CONE-PLATE viscometers are widely used to-day to measure the flow properties of both Newtonian and non-Newtonian materials. The basic idea which led to the cone-plate geometry came from Mooney and ...

When scientist Gregory Pincus first approached the pharmaceutical company G. D. Searle about funding research for an oral contraceptive, Searle's immediate response was no. In the early 1950s ...