Under terms of Smithson's will, the whole estate went "to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge".
When he died in 1829 a clause in his will bequeathed his fortune to the United States to create in Washington "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men".
I've been reading a new biography of James Smithson, the mysterious English gentleman scientist who died in 1829 and left a half-million dollars to endow a foundation in Washington, D.C. that would create "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men".
In addition to (intermingled) CX43 gap junctions, the other junctions are composed of specialized proteins implicated in cell adhesion, the regulation of paracellular diffusion, the establishment and maintenance of cell polarity, the regulation of cell attachment, and the regulation of actin proteins (Cheng and Mruk, 2002; Derangeron et al., 2009; Cheng et al., 2011).
São Paulo is where the more directional and established designers show, whereas Rio represents the lifestyle, street and diffusion brands.
But the origin and diffusion of religion, like the origin and diffusion of music, laughter, and xenophobia, reside in a largely irretrievable evolutionary past.
"Dilution and diffusion factors as well as chlorination combine to make this type of operation nonfeasible".
McCain's hesitancy means that this week's strong hand for diversity and diffusion of power is Stevens.
The implication of "The Death of Cancer" is, on the contrary, that innovation and diffusion can sometimes conflict.
Studies that use the latest brain-scanning tools — magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging — generally focus on boys.
