Neil Kensington Adam
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Neil Kensington Adam was a British chemist. Education Adam was born in Cambridge, the first of three children of James Adam , a Classics don, and his classicist wife Adela Marion . His sister Barbara was a noted sociologist and criminologist, while his brother Captain Arthur Innes Adam was killed in France on 16 September 1916. His maternal uncle was Sir Alfred Kensington, a judge in the Chief Court of the Punjab.
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Published Works
- The Adsorption of Gases and Vapours (1945) (921)
- The physics and chemistry of surfaces (1938) (860)
- Surface Chemistry (1935) (393)
- The Thermodynamics of Adsorption at the Surface of Solutions (1933) (136)
- Physical Chemistry of Cells and Tissues (1946) (116)
- CCL.—Angles of contact and polarity of solid surfaces (114)
- Use of the Term ‘Young's Equation’ for Contact Angles (1957) (92)
- Properties of Ordinary Water-Substance in all its Phases (1940) (86)
- The University of Southampton (1952) (79)
- Anomalies in the surface tension of paraffin chain salts (1938) (62)
- A Rapid Method for Determining the Lowering of Tension of Exposed Water Surfaces, with some Observations on the Surface Tension of the Sea and of Inland Waters (1937) (58)
- The Chemical Structure of Solid Surfaces as Deduced from Contact Angles (1964) (52)
- 424. Contact angles of water against saturated hydrocarbons (1962) (43)
- Contact Angles and Work of Adhesion (1958) (43)
- The Structure of Thin Films. Part VII. Critical Evaporation Phenomena at Low Compressions (1926) (43)
- The properties and molecular structure of thin films of palmitic acid on water. Part I (1921) (42)
- An Introduction to Surface Chemistry (1926) (42)
- Surface films of cellulose derivatives on aqueous solutions (1933) (38)
- The Structure of Thin Films. Part VIII. Expanded Films (1926) (36)
- The Properties and Molecular Structure of Thin Films. Part III. Expanded Films (1922) (35)
- The solubility of some paraffin chain salts (1946) (34)
- Fundamental aspects. Introductory paper (1948) (28)
- The Physics And Chemistry Of Surfaces, 3rd Edition (1941) (28)
- The Structure of Thin Films. Part XII. Cholesterol and Its Effect in Admixture with Other Substances (1928) (23)
- The structure of surface films XXI—Surface potentials of dibasic esters, alcohols, aldoximes, and ketones (1934) (23)
- The Structure of Surface Films. Part XVI. Surface Potential Measurements on Fatty Acids on Dilute Hydrochloric Acid (1932) (22)
- The Molecular Structure of Thin Films. Part VI (1924) (21)
- Interaction of Water and Porous Materials (1948) (19)
- The structure of thin films. Part IV.—Benzene derivatives. A condition of stability in monomolecular films (1923) (19)
- The Structure of Thin Films. Part IX. Dibasic Substances (1926) (17)
- The Structure of Surface Films. Part XIV. Some Esters of Fatty Acids. Evidence of Flexibility in the Long Chains (1930) (16)
- Surface films of oestrin derivatives. (1932) (16)
- The structure of surface films. Part XV.—Amines (1930) (15)
- Further experiments on surface films of sterols and their derivatives. (1935) (15)
- The Structure of Surface Films. Part X. Phenols and Monoglycerides (1928) (15)
- The Structure of Surface Films on Water (14)
- The Structure of Surface Films. Part XVIII. The Effect of Alkalinity in the Underlying Solution on Films of Fatty Acids (1933) (13)
- The structure of thin films.—Part V (1923) (11)
- Note on the Oxygen Consumption of Amphibian Muscle and Nerve. (10)
- Surface films of cellulose derivatives on water and dyestuff solutions—Part II (1933) (10)
- Nomenclature of the Œstrin Group (1933) (10)
- The Properties of Surface Films on Liquids. (1926) (10)
- The structure of thin films. Part XI.— Oxygenated derivatives of benzene (1928) (10)
- The Evaporation of Water from Clean and Contaminated Surfaces (9)
- Studies in vapour pressure measurement. Part I.—The vapour pressure of ββ′-dichlorethyl sulphide (mustard gas) (1947) (8)
- Liquid crystals and anisotropic melts. A general discussion (1933) (8)
- Discussion on Surface Phenomena: Films (1936) (8)
- The Structure of Surface Films. Part XX. Surface Potential Measurements on Nitriles (1933) (6)
- The Structure of Surface Films. Part XIX. Influence of Alkaline Solutions on Films with Various End Groups (1933) (6)
- Surface Films. (1930) (6)
- The Structure of Surface Films. Part XIII--Sterols and their Derivatives (1929) (5)
- Note on the surface tension of soap solutions (1936) (5)
- The structure of surface films. Part XVII.—γ hydroxy-stearic acid and its lactone (1933) (5)
- XI.—Synthesis of arachidic acid and some long-chain compounds (4)
- Surface films of ergosterol and its irradiation products. (1934) (4)
- The influence of adsorbed films on the potential difference between solids and aqueous solutions, with special reference to the effect of xanthates on galena (1935) (4)
- A Modification of the Barcroft and Winterstein Microrespirometers. (1920) (4)
- Geometrical Isomerism in Monomolecular Films (1921) (3)
- 48. Evidence from surface films on the constitution of batyl and chimyl alcohols (1933) (3)
- CCCLXXXV.—A comparison of methods of measuring the polarity of surfaces (2)
- The Polishing of Surfaces (1927) (2)
- Monolayers : a memorial symposium to N. K. Adam, sponsored by the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry at the 168th meeting of the American Chemical Society, Atlantic City, N.J., Sept. 11-13, 1974 (1975) (2)
- An Explanation of the so-called Intertraction Phenomenon between Solutions, and the Molecular Significance of Negative Surface Tension (1925) (2)
- The oil/water interface. A general discussion (1941) (2)
- Note on the spreading of solids on water surfaces (1926) (2)
- Insoluble films on water surfaces (1)
- Floating Mercury on Water (1929) (1)
- Cohesion, Viscosity, and Lubrication (1929) (1)
- A rapid field method for assessing the spreading power of anti-malarial oils. (1946) (1)
- The Molecular Mechanism of Capillary Phenomena (1925) (1)
- The Polishing of Surfaces (1927) (1)
- Monomolecular Films of Irradiated Ergosterol in Relation to the Production of Vitamin D (1929) (1)
- A further note upon “intertraction." (1926) (0)
- [Book Reviews] (1962) (0)
- Prof. D. R. Boyd (1956) (0)
- Discussion on oleophobic surfaces (1948) (0)
- Structure of the Electrocapillary Double Layer and the Overvoltage of Electrolytic Reactions (1951) (0)
- Obituary notices: David Runciman Boyd, 1872–1955; Wallace Frank Short, 1898–1955; (1956) (0)
- Surface Chemistry (1945) (0)
- Cohesion and related problems. General discussion (0)
- Adsorption and Hæmoglobin (1923) (0)
- Motions of Bodies of Oil on the Surface of Alcohol-Water Solutions (1932) (0)
- The vapour pressure of Lewisite (1951) (0)
- [Letters to Editor] (0)
- The “Gas Laws” in Surface Solutions (1926) (0)
- Cohesion in surface films (0)
- Surface Chemistry, Pure and Applied (1952) (0)
- Distinguished Thermodynamics (1957) (0)
- The Combination between Oxygen and Hæmoglobin, and the Criteria of Adsorption (1923) (0)
- A Text-Book of Surface Chemistry (1961) (0)
- Note on the explanation of a so-called "intertraction" phenomenon (1928) (0)
- Studies in vapour pressure measurement. Part IV.—the total vapour pressure of mixtures of sulphur trioxide and chlorsulphonic acid (1948) (0)
- LVI.The interpretation of the temperature coefficient of surface tension (1929) (0)
- The Public Schools in Great Britain (1942) (0)
- [Book Reviews] (1963) (0)
- Modern Surface Chemistry (1962) (0)
- Use of the Word Substrate (1937) (0)
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