Baron Nordenskjöld's Expedition to Greenland

Paul F. Cranefield Award to Baron Chanda

The late Paul F. Cranefield, MD, PhD, was the editor of The Journal of General Physiology for 30 years, from 1966 to 1995. During his editorship, Dr. Cranefield worked tirelessly to advance the mission of the Journal: to promote and publish original research of the highest quality that elucidates basic biological, chemical, or physical mechanisms of broad physiological significance, and provide...

Baron Munchhausen's Sequence

We investigate a coin-weighing puzzle that appeared in the all-Russian Mathematics Olympiad in 2000. The methods of analysis differ from classical coin-weighing puzzles. We generalize the puzzle by varying the number of participating coins, and deduce a complete solution. Perhaps surprisingly, the objective can be achieved in no more than two weighings regardless of the number of coins involved.

Asaf Baron , Isask ' har

Measuring and comparing performance, cost, and other attributes of SpaceWire networks is a significant challenge. A new benchmark for SpaceWire-based satellites is presented. The benchmark contains a potential architecture of a multi-mission satellite, as well as specifications of the traffic flow. The proposed benchmark is demonstrated on an OPNET-based network simulation for various network c...

Liverpool University Expedition to Jamaica

Baron Larrey (1766-1842)

in 1766, three years before Napoleon Bonoparte, whose loving follower Larrey was destined to become. His birthplace was in the romantic region of the High Pyreniees, at the village of Beaudeau. At the period of Larrey's birth, centuries of misrule were about to culminate in a mighty catastrophe for Franice. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, France was the most powerful nation in Europ...