A posthumous remembrance of Čeněk Strouhal

Posthumous reproduction.

Obituary : A remembrance of Melvin

After a distinguished career of research and teaching, Melvin Calvin died in Berkeley, California on 8 January 1997, at the age of 85. Throughout his life, Calvin exhibited an intense curiosity that drove his scientific research. Although he may be best known for his contributions to our knowledge of photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation and reduction, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

In remembrance.

“John was an inspiring teacher and experimentalist. His educational passion was creating hands-on experiments built from ordinary parts you can find at any hardware store, what he lovingly called ‘mulch,’” said MIT senior lecturer in physics, and former King student, Peter Dourmashkin ’76 (physics), ’78 (math), PhD ’84. “He was MITx before MITx.” King was born in London and educated in France, ...

Leo Szilard: a personal remembrance.

SINCE retiring as a full-time faculty member about ment of this building. Their plan was to study mutation in bacteria, and they looked for methods to measure 10 years ago, I have occupied myself with writing chronicles of past experiences. The first was an account mutation rates. At Cold Spring Harbor they had encountered Jacques of the advances made in the elucidation of gene expression and i...

Remembrance of Things Past

an unassuming entrance where once passed Alan Turing, Tommy Flowers, and the thousands of men and women who labored in secrecy. Collectively, they changed the outcome of World War II; individually, the contributions of a few laid the foundations of computing. Until recently, a strong possibility existed that Bletchley Park would be lost to modern development. Thanks to the efforts started by To...