Ciclo de Conferencias conmemorativas del Año de la Química, en colaboración con la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales.
John Meurig Thomas
University of Cambridge. Reino Unido.
Madrid, 12 de mayo de 2011
1. John Meurig Thomas The Genius of Michael Faraday James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879) Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867) Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727)
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8. The complete combustion of diamond in oxygen using the Duke of Tuscany’s lens. Gay-Lussac and Jean-Baptiste Biot, 1804
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12. “ If I had known of Faraday’s results, it would have saved me much unnecessary work… After Faraday’s publications (of 1857) was available to me, I followed him and used phosphorus as the reducing agent.” From R.A. Zsigmondy’s Nobel Lecture, Stockholm, December 11, 1926