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Enrolment cart on 2008-06-26
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Mo 9:00AM - 9:50AM Business 2 G27_1.14
Jannie Adamsen
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Russell Cox
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Women in Science on 2008-06-24
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Girls, do you know what you want to be when you grow up?
May I recommend something scientific? It's an exciting, ever changing
field with so, so many possibilities. Read now about some of the many
outstanding women who have made contributions to the advancement of
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s for ME, I have been a scientist for quite a while now, (however the rumor that I started out with Priestley and his phlogiston theory is not true), and I think I'll keep on working in this exciting area. Of course when I was in college
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- Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History -- J.A. Leo Lemay on 2008-06-24
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4000 Years of Women in Science Biography Listing on 2008-06-24
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- Acca-Lurentia (c. 634 BCE)
- Adams, Elisabeth (19th century)
- Aganice, (circa 1878 BCE)
- Aglaonike, (ancient Greece)
- Agnesi, Maria Gaetana (1718 - 1799)
- Mary Anning (1799 - 1847)
- Arate of Cyrene. (ancient Greece)
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- Beech, Olive Ann (1920 - 1986)
- Benedict, Ruth (1887 - 1948)
- Bassi, Laura (1711 - 1778)
- Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821 - 1910)
- Borromeo, Celia Grillo (1684 - 1777)
- Bragg, Elizabeth (1876 ? )
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- Famous Scientists on 2008-06-24
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WHS_Bio_1: <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Unit 1 - safety - cloZe (M)</span> on 2008-06-23
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Chemicals
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reparable eye damag
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Antony van Leeuwenhoek on 2008-06-23
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Antony van Leeuwenhoek was an unlikely scientist. A tradesman of Delft,
Holland, he came from a family of tradesmen, had no fortune, received no
higher education or university degrees, and knew no languages
other than his native Dutch. This would have been enough to exclude him from
the scientific community of his time completely. Yet with skill, diligence,
an endless curiosity, and an open mind free of the scientific dogma of his day,
Leeuwenhoek succeeded in making some of the most important discoveries in
the history of biology. It was he who discovered
bacteria,
free-living and parasitic microscopic
protists,
sperm cells, blood cells, microscopic nematodes and rotifers, and much
more. His researches, which were widely circulated, opened up an entire
world of microscopic life to the awareness of scientists.
Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft on October 24, 1632. (His last name,
incidentally, often is quite troublesome to non-Dutch speakers:
"layu-wen-hook" is a passable English approximation.) His father was a
basket-maker, while his mother's family were brewers. Antony was educated as
a child in a school in the town of Warmond, then lived with his uncle at
Benthuizen; in 1648 he was apprenticed in a linen-draper's shop. Around
1654 he returned to Delft, where he spent the rest of his life. He set
himself up in business as a draper (a fabric merchant); he is also known to
have worked as a surveyor, a wine assayer, and as a minor city official.
In 1676 he served as the trustee of the estate of the deceased and
bankrupt Jan Vermeer, the famous painter, who had
had been born in the same year as Leeuwenhoek and is thought to have been a
friend of his. And at some time before 1668, Antony van Leeuwenhoek learned
to grind lenses, made simple microscopes, and began observing with them. He
seems to have been insp
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