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The discovery of radioactivity had already been recognized with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, but what Rutherford established was the transformation of one element into another, earlier the alchemist's dream.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

Bill Kenwright, Sir Philip Carter and company will need no reminding that in their previous home game Moyes plotted the downfall of the biggest spenders of them all, Manchester City, and that they would be hard pressed to find another master of the alchemist's art.

André Villas-Boas left looking down both barrels after Everton defeat 2012

More alchemist's cauldron than melting pot, Harlem turned outsiders into insiders: The Dutch became Knickerbocker aristocrats; the British became the WASP Establishment; and the Germans integrated so completely that they disappeared as an ethnic group.

The Mecca of Black America Edward Kosner 2011

In the center of the laboratory was a tall alchemist's ta - ble cluttered with more colorful jars, though these were filled with little creatures of one sort or another sus - pended in liquid.

Stalling 2010

Its enormous hangar has the space and the light to transform photography, and the Fehn exhibition, in its current installation, is like an alchemist's feat.

Norway's Unsung Architectural Hero 2009

He later said the system had "become a vampire that sucks out its the peasant's blood and brains and throws them to the alchemist's cauldron of capital."

Marx and Werewolves (and Vampires) Kevin Maher 2009

He later said the system had "become a vampire that sucks out its the peasant's blood and brains and throws them to the alchemist's cauldron of capital."

Archive 2009-09-01 Kevin Maher 2009

He used his money to go to school and became an alchemist's apprentice.

Kederan nathreee 2007

In its place, Dennett offers his own theory of what goes on in there, employing the metaphor of a "homunculus," the tiny dwarf supposedly created in an alchemist's test tube.

Is The Mind An Illusion? 2008

To rest forever, before death - that, like the alchemist's paradox, spurs the philosopher's curiosity.

On Being a Philosopher 2008