Topic: Germany
The philosophical natural history that comprised the physiology of the Greeks has little in common with modern physiology. Claude Bernard in France; Johannes Muller, Justus von Liebig, and Carl Ludwig in Germany; and Sir Michael Foster in England may be numbered among ...
Debye, Peter Joseph William (1884-1966) was a Dutch-born American physical chemist who was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on dipole moments and molecular structure. In 1911, he took over the post of professor of theoretical physics held ...
Langmuir, Irving (1881-1957), a United States chemist and physicist. Langmuir's study of oil films on water revealed that the molecules of oil form a single layer on the surface. With Gilbert N. Lewis, Langmuir originated a theory of atomic structure. From 1909 ...
For his work on the fermentation of sugar and the chemistry of enzymes, he shared the 1929 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Arthur Harden. He was a professor at the University of Stockholm, 1898-1941, and was director of the university's institute for ...
Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903-1995), a German biochemist, studied the structure of male and female sex hormones. He was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in chemistry, which he shared with Croatian-born Swiss chemist Leopold Ruzicka.. He then studied biochemistry at the University ...
Kossel, Albrecht (1853-1927) was a German biochemist and pioneer in using methods of organic chemistry to study physiology, particularly that of tissues and cells. While working as an assistant in Hoppe-Seyler's lab at Strasbourg's Institute of Physical Chemistry, from 1877 through 1881, ...
It is much like zinc, but is a heavier metal with a lower melting point. It is used as a yellow pigment for paints and inks. Mixed with cadmium selenide, it forms an orange pigment. The element occurs chiefly in the mineral ...
During this time, one of the first planetariums, known as the Gottorp Globe, with a portable painting of the starry sky, was made in what now is Germany. The first of these was installed in the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, in ...
Meyerhof, Otto Fritz (1884-1951), a German-born American biochemist, shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his research into oxygen consumption by muscles, and the relationship of oxygen consumption and the metabolism of lactic acid (a chemical produced in the ...
Stent, Gunther Siegmund (1924-) is a leading German-born American molecular biologist. Gunther Siegmund Stensch was born March 28, 1924, in Berlin, Germany. He attended a private Berlin school, but the increasing brutality of the Nazis forced the family to flee to England ...
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Germany Partial Solar Eclipse
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Germany Alpine Skiing World Cup
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