Alexander S. Nadas (1913–2000)

Alexander Fleming ' S Miraculous Discovery of Penicillin

Antibiotics, chemicals produced by microorganisms that kill other microorganisms, were discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. Antibiotics kill bacteria by breaking down their cell walls (Sun, 2005). As a result, they are effective treatments for bacterial infections. Prior to the discovery of antibiotics, people with simple wounds and infectious diseases could not be treated. These people oft...

"alexander,s mien in the wavy mirrors"

undoubtedly, macedonian alexander is one of the history makers and effective miens in the history and civilization of human being. it is surprising that independent works on alexander in persian literature are much more than any other historical or mythical figure. in addition to many historical texts which are talking about alexander,s life and personality in detail, eight works have been writ...

Alexander Ogilvy

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As a former student of Professor Ostrowski—one of his last— I am delighted to recall here the life and work of one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century. Needless to say that, in view of Ostrowski’s immense and vastly diverse mathematical legacy, this can be done only in a most summary fashion. Further literature on Ostrowski can be found in some of the references at the end of this a...

Alexander Sturn

Cluster Analysis for Large Scale Gene Expression Studies High throughput gene expression analysis is becoming more and more important in many areas of biomedical research. cDNA microarray technology is one very promising approach for high throughput analysis and provides the opportunity to study gene expression patterns on a genomic scale. Thousands or even tens of thousands of genes can be spo...