Pelouze in Paris and then became professor of chemistry in Turino, Italy. ... Engelhardt ENOVA Research Applications Orleans, ON, KIC 7A9, Canada It might seem incongruous that a research focused organisation such as the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry would pay attention to an issue as pragmatic as oil spills. ... Oil spills are not generally considered a pure or even applied chemistry issue. ... Effectively every element of an oil spill, whether environmental, physical, operational or legal, is related to the complex chemistry of the oil and its breakdown products rele...

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Linus Pauling applied his knowledge of quantum physics to chemistry. ... Pauling and Jeffress decided to build their own chemistry lab. ... This is where he came in contact with different chemistry books. ... Pauling also studied under a physical chemist and mathematician, Richard Tolman. ... In 1925, Pauling completed his Ph.D. in chemistry with minors in physics and mathematics. ...

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Marie Curie Marie Curie enormously contributed to the fields of chemistry and physics despite social barriers towards women scientists. ... She received one in physics in 1903 and one in chemistry in 1911. ... In the summer of 1883 she took the exam for her physical sciences degree and passed at the top of her class. ... In 1911 Marie was awarded another Nobel Prize in chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium and for the chemical isolation of pure radium. ... A year later her daughter married Frederic Joliot, and together they started working on a series of projects that ...

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