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... achieved their fame posthumously . Literary reputa- tions wax and wane . The shrewdest are unable to predict with certainty what public response to anything will be . The propagation of an idea demands the right conjunction of unknown ...
... achieved their fame posthumously . Literary reputa- tions wax and wane . The shrewdest are unable to predict with certainty what public response to anything will be . The propagation of an idea demands the right conjunction of unknown ...
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... achieved with conventional fuels ; if we could , nuclear power would already be cheaper than the power now being generated in ' conventional ' plants . That we cannot achieve such temperatures is due entirely to problems within the ...
... achieved with conventional fuels ; if we could , nuclear power would already be cheaper than the power now being generated in ' conventional ' plants . That we cannot achieve such temperatures is due entirely to problems within the ...
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... achieved by the use of thicker plate for the pressure vessels and by the use of internal insulation in the hot top domes . Being cylindrical in shape the reactor fits most conveniently into a cylindrical pressure vessel and such a shape ...
... achieved by the use of thicker plate for the pressure vessels and by the use of internal insulation in the hot top domes . Being cylindrical in shape the reactor fits most conveniently into a cylindrical pressure vessel and such a shape ...
Contents
Foreword by Sir HOWARD FLOREY P R S vii | 13 |
Conversazione | 25 |
Banquet | 31 |
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Academy of Sciences achieved activity advance arranged Association astronomy atoms Biological Boyle British Cambridge Canada University Charles chemical chemistry chromosomes collaboration Company cost crystals cuticle Cyril Hinshelwood discovery electrical emission energy engineering epidermal cell exhibit Fellows fibre film foundation Founder Gabriel Lippmann gallery genetic Goddard graft Gresham College guests homograft honorary degrees honour human important Industrial Research Institute interest International Union Jonathan Goddard juvenile hormone King knowledge Laboratory lodgings Lord Brouncker Mace Majesty mechanism Medal meetings molecules National natural nuclear power occasion organic Oxford particles phosphate present President problems Professor programme protons Queen Elizabeth radio reactor Robert Boyle Royal Academy Royal Albert Hall Royal Society Scientific and Industrial scientists Sir Cyril Hinshelwood Sir Harold Hartley Society of London Society Royal Society's structure Sweden synopsis of lecture temperatures Tercentenary Celebrations Tercentenary Lecture delivered transplantation U.S.A. University University of Bologna University of London Wilkins Wren