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    Benjamin Silliman (August 8, 1779 – November 24, 1864) was an American chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science...
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    Benjamin Silliman Jr. (December 4, 1816 – January 14, 1885) was a professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the petroleum...
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  • Silliman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aldine Silliman Kieffer (1840–1904), American musician Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864), American...
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    Yale Professor Benjamin Silliman Jr. After conducting a small-scale survey of surface seeps of petroleum in Ventura County, Silliman claimed that California...
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    formula Al2SiO5. Sillimanite is named after the American chemist Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864). It was first described in 1824 for an occurrence in Chester...
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  • Silliman College is a residential college at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, named for scientist and Yale professor Benjamin Silliman. It opened...
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  • Selleck Silliman, brother of Professor Benjamin Silliman and a 1796 graduate of Yale College. She was the mother of two sons, August Ely Silliman and Benjamin...
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    carbonated mineral water by dissolving the CO2 under pressure. In 1807, Benjamin Silliman, a Yale chemistry professor, began producing carbonated water under...
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    Benjamin Douglas Silliman (September 14, 1805 – January 24, 1901) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Silliman was born on September...
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    Selleck Silliman (1732–1790), and they were the parents of Benjamin Silliman, the first person to distill petroleum, and grandparents of Benjamin Silliman, Jr...
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    section of the Temple Court Building was designed by the firm of Benjamin Silliman Jr. and James M. Farnsworth in the Queen Anne, neo-Grec, and Renaissance...
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  • published continuously since its conception in 1818 by Professor Benjamin Silliman, who edited and financed it himself. Until 1880, it was also known...
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  • Yale's Department of Biomedical Engineering Benjamin Silliman Jr., professor of chemistry, son of Benjamin Silliman, founder of Yale Chemistry Department Oktay...
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    at the beginning of sophomore year. Students assigned to Silliman, Timothy Dwight, Benjamin Franklin, and Pauli Murray live in their colleges for all...
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    success in the U.S. Benjamin Silliman, a Yale chemistry professor, was among the first to introduce soda water to America. In 1806, Silliman purchased a Nooth...
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    University chemistry professor Benjamin Silliman investigated a meteorite that fell in Weston, Connecticut. Silliman believed the meteor had a cosmic...
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  • natural science education. Scientific courses introduced by chemist Benjamin Silliman in 1801, made the college an early hub of scientific education, a...
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    fountain daily. Beginning in 1806, Yale University chemistry professor Benjamin Silliman sold soda waters in New Haven, Connecticut. He used a Nooth apparatus...
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    established the analytical technique known as spectrophotometry. In 1855, Benjamin Silliman, Jr. pioneered methods of petroleum cracking, which made the entire...
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  • Physics Allen Ferdinand Owen (1837), US Representative from Georgia Benjamin Silliman Jr. (1837), Yale professor of chemistry: 64  Morrison Remmick Waite...
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    Calhoun, Jonathan Davenport, Timothy Dwight, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Silliman, Ezra Stiles, and Jonathan Trumbull. Samuel Morse was not...
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  • the angle at which the block begins moving at a constant velocity Benjamin Silliman, Principles of Physics, Or Natural Philosophy, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor...
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    of 1820 and 1821 he conducted proto-photographic experiments with Benjamin Silliman. In his piece The Gallery of the Louvre Morse used a Camera obscura...
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  • sounds: p.161–165  which had been noticed by Humphry Davy in 1821, Benjamin Silliman in 1822, Auguste Arthur de la Rive in 1846, and David Edward Hughes...
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    Benjamin Silliman. He joined the junior class of Yale College and attended six lectures per week for a total of seven months, all taught by Silliman....
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    and a half. Other visitors to the area, including Timothy Dwight, Benjamin Silliman and Henry Ward Beecher, extolled its advantages. After an extension...
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  • Gold Selleck Silliman (1732–1790) was a Connecticut militia General during the American War for Independence. Silliman was born in Fairfield, Connecticut...
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    commencement exercises, where Low was present, Yale University professor Benjamin Silliman Jr. criticized Californians for establishing a polytechnic school...
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    science. While at Yale, he attended lectures on electricity from Benjamin Silliman and Jeremiah Day and was a member of the Society of Brothers in Unity...
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    corner of Nassau and Beekman Streets. The Morse Building, designed by Benjamin Silliman Jr. and James M. Farnsworth, contains elements of the Victorian Gothic...
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