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Robert, born 1755; married 1st Sept., 1786, his first cousin, Christian Browne, by whom he had five children; died 1826, and was buried at Laragh Bryan.
Robert, commonly known as "Robert of Ross" (Ross near Kilkee): son of Bryan; married to Anne Creagh.
This Robert conformed to the Protestant Religion, and thus retained the estate in the county Clare; he was the first of this branch of the "O'Cahan" family who assumed the name Keane.
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 Manuscripts Guide -- K
Kane's two expeditions to the arctic are particularly well documented, with correspondence, notes, logbooks, diaries, and sketches, as well as Kane's post-expedition notes, writings, and lectures recounting his experiences.
Kane was a Philadelphia lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1913-1920).
A mineralogist and chemist associated with the University of Pennsylvania (1822-1828), William H. Keating was a central figure in the scientific community in Philadelphia during the 1820s and 1830s.
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 Distinguished Scientists of the Past
Known as "… the son of the Earl of Cork and the father of Chemistry", Robert Boyle was born in Lismore, Co. Waterford, the youngest of fourteen children of Richard Boyle, First Earl of Cork, and his second wife, Katherine Fenton.
Robert played a key role in establishing the experimental method, on which all modern science is based.
Robert Douglas Thornes, who died recently, was a dedicated researcher in the science of medicine, who believed that the intuitive instinct should not be totally subservient to the scientific method that now governs medical research.
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 Elements Issue 1 - Famous Irish Scientists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Robert Kane's name is remembered in Ireland mainly for this book, though he was also an able university administrator and an important public figure in the last century.
Robert Kane's father was originally called John Kean and was one of the people involved in planning the 1798 rebellion.
Robert Kane was the first to propose the existence of the ethyl radical, which he published on January 1st.
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 Robert Hare Papers , American Philosophical Society
Personal and professional correspondence of the chemist, Robert Hare, including drafts of letters to editors of journals on such varied topics as fish guano, slaughterhouses, paper money, and the meaning of the term Yankee annexations.
The great chemist, Robert Hare recalled being dandled on the knee of George Washington, an event that seems to have remained in his mind as he grew older, tying him to the fate of his nation and to his position on the privileged end of the social hierarchy.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence of Robert Hare and members of his family, along with drafts of manuscripts and letters to the editors of journals and newspapers.
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 OBITUARIES
Robert Calhoun (BBA ’59) of Americus, a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, died April 6, 2004.
Robert Owens (BFA ’62, MFA ‘65) of Cleveland died April 8, 2004.
Formerly a soprano with the Atlanta Symphony Chorus under the direction of Robert Shaw, Kane was also a soloist at the 4th Street United Methodist Church in Atlanta.
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 February 16th
When Freind was sent to the Tower for some supposed political offence, Mead frequently visited him, and attended his patients in his absence; from Sir Robert Walpole he procured his liberation, and then presented him with a large sum, being the fees which he had received from his brother practitioner's clients.
All this was over, and Kane had become the historian of the expedition, before he had passed thirty.
Immense credit was due to Kane for the skill and energy which enabled him to bring back his people with scarcely diminished number through such unheard-of difficulties and perils.
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 Times Newspapers Online: 2005 Obituary Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Ferre was born in Ludington, Mich. She was the mother of Robert Ferre of Webster Groves and David Ferre of Salem, Ore., and a grandmother.
Kane was an active member of the Webster Groves community for decades and was involved in several organizations, including the Missouri Questers, the Jefferson Township Women's Republican Club, the Green Garter Brigade, the Carlyle Sailing Association, and was chairman of the Webster University Alumni Golden Circle.
Kane is survived by her husband of 55 years, Robert Emmet Kane; her four children, Dr. Robert E. Kane, Kathy Kane, Sharon Cassani and Carole Fitzgerald; and her 10 grandchildren.
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 Chronicle - Class Notes, 1959 - 1966
Robert E. Bannister is a senior programmer/analyst for IBM where he recently celebrated his 30th anniversary.
Robert is an operations manager for Henderson Technologies International.
Mary H. (Dwyer) Schmit and her husband, Peter, reside in St. Louis, MO. She is employed by the St. Louis Board of Education as an ESL (English as a Second Language) school social worker.
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 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Lives in brief
She was a chemist for Dewey and Almy in Cambridge.
Kane was president of the League of Women Voters of Quincy, the recipient of the South Shore Women's Political Caucus Woman of the Year Award for 1977, and for many years was president of the board of the Quincy Community Action Program.
She leaves her husband, John W.; three daughters, Ellen Kane Kelly of Boston, Anne Cashman of Wakefield, R.I., and Susan Kane Driscoll of Medford; and four grandchildren.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/02/18/lives_in_brief   (465 words)

  
 Profile of Robert Kane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The famous book, “The Industrial Resources of Ireland”, was published in 1844 and was a pioneering work which sought to improve Ireland’s wealth by promoting industry, at the same time increasing employment.
He had found fame early as a chemist, being the first to propose what came to be known as the ethyl radical, a vitally important organic chemical entity.
He devised a method of purifying methyl alcohol and, in a pioneering experiment, he prepared a circular compound, mesitylene, from a linear one, acetone.
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 Robert James Graves (www.whonamedit.com)
A disorder characterized by a triad of hyperthyroidism, goiter, and exophthalmos (bulging eyeballs).
Robert James Graves was one of the leaders of the Irish, or Dublin school of diagnosis, which emphasised clinical observation of patients.
With William Stokes he edited the Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science from 1832 to 1842, a journal he had founded with Sir Robert Kane (1810-1890), physician, chemist, and professor of natural history.
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 Miscellaneous Essex County, Massachusetts Obituaries
Born in Lynn, she was the daughter of the late John F. and Agnes (Kiley) Kane.
She was the sister of the late Raymond Kane, Robert Kane and Kathleen McGaughey.
In addition to his wife of 62 years, he is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Joyce E. and Norman W. Armstrong of Merrimac; a brother, Roland Daniels of Rowley; five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
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The chemists in the Department of Chemistry at UCD and in the State Laboratory played an central role in the origins of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland under the influence of Professor Hugh Ryan in the early twenties.
Robert Kane's father was a chemical manufacturer on a small scale in Dublin.
Frequently the synthetic organic chemist ignores the analytical side of chemistry while paying little attention to the impacts thermodynamics, for example, may have on his or her endeavours.
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 May 19   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
He worked as a chemist for the State Board of Health, the Great Western Sugar Company in Billings, the State Experiment Station in Bozeman, and the State Highway Commission in Helena before accepting a position as assistant metallurgist with the Anaconda Company in East Helena in 1934.
Bert was preceded in death by his wife Carol in 2001, their daughter Karen in 1954, and three brothers and two sisters.
He is survived by son Byron Kane and wife Sally of Kingston, Wash.; grandson Michael Kane and wife Jan of Villa Hills, Ky.; granddaughter Kristen Kane of Bluffton, S.C.; great-grandson Matthew Kane of Villa Hills, and a sister, Hope Nelson and husband Robert of Helena.
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 Haverford College News
Mathematician Robert Manning, for example, will use computer simulations to help the team predict the properties of the nanoscale materials they create in the lab.
Through electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, and laser tweezing, physicists Suzanne Kane and Walter Smith, and biologist, Karl Johnson will make it possible for the researchers to observe and in some cases, manipulate, the nanoscale materials.
The team also includes a biologist, Rob Fairman, and a chemist, Karin Åkerfeldt, who have expertise in the design of new proteins with novel functions, and a second chemist, Julio de Paula, who has been involved in the development of new laser-based techniques that allow researchers to probe molecules actively engaged in photosynthetic processes.
www.haverford.edu /publicrelations/news/nanotechnology.html   (660 words)

  
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Rist described this method in a letter to his friend Robert Kane: "It is extremely important to have the grain of the paper run the same way as the grain of the wood.
These are the directions he wrote out for Robert Kane: "One teaspoon full of rice flour to about a half cup of water.
This article on Luigi Rist was the result of collecting and assimilating information for more than a year, during which time she was ably assisted by her husband, Grant Heilman, who took the ac­companying photographs.
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 Famous Irish People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
His friendship with his heroic compatriot Robert Emmett produced some early inflammatory writings for the cause of Irish freedom, though at his parents' pleading he discontinued his radical activities.
He was a member of Robert F Scott's 1901-04 Antarctic expedition, he sledged partway across the Ross ice shelf.
Irish chemist and natural philosopher noted for his pioneering experiments on the properties of gases and his espousal of a corpuscular view of matter that was a forerunner of the modern theory of chemical elements.
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 Chronology of Science in the United States 1850-1859
William P. Blake (1825-1910) became what was probably the first full-time American college-educated chemist to work for an industrial concern (a Baltimore chemical manufacturer).
Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), with support from New York merchant Henry Grinnell (1799-1874) and the U.S. Navy, undertook an expedition to the Arctic.
Although the work was reprinted repeatedly and translated into several languages, it was widely criticized by the scientific community on account of its lack of organization, errors, and unfounded generalizations.
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 SUNY Upstate Medical University: Health Sciences Library: Historical Collections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery, including the diseases of pregnancy and parturition, and the attentions required by the child from birth to the period of weaning.
Chemical and pharmaceutic manipulations: a manual of the mechanical and chemico-mechanical operations of the laboratory, for the use of chemists, druggists, manufacturers, teachers, and students.
Micro-chemistry of poisons; including their physiological, pathological, and legal relations, adapted to the use of the medical jurist, physician, and general chemist.
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Robert Boyle was born at Lismore, in the county Waterford, in 1627, being the fourteenth child of the first Earl of Cork.
He might have been placed in several of the categories which have been dealt with, but that of geologist has been selected, since in the later part of his most versatile career he was professor of geology in Trinity College, Dublin.
Robert James Graves (1796-1853), F.R.S., after whom is named "Graves's Disease", was one of the greatest of clinical physicians.
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He served as head of the Department of Chemistry from 1983 to 1988, and retired as professor emeritus in 1992.
He previously had served for seven years as a research chemist at Humble Oil and Refining Co. in Baytown, Texas.
In addition, Lampe held five patents and was a contributor to more than 160 research papers.
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 Articles index started with ro
Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
Robert Bourassa's speech on the end of the Meech Lake Accord
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer
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 Bobo's World: September 2005
As recently as 2002, the Reverend Robert Hermley was serving at the Little Sisters of the Poor retirement complex in Ogletown.
Robert L. Brennan‚ accused of molesting a total of more than 20 boys from four different parishes‚ was relieved of his assignment as chaplain at a retirement home for nuns‚ the archdiocese said in a brief statement Monday.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) urged "Bishop Robert Finn and a Boy Scout headquarters in St. Joseph to remove the name of the late Rev. Sylvester Hoppe from the chapel at Camp Geiger in St. Joseph," reported the Kansas City Star.
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 By The Book, LC at antiqbook.com
21606: (ROBERT FLUDD) DEBUS, ALLEN G. Two Offprints: 1)Harvey and Fludd: The Irrational Factor in the Rational Science of the Seventeenth Century.
2) Robert Fludd and the Use of Gilbert's de Magnete in the Weapon-Salve Controversy.
21473: DRENNAN, ROBERT D. Regional Archaeology in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia: A Preliminary Report on the 1984 Season of the Proyector Arqueólogico Valle de la Plata.
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 102 Hearings: Senate Committee Meetings by Date (1991)
Joint Meetings GPO Joint Committee on Printing: Committee held hearings to examine the operation and management of the Government Printing Office (GPO), focusing on the service GPO is providing Congress for the Congressional Record and key bills during peak periods of Congressional activity, receiving testimony from Walter J.
Stewart, Secretary of the Senate; Donnald K. Anderson, Clerk of the House of Representatives; Robert W. Houk, Public Printer, and Lewis L. Small, Inspector General, and George Lord, Chairman, Joint Council of GPO Unions, all of the Government Printing Office; and William J. Boarman, Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC.
NOMINATION Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Robert W. Gambino, of Virginia, to be Director of the Selective Service System, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
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 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - Northern Chemist, 2001
We are also still looking for a synthetic organic chemist (seems like everyone wants to hire them these days!), so if you or anyone you know is job-hunting, please look over the position announcement on our web page, www.chembio.niu.edu/chembio/organic-search.html.
Robert L. Boone (B.S., '75) writes that he went to medical school at the University of Illinois after leaving NIU.
Tony Viscomi (Ph.D., '89) is an analytical chemist with the Army Corps of Engineers, but his recent e-mail had more to say about his "second career," as the television handicapper for Lebanon Raceway.
www.chembio.niu.edu /chembio/nc2001.html   (3818 words)

  
 Gemology World - Can. Institute of Gemmology
Kammerling, Robert C.; Koivula, John I. and Robert E. Kane.
Kammerling, Robert C., McClure, Shane F., Johnson, Mary L., Koivula, John I., Moses, Thomas M., Fritsch, Emmanuel and James E. Shigley.
Koivula, John I.; Kammerling, Robert C. and Emmanuel Fritsch.
www.cigem.ca /418.html   (4654 words)

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