Daniel Rutherford (3 November 1749 – 15 December 1819) was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is known for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772.
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Daniel Rutherford | Introduction
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the general surface wind circulation associated with the high-pressure center (h) is most likely
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A high-pressure area, high ,or anticyclone.
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how is it formed?
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Winds within high-pressure areas flow outward from the higher pressure areas near their centers towards the lower pressure areas further from their centers. Gravity adds to the forces. The winds are further twisted due to Coriolis effect.
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could i know more about the effect mentioned above?
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This is an apparent, but fictitious, force that arises when an observer is in a rotating reference frame, due to the conservation of angular momentum of the air as it moves towards or away from the Earth's axis of rotation.
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how is it related to the wind conditions?
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They are associated with light winds at the surface and subsidence through the lower portion of the troposphere.
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what is the last term used above?
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It is the lowest layer of earth's atmosphere.
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what does it consist of?
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Nitrogrn, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide and small amounts of other gases.
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who discovered the former from the list above?
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Daniel Rutherford.
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what are its properties?
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It has seven electrons and one of the highest electronegativities among the elements.
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what are its uses?
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Synthetically produced nitrogenous compounds like ammonia and nitrates are key industrial fertilisers, and fertiliser nitrates are key pollutants in the eutrophication of water systems.
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regarding, the water systems process mentioned by you, is it a natural process?
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It is mostly caused by phosphate and nitrogen from various human sources.
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where is the scientist mentioned above from?
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Daniel Rutherford (3 November 1749 – 15 December 1819) was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is known for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772.
Daniel Rutherford | Introduction
Alfred William Rutherford FRS is Professor and Chair in Biochemistry of Solar energy in the Department of Life sciences at Imperial College London.
Bill Rutherford | Introduction
He was a professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh and the 5th Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1786 to 1819. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1796 to 1798.
Daniel Rutherford | Life
At the Acclimatisation Society he was assisted by Alexander Rutherfurd (1852—1931), 30 years an assistant and clerk assistant of the House of Representatives, of Masterton and Moroa Station, Alfredton.
George Denton (naturalist) | Introduction
By revealing the mechanistic bases of these individual processes through a combination of theory and experiment, he has significantly deepened, and in some cases revolutionised, the understanding of whole systems in small (gas-phase) and giant (polymer) reaction dynamics.
Robert Gilbert (chemist) | Introduction
Rutherford was born at Ancrum Craig Farm near Ancrum in Roxburghshire, the son of Thomas Rutherford, a farmer. He was educated at Jedburgh Grammar School then studied medicine at Edinburgh University, gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1863. After studying in Berlin, Vienna, and Paris, he became assistant to John Hughes Bennett, professor of physiology at Edinburgh. After the Edinburgh anatomist John Goodsir told Rutherford about the new experimental physiology in Germany, William Rutherford and the ophthalmologist Douglas Argyll Robertson at Edinburgh became the first in the United Kingdom to introduce the new experimental apparatus of Hermann von Helmholtz, Emil du Bois-Reymond and Carl Ludwig.
William Rutherford (physiologist) | Life
Adam David Rutherford (born 1975) is a British geneticist, author, and broadcaster. He was an audio-visual content editor for the journal "Nature" for a decade, and is a frequent contributor to the newspaper "The Guardian". He hosts the BBC Radio 4 programme "Inside Science", has produced several science documentaries and has published books related to genetics and the origin of life.
Adam Rutherford | Introduction
In 1945, Palin became the first chief chemist and bacteriologist to the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Co. and established a scientific department with laboratories for research and development. It became evident to Dr. Palin that, outside the laboratory, there was a need for a simple, reliable system of routine water testing suitable for use by works operators, upon whom the safety of the public water supply depends. He developed a system based upon the use of standardized test tablets, applicable to the treatment control of potable water, swimming pools, sewages and effluents, boiler waters and industrial waters of all types.
Arthur Thomas Palin | The Palintest System of Water Testing
He was following in the time honored tradition of technologists, who learned of new technology in England, and then stole all the information they could in order to introduce the technology to the United States, often over the cry of fraud and dishonor by the British owners of patents and the royalties they produced. (For an early example, see the life of Samuel Slater, builder of the first textile mill in America).
James M. Hyde | Flotation process
Nidal Hilal, DSc PhD EuroIng CEng FIChemE FLSW, is a Global Network Professor at New York University and the Director of NYUAD Water Research Center. He is also a Professor Emeritus in Water Process Engineering and the Founding Director of the Centre for Water Advanced Technologies and Environmental Research (CWATER) at Swansea University in the United Kingdom.
Nidal Hilal | Introduction
Daniel Phillips from Ohio University, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Topical Group on Few-Body Systems in 2008, for "his research on effective hadronic theories of few-nucleon systems, especially on the role of the Delta (1232) and the description of electromagnetic reactions on light nuclei, and their application in obtaining reliable information on neutron properties from experimental data."
Daniel Phillips (physicist) | Introduction
In 1871 he was commisioned by the Iron and Steel Institute to visit America and investigate a new process, the Danks system of puddling. Whilst researching the process he discovered that phosphorus could be removed from molten iron by using lime as a furnace liner, a discovery he patented. The process was later developed for practical use by Sidney Gilchrist Thomas and Percy C. Gilchrist.
George James Snelus | Introduction
Sir Thomas Neil Morris Waters (10 April 1931 – 7 June 2018) was a New Zealand inorganic chemist and academic administrator who served as vice-chancellor of Massey University from 1983 to 1995. He is noted for establishing the university's Albany campus near Auckland in 1993.
Neil Waters | Introduction
Samuel Collett Homersham (ca.1816–1886) born in Kent, England, was an English hydraulic engineer and hydrologist. He studied rainfall patterns and subterranean water in various parts of England. He also studied impurities in water and effects of softening water supplies. He experimented with various designs of valves for use with water pumps. Homersham studied the feasibility of atmospheric railways in England.
S. C. Homersham | Introduction
Julian R. Dridan (born November 1941) was Engineer-in-Chief of South Australia's Engineering and Water Supply Department from 1949 to 1966.
Julian R. Dridan | Introduction
Rutherford "Gus" Aris (September 15, 1929 – November 2, 2005) was a chemical engineer, control theorist, applied mathematician, and a Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota (1958–2005).
Rutherford Aris | Introduction
See usbcell. He received a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, where he was a student at Christ's College.
Simon Daniel | Introduction
John Williams is an Australian scientist whose life work has been in the study of hydrology and the use of water in the landscape and farming, including land salinity.
John Williams (water scientist) | Introduction
Prof Daniel "Dan" Edwin Rutherford FRSE (4 January 1906 in Stirling – 9 November 1966 in St Andrews) was a Scottish mathematician, known for his work on the representation theory of symmetric groups.
Daniel Edwin Rutherford | Introduction
He was quoted calling the 1858 joint presentation of Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to the Linnean Society of London "one of the great watersheds in the history of Western civilization".
Arnold Brackman | Introduction
James L. Barnard is a South African born engineer living in the United States who is known globally as the pioneer of biological nutrient remover, a non-chemical means of water treatment to remove nitrogen and phosphorus from used water.
James L Barnard | Introduction
Prof Robert Simpson Silver CBE, MA, Ph.D, D.Sc., D.Tech, F.I.Mech.E, F.Inst.P, FRSE (1913–1997) was a Scottish physicist and mechanical engineer, awarded the Unesco Prize for Science in 1968 for his discovery of a process for the demineralisation of sea water. Prior to his work there had been no commercially viable desalination process that involved continuous flow; plants had to be stopped and emptied of accumulated salt from time to time, such as when a passenger liner using desalination was in port. Silver performed a thermodynamic analysis (now known as "Second Law Analysis") showing that reverse osmosis and "multi-stage flash" were the optimal processes for purification of water.
Robert Silver | Introduction
Then, after a repetition of a 1781 experiment performed by Priestley, Cavendish published a paper on the production of pure water by burning hydrogen in "dephlogisticated air" (air in the process of combustion, now known to be oxygen). Cavendish concluded that rather than being synthesised, the burning of hydrogen caused water to be condensed from the air. Some physicists interpreted hydrogen as pure phlogiston. Cavendish reported his findings to Priestley no later than March 1783, but did not publish them until the following year. The Scottish inventor James Watt published a paper on the composition of water in 1783; controversy about who made the discovery first ensued.
Henry Cavendish | Chemistry research
Morris received his BA in natural science from Trinity Hall, Cambridge and D.Phil. from the University of Sussex in 1973. He was a lecturer at the University of St Andrews from 1977 to 1986 where he developed the Morris water navigation task. He moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1986.
Richard G. Morris | Education
The fixed tanks are refuelled at a waterway hydrogen station. The hydrogen is generated by electrolysis using solar or wind turbines.
Ross Barlow | Refueling
Rutherford published a book on the topic of the creation of life. The United Kingdom printing has been called "two books in one", since "Creation: The Origin of Life" and "Creation: The Future of Life" are printed back-to-back so that one can read the book from either end. Among its topics, the first part of the book argues in support of the theory, first proposed by Thomas Gold, that life emerged not in primordial warm ponds, but in extremophile conditions in the deep ocean, while the second part discusses "synthetic biology" – the use of genetic modification to create new organisms.
Adam Rutherford | Career
Rutherford was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys, Morpeth and the University of Liverpool where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry in 1976. He moved to University College London (UCL) where he was awarded a PhD in 1979 for electron paramagnetic resonance studies of photosynthetic electron transport in purple bacteria supervised by Michael C.W. Evans.
Bill Rutherford | Education
Cohn held a B.A. in mathematics from Swarthmore College (1979) and M.A. (1984) and PhD (1986) degrees in water resource systems engineering from Cornell University.
Timothy A. Cohn | Introduction
Andrew Rutherford (c.1809 – 23 July 1894) was a Scottish-born pastoralist and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Rutherford was born in Caithness, Scotland, son of Gideon Rutherford, a sheep farmer, and Mary, "née" Brown. He arrived in the Port Phillip District around 1841 and herded livestock overland from New South Wales. Rutherford was the owner of several large properties and established a home on Lake Connewarre at Leopold.
Andrew Rutherford (pastoralist) | Introduction
He was born in Greenwich east of London on 17 June 1911 the son of Sir Robert Robertson. He was educated at Rugby School. He then studied Chemistry at Cambridge University graduating MA around 1930. On graduating he spent some time mapping Dicksonland in Spitzbergen where the glacier Robertsonbreen is named after him. In 1933 he became the Chief Chemist at Fullers Earth Union Ltd in Surrey. In 1944 he moved to Glasgow and in 1958 moved to Pitlochry ewhere he lived for the rest of his life.
Robert H. S. Robertson | Life
William Rutherford (20 April 1839, Ancrum Craig, Roxburghshire – 21 February 1899, 14 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh) was a Scottish physician and physiologist who was professor of physiology at Edinburgh University for 25 years, and contributed to the development of experimental physiology. He was Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy from 1872 to 1875.
William Rutherford (physiologist) | Introduction
The son of an engineer, Cullen got his start as a water expert very early in life when his father moved to Tallangatta to oversee that town's relocation to accommodate an expanded Hume Dam. Cullen studied agricultural science at the University of Melbourne and soon turned to detailed studies of irrigation and the problems it can bring to the land it makes productive.
Peter Cullen (scientist) | Education
Another proposed system used a heavy bromine gas gradient for industrial purposes. Today it is hoped to achieve even higher energy utilization than achieved in solar pools at temperatures up to 300 ° C. The issue that concerned Professor Bloch in his last years was the source of oil in nature. He thought there might be a connection between salty streams that transfer organic matter to the deep aquifers to naturally produce oil there. From this perspective, the artificial oil production project grew in the halophyte-containing lagoons (plants capable of developing in salty soil) and protein-rich algae. They produced high-quality oil and a vehicle similar to that found in geological strata.
Moshe Rudolf Bloch | Biography
Gedeon Dagan (born December 24, 1932) is a professor Emeritus of Hydrology, School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Gedeon Dagan | Introduction
Sir Rutherford Ness "Bob" Robertson AC CMG FAA FRS HFRSE (29 September 1913 – 6 March 2001) was an Australian botanist and biologist, and winner of the Clarke Medal in 1955.
Rutherford Ness Robertson | Introduction
He has determined the optimal depth to preserve mantlean hydrocarbons and calculated their chemical composition and with his teammates conducted first experiments on high temperature synthesis of hydrocarbon systems in hydrocarbonate medium. Also he studied the problem of hydrocarbon systems kinetic transformation at sedimentary cover conditions. Besides, he interested in theoretical physics and published a fundamental monograph "Gnoseological potential of classical mechanics (to 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton research career)" and several articles on the topic.
Emmanuil B. Chekaliuk | Introduction
John Lennox Monteith DSc, FRS (3 September 1929 – 20 July 2012) was a British scientist who pioneered the application of physics to biology. He was an authority in the related fields of water management for agricultural production, soil physics, micrometeorology, transpiration, and the influence of the natural environment on field crops, horticultural crops, forestry, and animal production.
John Monteith | Introduction
Robert J. Forster is a professor of Physical Chemistry at Dublin City University.
Robert J. Forster | Introduction
He was born in Peeblesshire on 17 July 1853 and educated at St Andrews and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in natural science. His intention to enter medical profession was abandoned in favour of a scholastic career. From 1883 to 1901 he was Head Master of Westminster School; and his death deprived classical scholarship in the UK of one of its most brilliant modern representatives. He was also a Fellow of University College, Oxford for a time.
William Gunion Rutherford | Life
Grander invented a scientifically not proven process for treating water, producing what he called "revitalized water" (German: "belebtes Wasser"). According to Grander, this improves the water structure and produces a healthy environment for useful microorganisms. In 1978, Grander gave up his profession and founded the Grander family business for original Grander technology in 1979. His approach to the study of the anomalous properties of water is similar to Masaru Emoto, Viktor Schauberger, Jacques Benveniste et al. Grander's family continue in activities for the treatment, production and marketing of revitalized water and water treatment equipment. It is scientific consensus that the claims as to how the process changes water are not supported by physics or chemistry and may be called "esoteric nonsense".
John Grander | Revitalized water
Recent research includes the study of multiphase immiscible fluid flow in porous media, and the recovery of hydrogen from methane (natural gas) using magnetically stabilized fluidized bed and microwave plasma reactors. Though in retirement, Atwater continues his association with former colleagues, providing theoretical analysis of experimental data, and preparation of materials for publication.
James E. Atwater | Introduction
In the same year he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
John Waterhouse (astronomer) | Introduction
Pople's early paper on the statistical mechanics of water, according to Michael J. Frisch, "remained the standard for many years. This was his thesis topic for his PhD at Cambridge supervised by John Lennard-Jones.
John Pople | Statistical mechanics of water
Roger William Herbert Sargent FREng FSA (14 October 1926 – 11 September 2018) was an English chemical engineer who was Courtaulds professor of Chemical engineering at Imperial College London and "the father" of the discipline of Process Systems Engineering.
Roger W. H. Sargent | Introduction
Rob Lewis is a South Australian marine scientist and retired senior civil servant. He discovered the first known upwelling system in southern Australia and was professionally involved in fisheries and aquaculture management for 38 years. He was head of South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) from 1992 to 2010.
Rob Lewis (marine scientist) | Introduction
He began his career in 1977 as a system engineer with the Technical Services Group of the Division of Water, City of Columbia, Ohio before he joined the services of the University of Cincinnati as a research associate and instructor. In 1966, he became an adjunct professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Nuclear Engineering of the University of Cincinnati. His research interest in engineering focuses on system analysis, technical management and water related researches, such as water utility system modeling. In 1983, he returned to Nigeria and was appointed as General Manager in a dredging and Marine company called Lamic Nig.
Nicholas Agiobi Damachi | Career
Peter Michael Waterhouse is a British-Australian plant virologist and geneticist. He is a professor at the Queensland University of Technology.
Peter Waterhouse (scientist) | Introduction
Younger respectively obtained in 1984 a B.Sc. degree with first class honours in Geology from Newcastle University, in 1986 an M.Sc. degree in Hydrogeology from Oklahoma State University, and in 1990 a Ph.D. degree with as subject "Numerical Modelling of Water Resource Systems" from the Newcastle University. His PhD thesis at Newcastle University involved the use of numerical modelling techniques to assess pollution risks in coupled river / groundwater systems in the London Basin. He subsequently ran water resources research and training projects in the West Bank, and immersed himself in the water management issues of the mining sector worldwide.
Paul Younger (engineer) | Biography
James R. Heath (born 1962) is an American chemist and the president and professor of Institute of Systems Biology. Previous to this, he was the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, after having moved from University of California Los Angeles.
James R. Heath | Introduction
He was drawn to the differences in the chemistry, flora, and fauna in the different water sources.
G. Evelyn Hutchinson | South Africa
David Harding Getches () was Dean and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder, Colorado. He taught and wrote on water law, public land law, environmental law, and Indian law.
David Getches | Introduction
William Gunion Rutherford (17 July 1853 – 19 July 1907) was a Scottish scholar.
William Gunion Rutherford | Introduction
Jonathan Andrew Rutherford (born 13 July 1956), is an academic who was formerly a Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Middlesex. Within British politics Rutherford is associated with the Blue Labour school of thought within the British Labour Party, and has been described as one of its "leading thinkers".
Jonathan Rutherford | Introduction
Since then, he has been responsible for the courses of Hydraulics, Water Resources and Hydrological Modelling, and responsible for the Hydraulics Laboratory "Prof. Armando Lencastre". He has participated and was responsible for several research projects, namely in the areas of water resources and water quality modelling. Published four books and more than forty articles in national and international magazines and conferences. Adviser of several MSc and PhD thesis in the area of water resources and was invited to be a member of various academic juries.
Carmona Rodrigues | Engineering
Although the process was favourably reported on to the government in 1851 by Graham, Miller, and Hoffmann, it was opposed by the metropolitan water companies, and was adopted in only a few places. Clark was also a controversialist and pamphleteer. After he became unable to teach he studied English philology and grammar, and the gospels of the "Greek Testament".
Thomas Clark (chemist) | Works
Rutherford discovered nitrogen by the isolation of the particle in 1772. When Joseph Black was studying the properties of carbon dioxide, he found that a candle would not burn in it. Black turned this problem over to his student at the time, Rutherford. Rutherford kept a mouse in a space with a confined quantity of air until it died. Then, he burned a candle in the remaining air until it went out. Afterwards, he burned phosphorus in that, until it would not burn. Then the air was passed through a carbon dioxide absorbing solution. The remaining component of the air did not support combustion, and a mouse could not live in it.
Daniel Rutherford | Isolation of nitrogen
In 1869 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being John Hughes Bennett.
William Rutherford (physiologist) | Life
He used no acid or chemical processes.
Berto Lardera | Introduction
Samuel Nii Odai is a Ghanaian professor of Hydraulics and Water Resources, and a serving Vice Chancellor of Accra Technical University. He is a Commonwealth Academic Fellow, and a recipient of the National Best Research Scientist Gold Award for water, environment and sanitation.
Samuel Nii Odai | Introduction
Craig T. Simmons is an Australian hydrogeologist and was named South Australia's Scientist of the Year in 2015.
Craig T. Simmons | Introduction
Rutherford John Gettens (January 17, 1900 – June 17, 1974) was a chemist and pioneering conservation scientist. Born to Daniel and Clara (Rutherford) Gettens, Rutherford John Gettens grew up in Mooers, New York, where he became valedictorian of his high school class in 1918. He received his B.S. from Middlebury College in 1923. On graduating, he taught chemistry at Colby College, Maine, before receiving his M.A. from Harvard University in 1929. In 1928, Gettens began working at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, and by 1949, he was chief of Museum Technical Research, and an active member in the development of the field of conservation as we know it today.
Rutherford John Gettens | Introduction
On returning to England he worked at the East Malling Research Station in Kent, his research being written up in "Land Use and Water Resources" during a year at the University of Cambridge. In 1973 he was appointed Chief Scientist for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Charles Pereira | Introduction
Andrew John Orr-Ewing (born 1965) is a British chemist and Professor of physical chemistry at the University of Bristol. His work investigates the mechanisms of chemical reaction in both the gas and liquid phases and has used ultrafast laser spectroscopy to observe the effects of solvents on molecular reaction and the dynamics of photodissociation.
Andrew Orr-Ewing | Introduction
The bottom layer is made to filter out all solids larger than 80 microns, leaving clean water at the bottom. The system uses up to 90% less electricity than other systems and has fewer moving parts to replace.
Dean Cameron (inventor) | How it works
Sir Hugh Fish, CBE (6 January 1923 – 27 May 1999) was an English chemist who was one of the architects of the UK water industry in the late 20th century, and was responsible for the clean-up of the River Thames.
Hugh Fish | Introduction
Ronald T. Raines is an American chemical biologist. He is the Roger and Georges Firmenich Professor of Natural Products Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for using ideas and methods of physical organic chemistry to solve important problems in biology.
Ronald T. Raines | Introduction
Richard M. Murray is a synthetic biologist and Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering at Caltech, California.
Richard M. Murray | Introduction
Professor Alexander William Bickerton (7 January 1842 – 21 January 1929) was the first professor of Chemistry at Canterbury College (now called the University of Canterbury) in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is best known for teaching and mentoring Ernest Rutherford. He was a natural teacher though an eccentric one, who taught science in an exciting way. His differences weren't limited to teaching as he formed a socialist community in Christchurch, which he later set up as a theme park. His partial impact theory explaining the appearance of temporary stars was the major work of his lifetime.
Alexander William Bickerton | Introduction
Ernest Rutherford accepted Cockcroft as a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory on the recommendation of Miles Walker and the director of research at Metropolitan Vickers. Cockcroft enrolled as a PhD student in 1924, with a Foundation Scholarship of St John's College, and a State Scholarship. Under Rutherford's supervision, he wrote his doctoral thesis "On phenomena occurring in the condensation of molecular streams on surfaces", which was published in the "Proceedings of the Royal Society". He was awarded his doctorate on 6 September 1925. During this time he was an assistant to the Russian physicist Peter Kapitza, who was working on the physics of magnetic fields in extremely low temperatures.
John Cockcroft | Nuclear research
Richard ffrench-Constant FRS is professor of molecular natural history at the University of Exeter.
Richard ffrench-Constant | Introduction
Robert M. Schoch is an American associate professor of Natural Sciences at the College of General Studies, Boston University. Since 1991, Schoch has been a proponent of the fringe Sphinx water erosion hypothesis.
Robert M. Schoch | Introduction
After he was demobilised from the army Severn, who decided he did not wish to work as a mathematician, entered upon a career in civil engineering academia and was appointed to lecture at the University of Bristol by Sir Alfred Pugsley, who was then professor of Civil Engineering. Within a year of working there he had met and married Hilary Saxton. The appointment of Alfred Pippard, a proponent of structural analysis, as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), led to the establishment of the institution's Arch Dams Committee to remedy a perceived lack of experience in the field.
Roy Thomas Severn | University of Bristol
They also did harbour works in Alexandria, Egypt and on the Baltic coast in Riga. They engineered water supply schemes for Grangemouth and for Rio Grande and Pelotas in Brazil.
Daniel Miller (engineer) | Principal Works
This grew to the point where we had a committee of 12"". Eventually this led to the establishment of the International Commission on Water Resource Systems within the International Association for Hydrological Sciences (IAHS). He served as its President for several years.
James Dooge | Hydrology
Rutherford completed his secondary education at Perth Academy in 1924 and then, with the aid of a bursary, he went to the University of St Andrews, where he received his B.Sc. in 1927 and his M.A. in 1928 in mathematics. Upon the advice of Herbert Turnbull, Rutherford did his graduate work at the University of Amsterdam, where he wrote a "doctorandus" thesis under Roland Weitzenböck. Rutherford's dissertation was published in 1932 as "Modular Invariants" in the Cambridge Tracts. He became an assistant lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and then an assistant lecturer at the University of St Andrews, where he in 1934 was promoted to "Lecturer in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics" and given the task of building up the department in applied mathematics.
Daniel Edwin Rutherford | Biography
He wrote editorials on other diverse topics ranging from the overlap of Art and Science to reviews of science-themed movies. Rutherford is a frequent contributor to "The Guardian", writing primarily on science topics. He wrote a blog series covering his thoughts and analysis while re-reading Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", and has written articles supporting the teaching of evolution in schools, and criticizing the teaching of creationism as science.
Adam Rutherford | Career
In 1950, Aris returned to ICI and began working for C. H. Bosanquet in Billingham, England. Working with Bosanquet provided Aris the opportunity to work on a large variety of problems, including catalysis, heat transfer, gas scrubbing, and centrifuge design. Aris was then promoted to Technical Officer, where he began working on chromatography. He utilized results from a paper on dispersion written by Geoffrey Taylor, and extended its results, ultimately writing a paper in 1955 that applied the method of moments to Taylor's approach. He submitted the paper to the "Proceedings of the Royal Society", with help from Taylor (who was a Fellow of the Royal Society).
Rutherford Aris | ICI Billingham
Andrews is the inventor of the Natural Sequence Farming method. He is acknowledged as having converted his degraded high-salinity land at Tarwyn Park into a fertile, drought-resistant estate. His techniques run counter to prevailing accepted practices, and for 30 years his techniques were rejected by government authorities. Peter Andrews is the author of a best-selling book on his methods, entitled "Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape can be Saved." He also has written a book called "Beyond the Brink" that further explains his theories about water movement in the Australian landscape with the additional subjects of global warming and GMO usage and how this affects soil and the environment.
Peter Andrews (agricultural pioneer) | Agricultural pioneer
Daniel Barton Oerther (born October 11, 1972) is an American Professor of Environmental Health Engineering. He is best known for the use of 16S ribosomal RNA-targeted techniques for fundamental studies of the ecology of bacteria in engineered and natural systems, for the use of community-based participatory research to create and evaluate programs and policies to improve access to clean water, nutritious food, and energy efficiency in developing communities, and for innovation in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Daniel Oerther | Introduction
James Ellsworth Ferrell (born November 3, 1955) is an American systems biologist. He is a Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine. He was Chair of the Dept. of Chemical and Systems Biology from its inception in 2006 until 2011.
James Ferrell | Introduction
In his early career he applied chemical knowledge to the investigation of physiological question, including he composition of the blood, especially in cholera. He was employed by government to make experiments on the food of cattle, and to analyse the water supplied by the London utility companies. His researches on the constituents of food in relation to animals contributed to the development of veterinary nutrition.
Robert Thomson (physician) | Life
Rutherford was born on 3 November 1749, the son of Anne Mackay and Professor John Rutherford (1695–1779). He began college at the age of 16 at Mundell's School on the West Bow close to his family home, and then studied medicine under William Cullen and Joseph Black at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a doctorate (MD) in 1772. From 1775 to 1786 he practiced as a physician in Edinburgh. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was president of the Harveian Society in 1787. At this time he lived at Hyndford Close on the Royal Mile.
Daniel Rutherford | Life
He edited the Dicotyledons according to the system devised by Radlkofer.
Hans Solereder | Introduction
He also served as Adjunct Professor in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management at Charles Sturt University, and Chief Scientist and Chair of the NSW Department of Natural Resources’ Science and Information Board. Williams was also Commissioner of the New South Wales Natural Resources Commission between 2005 and 2011.
John Williams (water scientist) | Biography
George Robert Waterhouse (6 March 1810 – 21 January 1888) was an English naturalist. He was a keeper at the department of geology and later curator of the Zoological Society of London's museum.
George Robert Waterhouse | Introduction
James Thomson is known for his work on the improvement of water wheels, water pumps and turbines. Also his innovations in the analysis of regelation, i.e., the effect of pressure on the freezing point of water, and his studies in glaciology including glacier motion, where he extended the work of James David Forbes. He studied the experimental work of his colleague Thomas Andrews, concerning the continuity of the liquid and gaseous states of matter, and strengthened understanding of it by applying his strong knowledge of thermodynamics. He derived a simplified form of the Clapeyron equation for the solid-liquid phase boundary.
James Thomson (engineer) | Legacy
As a chemist and a scientist, Mitchell's work covered a wide range of topics. He became a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry in 1897 and of the Chemical Society in 1916. In 1907 he advocated using a pinhole camera to photograph the sun in an article in "Knowledge and Scientific News", a method which he notes was known as early as 1615 but seemed to have been forgotten. In 1911, he advocated the switch from lead to copper pipes for drinking water. His reasoning was that copper would better be able to alert the drinker to an excess of poisonous sulphates in the water.
C. Ainsworth Mitchell | Chemist
Kenneth R. Rutherford (born August 25, 1962) is co-founder of the Landmine Survivors Network and a researcher in the field of political science.
Ken Rutherford (political scientist) | Introduction
Hugh Willoughby is an American atmospheric and hydrospheric scientist currently at Florida International University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Hugh Willoughby (scientist) | Introduction
Rutherford called the gas (which we now know would have consisted primarily of nitrogen) "noxious air" or "phlogisticated air". Rutherford reported the experiment in 1772. He and Black were convinced of the validity of the phlogiston theory, so they explained their results in terms of it.
Daniel Rutherford | Isolation of nitrogen
Originally from Stockton, California, his first contact with science education was as radar teacher in the Navy during the Second World War in 1945. After the war, he returned to the University of California, Berkeley where he completed his bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1947. His war experience led him to obtain an M.A. in science education at Stanford University in 1949, and an Ed.D. at Harvard University in 1962. In 1945, he married Barbara Webster, mother of his children. With her assistance, James Rutherford produced his own materials for teaching science courses in the high schools of South San Francisco and San Bruno, California.
F. James Rutherford | Formative years
He saw the needs of and the demand for illuminating and heating gas. He saw the demand for communication... He grasped their importance and he...found the men to develop them. Not only did he find the men, but he found the money, millions of money, for the developments. Robert Winsor, self-effacing, publicity-shy, hiding his activities under a firm name, that of Kidder, Peabody & Company, was one of those extraordinary men whom professors of biological sciences will tell you happens only when nature wishes to create a Gladstone, a Wilson, or a Morgan.”
Robert Winsor | Introduction
Robertson was born in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), the son of Rev J. Robertson. He was educated at St. Andrew's College, Christchurch and obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree at the University of Sydney in 1934. In 1939, Robertson completed a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) at St John's College, Cambridge in England. Later in 1939, Robertson became Assistant Lecturer, and later Lecturer in Botany at the University of Sydney. From 1952 to 1955 he was Senior Principal Research Officer at the CSIRO Division of Food Preservation and Transport.
Rutherford Ness Robertson | Life
By September 1792 he had a true water turbine, almost 40 years before it next appeared in France.
James Rumsey | Other innovators and Rumseian Societies
William James Sutherland (born 27 April 1956) is the Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge. He has been the President of the British Ecological Society. He has been a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge since 2008.
William J. Sutherland | Introduction
Arieh Ben-Naim (; Jerusalem, 11 July 1934) is a professor of physical chemistry who retired in 2003 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has made major contributions over 40 years to the theory of the structure of water, aqueous solutions and hydrophobic-hydrophilic interactions. He is mainly concerned with theoretical and experimental aspects of the general theory of liquids and solutions. In recent years, he has advocated the use of information theory to better understand and advance statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.
Arieh Ben-Naim | Introduction
Arthur Newell Strahler (February 20, 1918 – December 6, 2002) was a geoscience professor at Columbia University who in 1952 developed the Strahler Stream Order system for classifying streams according to the power of their tributaries. Strahler was largely responsible for the shift from qualitative to quantitative geomorphology during the mid 20th century.
Arthur Newell Strahler | Introduction
On his return to Cambridge, Budgett had to catch up on his reading for Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos (the Cambridge equivalent of Finals). He was not good at examinations but managed to get a Second. He then set to work on his South American frogs and completed his paper on them. He was a gifted draughtsman and watercolourist. The figures in his papers were both artistic and accurate. Kerr had designed an apparatus to reconstruct solid figures from a series of microscopic drawings which have been obtained from sections or slices of the original biological structure. This might for example be the whole or part of an organ of an animal.
John Samuel Budgett | Graduation
In 1807, Thomas Hawksley, who went on to pioneer public water supply systems in the United Kingdom, was born at Arnold, near Nottingham. In 1830, there were two water companies in Nottingham, and he was appointed engineer for one of them, with responsibility for the construction of a water works and pumping station at Trent Bridge. Despite opinions that it was impracticable, he built the first system where the water was always under pressure, so that consumers could draw water from it at all times of the day. In order for it to succeed, he had to design a range of fittings which would not leak and persuade plumbers to use them.
Papplewick Pumping Station | Background
John David Rutherford (born St Albans, 1941 and educated at the independent The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School) MA, D.Phil. is an Emeritus Fellow (2008) of The Queen's College, Oxford, a Hispanist and an award-winning novelist and translator from Spanish to English.
John D. Rutherford | Introduction