Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr., 1918–2007: An Introduction

Pediatric Cancer Predisposition and Surveillance: An Overview, and a Tribute to Alfred G. Knudson Jr.

The prevalence of childhood cancer attributable to genetic predisposition was generally considered very low. However, recent reports suggest that at least 10% of pediatric cancer patients harbor a germline mutation in a cancer predisposition gene. Although some of these children will have a family history suggestive of a cancer predisposition syndrome, many others will not. Evidence from recent...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Autobiography of David Chandler.

I was born the younger of my parents’ two children, on October 15, 1944, at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, in New York. Except for two years when I was five and six years old, I spent my formative years in Great Neck, a north shore Long Island suburb of New York City, where I benefited from material comforts, excellent schools, and abundant opportunities for cultural and recreational activities. My ...

DuPont Pigment Dispersion in Liquids

Initial Wetting It is virtually impossible to disperse a material in a liquid that will not wet the surface of the material, e.g., aluminum stearate in water. However, most commercial pigments are fairly well wet by the vehicles used and differ appreciably only in their rates of wetting. This is usually evident in the latter stages of making a heavy paste; because, at this stage of mixing, ther...

Environmental epidemiology: An introduction