A visit to Doctor Jean-Bernard Causse, Béziers and Professor Jacques Magnan, Marseille

Doctor Bernard de Gordon: professor and practitioner

ascribed in the later of its two MSS. to Bartolomeo de Varignana and accepted as such by Dr. Siraisi (cf. also Isis 1977, pp. 33-39). In the list taken from its preface and printed as Appendix 2, the commentator describes Galen's method of dividing up the art of medicine, illustrating it with examples of individual treatises. Since he expressly notes where a tract no longer survives, it is fair...

Applied Nonlinear Control JEAN - JACQUES

Jean Jacques DuMortier 1904-1934

Jean DuMortier from whom he received a rich physical and mental' inheritance. His early education was received in the Norwalk public schools and at Harstrom's Preparatory School. He went to Williams College for two years, where he creditably participated in athletics-swimming, track, and football. His last two years of college were spent at Columbia University where he received the degree of Ba...

Jean-jacques Laffont: a Look Back

Jean-Jacques Laffont, economist extraordinaire and visionary founder of the Institut de l’Economie Industrielle (IDEI) in Toulouse, died at his home in Colomiers on May 1 after a valiant battle against cancer. He was fifty-seven years old. Laffont is remarkable for having had three distinct professional identities and for performing at the very highest level in all of them. First, he was one of...

Vladimir Oksman and Jean - Jacques Werner , Lucent Bell Laboratories

ew, if any, other technical inventions have had as much impact on mankind as Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876. Nearly a billion exist worldwide, reliably enabling communication from nearly any point on Earth with any other point, with wireless versions completing the coverage to ubiquity. The television, computer, and radio perhaps deserve mention as contemporaries of the simple phone....