The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes is the title of a book, by which Anglo-Irish chemist?
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The Sceptical Chymist The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes is the title of a book by Robert Boyle, published in London in 1661. In the form of a dialogue, the "Sceptical Chymist" presented Boyle's hypothesis that matter consisted of atoms and clusters of atoms in motion and that every phenomenon was the result of collisions of particles in motion. For these reasons Robert Boyle has been called the founder of modern chemistry by J. R. Partington.
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Robert Boyle Robert William Boyle {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. Among his works, "The Sceptical Chymist" is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry. He was a devout and pious Anglican and is noted for his writings in theology.
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Charles Sylvester Charles Sylvester (1774–1828) was a chemist and inventor born in Sheffield, in the Kingdom of Great Britain. He worked on galvanization, public building heating and sanitation, and railroad friction amongst other things. A book, "Industrial Man: The Life and Works of Charles Sylvester" by Ian Inkster, Ph.D., of Nottingham University, and Maureen S. Bryson, B.S., published in 1999 is a comprehensive work covering his life, his extended family and pedigree, and his published works; including "Poems on Various Subjects", 1797; "The Epitome of Galvanism", 1804; "Appendix of the Elementary Treatise on Chemistry", 1809; "Philosophy of Domestic Economy", 1819; "On a Method of expressing Chemical Compounds by Algebraic Characters", 1821; "On the Motions produced by the Difference in the Specific Gravity of Bodies", 1822; "Report on Rail-roads and Locomotive Engines", 1825; and "On the best method of Warming and Ventilating Houses and other Buildings", 1829.
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Ian Fleming (chemist) Ian Fleming (born 1935) is an English organic chemist, and an emeritus professor of the University of Cambridge, and an emeritus fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was the first to determine the full structure of chlorophyll (in 1967) and was involved in the development of the synthesis of cyanocobalamin by Robert Burns Woodward. He has made major contributions to the use of organosilicon compounds for stereospecific syntheses; reactions which have found application in the synthesis of natural compounds. He is also a prolific author, and has written a number of textbooks, encyclopedia chapters and influential review articles.
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A. E. Wilder-Smith Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith, FRSC (22 December 1915 – 14 September 1995), more commonly known as A. E. Wilder-Smith, was a British organic chemist, and young Earth creationist.
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James Wilfred Cook Sir James Wilfred Cook FRS FRSE DSc LLD (1900–1975) was an English chemist, best known for his research of organic chemistry of carcinogenic compounds. Friends knew him simply as Jim Cook.
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Dalton Transactions Dalton Transactions is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original (primary) research and review articles on all aspects of the chemistry of inorganic, bioinorganic, and organometallic compounds. It is published weekly by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The journal was named after the English chemist, John Dalton, best known for his work on modern atomic theory. Authors can elect to have accepted articles published as open access. The editor is Andrew Shore. "Dalton Transactions" was named a "rising star" by "In-cites" from Thomson Scientific in 2006.
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Maxwell Simpson Maxwell Simpson (15 March 1815 – 26 February 1902) was an eminent Irish chemist.
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William Kneale William Calvert Kneale (22 June 1906 – 24 June 1990) was an English logician best known for his 1962 book "The Development of Logic", a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha. Kneale was also known as a philosopher of science and the author of a book on probability and induction. Educated at the Liverpool Institute High School for boys, he later became a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and in 1960 succeeded to the White's Professor of Moral Philosophy previously occupied by the linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin. He retired in 1966.
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Denis Weaire Denis Lawrence Weaire FRS (born 17 October 1942) is an Irish physicist and an emeritus professor of Trinity College, Dublin.
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Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen (18 May 1922 – 10 July 1982), who published as G. E. L. Owen, was a British philosopher, concerned with the history of Ancient Greek philosophy. He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. where his undergraduate career was interrupted by five years of military service. He became the foremost authority on Aristotle in his generation, at least in the English-speaking world.
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Eric M. Rogers Eric M. Rogers (15 August 1902 – 1 July 1990) was a British author and physics educator. He is perhaps best known for his 1960 textbook "Physics for the Inquiring Mind". The book, subtitled "The Methods, Nature, and Philosophy of Physical Science", was based on courses he gave at Princeton University, where he taught from 1942 to 1971. Rogers also headed the Nuffield Science Teaching Project program in physics education in the 1960s.
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The Book of Evidence The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by the Irish writer John Banville. The book is narrated by Freddie Montgomery, a 38-year-old scientist, who murders a servant girl during an attempt to steal a painting from a neighbour. Freddie is an aimless drifter, and though he is a perceptive observer of himself and his surroundings, he is largely amoral.
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Gerhart Jander Gerhart Jander (26 October 1892 – 8 December 1961) was a German inorganic chemist. His book, now normally only called "Jander-Blasius", on analytical chemistry is still used in German universities. His involvement in the chemical weapon research and close relation to the NSDAP have been unrecovered by recent research.
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James Thomson (calico printer) James Thomson (6 February 1779 – 27 April 1850) was an English industrial chemist who made a career and large reputation in calico printing. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.
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William Butler (alchemist) William Butler, Irish alchemist (c. 1534 – 29 January 1617), was, according to the "Compendium of Irish Biography", "a well-known alchemist, the pretended discoverer of the philosopher's stone, and of a powder for bringing the dead to life, was born in Clare about 1534. He died at sea, on his passage to Spain, 29th January 1617."
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George Cecil Jones George Cecil Jones, Jr. (10 January 1873 – 30 October 1960),) was a British chemist, occultist, one time member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and co-founder of the magical order A∴A∴. According to author and occultist Aleister Crowley, Jones lived for some time in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, working at a metallurgy there.
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James Sheridan Muspratt James Sheridan Muspratt (8 March 1821 – 3 February 1871) was a research chemist and teacher. His most influential publication was his two-volume book "Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical and Analytical as applied and relating to the Arts and Manufactures" (1857–1860).
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Roy Johnston Roy H.W. Johnston (born 1929) is an Irish physicist. He was a Marxist who as a member of the IRA in the 1960s argued for a "National Liberation Strategy" to unite the Catholic and Protestant working classes. He wrote extensively for such newspapers as "The United Irishman" and "The Irish Times".
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James Cumming Rev. Prof. James Cumming (26 September 1777 – 10 November 1861) was the ninth Professor of Chemistry in Cambridge from 1815 to 1860. Cumming is remembered for his research-led teaching and his lectures during which he would literally shock the audience with a galvanic apparatus. He was also known to electrocute a cat during a demonstration.
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John Eland (chemist) John Hugh David Eland FRS (born 6 August 1941) is a British chemist, and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
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John Cook Wilson John Cook Wilson, FBA (6 June 1849 – 11 August 1915) was an English philosopher.