Alcuin, Friend of Charlemagne: His World and His Work

Homer, His Art and His World [Review]

Jin Akiyama: A Friend and His Mathematics

Jin’s story from three perspectives.

Leonhard Euler His Life, The Man, and His Work

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Euler’s birth (on April 15), an attempt is made to bring Euler’s genius to the attention of a broad segment of the educated public. The three stations of his life—Basel, St. Petersburg, and Berlin—are sketched and the principal works identified in more or less chronological order. To convey a flavor of his work and its impact on modern science, a sele...

Stackebrandt Calls Microbial Systematics Both His Hobby and His Work

M icrobial taxonomists are cautious about adopting novel approaches for classifying organisms. Not that I was ever against progress, but I often struck a wait-and-see attitude during more than 30 years of exposure to the latest scientific means for identifying, naming, and classifying microbial species and genera. This caution comes for two main reasons. First, taxonomists have been struggling ...

Semmelweis: his Life and Work

Wildberger became a renowned local figure and received an honorary medical doctorate from Jena and many foreign honours. In later life he moved his institute to Forchheim, where he had the assistance of his medically-qualified son before the latter emigrated to America. His writings on the proper training of orthopaedic surgeons, with their insistence on early specialist education in methods an...