• John Desmond Bernal FRS (/bərˈnɑːl/; 10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular...
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    A Bernal sphere is a type of space habitat intended as a long-term home for permanent residents, first proposed in 1929 by John Desmond Bernal. Bernal's...
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  • The John Desmond Bernal Prize is an award given annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to scholars judged to have made a distinguished...
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  • structure of DNA was recognized by the Nobel committee. Working under John Desmond Bernal, Franklin led pioneering work at Birkbeck on the molecular structures...
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  • Egypt and Syria-Palestine. Bernal was born and grew up in Hampstead, London, the son of the physicist John Desmond Bernal and artists' patron Margaret...
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  • Colombian road cyclist Jesús Aparicio-Bernal, Spanish politician Jesús Mosquera Bernal, Spanish actor John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971), Irish-born biophysicist...
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    for a PhD at Newnham College, Cambridge, under the supervision of John Desmond Bernal. It was then that she became aware of the potential of X-ray crystallography...
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  • countries, regions and sectors. Throughout his career and influenced by John Desmond Bernal, his mentor at the London School of Economics where he studied after...
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  • atoms in water ice. They are also known as Bernal–Fowler rules, after British physicists John Desmond Bernal and Ralph H. Fowler who first described them...
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    are moved to one end of the ingot. Zone refining was invented by John Desmond Bernal and further developed by William G. Pfann in Bell Labs as a method...
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    paragraphs (alinéa, verset, articulet) composing a book." In 1939 John Desmond Bernal envisioned a network of scientific archives, which was briefly considered...
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  • Merton Award of the American Sociological Association and the 2005 John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science among many others...
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    Bayley Charlie Bean John Desmond Bernal Archie Bland Peregrine Bland Andrew Bowie, philosopher Angus Bowie Ajahn Brahm Malcolm Brenner John Burnett, historian...
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  • as to write an article entitled "Anti-Latour". He was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science in 1996 in recognition...
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  • She was also for a time the partner of Professor John Desmond Bernal. She was known as "Mrs Bernal" for most of her life, but they were never married...
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    is in the 1929 essay "The World, The Flesh, & The Devil" by John Desmond Bernal. Bernal's essay was the first publication to reach the public and influence...
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    for Harper's Magazine and The New Yorker. His honors include the John Desmond Bernal Prize (2001) and the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for Social...
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  • Philosophy at Michigan State University. In 2013 she was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize by the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). Sandra...
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  • English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1979) 1901 – John Desmond Bernal, Irish-English crystallographer and physicist (d. 1971) 1901 – Hildrus...
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  • Science in History is a four-volume book by scientist and historian John Desmond Bernal, published in 1954. It was the first comprehensive attempt to analyse...
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  • Carson Prize for "a work of social or political relevance", the John Desmond Bernal Prize for an individual who made "a distinguished contribution to...
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    Famine through loss of yields. Almost alone among Western scientists, John Desmond Bernal, Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, London, a Fellow of the...
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  • be done and would remain a face-to-face, social situation. 2009 John Desmond Bernal Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science. Honorary Doctorate...
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    Crystallographic Data. William Astbury William Barlow C. Arnold Beevers John Desmond Bernal William Henry Bragg William Lawrence Bragg Auguste Bravais Glenn...
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    solutions because they expel water molecules. Scientists as far back as John Desmond Bernal in the late 1940s thus speculated that clay surfaces would play a...
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    Tasmanian wolf. Increasing protein crystals were found. In 1934, John Desmond Bernal and his student Dorothy Hodgkin discovered that protein crystals...
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  • (scientist) Jerome Wolken Johan Paulsson John C. Taschner John Desmond Bernal John Heuser John Hopfield John Kendrew Journal of Applied Biomechanics Julia...
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  • within science and technology studies. In 2023, he was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science, for lifetime...
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    the laboratory of the physicist John Desmond Bernal, who was a former student of Bragg, in Cambridge, UK. She and Bernal took the first X-ray photographs...
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    Argentine–Venezuelan social anthropologist. In 2017, she was recognized with the John Desmond Bernal Prize Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science. Vessuri...
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