An era, a remembrance, a greeting…

An era, a remembrance, a greeting…

I do not wish to commemorate Professor Dagianti based solely on his scientific achievements. It would trivialize his memory. I wish you to remember him as a friend and mentor to all university cardiologists. I am old enough to remember him when he was full of strength and fighting spirit, when he used to discuss with his colleagues about the role of the newborn academic discipline of Cardiology...

Leo Szilard: a personal remembrance.

SINCE retiring as a full-time faculty member about ment of this building. Their plan was to study mutation in bacteria, and they looked for methods to measure 10 years ago, I have occupied myself with writing chronicles of past experiences. The first was an account mutation rates. At Cold Spring Harbor they had encountered Jacques of the advances made in the elucidation of gene expression and i...

Patricia Goldman-Rakic A Remembrance

In the 1960s, scientists were conquering improbable frontiers: the moon was about to be walked upon; the brain cracked open. Neuroscientists were discovering that the secrets of the visual cortex could be broken with single-cell recordings and new anatomical tracing techniques, revealing an extraordinary organization: columns of cells responsive to only one eye; single cells tuned to a specific...

Obituary : A remembrance of Melvin

After a distinguished career of research and teaching, Melvin Calvin died in Berkeley, California on 8 January 1997, at the age of 85. Throughout his life, Calvin exhibited an intense curiosity that drove his scientific research. Although he may be best known for his contributions to our knowledge of photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation and reduction, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

Greeting from the Chairman