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 ...

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 ...