eth
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- noun
- /ɛθ/
- Specialized
- In the summer of 1953, Pauli gave a course at the ETH in Zurich on relativity—his first love.
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Wthrich joined ETH in 1969, five years after he had earned a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Basel in Switzerland, and began working on NMR.
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Nine of the top 10 tech-focused universities improved their positions, led by MIT, Imperial College (6), Caltech (10), and ETH Zurich (13).
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From ETH in Zurich, this interesting essay on the last glacial period has some interesting points to ponder.
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He also studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
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Data were supplied by 139 respondents to a job advertisement published by the Chair for the Social and Natural Environmental Science Interface of ETH Zurich.
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After five years at Varian Associates in Palo Alto, California, he started an academic career at ETH Zurich.
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Prof. Richard R. Ernst was educated as a physical chemist at ETH Zurich and finished his studies with a PhD in Chemistry in 1962.
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ETH's Richard Ernst, with whom Wthrich collaborated from 1977 to 1986, earned the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in developing NMR methods (see PHYSICS TODAY, December).
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The prefix eth in the word ethanol indicates that it contains a two-carbon group.
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In organic chemistry, the term eth is used to describe compounds like ethane and ethanol.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Eth in chemistry comes from the older name ethyl, first used for ether-like liquids. It became the short form for a 'two carbon atoms' group, so in ethane and ethanol eth tells you the molecule has two carbon atoms.