Word: helmholtz
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A.M.A.'s birth in 1847, Fishbein thinks, ranks in historical and scientific importance with two other events of that same year: Helmholtz's discovery of the law of conservation of energy and the first use of chloroform in anesthesia. In those days, it took only 16 weeks of medical study to get a doctor's diploma. The A.M.A. was founded, by a zealous doctor named Nathan Smith Davis, primarily to raise medical training standards...
Scientists have debated such possibilities for nearly a hundred years. The great physicist Helmholtz believed that life was brought to the earth by meteorites.* Laboratory workers have known for some time that bacteria and other living cells can survive extreme cold close to absolute zero ( - 273.18 C.), the supposed temperature of interplanetary space. The University of California's Professor Charles B. Lipman once claimed that he had actually found living bacteria locked in meteorites millions of years...
Ordinary chemical reactions are totally inadequate to explain stellar energy. Even if the sun were composed entirely of coal (carbon) and the right amount of oxygen to burn it, the energy of that combustion could supply the sun's heat for a mere 2,500 years. Helmholtz' old theory that the energy comes from contraction of the sun's mass (in effect from the falling inward of all its matter) is also inadequate because it would explain only 30 million years of sunniness. Even radioactivity, the spontaneous disintegration of atoms such as uranium and radium, will...
...world finally will be rid of the linotype, in fact, of movable type. No more shall it be shackled by the Relativity Theory of Einstein, the Quantum Theory of Planck, the Wave Mechanics of Heisenberg. Out with Kekule's theory of molecular structure, Helmholtz's electrodynamics, the chemistry of aniline dyes, etc. Out with microscopes, telescopes, cameras, and other instruments requiring lenses, perfected in Germany, fundamentally of course for military usage. Out with Ehrlich's "Magic Bullet," Mendel's laws of heredity. Finally, but not until our program has been completed, out with the sterilization...