Mayow

Three of Mayow Aden Ali's six children have died at Dadaab: On Friday, he buried his 6-month-old daughter and her 5-year-old sister.

Malnourished Somali baby thriving as rare success 2011

Three of Mayow Aden Ali's six children have died at Dadaab: On Friday, he buried his 6-month-old daughter and her 5-year-old sister.

Malnourished Somali baby thriving as rare success 2011

The retarding influence, which in former times was continuously exercised not only by incorrect opinions that had become firmly established but also by insufficient experimental groundwork, is plainly observable, and this explains the fact that during the seventeenth century the solution of the problem was not, and could not, be arrived at by such scientists as Boyle, Mayow, and Hales; it was only obtained

Nobel Prize in Physics 1904 - Presentation Speech 1967

The first were written by John Mayow in 1670, then less than 30 years of age, whose observations on the power of saltpetre to set fire to organic substances led him to the view that certain igneo-aer al particles existed in saltpetre, in the air, and also in organic substances.

Physiology or Medicine 1931 - Presentation Speech 1965

Your discovery about the nature and effect of the ferment of respiration, which the Caroline Institute is rewarding this year with Alfred Nobel's Prize for Physiology or Medicine, has added a link of brilliant achievement to the chain that binds for all time, John Mayow (England), Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (France), and Otto Warburg (Germany).

Physiology or Medicine 1931 - Presentation Speech 1965

If there was no change in the total weight of the apparatus and its contents, and if air rushed in when the vessel was opened after the calcination, and the total weight was then greater than at the beginning of the process, it would be necessary to adopt either the supposition of Rey or that of Mayow.

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

Mayow called the active component of the atmosphere _fiery air_; but he was unable to say definitely what becomes of this fiery air when a substance is burnt, although he thought that, in some cases, it probably attaches itself to the burning substances, by which, therefore, it may be said to be fixed.

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

This description of processes of burning was much more in keeping with the ideas of the time than that given by Boyle, Rey and Mayow.

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

Mayow proved that the air wherein a substance is burnt, or an animal breathes, diminishes in volume during the burning, or the breathing.

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

Boyle supposed that the increase in weight which accompanies the calcination of a metal is due to the fixation of "matter of fire" by the calcining metal; Rey regarded the increase in weight as the result of the combination of the air with the metal; Mayow thought that the atmosphere contains two different kinds of "airs," and one of these unites with the heated metal.

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir