Eric John Holmyard (1891-1959) was an English science teacher at Clifton College,^[1] and historian of science and technology.

Scholar [link]

His scholarly work included rectification of accounts of the history of alchemy, particularly in relation with Islamic science. He translated texts from Arabic and Latin, and wrote extensively on Geber. He was responsible with D. C. Mandeville for the re-attribution of the alchemical text De Mineralibus to an origin in Avicenna.^[2]

Textbooks [link]

As a textbook author, he pioneered an approach to science teaching that included historical material. "His historicized science books were an enormous and long-term commercial success, with Elementary Chemistry (1925) alone selling half-a-million copies by 1960."^[3]

Teacher [link]

He taught both Nevill Mott and Charles Coulson at Clifton, but his personal influence on them as scientists was low (in Coulson's case, even negative^[4]). Holmyard also published best seller, A Higher School Inorganic Chemistry, along with W.G. Palmer.

Historical works [link]

Kitab al-‘Ilm al-maktasab fi zira‘at adh-dhahab: Book of knowledge acquired concerning the cultivation of gold by Abu 'l-Qasim Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-‘Iraqi (1923) translator
Chemistry to the Time of Dalton (1925)
Avicenna De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum (1927) translator with D. C. Mandeville
The Works of Geber. (1928) with Richard Russell (1678 translator)
Ordinall of Alchemy by Thomas Norton (1929) facsimile, editor
The Great Chemists (1929)
Makers of Chemistry (1931)
Ancestors of An Industry: The story of British scientific achievement (1950)
British Scientists (1951)
Alchemy (1957)
A History of Technology (1954-8) five volumes, with Charles Singer
The Book of knowledge acquired concerning the Cultivation of Gold: An Arabic Alchemical Treatise, by Al-Iraqi (1991) translator

Notes [link]

^ [1]
^ Avicenna
^ Mayer, A. K. (December 2002). "Fatal Mutilations: Educationism and the British Background to the 1931 International Congress for the History of Science and Technology". History of Science 40: 445–472. https://www.princeton.edu/hos/events/past_events/2005-2006/workshop_publications/mayer.pdf.
^ [2]: … Holmyard — the prolific writer of elementary textbooks — apparently met with no success in attracting him towards Chemistry; indeed, he chose quite firmly the Classics.

References [link]

Entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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E&J, short for E & J Gallo Winery

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This SI unit is named after James Prescott Joule. As with every International System of Units (SI) unit named for a person, the first letter of its symbol is upper case (J). However, when an SI unit is spelled out in English, it should always begin with a lower case letter (joule)—except in a situation where any word in that position would be capitalized, such as at the beginning of a sentence or in material using title case. Note that "degree Celsius" conforms to this rule because the "d" is lowercase.— Based on The International System of Units, section 5.2.

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E & J Gallo Winery

E & J Gallo Winery is a winery and distributor headquartered in Modesto, California. It was founded in 1933 by Ernest Gallo and Julio Gallo, and is the largest exporter of California wines.

History

The two brothers started the winery in 1933, following the repeal of Prohibition after years of growing and selling grapes. Ernest and Julio were competing against larger, more established, and better financed companies, including more than 800 wine companies established in the first few years after the repeal of Prohibition in California. Their starting capital was less than $6,000, with $5,000 of that borrowed by Ernest from his mother-in-law. The brothers learned the craft of commercial winemaking by reading old, pre-Prohibition pamphlets published by the University of California which they retrieved from the basement of the Modesto Public Library.

By 1993, E. & J. Gallo was the country's largest winery, with a 25% share of the American wine market.

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