John Hudson, Chair of the RSC Historical Group ... but the elementary atoms could not be destroyed or created by chemical means. Hence Dalton’s atomic ideas immediately suggested a theory of chemical ...

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Langevin approach developed by an international team of researchers, including members from Science Tokyo, accurately ...

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His ideas proved foundational to a body of thought that, in the nineteen-eighties, came to be known as critical race theory ... extended by John Sexton, the dean and a former student of Bell ...