Charles Stent Charles Stent Charles Stent (1807–1885) was a 19th-century English dentist notable for his advances in the field of denture making. In 1847, Edwin Truman introduced gutta-percha as a material for making dental impressions; however, this was unsatisfactory for several reasons, including its tendency to distort upon removal from the patient's mouth, and to shrink upon cooling. In 1856, Stent added several other materials to the gutta-percha, notably stearine, which markedly improved the plasticity of the material as well as its stability. He also added talc as an inert filler to give more body to the material, and red colouring. The
Gunther Stent These personal memories illustrated the unique intellectual spirit of the phage group during its early crucial years (1948–1950). His introductory textbook, "Molecular Genetics; an Introductory Narrative" has been translated into Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. He was perhaps most generally known for his works on the progress of science, especially his 1969 lectures at Berkeley published as "The Coming of the Golden Age". Stent lectured in the molecular biology portion of Biology 1 at UC Berkeley. He had a very unusual lecture style; he introduced the major experiments that advanced the field of molecular biology in chronological order. It provided