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Tag: chemistry

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1723: Debunking

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 26, 2019 · Episode: 1723 Paul Revere, The Shroud of Turin, The Vinland Map, and the problem of debunking.  Today, let’s not fight about debunking.

Tags chemistry debunking Microscopy Paul Revere radio carbon 14 dating The Shroud of Turin The Vinland Map

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1673: Marie Lavoisier

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 24, 2019 · Episode: 1673 Who was Marie Lavoisier, amanuensis or collaborator?  Today, meet Marie Lavoisier.

Tags Antoine Lavoisier chemistry Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Marie Lavoisier Marriage of Figaro mozart oxygen painter David phlogiston Pierre-Samuel duPont de Nemours revolution Richard Kirwan scientific illustration women

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1652: Justus von Liebig

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 15, 2019 · Episode: 1652 Justus von Liebig and the first R&D laboratory.  Today, we create the first research laboratory.

Tags aniline bell benzene chemistry dye industry edison Gay-Lussac R&D research laboratory

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity: 3205 Alice Augusta Ball

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on February 28, 2019 · Episode: 3205 Alice Augusta Ball and Her Work on Leprosy.  Today, a legacy with a sad coda.

Tags african american biology chemistry medical women

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity: 1604 Hydrogen

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 28, 2018 · Episode: 1604 In which hydrogen balloons bind science to technology.  Today, hydrogen — in 1783.

Tags Alexendre Charles Boulton Cavendish chemistry combustion Erasmus Darwin industrial revolution lavoisier Montgolfier paracelsus phlogiston Priestley watt wedgwood

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3186: Marveling

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on September 20, 2018 · Episode: 3186 Marveling.  Today, we marvel.

Tags chemistry feynman math mystery physics teaching

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1569: Alkahest

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 14, 2018 · Episode: 1569 Alkahest, the universal solvent.  Today, we look for the universal solvent.  

Tags alchemists alchemy alkahest boyle chemistry dissolve Du Pont glycerol intellectual property priority nitric acid paracelsus patent reaction reagent sal alkali solution van Helmont

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1515: Oxygen

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 23, 2018 · Episode: 1515 The would-be discovery of oxygen and scientific revolution.  Today, let’s try to find out who discovered oxygen.   

Tags chemical reaction chemistry Dalton Kuhn lavoisier phlogiston Priestley Scheele

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1481: Photography: The Salad Days

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 16, 2018 · Episode: 1481  A revealing view of photography’s early days.  Today, where was photography headed in 1854?  

Tags art camera obscura Stieglitz chemistry Crystal Palace Daguerre

Health & Science

Drug Treatment For Kidney Stones Hasn’t Changed Much In 30 Years – Until Now

Abner Fletcher

Posted on March 8, 2018 · University of Houston researcher Dr. Jeffrey Rimer and his colleagues have identified a substance that could potentially reduce kidney stone growth by 90 percent.

Tags chemistry garcinia cambogia Jeffrey Rimer kidney stones research university of houston

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1411: John Dalton’s Notation

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 13, 2017 · Episode: 1411 The role of notation in John Dalton’s atomic theory.  Today, we wonder how to draw an atom.  

Tags atomism chemical reaction chemistry physics Quakers

News

Nobel Prize Winner ‘Like Google Earth For Molecules’

Associated Press

Posted on October 4, 2017 · Three researchers based in the U.S., U.K. and Switzerland have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developments in electron microscopy.

Tags chemistry Microscopy Nobel prize science

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1404: Prerequisites

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 2, 2017 · Episode 1404: Prerequisites seen as a reflection of the structure of science.  Today, let’s talk about the prerequisite course. 

Tags biology chemistry curricula education pedagogy physics schools teaching

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1235: Naming the Chemical Elements

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 10, 2016 · Today, we name the elements.

Tags alchemy chemistry etymology lavoisier metals Seaborg

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1220: Hill’s Color Photography

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on September 9, 2016 · Episode: 1220 In which Levi Hill invents color photography 80 years too soon Today, the first color photographs.

Tags chemistry daguerreotypes

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