AtomicQuote

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Quote

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

Tags: discovery, fame, famous, name, natural, nobel laureate, science, time

Related Quotes

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

Amit Kalantri

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

Tags: advertising, amit kalantri, amit kalantri writer, business, business strategy, catch line, catch phrases, corporate, creative, creativity

Beauty is not a warrant for wellbeing and so does happiness not hinge on social success, but is only tangible via intricate, meandering discovery journeys in the mind. ("Absence of beauty was like hel...

Erik Pevernagie

Beauty is not a warrant for wellbeing and so does happiness not hinge on social success, but is only tangible via intricate, meandering discovery journeys in the mind. ("Absence of beauty was like hel...

Tags: absence, beauty, discovery, happiness, hell, hinge on, intricate, journeys, meandering, mind

Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with it as its frontier. An atmosphere inhabited by living transparencies: there's a beginning of the unk...

Victor Hugo

Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with it as its frontier. An atmosphere inhabited by living transparencies: there's a beginning of the unk...

Tags: ambiguity, daydreams, discovery, dreams, imagination, nebulous, psychology, reality

You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself - well that could be because actually know deep down that we are indeed eternal. We come into this...

Jay Woodman

You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself - well that could be because actually know deep down that we are indeed eternal. We come into this...

Tags: art, balancing, being, blissful, celebrating, companion, connection, craft, creating, dedication

Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.

DaShanne Stokes

Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.

Tags: adopt, adoptee, adoptees, adoption, adoption and attitude, adoption day, adoption month, adoption search, adoption story, change

Heresy would like to think of itself as 'invented Truth'. But of course, all Reason and Logic would agree that no man can ever create Truth; he can only discover it. If heresy were ever at all benefic...

Criss Jami

Heresy would like to think of itself as 'invented Truth'. But of course, all Reason and Logic would agree that no man can ever create Truth; he can only discover it. If heresy were ever at all benefic...

Tags: answers, apologetics, argumentation, beliefs, church, create, deceit, definition, discovery, doctrine

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from poster...

Antoine Lavoisier

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from poster...

Tags: chemistry, discovery, french, invention, oxygen theory, posterity, science, scientific theory, scientist, theory

It is clear looking at statistics of inventions, discoveries and fortune 500 companies, that it is not the believers that are managing the affairs of the earth. What a tragedy!!!

Sunday Adelaja

It is clear looking at statistics of inventions, discoveries and fortune 500 companies, that it is not the believers that are managing the affairs of the earth. What a tragedy!!!

Tags: affairs, believers, discovery, earth, fortune, inventions, tragedy

If there really are such creatures in here, it would be the discovery of a lifetime.’'If there really are such creatures in here,’ Sally countered, 'your lifetime might be very short.

Christopher Pike

If there really are such creatures in here, it would be the discovery of a lifetime.’'If there really are such creatures in here,’ Sally countered, 'your lifetime might be very short.

Tags: christopher pike, creatures, discovery, monsters, sally wilcox, spooksville, the haunted cave

I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by

Linus Pauling

I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by

Tags: discovery, discovery of dna, dna, francis crick, genetics, james watson, nobel laureate, science, watson and crick
About Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. (Dutch: [vɑn (ə)t ˈɦɔf]; 30 August 1852 – 1 March 1911) was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical affinity, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and chemical thermodynamics. In his 1874 pamphlet, van 't Hoff formulated the theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom and laid the foundations of stereochemistry. In 1875, he predicted the correct structures of allenes and cumulenes as well as their axial chirality. He is also widely considered one of the founders of physical chemistry as the discipline is known today.