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    William Prout FRS (/praʊt/; 15 January 1785 – 9 April 1850) was an English chemist, physician, and natural theologian. He is remembered today mainly for...
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  • William A. Prout was a Liberian politician. Prout was the son of Jacob W. Prout, who served as secretary of the Liberian Constitutional Convention. Prout...
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  • William Christopher Prout (December 24, 1886 – August 4, 1927) was an American athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and was president...
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  • internal structure of the atom. In 1815 and 1816, the English chemist William Prout published two papers in which he observed that the atomic weights that...
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  • physicist William A. Prout, Liberian politician William C. Prout (1886–1927), American athlete Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT) Prout (unit), a...
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    each element combined in fixed proportions to form compounds. In 1815, William Prout reported on his observation that the atomic weights of the elements...
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    of other atoms was developed over a long period. As early as 1815, William Prout proposed that all atoms are composed of hydrogen atoms (which he called...
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  • The "Prout" is a unit of nuclear binding energy, and is 1/12 the binding energy of the deuteron, or 185.5 keV. It is named after William Prout. "Proutons"...
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    term convection is attested in a scientific sense. In treatise VIII by William Prout, in the book on chemistry, it says: This motion of heat takes place...
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    chemist William Prout observed that the atomic weights that had been measured were integer multiples of the atomic weight of hydrogen. Prout's hypothesis...
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  • by extracting them from their oxides with electric current. British William Prout first proposed ordering all the elements by their atomic weight as all...
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  • Berzelius made further improvements to its purification and finally William Prout, in 1817, succeeded in obtaining and determining the chemical composition...
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    term convection is attested in a scientific sense. In treatise VIII by William Prout, in the book on chemistry, it says: [...] This motion of heat takes...
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    presence of gaseous hydrogen chloride at high temperature. In 1827, William Prout recognized fat ("oily" alimentary matters), along with protein ("albuminous")...
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    Samuel Prout (/praʊt/; 17 September 1783 – 10 February 1852) was a British watercolourist, and one of the masters of watercolour architectural painting...
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  • fixed proportions. A related early idea was Prout's hypothesis, formulated by English chemist William Prout, who proposed that the hydrogen atom was the...
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    blood supply, the mesenteries, and fat (adenylyl cyclase). In 1823, William Prout discovered hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice. In 1895, Ivan Pavlov...
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    Hunter, Geoffrey; Wadlinger, Robert L. P. (August 23, 1987). Honig, William M.; Kraft, David W.; Panarella, Emilio (eds.). Quantum Uncertainties: Recent...
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    in abdominal cancer. In 1823, William Prout discovered that stomach juices contain hydrochloric acid. In 1833, William Beaumont published Experiments...
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  • George William Prout (3 November 1902 – 1960) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Lamming, Douglas (1985). A who's who...
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    hippopotamuses. It is less commonly known as melanic acid, the name chosen by William Prout. Accumulation of excess homogentisic acid and its oxide, named alkapton...
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    during the 1810s and 1820s. In 1815, British physician and chemist William Prout noticed that atomic weights seemed to be multiples of that of hydrogen...
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    Digestion, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1834), by William Prout, M.D. In the midst of a movement for reform in the Royal Society and...
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  • Greek mythological character – Prometheism, Promethium. William Prout, British chemist – Prout's hypothesis. Joseph Proust, French chemist – Proust's law...
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  • for his biography of the chemist William Prout which was expanded into the book, From Protyle to Proton: William Prout and the Nature of Matter, 1785–1985...
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    six lectures at Yale University in 1904. Several scientists, such as William Prout and Norman Lockyer, had suggested that atoms were built up from a more...
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    differing arrangements of atoms within a molecular structure. 1827 William Prout classifies biomolecules into their modern groupings: carbohydrates,...
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    protein survived – identifying protein as an essential dietary component. William Prout in 1827 was the first person to divide foods into carbohydrates, fat...
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    murexide. Purpuric acid was first described in 1818 by the English chemist William Prout (1785-1850). Though colourless itself, purpuric acid has a tendency...
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    calculi (such as kidney stones) and called the compound lithic acid. William Prout investigated the compound in 1818 and he used boa constrictor excrement...
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