Alan William James Cousins 1903-2001

James F . Crow and William F . Dove A Centennial : George W . Beadle , 1903 – 1989

GEORGE BEADLE was a quadruple-threat man— Keim, stayed on for several additional months. At that time he was interested in ecology, and his first publicascientist, teacher, administrator, and public citizen. He excelled in each. Furthermore, he did what tion dealt with pasture grasses (Beadle 1927). He loved the rural life and originally expected to be a farmer. He very few geneticists did in h...

Alan Wolffe (1959–2001)

Lab Chiefs in the history of the NIH. Alan Wolffe, an internationally recognized investigator The Laboratory of Molecular Embryology was quickly in chromatin research, died May 26 as a result of injuries organized with Alan’s characteristic vigor and intensity. suffered in a traffic accident in Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil, He recruited a strong group of junior faculty, all of whom where he was atten...

William James on the Self

In the late nineteenth century William James pieced together a theory of self that is remarkably modern, some might say 'post-modern.' In Chapter X of his magnum opus, The Principles of Psychology (1890), entitled "The Consciousness of Self," James discusses the manifold nature of the self treating it in its native complexity. Among other things, he proposes a notion of identity and experience ...

William James as American Plato ?

Alfred North Whitehead wrote a letter to Charles Hartshorne in 1936 in which he referred to William James as the American Plato. Especially given Whitehead’s admiration of Plato, this was a high compliment to James. What was the basis for this compliment and analogy? In responding to that question beyond the partial and scattered references provided by Whitehead, this article briefly explores t...

Alan Rumsey and James Weiner / Emplaced Myth