Benjamin Silliman
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Early American chemist and science educator
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Benjamin Silliman's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Silliman was an early American chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to use the process of fractional distillation in America, and a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the United States.
Benjamin Silliman's Published Works
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Published Works
- An account of the meteor which burst over Weston in Connecticut, in December, 1807, and of the falling of stones on that occasion (1869) (23)
- An Introduction To Geology (23)
- Examination of petroleum from California (1865) (5)
- Mineralogical notes on Utah, California, and Nevada, with a description of priceite, a new borate of lime (1873) (3)
- On the meteoric iron found near Shingle Springs, Eldorado County, California (1873) (3)
- On some of the mining districts of Arizona near the Rio Colorado ... (1866) (2)
- On naphtha and illuminating oil from heavy California tar (maltha) (1867) (2)
- Notes on the quicksilver mine of Santa Barbara, in Peru; Condensed from a MS. Report by C. E. Hawley (1868) (2)
- A daguerreotype experiment by galvanic light (2)
- The American Journal of Science and Arts (1853) (1)
- On the so-called "barrel quartz" of Nova Scotta (1864) (1)
- XL. Investigation of flame-temperatures, in their relations to composition and luminosity.—First memoir (1870) (1)
- III. Letter of the editor to Dr. Catlin (1830) (1)
- On the connection between geology and the pentateuch, in a letter to Professor Silliman (1)
- Notes on the Grass Valley gold-mining district, California (1867) (0)
- Geological and mineralogical notes on some of the mining districts of Utah Territory and especially those of the Wasatch and Oquirrh ranges of mountains (1872) (0)
- Note on wollongongite, a remarkable hydrocarbon found in the Wollongong District of the Illawarra coal field, N. S. Wales (1869) (0)
- On the combustion of wet fuel, in the furnace of Moses Thompson (1860) (0)
- Notice of peculiar mode of occurrence of gold and silver in the foothills of Sierra Nevada, and specially at Whisky Hill, in Placer County, and Quail Hill, in Calaveras County, California (1868) (0)
- Farmer's theorem discussed; discussion (1870) (0)
- Investigation of flame temperatures; in their relations to composition and luminosity (1870) (0)
- Notes on the New Almaden quicksilver mines (1864) (0)
- Danger from the premature explosion of gunpowder in the blasting of rocks, with suggestions as to the means of prevention (1830) (0)
- On gaylussite from Nevada Territory (1866) (0)
- On the deep placers of the south and middle Yuba, Nevada County, California. (1865) (0)
- On flame temperatures, in their relations to composition and luminosity (1870) (0)
- The Chinese White Wax Insect (1871) (0)
- On the existence of the mastodon in the deep-lying gold placers of California (1868) (0)
- Mr. Hare's Blow Pipe (1817) (0)
- On the relation between the intensity of light produced from the combustion of illuminating gas and the volume of gas consumed (1870) (0)
- Report of the board of examiners, appointed by the connecticut river steam boat company, to inquire into the causes of the explosion of the steam boat New England, which occurred at Essex, October 9th, 1888?? (1834) (0)
- On the effect of atmospheric air when mixed with gas in reducing its illuminating power (1869) (0)
- Notes on the quicksilver mines of Almaden, Spain; Condensed from a MS. Report by C. E. Hawley (1868) (0)
- Farmer's theorem discussed; reply (1870) (0)
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