In March 1908, the BASF at Ludwigshafen provided financial support to Fritz Haber in his attempt to synthesize ammonia from the elements. The process that now famously bears his name was demonstrated to BASF in July 1909. However, its engineer was Haber’s private assistant, Robert Le Rossignol, a young British chemist from the Channel Islands with whom Haber made a generous financial arrangemen...

This review is devoted to the study of the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking and this first part focuses on the Higgs particle of the Standard Model. The fundamental properties of the Higgs boson are reviewed and its decay modes and production mechanisms at hadron colliders and at future lepton colliders are described in detail. Z t t ZZ WW gg s s b b BR(H) MH [GeV℄ 1000 700 500 300 20...

...I think [petroleum intermediates] poses one of the great problems before our company today. Should we get into it at all; if so, how deeply? What are our advantages or disadvantages opposite the many others who are already interested in that field among both chemical manufacturers and petroleum anufacturers? -W.S. Carpenter, Jr., Du Pont President, o C.H. Greenewalt, August 16, 1946 [Carpent...

the south ossetia crisis leading to military hostilities between russia and georgia has turned into one of the complicated crises in the caucasus and at the world level since the disintegration of the soviet :union:. this crisis should be considered as the harbinger of a new stage in the international relations arena in the transition from the cold war era. hence, it can be suggested that the c...

Sulfur mustard or mustard gas has been widely used as a chemical weapon in the first world war and Iraq-Iran war. It causes acute and chronic complications in lungs, eyes and skin. In skin, mustard is toxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic via alkylation of cellular proteins in enzymes, cell membranes, cytoplasm and particularly cell nucleus as well as in DNA components of the epidermis, dermis and...

Czesław Chowaniec (1899–1968) played a very important role, first in the cultural life of Stanisławów 1920s, and then Polish popularization activities France. As scientist, he focused most his creative energy until 1944 on military history. The published texts this topic ensured him an position among historians. His service army during time shaping state borders had immense influence scientific...