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Charles Martin Hall
Charles Martin Hall was an American inventor, businessman, and chemist. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminium, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron. He was one of the founders of Alcoa, along with Alfred E. Hunt; Hunt's partner at the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, George Hubbard Clapp; H…
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science · American inventor, businessman, and chemist (1863–1914) · chemist · inventor · also Charles Martin Hall, Charles Hall, Hall
Born 6 December 1863 · Died 27 December 1914 · Q443131
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We must never substitute a doctrine of Black supremacy for white supremacy. For the doctrine of Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy. God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men but God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race, the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers
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2026· 2 entries
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2010· 1 entry
Published “BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features” in Bioinformatics — cited 27,760 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Published “SMOTE: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique” in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research — cited 26,865 times.
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1997· 1 entry
The production of aluminum by electrochemistry discovered by Hall was designated as a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1976).
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1963· 1 entry
“We must never substitute a doctrine of Black supremacy for white supremacy. For the doctrine of Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy. God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men but God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race, the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers”
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1958· 1 entry
“We too know the Jesus that the minister referred to. We have had an experience with him and we believe firmly in the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. I can see no conflict between our devotion to Jesus Christ and our present action. In fact, I can see a necessary relationship. If one is truly devoted to the religion of Jesus he will seek to rid the earth of social evils. The gospel is social as well as personal..”
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1914· 2 entries
Died 1914-12-27.
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Twenty-one days after he had reached the age of 51, in Daytona, Florida
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1911· 1 entry
Won Perkin Medal (1911).
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1886· 3 entries
Hall filed for his first patent
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Involves passing an electric current through a bath of alumina dissolved in cryolite, which results in a puddle of aluminum forming in the bottom of the retort
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Of an inexpensive method for producing aluminium, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron
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1884· 1 entry
After setting up a homemade coal-fired furnace and bellows in a shed behind the family home, Hall again tried to find a catalyst that would allow him to reduce aluminum with carbon at high temperatures: "I tried mixtures
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1880· 1 entry
At the age of 16, he enrolled at Oberlin College
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1863· 1 entry
Born 1863-12-06.
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1860· 1 entry
After the outbreak of the Civil War forced the closing of foreign missions
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1853· 1 entry
“Of Justice and the Conscience”
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1849· 1 entry
And the next ten years were spent in missionary work in Jamaica, where the first five of their eight children were born
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1847· 1 entry
And studied for three years at the Oberlin Theological Seminary, where he met his future wife, Sophronia Brooks
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