of the 1919 Belgian government commission: roughly half the population perished during the Free State period.

the later local Kalkie name for a large waterhole in front of the old Post Office Cairns Post 1910 P7 18 Jan W. A Dean.

* Successful assassinations of local collaborators, including the shooting of Jan Bocian in broad daylight in a shop in Bodzentyńska Street.

Among those who ( at trial ) retracted their earlier statements given during prolonged beatings by the security service were Józef Chrzanowski, Marian Żyluk, Czesław Laudański, Wincenty Gościcki, Roman and Jan Zawadzki, Aleksander and Franciszek Łojewski, Eugeniusz Śliwecki, Stanisław Sielawa and several other local men pronounced innocent and released by the courts without recompense.

This tradition is celebrated every year by an annual oil painting by local artist Jan Castle Reed.

* Jan Himpe, musician and composer famous for the local evergreen " We zijn van't oude Roeselare "

Derek " Lek " Leckenby ( guitar, vocals ) and Barry Whitwam ( drums ) ( born Jan Barry Whitwam, 21 July 1946, in Prestbury, Cheshire ) joined later from another local group, The Wailers.

According to Brian Dunning of Skeptoid, folk tales of the Jersey Devil prior to 1909 calling it the " Leeds Devil " may have been created to discredit local politician Daniel Leeds who served as deputy to the colonial governor of New York and New Jersey in the 1700s, and folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand wrote that the spread of contemporary pop culture has overtaken traditional Jersey Devil legends.

Some of the notable people who have spoken at Saint Mary's College since August 2006 are human rights activists Dolores Huerta and Mother Antonia, local US congress members Ellen Tauscher and George Miller, Czech politician / diplomat Jan Kavan, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Kevin Quigley, head of the Peace Corps Association.

Jan O. Karlsson's tenure as minister was far from smooth, his relation with the local press was troublesome, often attributed to his late father, who also was a high ranking social democratic politician, who died of a heart attack during an interview with a

After graduating from a local school Kozielewski joined the Jan Kazimierz University of Lwów ( now Lviv, Ukraine ) and graduated from the Legal and Diplomatic departments in 1935.

Critics claim not many things are decided within the national party, or even its local branches, without the consent of its leader Jan Marijnissen.

*# Late, Renaissance chapel of Jan Zemełko ( Zemelius ) by the St. Bartholomew's parish church-Jan Zemełko was local physician, Renaissance man and well known member of the Middle class in Konin and Kalisz as well.

His father, Jan Narutowicz, was a local district judge and also a landholder in the Samogitian village of Brėvikiai.

There are also wedding singers who are famous in local city in Afrin, for example: Bave Nur, Abdo Mohamad ( who known more better in Finland as pensseli-setä ), Zekeriya Dilshad, Jan Boro, Shoresh Bekir, Ciwan Musa, Xebat Teyfur, Ismail Mohamad, Akkash Dildar and many others.

The Taihape local government ward is part of the wider Rangitikei District Council, with the current Mayor Chalky Leary and is served by 3 ward councillors, Cr Ed Cherry, Cr Jan Byford, and Mangaweka based Cr Richard Aslett.

In 2011 Jan Bondeson at Cardiff University published research that suggests Bobby was actually a Victorian-era publicity stunt by local businesses to drum up tourist revenue.

In 1566 the town finally received a city charter based on the Magdeburg Law, which was later confirmed ( along with the privileges for the local merchants and burghers ) by king Jan III Sobieski in 1683.

After two brief replacements, Manheim and Maniac's positions were filled by Swedish vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin (" Dead ") and local drummer Jan Axel Blomberg (" Hellhammer ").

Minsky, however, supported traditional banking regulation and advocated further controls of finance to “ promote smaller and simpler organizations weighted more toward direct financing .” Writing from a similar “ neo-Keynesian perspective, Jan Kregel concluded that after World War II non-regulated financial companies, supported by regulatory actions, developed means to provide bank products (“ liquidity and lending accommodation ”) more cheaply than commercial banks through the “ capital markets .” Kregel argued this led banking regulators to eliminate Glass-Steagall restrictions to permit banks to “ duplicate these structures ” using the capital markets “ until there was virtually no difference in the activities of FDIC-insured commercial banks and investment banks .”

The meeting discussed tactics for electoral alliances, and concluded that the party should seek to form a broad electoral alliances with all non-reactionary opposition parties in West Bengal ( i. e. all parties except Jan Sangh and Swatantra Party ).

Jan de Vries ( 1941 ) concluded that the author had formed an Eddic poem out of a fairy story of an enchanted princess and her lover, through borrowing and invention.

Congress concluded, on Jan. 29, 1823, not to permit Carver's heirs the rights to this land in Wisconsin.

The 2010 series had its first regular season run starting Sept. 11, 2010 at 11: 35 AM EST and it concluded on Jan. 1, 2011.

The Flemish chemist, Jan Baptist van Helmont about 1635, thought he had proved water to be the essential element from his famous experiment with a willow tree.

* 1784 – Jan Ingenhousz describes Brownian motion of charcoal particles on water

— Jan Baptist van Helmont performed his famous tree plant experiment in which he shows that the substance of a plant derives from water, a forerunner of the discovery of photosynthesis.

The Heemstede replenished their supplies with fresh water, fish, seals and penguins and left a wooden tablet with the inscription “ Today, 17 February 1643, from the Dutch fluyt Heemstede, Claes Gerritsz Bierenbroodspot from Hoorn and Jan Coertsen van den Broec landed here .”.

Today, dragon boat racing ( sport and festival ) is among the fastest growing of team water sports, with scores of thousands of participants in various organisations and clubs in over 60 countries – 62 of which are IDBF members ( as of 8 Jan 2009 ).

*, " Gray water recycling system " ( Jan. 4, 1994 )

According to the Polish chronicler Jan Długosz, Stephen did not celebrate his victory ; instead, he fasted for forty days on bread and water and forbade anyone to attribute the victory to him, insisting that credit be given only to " The Lord ".

The Susan Drew and Loo Choo reached Valparaíso, Chile by Jan. 20, 1847 and after getting fresh supplies, water and wood were on their way again by Jan. 23.

Jeroen and his friend Jan go to the ocean and see an American plane in the water ; Jan tries to go under but claims there are too many eels and comes up with a big cut on his upper right thigh.

Rehberg married his high school sweetheart, Jan, a water attorney who represents farmers and ranchers.

In his description of Gopło, written five hundred years ago, Jan Długosz, a Polish historian, speaks of a vast body of water, leading us to believe that the lake then was much larger than it is at the present time.

Image: Ciechanow water tower. jpg | Doubly ruled water tower with toroidal tank, by Jan Bogusławski in Ciechanów, Poland

The deep water masses (> 1600 m ) are recirculated within the Greenland Sea due to the Jan Mayen Fracture Zone.

Here, the deep water encounters the Jan Mayen Ridge and are deflected eastward towards the interior of the Greenland Sea Gyre.

U. S. government officials lowered recommended limits for fluoride in water on Friday Jan. 7, 2011, saying some children may be getting tooth damage from too much.

Jan Sandecki Malecki claimed that Prussians would pray to Potrimpo, pour hot wax into water, and predict the future based on the shapes of wax figures.

A water theme is used for this season for the credits and ad-breaks, ( the credits were designed by Jan Pinkava while he was starting out at Digital Pictures in London ).

According to the Polish chronicler Jan Długosz, Stephen did not celebrate his victory ; instead, he fasted for forty days on bread and water and forbade anyone to attribute the victory to him, insisting that credit be given only to " The Lord.