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Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Index Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of over 1500 scientists. [1]

32 relations: Bacteria, César Lattes, Charles Friedel, Diocles of Carystus, Eduard Buchner, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Frederick Kipping, Friedrich Loeffler, Gottlieb Kirchhoff, Hans Ernst August Buchner, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Interstellar medium, Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov bibliography (alphabetical), Isaac Asimov bibliography (categorical), Isaac Asimov bibliography (chronological), James Carroll (scientist), Jean-Baptiste Denys, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Johannes Franz Hartmann, Louis Pasteur, Peter Waage, Philip Edward Smith, Photoelectric effect, Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff, Robert R. Williams, Samuel Goudsmit, Typhoid fever, William Budd, 1603, 1603 in science, 1904 in science.

Bacteria

Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.

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César Lattes

Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes (11 July 1924 – 8 March 2005), also known as Cesar (or César) Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark.

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Charles Friedel

Charles Friedel (12 March 1832 – 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist.

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Diocles of Carystus

Diocles of Carystus (Διοκλῆς ὁ Καρύστιος; Diocles Carystius; also known by the Latin name Diocles Medicus, i.e. "Diocles the physician"; c. 375 BC – c. 295 BC) was a well regarded Greek physician, born in Carystus, a city on Euboea, Greece.

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Eduard Buchner

Eduard Buchner (20 May 1860 – 13 August 1917) was a German chemist and zymologist, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation.

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Eugène-Anatole Demarçay

Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1 January 1852 – 5 March 1903) was a French chemist.

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Frederick Kipping

Frederic Stanley Kipping FRS (16 August 1863 – 1 May 1949) was an English chemist.

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Friedrich Loeffler

Friedrich August Johannes Loeffler (24 June 18529 April 1915) was a German bacteriologist at the University of Greifswald.

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Gottlieb Kirchhoff

Gottlieb Sigismund Constantin Kirchhoff (19 February 1764 – 14 February 1833) was a German chemist.

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Hans Ernst August Buchner

Hans Ernst August Buchner (16 December 1850 – 5 April 1902) was a German bacteriologist who was born and raised in Munich.

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Hieronymous Theodor Richter

Hieronymus Theodor Richter (21 November 1824 – 25 September 1898) was a German chemist.

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Interstellar medium

In astronomy, the interstellar medium (ISM) is the matter and radiation that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Isaac Asimov bibliography (alphabetical)

See also: Isaac Asimov bibliography (categorical), Isaac Asimov bibliography (chronological) The goal of this article is to present a complete bibliography of the books written or edited by Isaac Asimov, arranged alphabetically.

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Isaac Asimov bibliography (categorical)

Depending on the counting convention used, and including all titles, charts, and edited collections, there may be currently over 500 books in Isaac Asimov's bibliography— as well as his individual short stories, individual essays, and criticism.

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Isaac Asimov bibliography (chronological)

In a writing career spanning 53 years (1939–1992), science fiction and popular science author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) wrote and published 40 novels, 382 short stories, over 280 non-fiction books, and edited about 147 others.

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James Carroll (scientist)

Major James Carroll (June 5, 1854 – September 16, 1907) was a US Army physician.

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Jean-Baptiste Denys

Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643 – 3 October 1704) was a French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion.

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Jean-Baptiste Dumas

Jean Baptiste André Dumas (14 July 180010 April 1884) was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities.

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Johannes Franz Hartmann

Johannes Franz Hartmann (January 11, 1865 – September 13, 1936) was a German physicist and astronomer.

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Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.

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Peter Waage

Peter Waage (29 June 1833 – 13 January 1900) was a Norwegian chemist and professor.

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Philip Edward Smith

Philip Edward Smith (January 1, 1884 – December 8, 1970) was an American endocrinologist who is best known for his work studying the pituitary gland.

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Photoelectric effect

The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons or other free carriers when light shines on a material.

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Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff

Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff, Sr. (born August 9, 1897 in Geneva, New York; died November 3, 1994 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American scientist and pioneer of X-ray crystallography.

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Robert R. Williams

Robert Runnels Williams (February 16, 1886 – October 2, 1965) was an American chemist, known for being the first to synthesize thiamine (vitamin B1).

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Samuel Goudsmit

Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (July 11, 1902 – December 4, 1978) was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925.

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Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a bacterial infection due to ''Salmonella'' typhi that causes symptoms.

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William Budd

William Budd (14 September 1811 – 9 January 1880) was an English physician and epidemiologist known for recognizing that infectious diseases were contagious.

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1603

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1603 in science

The year 1603 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1904 in science

The year 1904 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov's_Biographical_Encyclopedia_of_Science_and_Technology

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