Facets

1867 CE

#692

Experimente zur Theorie der Zellenbildung und Endosmose.

Employing, for the first time, copper ferrocyanide as a semi-permeable membrane, Traube investigated osmosis and the permeability of membranes.

1779 CE

#591

Experiments and observations on animal heat.

Earliest experiments upon animal calorimetry.

1784 CE

#925

Experiments on air.

Cavendish isolated hydrogen in 1766, and later demonstrated the composition of air.

1995 CE

#12430

Exploring the cell membrane: Conceptual developments. Edited by A. Kleinzeller. (Comprehensive biochemistry, Neuberger & van Deenen, eds., vol. 39).

1962 CE

#13562

Extraction, purification and properties of Aequorin, a bioluminescent protein from the luminous hydromedusan, Aequorea.

Shimomura reported the discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in a single footnote in this paper that was otherwise devoted to an entirely different bioluminescent protein: photoprotein aequorin. This may be the…

1980 CE

#14207

Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.

Following up on No. 14206, the authors stated that the same excess iridium areas were found in two different areas of W. Europe and in New Zealand, and posited that “the anomalous iridium concentrations at the C…

1985 CE

#14339

Filamentous fusion phage: Novel expression vectors that display cloned antigens on the virion surface.

In this paper Smith invented "phage display technology," a technique where a specific protein sequence is artifically inserted into the coat protein gene of a bacteriophage, causing the protein to be expressed on the …

1877 CE

#10787

Filiaria sanguinis hominis - mature form.

Lewis made the critical connection/association of the worm, Filaria sanguinis,(Wuchereria bancrofti ) to Elephantiasis. This brief account appears to be a third person account summarizing Lewis's work written by an ed…

1897 CE

#950

Fisiologia dell’uomo sulle Alpi. Studii fatti sul Monte Rosa.

Mosso made important investigations on respiration at high altitudes. He considered that the respiratory symptoms produced at high altitudes were due to lack of carbon dioxide. English translation, London, 1898.

1889 CE

#714

Fixation de l’azote par la terre végétale nue ou avec le concours des légumineuses.

Berthelot showed that bacteria acting in clay soils are able to fix nitrogen.

1927 CE

#3787

Follicular lymphadenopathy with splenomegaly: a newly recognized disease of the lymphatic system.

“Brill-Symmers disease” (see No. 3786).

1999 CE

#8752

Four centuries of clinical chemistry.

The first in-depth study of the development of this field that had such a profound impact on patient care beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century.

1877 CE

#5345.1

Further observations on Filaria sanguinis hominis.

Manson showed that Wuchereria bancrofti, the cause of filarial elephantiasis in man, develops in, and is transmitted by, the Culex mosquito. This was the first proof that infective diseases are spread by animal vector…

1925 CE

#3786

Generalized giant lymph follicle hyperplasia of lymph nodes and spleen; a hitherto undescribed type.

See No. 3787. With G. Baehr and N. Rosenthal.

1972 CE

#12443

Geschichte der Pharmazeutischen Chemie.

1935 CE

#1581

Geschichte der physiologischen Chemie.

Reprinted, Hildesheim, 1970.

1994 CE

#13564

Green fluorescent protein as a marker for gene expression.

Chalfie and colleagues showed that the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, could be used as a visible marker for protein localization and expression in vivo, in bacteria and worm cell…

1909 CE

#738

Grundriss der Kolloidchemie.

1920 CE–1939 CE

#136

Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden. Edited by Emil Abderhalden. 14 vols. in 107.

The Hathi Trust maintains versions of all 107 parts, most of which are searchable to a limited extent, at this link.

1867 CE

#1513

Handbuch der physiologischen Optik. 1 vol. and atlas.

Includes Helmholtz’s revival of the Young theory of color vision. English translation by J.P.C. Southall of 3rd German edition, 3 vols., Menasha, Wis., 1924-25.

2002 CE

#13768

Healing earths: The third leg of medicine. A history of minerals in medicine.

1938 CE

#3787.1

Hemolysins as the cause of clinical and experimental hemolytic anemias.

Acquired hemolytic anemia was the first condition to be recognized as an auto-immune disease.

1998 CE

#7780

High life: A history of high-altitude physiology and medicine.

2021 CE

#14026

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold.

Abstract: "Proteins are essential to life, and understanding their structure can facilitate a mechanistic understanding of their function. Through an enormous experimental effort1,2,3,4, the structures of around 100,0…

1590 CE

#2244

Historia natural y moral de las Indias.

One of the earliest detailed and realistic descriptions of the New World. Acosta hypothesized that the indigenous peoples of Latin America had migrated from Asia. He also divided the native peoples into three barbaria…

1906 CE

#12297

Höheklima und Bergwanderungen in ihrer Wirkung auf den Menschen. Ergebnisse experimenteller Forschungen im Hochgebirge und Laboratorium.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1964 CE

#8174

HPP-64-1 DENDRAL-64-A system for computer construction, enumeration and notation of organic molecules as three structures and cyclic graphs. Interim report to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, December 15, (1964).

DENDRAL is considered the first expert system because it automated the decision-making process and problem-solving behavior of organic chemists. The project consisted of research on two main programs, Heuristic Dendra…

2003 CE

#12195

Human survival: Life and death in extreme environments.

1912 CE

#7177

Hygiene der Aeronautik und Aviatik.

Schrötter conducted a great deal of research on the physiological influence of barometric pressure and was one of the first to apply these observations to aviation medicine. Following flight tests he was the firs…

1934 CE

#9340

I. Un nouveau type de radioactivité. II. Séparation chimique des nouveaux radioéléments émetteur d’électrons positifs.

Discovery of artificially produced radionuclides or radioisotopes. In February 1934, the Joliot-Curies reported the first artificial production of radioactive material after discovering radioactivity in aluminum foil …

1907 CE

#3783

Ictères hémolytiques non congénitaux avec anémie.

“Widal-Abrami disease” (Hayem-Widal disease), acquired hemolytic anemia. (See also No. 3777.)

1907 CE

#2564.1

Immunochemistry. The application of the principles of physical chemistry to the study of the biological antibodies.

Arrhenius defined immunochemistry, and laid out its frontiers.

2008 CE

#14294

In vivo imaging of membraine-associated glycans in developing Zebrafish.

The authors applied click chemistry to previously inaccessible biologic environments. Towards that end, they used a modified azide and clicking it onto an alkyne but without using copper ions which are toxic to cells,…

1875 CE

#943.1

Influence de la pression de l’air sur la vie de l’homme. Climats d'altitude et climats du montagne. 2 vols.

Jourdanet’s observational work in remote areas of Latin America and Asia produced important evidence for Bert’s proof that altitude sickness is due to anoxemia. In La pression barométrique (No. 944)…

1912 CE

#6917

Interferenz-Erscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen. . . . Eine quantitative Prüfung der Theorie für die Interferenz-Erscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen

Discovery of the diffraction of X-rays in crystals. Laue’s discovery was of dual importance: it allowed the subsequent investigation of X-radiation by means of wavelength determination, and it provided the means…

1935 CE

#2524.5

Isolation of a crystalline protein possessing the properties of tobacco-mosaic virus.

Stanley first crystallized a virus— tobacco mosaic virus. The following year Bawden, Pirie, Bernal and Fankuchen (No. 12005) showed that tobacco mosaic virus molecules are asnisometric and consist of ribonucleop…

1968 CE

#13180

Justus von Liebig. Eine Bibliographie sämtlicher Veröffentlichungen mit biographischen Anmerkungen von Carlo Paolini

1909 CE

#737

Kapillarchemie.

1533 CE

#12763

Kreutterbuch von allem Erdtgewächs. Anfenglich von Doctor Johan Cuba zusamen bracht/ Jietz widerum(m) new Corrigirt/ und auß den bestberümptsten Artzten/ auch täglicher erfarnuß/ gemehrt. Mit warer Abconterfeiung aller Kreuter. Distillirbuch Hieronymi Braunschwig/ von aller kreuter außgebren(n)ten Wassern/ hiemit füglich ingeleibt.

An illustrated and enhanced version of the Gart der Gesundheit (1485) and the Kleinen Destillierbuchs of Hieronymus Brunschwig (1500). Contents include animals, including imaginery animals, a bit of human anatomy, min…

1666 CE

#6822

La chymie charitable et facile, en faveur des dames.

A book on practical chemistry, pharmacology and medicine written for the common reader by French autodidact Marie Meurdrac, La chymie charitable et facile, en faveur des dames, was the first treatise on chemistry writ…

1806 CE

#11410

La découverte d'un nouveau principe végétal dans le suc des asperges.

Isolation of Asparagine, the first amino acid to be isolated.

1891 CE

#639

La fatica.

Mosso investigated muscular fatigue with the ergograph of his invention. He showed fatigue to be due to a toxin produced by muscular contraction. English translation, 1906.

1878 CE

#700

La fermentation alcoolique.

Bernard disbelieved Pasteur’s definition of a ferment as “a living form originating from a germ”.

1878 CE

#944

La pression barométrique. Recherches de physiologie expérimentale.

The most famous work in the history of altitude physiology, in which Bert proved that the principal symptoms of altitude sickness arise from reduced partial pressure of oxygen and not from diminution of total pressure…

1894 CE

#3774

La splenomegalia con cirrosi del fegato

“Banti’s syndrome”, Splenomegalic anemia. Reprinted with translation in Med. Classics, 1937, 1, 901-27. (For his earlier work on the subject, see No. 3126.)

1913 CE

#1903

La synthèse des glucosides par les ferments.

Bourquelot did important work on the synthesis of glucosides; several more papers followed the one given above.

1907 CE

#733

Lactic acid in amphibian muscle.

Explanation of the production of lactic acid in normal muscular contraction.

1891 CE

#638

Le travail musculaire et l’énergie qu’il représente.

Important studies on thermodynamics of muscular work.

1887 CE

#710

Lehrbuch der physiologischen und pathologischen Chemie.

1861 CE

#935.2

Les altitudes de l’Amérique tropicale comparées au niveau des mers au point de vue de la constitution médicale.

Jourdanet discovered the anoxemia theory of high altitude sickness. See No. 943.1. Digital facsimile of the 1861 edition from bibliotecavirtual.ranm.es at this link.