- Gadolin, Aksel Vilgelmovich by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... general of artillery (1890).Gadolin graduated from the Mikhail Artillery School in 1849 and remained there to teach. Beginning in 1867 he served as a professor at the Mikhail Artillery Academy, where he introduced a special course in artillery technology. Gadolin developed a method for hooping the barrels of artillery pieces (1861). He was the first to propose ...
- Aksel Gadolin by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... general of artillery (1890).Gadolin graduated from the Mikhail Artillery School in 1849 and remained there to teach. Beginning in 1867 he served as a professor at the Mikhail Artillery Academy, where he introduced a special course in artillery technology. Gadolin developed a method for hooping the barrels of artillery pieces (1861). He was the first to propose ...
- Aksel Vilgelmovich Gadolin by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... general of artillery (1890).Gadolin graduated from the Mikhail Artillery School in 1849 and remained there to teach. Beginning in 1867 he served as a professor at the Mikhail Artillery Academy, where he introduced a special course in artillery technology. Gadolin developed a method for hooping the barrels of artillery pieces (1861). He was the first to propose ...
- gadolinium (Gd) by Adriana Rodgers
Etymology: Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, 1760-1852. a rare earth metallic element. Its atomic number is 64, and its atomic mass is 157.25. It is now widely used as an MRI contrast agent. (in radiology) a phosphor used to intensify screens.
- Gadolin, Joban by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... rare-earth metals, one of which was called gadolinium.WORKS Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen in Auswahl. Helsinki, 1910. (With biography, survey of activities, and list of papers by Gadolin.)