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  James Alexander Haldane - LoveToKnow 1911
JAMES ALEXANDER HALDANE (1768-1851), Scottish divine, the younger son of Captain James Haldane of Airthrey House, Stirlingshire, was born at Dundee on the 14th of July 1768.
His SOD, Daniel Rutherford Haldane (1824-1887), by his second wife, a daughter of Professor Daniel Rutherford, was a prominent Scottish physician, who became president of the Edinburgh College of Physicians.
His Observations on Universal Pardon, andc., was a contribution to the controversy regarding the views of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen and Campbell of Row; Man's Responsibility (1842) is a reply to Howard Hinton on the nature and extent of the Atonement.
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 Daniel Rutherford Summary
Daniel Rutherford, (November 3 1749 – November 15 1819), was a Scottish chemist and physician who was most famous for the discovery of nitrogen in 1772.
Daniel Rutherford was born in Edinburgh and was educated at the University of Edinburgh where his father John Rutherford (1695-1779) was a professor of medicine.
The two men (Rutherford and Black) were convinced of the validity of the phlogiston theory, so they explained their results in terms of the theory.
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  Daniel Rutherford Haldane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Rutherford Haldane (27 March 1824 – 12 April 1887) was a prominent Scottish physician, who became president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
His parents were minister James Alexander Haldane, and his second wife Margaret Rutherford, a daughter of Professor Daniel Rutherford.
Anne Evelyn Haldane, (1864-?) married Charles John Haldane Hogg, son of Sir Frederick Russell Hogg.
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 Haldane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Haldane is a surname (meaning Half Dane), deriving from an aristocratic Scottish family, including various scientists and churchmen:
Archibald R B Haldane, social historian and author, son of William Haldane
Haldane, British geneticist and evolutionary biologist, son of John Scott Haldane
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 JAMES ALEXANDER HALDAN... - Online Information article about JAMES ALEXANDER HALDAN...
HALDANE (1768–1851), Scottish divine, the younger son of See also:
RUTHERFORD HALDANE (1824-1887), by his second wife, a daughter of See also:
Professor Daniel Rutherford, was a prominent Scottish physician, who became See also:
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 Biographies, The Scientists: A List.
Daniel's father, Jean Bernouilli (1667-1748), was a professor at Groningen (1695) and Basel (1705).
Haldane was asked once whether, considering his life long study of this earth's life forms, if he was able to conclude what the nature of the Creator might be; it is reported (Stephen Jay Gould) that he replied, "An inordinate fondness for beetles."
Rutherford was the greatest of the pioneers of subatomic physics; he "led us to the confines of knowledge in respect of the ultimate structure and constitution of matter."
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 Daniel Rutherford - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Daniel Rutherford
Rutherford later discovered the presence of nitrogen in air.
Subsequent study on the constitution of natural gases was founded on his work.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Daniel Rutherford Haldane
Daniel Rutherford Haldane (1824-1887) was a prominent Scottish physician, who became president of the Edinburgh College of Physicians.
He was the son of the minister, James Alexander Haldane, by his second wife, a daughter of Professor Daniel Rutherford.
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 Haldane | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964)
Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)
Scottish writer and sister of Richard Haldane and John Haldane (1862-1937)
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 Darwin and Literature: A Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Badash, Lawrence (1968), 'Rutherford, Boltwood, and the age of the earth: the origin of radioactive dating techniques', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol.
Daniels, R. Balfour (1969), 'Names in the fiction of Samuel Butler', South Central Bulletin, vol.
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson (1932), The Causes of Evolution (London: Longmans, Green).
ehlt.flinders.edu.au /english/Victorians/DarwinLitBiblio.htm   (10371 words)

  
 SDS - Scottish Dermatological Society
Dr Allan Jamieson had both drive and ability and later was to become president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, but he needed luck as well to force his way in - and here leg, eczema enters the story for the first time.
He did well with the eczema of one of the hospital managers, Daniel Rutherford Haldane, who was able to jockey Jamieson's request for outpatient facilities through a split board of management.
In 1881 Jamieson's reward was a share in a small dark room that he could use on Saturday mornings.
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 Botany online: MIRROR SITE: Chronology - Historical Developments - Biological Sciences
John Scott Haldane and John Gillies Priestly investigated the role of carbon dioxide in the regulation of breathing.
Alfred Lothar Wegener developed a theory of continental drift based on fossil and glacial evidence, but his theory was ridiculed until long after his death because he could provide no adequate explanation for the cause of the phenomenon.
George Edward Briggs and John Burdon Sanderson Haldane made important refinements in the theory of enzyme kinetics.
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de /b-online/e01/geschichte.htm   (15153 words)

  
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(23.04.1822) Margaret Rutherford (dau of Professor Daniel Rutherford)
Robert Haldane, 1st of Airthrey, 17th of Gleneagles, Provost of Inverkeithing (b 16.03.1705, dsp 31.12.1767)
Archibald Haldane, Constable of Edinburgh Castle (a 1615, 1640)
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Biog."] _fa fa bro_, Robert HALDANE (1764-1842), in the Royal Navy till 1797; sold his estate in Stirlingshire to devote the proceeds to missions in India, but was prevented by the Government from carrying out this scheme.
Biog."] _fa bro_, Daniel Rutherford HALDANE (1824-1887), M.D., LL.D., President of Edinburgh College of Physicians.--["Dict.
Richard Burdon HALDANE, P.C., M.P., LL.D., a distinguished politician; author of books on philosophy.--["Who's Who."] _si_, Elizabeth Sanderson HALDANE, authoress of "Life of Ferrier," translator of Hegel's "History of Philosophy"; promoter of education and of reforms in Scotland.
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 Modern Manuscript Collections -- Bound
Clinical cases, by John Rutherford, Alexander Monro and William Cullen.
Clinical lectures, by Dr. Thomas Whyte [and] Extracts from the clinical lectures and cases, by Dr. Rutherford and Sinclair.
Vindication of the opinions delivered in evidence by the material witnesses for the Crown on a late trial at Lancaster for murder, by James Gerard, John Rutter, John Bostock, and Thomas Fairfax Hay; Remarks on a late publicat
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 Going deep
Daniel Rutherford discovers the gasses nitrogen and oxygen in 1772
He found out that existing air pumps were not very suitable for greater depths: Due to bad ventilation of helmets carbon dioxide build up inside them causing problems for the diver.
Haldane was the godfather of the decompression tables that we use today.
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 Edinburgh Geologist - An Edinburgh Walk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
He was also the inventor of the iron lung and became a professor of chemistry.
Her maiden name was Rutherford and she was the aunt of Daniel Rutherford, the discoverer of nitrogen and inventor of an early maximum-minimum thermometer.
This was the house of John Leslie, Professor of Natural Philosophy, who studied heat transfer and invented the wet and dry bulb hygrometer.
www.edinburghgeolsoc.org /z_43_04.html   (2433 words)

  
 Strange Science: Timeline
1903-Physicist Ernest Rutherford lectures the British Association that radioactivity could power the sun and maintain its heat, meaning the sun and earth could be much older than Lord Kelvin's estimate.
1924-1934-British biochemist J.B.S. Haldane publishes 10 mathematical papers arguing that natural selection of genetic variations, as described by Mendel, can enable populations to adapt to change.
1998-Paul Hoffman, Alan Kaufman, Galen Halverson and Daniel Schrag publish a Neoproterozoic snowball earth theory arguing that in the late Precambrian, the earth underwent global glaciations followed by extreme greenhouse conditions, spurring the evolution of multicellular life forms.
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 The Cardinal Collective: January 2005 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In Dissent, Daniel Brook describes the world he saw in Sweden: a world where the once-socialist government has liberalized markets, but the heavy state redistribution system remains in place.
The result is a place that is extraordinarily egalitarian and has a high standard of living, but in which immigrants and low-skilled laborers are shut out of the labor market and the fl market thrives.
I, however, am reminded of a (somewhat) famous quote by JBS Haldane, ""My subjective account of my own motivation is entirely mythical on almost
www.cardinalcollective.com /blog/archives/2005/01/index.html   (10430 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Noteworthy Families (Modern Science), by Francis Galton and Edgar Schuster
fa fa bro, Robert Haldane (1764-1842), in the Royal Navy till 1797; sold his estate in Stirlingshire to devote the proceeds to missions in India, but was prevented by the Government from carrying out this scheme.
si, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, authoress of “Life of Ferrier,” translator of Hegel's “History of Philosophy”; promoter of education and of reforms in Scotland.
fa bro son, Alexander Chinnery Haldane, LL.D., Bishop of Argyll and the Isles.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/7/1/2/17128/17128-h/17128-h.htm   (12231 words)

  
 The 100 Most Important Science Books of the 2nd Millennium
by J.B.S. Haldane (for its contribution to genetics and evolution)
by Ernest Rutherford (for its contribution to nuclear physics)
) by Daniel Bernoulli (for its contribution to fluid dynamics)
www.geocities.com /millscibooks/index.html   (1262 words)

  
 Browse By Author: H - Project Gutenberg
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage (English)
Haldane, R. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount, 1856-1928
Harley, Cecil B. Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone (English)
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