Albert Goldbarth: … (2001), Everyday People (2012), and The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale (2017). Goldbarth also wrote essays, including those collected in Great Topics of the World (1996) and Many Circles (2001), and the novel Pieces of Payne (2003).

Miloš Forman: …and Lásky jedné plavovlásky (1965; Loves of a Blonde), had great success both domestically and internationally—the latter received an Academy Award nomination for best foreign-language film—and Forman was hailed as a major talent of the Czech New Wave. His early films were characterized by their examination of working-class life and…

Jean de La Fontaine: Miscellaneous writings and the Contes: …is the leisurely narrative of Les Amours de Psiché et de Cupidon (1669; The Loves of Cupid and Psyche), notable for the lucid elegance of its prose, its skillful blend of delicate feeling and witty banter, and some sly studies of feminine psychology.

John Weaver: In his outstanding serious work The Loves of Mars and Venus (1717) he combined an interest in classical literature with the drama that characterized Italian pantomime and English theatre. The story was told through gesture and movement without spoken or sung explanation. Because of the experimental nature of the ballet,…

tapestry: 17th and 18th centuries: Boucher’s Loves of the Gods were also alentours and enjoyed a great success and popularity, especially among the English nobility. The Story of Don Quixote was designed by Coypel and woven nine times between 1714 and 1794.

Ovid: Works of Ovid: …first poems, the Amores (The Loves), were published at intervals, beginning about 20 bce, in five books. They form a series of short poems depicting the various phases of a love affair with a woman called Corinna. Their keynote is not passion but the witty and rhetorical exploitation of…

Hank Williams: …with the release of “Lovesick Blues,” an old show tune that he parlayed into a chart-topping hit, an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, and international fame.

Mumford & Sons: ), Ben Lovett (b. September 30, 1986, London, England), Winston Marshall (b. December 20, 1987, London, England), and Ted Dwane (b. August 15, 1984, London, England).

Lyle Lovett is an American singer and songwriter whose witty lyrics and use of diverse musical genres provide a unique take on country music. Lovett spent his early years listening primarily to country music and the blues, and he was inspired by Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Nat King Cole, and Ray

Lyle Lovett is an American singer and songwriter whose witty lyrics and use of diverse musical genres provide a unique take on country music. Lovett spent his early years listening primarily to country music and the blues, and he was inspired by Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Nat King Cole, and Ray

Amadeus Quartet: …the introduction in 1946 of Martin Lovett, a British cellist, to the group, the Brainin Quartet was formed.

William Lovett was a Chartist leader in England, the person mainly responsible for drafting the People’s Charter of 1838, demanding electoral reform. A cabinetmaker in London after 1821, he was self-educated in economics and politics and a follower of the utopian socialist Robert Owen. In 1829 he

the Lovin’ Spoonful, American folk rock band with a string of hits in the mid 1960s. The original members were John Sebastian (b. March 17, 1944, New York, New York, U.S.), Zal Yanovsky (b. December 19, 1944, Toronto, Ontario, Canada—d. December 13, 2002, Kingston, Ontario), Steve Boone (b.

Romanian literature: The 20th century: …up by the literary critic Eugen Lovinescu and the poet Nicolae Davidescu, whose epic Cântecul omului (1928–37; “The Song of Man”) aimed at re-creating world history.

Romanian literature: After World War II: …and the intellectual but didactic Horia Lovinescu.

Michael Shannon: Playing Elvis, Estragon, and George Jones: …Special and the historical drama Loving, about the 1967 Loving v. Virginia legal case. With Tom Ford’s metafictional film Nocturnal Animals, Shannon plays a terminally ill Texas lawman and earned his second Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. He was also a surprisingly convincing Elvis Presley

Irvin Kershner: From B-24s to Laura Mars: Kershner’s Loving (1970) is a scathing and often hilarious portrait of adultery in the suburbs, starring George Segal and Eva Marie Saint. Up the Sandbox (1972), from Anne Roiphe’s novel, was a protofeminist comedy featuring Barbra Streisand. Although the movie received mixed reviews, it features one…

Françoise Mallet-Joris: …Le Rempart des béguines (1951; The Illusionist, also published as Into the Labyrinth and The Loving and the Daring), the story of an affair between a girl and her father’s mistress, described with clinical detachment in a sober, classical prose. A sequel, La Chambre rouge (1953; The Red Room), and…

loving cup, large, two-handled cup, often made of silver, that may take many forms. In the past, at weddings, banquets, or meetings, a loving cup might be shared by a number of persons for ceremonial drinking, symbolizing friendship and unity. Loving cups are often given as trophies to winners of

Diane Johnson: In Loving Hands at Home (1968) a woman leaves her Mormon husband and his family, with whom she feels no spiritual kinship, but fails to succeed on her own in the wider world. Burning (1971) satirizes the southern California way of life. The Shadow Knows (1974)…

Javier Bardem: …costarred with Cruz in both Loving Pablo (2017), about the relationship between Pablo Escobar and journalist Virginia Vallejo, and Asghar Farhadi’s family drama Todos lo saben (2018; Everybody Knows).

Colin MacInnes: Later life and work: …Play (1970); the book-length essay Loving Them Both: A Study of Bisexuality and Bisexuals (1973); and Out of the Garden: A Novel (1974), his final novel. In the mid-1960s he acted for a time as the press officer of a Black organization called Defence, and he was a supporter of…

Loving v. Virginia, legal case, decided on June 12, 1967, in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (9–0) struck down state antimiscegenation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case arose after Richard

Loving v. Virginia: …Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a woman of mixed African American and Native American ancestry, traveled from their residences in Central Point, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., to be married on June 2, 1958. Having returned to Central Point, they lived in the home of Mildred’s parents while Richard,…

Sut Lovingood, fictional character, the lively, uneducated protagonist of Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a “Natural Born Durn’d Fool” (1867), a collection of bawdy backwoods tales by American humorist George Washington Harris. Sut, a shiftless, self-deprecating frontiersman, narrates the tales in

Lovington, city, seat (1917) of Lea county, southeastern New Mexico, U.S. Bordered on the east and south by Texas, the county lies on a sandy, grassy plain long favoured by cattle ranchers. Surveyors working for Texas cattleman James B. Love laid out a townsite in 1907, and Love opened a general

David Bowie: …for the avant-garde austerities of Low, a collaboration with Brian Eno, the most eggheaded of the several musical helpmates that Bowie always knew how to put to good use, including guitarists Mick Ronson and Carlos Alomar and ace nouveau-funk producer Nile Rodgers for “Let’s Dance” (1983), when he needed a…

cyclone, any large system of winds that circulates about a centre of low atmospheric pressure in a counterclockwise direction north of the Equator and in a clockwise direction to the south. Cyclonic winds move across nearly all regions of the Earth except the equatorial belt and are generally

launch on warning (LOW), military strategy that allows high-level commanders to launch a retaliatory nuclear-weapons strike against an opponent as soon as satellites and other warning sensors detect an incoming enemy missile. Though the United States had considered the possibility of adopting LOW

Germany: Languages of Germany: …southwest is subdivided into Swabian, Low Alemannic, and High Alemannic. Swabian, the most widespread and still-ascending form, is spoken to the west and south of Stuttgart and as far east as Augsburg. Low Alemannic is spoken in Baden-Württemberg and Alsace, and High Alemannic is the dialect of German-speaking Switzerland. The…

polar ecosystem: …can be divided into the Low Arctic and High Arctic, according to various environmental and biological characteristics. Tundras are most common in the Low Arctic, and polar barrens are dominant in the High Arctic.

hypotension, condition in which the blood pressure is abnormally low, either because of reduced blood volume or because of increased blood-vessel capacity. Though not in itself an indication of ill health, it often accompanies disease. Extensive bleeding is an obvious cause of reduced blood volume

nutritional disease: Sodium: Symptoms of hyponatremia, or low blood sodium, include muscle cramps, nausea, dizziness, weakness, and eventually shock and coma. After prolonged high-intensity exertion in the heat, sodium balance can be restored by drinking beverages containing sodium and glucose (so-called sports drinks) and by eating salted food. Drinking a…

the Kinks: …the United States such as Low Budget (1979). “Come Dancing” (1983), inspired by Davies family history, was a hit in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Thereafter, despite the departure of all the original members except the Davies brothers, the Kinks continued to record and perform until they…

dieting, regulating one’s food intake for the purpose of improving one’s physical condition, especially for the purpose of reducing obesity, or what is conceived to be excess body fat. Dieting plans are based on the reduction of any of the macronutrients (fats, carbohydrates, and proteins) that

Anglican Evangelical: …also been referred to as low churchmen because they give a “low” place to the importance of the episcopal form of church government, the sacraments, and liturgical worship. The term Low Church was used by about the end of the 17th century, although this emphasis within Anglicanism was evident since…

low comedy, dramatic or literary entertainment with no underlying purpose except to provoke laughter by boasting, boisterous jokes, drunkenness, scolding, fighting, buffoonery, and other riotous activity. Used either alone or added as comic relief to more serious forms, low comedy has origins in

Low Countries, coastal region of northwestern Europe, consisting of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. These are together known as the Benelux countries, from the initial letters of their names. The Low Countries are bordered by Germany to the east and France to the south. In 1947 the three

history of the Low Countries, history of the Low Countries from prehistoric times to 1579. For historical purposes, the name Low Countries is generally understood to include the territory of what are today the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg as well as parts of northern France. However,

Steve Earle: Earle’s later recordings included The Low Country (2013); the Texas blues album Terraplane (2015); the country-leaning So You Wannabe an Outlaw (2017); Guy (2019), a tribute record to Guy Clark; and Ghosts of West Virginia (2020), which features songs he wrote for the Off-Broadway play Coal Country, about a

cristobalite: Cristobalite has two modifications: low-cristobalite, which occurs naturally up to 268° C (514° F) but is not stable; and high-cristobalite, which occurs above 268° C but is only stable above 1,470° C. Natural low-cristobalite usually occurs in sub-microcrystalline masses (see opal) or fibrous to columnar spherulites (see lussatite) in…

low Earth orbit (LEO), region of space where satellites orbit closest to Earth’s surface. There is no official definition of this region, but it is usually considered to be between 160 and 1,600 km (about 100 and 1,000 miles) above Earth. Satellites do not orbit below 160 km because they are

commodity trade: Operation of the market: …referred to technically as “low elasticity of supply,” meaning that the amount of a commodity that producers supply to the market is not much affected by the price at which they are able to sell the commodity. If supply could be adjusted relatively quickly to changes in demand, speculation…

explosive: Types of chemical explosives: …explosives and (2) deflagrating, or low, explosives. Detonating explosives, such as TNT and dynamite, are characterized by extremely rapid decomposition and development of high pressure, whereas deflagrating explosives, such as black and smokeless powders, involve merely fast burning and produce relatively low pressures. Under certain conditions, such as the use…

German language: …either the High German or Low German dialectal groups. The main difference between High and Low German is in the sound system, especially in the consonants. High German, the language of the southern highlands of Germany, is the official written language.

pregnancy: Ectopic pregnancy: …uterine cavity, it is a low implantation. When a low implantation occurs, the placenta grows over the cervical opening, in a formation called a placenta praevia. This causes the woman to bleed, often profusely, through the vagina, because the placenta tears as the cervix begins to open during the latter…

the Smiths: His subsequent albums, including Low in High School (2017) and I Am Not a Dog on a Chain (2020), however, were less well received. Despite Morrissey’s aesthetic fluctuations in the decades following the demise of the Smiths, the cult of this true pop original endured.

biblical literature: Non-European versions: …1829 and into Hawaiian and Low Malay in 1835. By 1854 the whole Bible had appeared in all but the last of these languages as well as in Rarotonga (1851).

myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), condition characterized by persistent debilitating fatigue that has no identifiable cause. ME/CFS is a remarkably complex illness and remains incompletely understood. These factors complicate its accurate diagnosis and have raised

bird flu: Subtypes of bird flu virus: …pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) or low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI). With few exceptions (e.g., H5N1, H7N9), most H5, H7, and H9 subtypes are LPAI viruses. LPAI viruses can still cause mild to moderate disease, however. For example, infection with H7N2, H7N3, H7N7, or H9N2 can produce mild to moderate symptoms…

Orinoco River: Physiography of the Orinoco Llanos: The Low Plains (Llanos Bajos) are defined by two rivers, the Apure in the north and the Meta in the south. The lowest portion of the Llanos is an area that lies to the west of the lower Orinoco valley; this area is converted annually into an inland…

cyclone, any large system of winds that circulates about a centre of low atmospheric pressure in a counterclockwise direction north of the Equator and in a clockwise direction to the south. Cyclonic winds move across nearly all regions of the Earth except the equatorial belt and are generally

silica mineral: High quartz (β-quartz): …transition to ordinary quartz (low quartz) on cooling, and all ordinary quartz, when heated above the transition temperature, is transformed into high quartz. The transformation involves displacement of the linkage between the tetrahedrons; no bonds are broken.

South Asian arts: Indian sculpture in the 2nd and 1st centuries bce: relief sculpture of western India: …earliest works are undoubtedly the bas-reliefs on a side wall of the porch of a small monastery at Bhaja. They are commonly interpreted as depicting the god Indra on his elephant and the sun god Surya on his chariot but are more probably illustrations of the adventures of the mythical…

Steve Winwood: …Barleycorn Must Die (1970) and The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971). During the seven years Traffic played together, Winwood briefly quit the group to play with Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, and Ric Grech in Blind Faith; the members of both bands changed frequently.

Carpathian Mountains: Physiography of the Carpathian Mountains: …Spiš basins, run the parallel Lower Tatras, similar in geologic structure but lower (Ďumbier Peak, 6,703 feet) and with a less conspicuous glacial relief. Along the boundary line between the Outer and the Central Western Carpathians extends a narrow strip of klippen (limestone) rocks, which, north of the Tatras, has…

tidal power: Types: …differences between high tides and low tides by using a “barrage,” or type of dam, to block receding water during ebb periods. At low tide, water behind the barrage is released, and the water passes through a turbine that generates electricity.

Bliss Carman: …20 volumes of verse, including Low Tide on Grand Pré (1893); three series of Songs from Vagabondia (1894, 1896, 1901), written in collaboration with Richard Hovey, a poet whom he had met at Harvard; and Sappho (1904), improvisations based on the Greek fragments of Sappho. He also wrote several prose…

tridymite: …three modifications: high-tridymite, middle-tridymite, and low-tridymite. Tridymite forms thin hexagonal plates that are generally twinned, often in groups of three; its name alludes to this habit. It commonly occurs in igneous rocks, more abundantly than cristobalite, as in the trachytes of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; northern Italy; and in the Massif Central,…

asthenosphere, zone of Earth’s mantle lying beneath the lithosphere and believed to be much hotter and more fluid than the lithosphere. The asthenosphere extends from about 100 km (60 miles) to about 700 km (450 miles) below Earth’s surface. Heat from deep within Earth is thought to keep the

eye disease: Optical aids: …special lens systems known as low-vision aids. These devices provide a magnified image but reduce the visual field. Their main value is to enable a person to read normal print that would otherwise be difficult to read. They can be of use for distance, particularly when viewing conditions are relatively…

Tai languages: Phonological characteristics: …follows: level (using no diacritic), low (using a grave accent), falling (using a circumflex), high (using an acute accent), and rising (using a wedge, or haček); for example, maa (with no diacritic) ‘to come,’ màak (with a grave accent) ‘areca nut,’ mâak (with a circumflex) ‘much,’ máa (with an acute…

tidal power: Types: …differences between high tides and low tides by using a “barrage,” or type of dam, to block receding water during ebb periods. At low tide, water behind the barrage is released, and the water passes through a turbine that generates electricity.

wing: Placed below the fuselage, low wings reduce the height of the undercarriage and simplify engine maintenance.

George Low was an Austrian-born American aerospace engineer and manager who made major contributions to the U.S. program of human spaceflight. Throughout his career, Low was noted for his attention to detail, his commitment to technical excellence, and his leadership. Low’s family emigrated to the

George Low was an Austrian-born American aerospace engineer and manager who made major contributions to the U.S. program of human spaceflight. Throughout his career, Low was noted for his attention to detail, his commitment to technical excellence, and his leadership. Low’s family emigrated to the

George Low was an Austrian-born American aerospace engineer and manager who made major contributions to the U.S. program of human spaceflight. Throughout his career, Low was noted for his attention to detail, his commitment to technical excellence, and his leadership. Low’s family emigrated to the

Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Juliette Gordon was born into a prominent Georgia family. She was educated at private schools in Virginia and New York City and for some years thereafter traveled widely. She married William M. Low, a fellow

Penelope Lively is a British writer of well-plotted novels and short stories that stress the significance of memory and historical continuity. After spending her childhood in Egypt, Lively was sent to London at the age of 12 when her parents were divorced. She graduated from St. Anne’s College,

Seth Low was an American municipal reformer, university builder, and philanthropist who, during his tenure as president of Columbia College (renamed Columbia University in 1896), transformed it from a small college on a crowded city block into a large university with an impressive campus on

Sir David Low was a New Zealand-born British journalist, one of the great modern political cartoonists and caricaturists. A self-taught artist, Low was already contributing cartoons to a local weekly paper at the age of 11. At 17 he set out as a full-time free-lance artist, combining this work from

Sir Hugh Low was the first successful British administrator in the Malay Peninsula, whose methods became models for subsequent British colonial operations in Malaya. Before going to the Malay Peninsula, Low had spent an uneventful 30 years as a colonial civil servant on the small island of Labuan,

cement: Types of portland cement: Low-alkali cements are portland cements with a total content of alkalies not above 0.6 percent. These are used in concrete made with certain types of aggregates that contain a form of silica that reacts with alkalies to cause an expansion that can disrupt a concrete.

jet engine: Low-bypass turbofans and turbojets: of internal-combustion engine In the next higher regime of aircraft flight speed, the low supersonic range from Mach numbers above 1 up to 2 or 3, one finds the application of the simple turbojet (with no bypass stream) and the low-bypass turbofan engine (with…

permafrost: Polygonal ground: …the centre and are called low-centre polygons or raised-edge polygons and may contain a pond in the centre. Low-centre, or raised-edge, polygons indicate that ice wedges are actually growing and that the sediments are being actively upturned. If erosion, deposition, or thawing is more prevalent than the up-pushing of the…

cristobalite: Cristobalite has two modifications: low-cristobalite, which occurs naturally up to 268° C (514° F) but is not stable; and high-cristobalite, which occurs above 268° C but is only stable above 1,470° C. Natural low-cristobalite usually occurs in sub-microcrystalline masses (see opal) or fibrous to columnar spherulites (see lussatite) in…

atherosclerosis: Pathophysiology: …more and more fatty materials—primarily low-density lipoproteins (LDLs), protein-lipid complexes that serve as a vehicle for delivering cholesterol to the body—immune cells called macrophages are drawn to the site to scavenge the materials. When filled with lipids, the macrophages become known as “foam cells,” which later die and accumulate in…

polyethylene: Low-density polyethylene: LDPE is prepared from gaseous ethylene under very high pressures (up to about 350 megapascals, or 50,000 pounds per square inch) and high temperatures (up to about 350 °C [660 °F]) in the presence of oxide initiators. These processes yield a polymer structure…

electron diffraction: …techniques, such as LEEDX (low-energy electron diffraction), depend on these diffraction patterns to examine solids, liquids, and gases.

milk: …cream separator by centrifugation, yielding low-fat milk and skim milk. Low-fat milk contains 1–2 percent fat, while skim milk contains less than 0.5 percent fat.

lo-fi music, genre of music production in which a recording is intentionally rendered to include imperfections, such as harmonic distortion, background noise, or other anomalous sounds. Such irregularities are normally filtered out of professional recordings, since they generally are undesirable.

cement: Types of portland cement: (Type II), high-early-strength (Type III), low-heat (Type IV), and sulfate-resistant (Type V). In other countries Type II is omitted, and Type III is called rapid-hardening. Type V is known in some European countries as Ferrari cement.

economic development: …by the World Bank: “low-income developing countries” in 1985 were defined as those with per capita incomes below $400; “middle-income developing countries” were defined as those with per capita incomes between $400 and $4,000. To be sure, countries with the same per capita income may not otherwise resemble one…

Affordable housing is housing for individuals or families with what are considered “low” incomes. Definitions of what counts as “affordable” housing vary widely and, when defined by local governments, are typically dependent on multiple local factors. In the United States, for example, the federal

the Troubles: …textbook categorization as a “low-intensity conflict.” Some 3,600 people were killed and more than 30,000 more were wounded before a peaceful solution, which involved the governments of both the United Kingdom and Ireland, was effectively reached in 1998, leading to a power-sharing arrangement in the Northern Ireland Assembly at…

marketing: Low-involvement purchases: There are two types of low-involvement purchases. Habitual buying behaviour occurs when involvement is low and differences between brands are small. Consumers in this case usually do not form a strong attitude toward a brand but select it because it is familiar. In…

nuclear ceramics: Low-level waste: ) Over the years low-level wastes (LLW) have accumulated from the processing of nuclear fuels and wastes. These consist of aqueous solutions and sludges, which customarily have been stored in steel-lined underground tanks. However, concerns over actual and potential leaks from these tanks leading…

water supply system: Pumps: …nearby treatment plant are called low-lift pumps. These move large volumes of water at relatively low discharge pressures. Pumps that discharge treated water into arterial mains are called high-lift pumps. These operate under higher pressures. Pumps that increase the pressure within the distribution system or raise water into an elevated…

warning system: The visible region: …panel; this version is called low-light-level television.

sound: Acoustic filtration: …area will function as a low-pass filter, reflecting high frequencies; an opening or series of openings will function as a high-pass filter, removing low frequencies. Some automobile mufflers make use of this type of filter.

pirate radio: From piracy to microbroadcasting: Congress to ease restrictions on low-power FM (LPFM) broadcasts. By the early 21st century those efforts had guided some 800 microbroadcasters through the transition from pirate to fully licensed radio station, and the Local Community Radio Act, passed by Congress in 2010, made it easier for noncommercial LPFM broadcasters to…

sodium-vapour lamp: A low-pressure sodium-vapour (LPS) lamp contains an inner discharge tube made of borosilicate glass that is fitted with metal electrodes and filled with neon and argon gas and a little metallic sodium. When current passes between the electrodes, it ionizes the neon and argon, giving a…

art conservation and restoration: Paintings on canvas: …been introduced by using a low-pressure suction table, from which the water is removed through spaced perforations in the table surface with a powerful downdraft of air. Pressure-sensitive adhesives have also been introduced as lining adhesives but have not been widely adopted. Although all these methods are currently in use,…

criminology: Sociological theories: The theory of low self-control retains the focus on restraints from engaging in crime but argues that those restraints are primarily internal. People with low self-control, according to this theory, are impulsive and insensitive to others, tend to engage in physical rather than mental activities and to take…

therapeutics: Hypertension: …with hypertension benefit from a low-sodium diet (reduced sodium chloride [table salt] intake) and physicians often recommend this as part of the initial therapy for hypertension. If alterations in diet fail to counteract the hypertension, drugs such as diuretics may be prescribed along with potassium supplements (because most diuretics may…

ship: Diesel: The low-speed engine is characterized by rated speeds in the range of 80–120 revolutions per minute. In all cases it is a two-stroke engine supercharged by exhaust-gas turbochargers. Whereas medium-speed engines are widely employed ashore, the low-speed engine is almost exclusively a marine engine that is…

electric generator: Waterwheel generators: The construction of low-speed synchronous generators is substantially different from that of high-speed units. To produce power at 60 hertz, the number of rotor poles is in the range of 10 to 120 for the above speed range. For these machines the rotor poles are of the projecting,…

Chinese pottery: Song dynasty: The earliest known example of overglaze painting in the history of Chinese pottery bears a date equivalent to 1201. The technique was more widely used for the decoration of Cizhou wares in the 14th century. In both the variety and the vigour of their forms and decoration, Cizhou stonewares present…

low-temperature phenomena, the behaviour of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero −273.15 °C (−459.67 °F). At such temperatures the thermal, electric, and magnetic properties of many substances undergo great change, and, indeed, the behaviour of matter may seem strange when compared with

Carl Shipp Marvel: …research, he developed the “cold rubber” process for American industry. During the late 1950s, in his syntheses of high-temperature-resistant synthetic materials for the U.S. space program, he developed the technique of cyclopolymerization. In one of the most important advances in the chemistry of high-temperature polymers during the 1960s, Marvel…