Sabattus High School - Yearbook (Sabattus, ME)

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CHEMISTS Amadeo Avogadro, an Italian scientist, was born in 1776 and died in 1856, whlle he was professor of Physics in Turin He enun ciated the law that bears his name and thus laid the foundation for determining the number of atoms in a molecule of an elementary gas Avogadro showed the relation between the law of Gay Lussac and the atomic hypothesis of Dalton He assumed that the molecule of an elementary gas could be composed of smaller units, and that the relative densities of gases agree with the values determined by experiment Ernest Solvay C1839 19227 was born in Belgium He made prec tical a process for obtaining the carbonates of sodium directly from common salt by a precipitation method His scientific achiex ments brought him many honors and great wealth which he used gen erously in phllanthrooic and educational work He was promlnentln the political life of his country and was a member of the Belgian Senate Edward G Acheson, is the inventor of many important processes associated with the graphite and carbon compounds He is famous chiefly as the dlscoverer of carborundum, artificial graphite, and deflocculated graphite In connection with these industries he h s had a great deal to do with the development of electric furnaces He invented graphltized anodes, which are much more durable than carbon electrodes in electrolytic furnaces To meet the need for a highly refractory material he invented siloxlcon, a compound of temperatures He was awarded the Perkins Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry in January, l9lO Sir William Ramsay fl852 19167 was born in Glasgow, Scotland He was known as a remarkably, skillful experimenter He shared with Rayleigh the honor of the discovery of argon This element, although present in the atmosphere to the extent of almost one per cent, had escaped detection because of its chemical inactivity Further works by Ramsay indicated the presence of other previously undiscovered gases in small amounts, in the atmosphere, and showed that helium, formerly known only as a constituent of the sun, was given off by certain minerals With Soddy, he found that hellum lS one of the discomposition products oi radium Ramsay was awarded the Nobel Prize in 190A Robert W Bunsen 11811 18997 was born in Gottingen and edu cated in its university He was professor in several German Un1 versities At Heidelberg he had a career of nearly fifty years as a great teacher and brllliant investigator His researches led to the acceptance of the idea of radicals existing in com ounds Many of his simple and efficient laboratory devices, are in use today, notably the Bunsen burner Bunsen may be regarded as the founder of modern gas analysis His greatest vork was the invention, with Klrchhoff, of the spectroscope This instrument is useful in the detection of known elements, and has led to the discovery of new ones By its means Bunsen found calclum and rabidium ' ll I 1 . 1 . ' 3- . . D O carbon, silicon, and oxygen, which resists fusion even at very high , . ' 0 O .v , . I

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CHEMIQTS Sir Humphrey Davey C1778 18291 was the most brilllant of Eng li h investlgators Hu early appreciated the v lue of the atomic th ory and adopted it He discovered the anesthetic propertles of nltrous oxide He made a very extended study of the effect of pas sing an electrlc ourr nt through substances and dlscover d by thls m ans s veral new elem nts, notably sodium and potasslum Davey CX3ldlHed the chemical nature of acids as compounds of hydrog n, new view of that t1me He pronounced chlorlne to be an element H 1 famed as the inventor of th miner's safety 1.mp He was pr ldent of the Royal Society of England for s ven years Frank Jood, Jr 'to Chemlstry JOHN MARSHALL fl7 5 l 353 John Marshall was born on Sept mber 2A 1755 at Germantown, On th outbreak of the Revolutlonary var, he gav up his law stud 1 s to Joln the patrlot army, and by 1777 recelved the tlln He was at Valley Forg durlng the terrlble wint 1778 took part ln v ral lmportlnt battles, attended law at Wlllizm and Mary Colleg and the followlng year t th r rank of Cap r of 1777 lectures in was admltted Between 1782 1787 Marshall w s s veral tlmes elected to stat Leelslatur of Va and in 1788 he vas chos n del gate to th t t conv ntlon which adopt d the Federal Constltution No man has equal d hlm in developing thf fund mental prlnciwles of the constl tutlon James Monro led th d bite in favor of the ratiflcatlon As years went by, his r putatlon s a lawyer constantly wld n d sident Washlngton asked hlm to be Attorney G ner 1 of the Unlted t H decllnrd, but cons nted to go to Parls in 1797 witr P10 y and Gerry to settle v rlous qu stlon arlsing from TSSUT1CtlOHS Amerlcan commerce On return to the United States he was elect d to dent Adams Congress and in 18Oo, becrrt ry of Qt te ln the cabinet of Pre 1 On January 31, 1801, he began his career as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court H adopt d new methods of procedure, gave the court uthority that he beli ved it wa intended lt should exert, and by mast rly nalysis of constitutional questions, set pr e dent for the lnt rpret tion of n rly eV ry point of the Constltu tlon as lt existed before the wer of seces ion He Served in thl offlc for thlrty four y ars and was the most famous chlef Justice John Marshall was a steadfast supporter of the Constitution We of our day and age have come to an even greater realization of the great benefits that the constitution provides Beverly Cheeseman 'L5 History C' - l H . , S . 3 ca. . C5 1 X V V ' ' f . Q . x ' .- ' ' A .a ' .. ' .1 y La 1 . . Q G x . 3 . . 1 -' n a u ' ' is Q a 1. . . 'A ' 'A . a 2 A A A , . C, . , - Lf :J ' A Q A L 9 CS ' L . f 3 U is . I! I c . . 5 - 3 . Q 1 , Va 6 4. . ' 1 in ' - ,J - . X . . n . , , X . 4 V2 V l . - . , .. . I f . . I A ' o G A Ku ' ' , ' se e ' 1' ' Q '- 'H 1 ' ' f' if ' L 'T 2 U K ' ' . 3 o e ba . n , l ' ' ' '- tl ii H ri , . J, e 8. 1 J e eau e s a e . - - ... 71 1 - t v Ka g G ' e ' 1 J e ' ' - ' I ' '- ' , , I - x . . . I , ' , ' n U A D U L ' 5 - -- A ' - .- .- ' ,- ' U f me r C LJ A .- . ' l ' PPC - -A - 3 1 'n A F1 . ' . . ' ' nDtil US a G ' 3 U ' f ' L K A .1 I H . I . C. r . . . Y nu ' CJ. Q, Q ' . on 1 2 . J 1 ' 1 -6 H I' 1 .x L3 Ll C' Q A . 'X ' xs ' ' 'Q I ' J l 1 .x ' ' - ' -1 ' J 6 2 'a 1 ' J Q . , o , ga f A 6 .1 S .1 A J 'A 6 ' ' ' A tl G ' nz- ': ' 1 - ' D ' ex U-, Q2 ' - . . , C A 'I S 0 A S . . I O U - U f . A . . ,- , X I I r- Q . ,, 1 r x 1 0