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schradan (medicine)


schradan


C8H24N4O3P2;a potent irreversible organophosphate cholinesterase inhibitor used as an insecticide. It was prepared for potential use as a nerve gas. Poisoning produces a cholinergic crisis which can be fatal.

Synonym: octamethyl pyrophosphoramide.

Origin: Gerhard Schrader, Ger. Chemist, + -an


Wilson, Edmund (sh)




born May 8, 1895, Red Bank, N.J., U.S.
died June 12, 1972, Talcottville, N.Y.

U.S. critic and essayist.

He attended Princeton University and initially worked as a reporter and magazine editor. Much of his Writing, in which he probed diverse subjects with scholarship and common sense in clear and precise prose, was published in The New Republic and The New Yorker. Among his influential critical works are Axel's Castle (1931), a survey of the Symbolist poets; To the Finland Station (1940), a study of the thinkers who set the stage for the Russian Revolution; and Patriotic Gore (1962), analyzing American Civil War literature. His Other writings include plays, poetry, the short-story collection Memoirs of Hecate County (1946), and five volumes of posthumously published journals. He was widely regarded as the leading critic of his time.


Edmund Wilson

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