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Lawrence Joseph Henderson

(1878–1942) Chemist United States

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Lawrence Joseph Henderson was a chemist from the United States, best known for The fitness of the environment.

Quick Facts About Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Born: June 3, 1878
Died: February 10, 1942
Nationality: United States
Profession: Chemist
Notable works: The fitness of the environment

About Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Lawrence Joseph Henderson was an American physiologist, chemist, biologist, philosopher, and sociologist. He became one of the leading biochemists of the early 20th century. His work contributed to the Henderson–Hasselbalch equation, used to calculate pH as a measure of acidity.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg doctor honoris causa from the University of Grenoble

Quotes by Lawrence Joseph Henderson

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

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Common

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But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own…

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Conditions

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Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less…

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Labor

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The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be…

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Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

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Accounts

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I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and…

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Chemist

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A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to…

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Adaptation

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