1998 AATS scientific achievement award recipient—Norman E. Shumway, MD, PhD

Irvine Page-Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award 1998.

Hypertension Research Clinical Fellowship Award 1998 The purpose of this program and research award is to stimulate physicians-in-training to pursue a career in clinical research in hypertension. The research fellow must be conducting work in which he is the major senior investigator in any area of his choice including clinical or laboratory aspects of the hypertensive diseases. The fellow’s wo...

Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award Lecture 2011: Defeating Diabesity

Matthias H. Tschöp, MD, fromMunich, Germany, received the American Diabetes Association’s prestigious 2011 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award. The award was presented at the Association’s 71st Scientific Sessions in San Diego, California in June 2011. The Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award recognizes distinguished scientific achievement in the field of diabetes, taking into consider...

, MD , PhD TONI BRANSFORD , MD , FACC

ACL Lifetime Achievement Award

This article offers a personal perspective on the development of language and information processing over the last half century, focusing on the use of statistical methods. Introduced, with computers, in the 1950s, these have not always been highly regarded, but were revived in the 1990s. They have proved effective in more ways than might have been expected, and encourage new thinking about wha...

Achievement Award: Sample Solutions

Answer Just before the moon passes into the shadow of the earth it is almost collinear with the sun and earth and on the opposite side of the earth from the sun [1]. This means that when viewed from the earth it is fully illuminated (full moon) [1]. The orbit of the moon around the earth is not coplanar with the orbit of the Ear th around the sun [1]. A full lunar eclipse can only occur if full...