Philip James Thomas, 1958–2022

Structured Fluids.Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants. By Thomas A. Witten and Philip A. Pincus

There is no doubt: Liquids containing polymers, surfactants, or colloid particles are of great interest for physicists, chemists, engineers and other scientists. The properties of such liquids are connected to structures in the mesoscopic regime and, in principle, they dominate the physical environment within living cells. For a long time, the subjects of structured-fluid phenomena, when ever, ...

Dr Thomas Beddoes and James Watt: preparatory work 1794-96 for the Bristol Pneumatic Institute.

PART I. BEDDOES' THEORIES, HIS WORK, THE INTERVENTION OF JAMES WATT In 1793, Dr Thomas Beddoes moved from Oxford, where he had won a considerable reputation as Chemical Reader, and established himself as a physician in Bristol. This was not an easy period for him, since he had a reputation for being an active sympathizer with the French Revolution and was known to the Home Office as the author ...

Thomas C. Schelling and James M. Sakoda: The Intellectual, Technical, and Social History of a Model

The Journal of Mathematical Sociology (JMS) started in 1971. The second issue contained its most cited article: Thomas C. Schelling, “Dynamic Models of Segregation”. In that article, Schelling presented a family of models, one of which became a canonical model. To date it is called the Schelling model – an eponym that affixes the inventor’s name to the invention, one of the highest forms of sci...

Clxxvii. Further Evidence regarding the Elimination of Certain Polycyclic Hydrocarbons from the Animal Body. by James Gowans Chalmers and Philip

Betty Philip

The colon is a site where both local and systemic delivery of drugs can take place. Local delivery allows topical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. However, treatment can be made effective if the drugs can be targeted directly into the colon, thereby reducing the systemic side effects. This review, mainly compares the primary approaches for CDDS (Colon Specific Drug Delivery) namely prod...