Alan Marshall — trapped in his own image

Carl Djerassi: in his own words.

In honor of the 90th birthday of Professor Carl Djerassi, J. I. Seeman has assembled a collection of poignant quotes and excerpts from Djerassi's writings which embody his remarkable life experiences, his philosophies of life, and his unique personality.

Did Menzel Paint His Own Babinski Sign?

Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), one of the greatest German realistic painters of the nineteenth Century (1), painted his right foot from normal perspective with the great toe extended (Figure 1B). The other toes seem to be relaxed. There are no suggestions of foot deformity like pes cavus. Menzel finished that painting, oil on wood panel, in 1876 (1). He gave no official explanation, why he had ...

Carmine Melino: a Universe by his own.

From sympathy to reflex: Marshall Hall and his opponents

RUTH LEYS, From sympathy to reflex: Marshall Hall and his opponents, repr. with a new preface of 'Alison versus Hall: aspects of the formation and reception of the reflex concept in Britain', Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, 1976, New York and London, Garland, 1990, pp. 549, $100.00 (0-8240-0042-0). Leys is right in lamenting the dearth of research on the history of neurophysiology in early ni...

Gilbert Stork: in his own words and in the musings of his friends.

s 1945, 39, 2991(5). Figure 7. Carl Djerassi, learning how to drive a tractor in Tarkio, Missouri, 1941. Photo courtesy C. Djerassi. . Angewandte And Finally 3014 www.angewandte.org 2012 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3012 – 3023 “And then, as I just had thrown it in there, and it fumed furiously and red fumes of who knows what, nitrous oxide of vario...