Carl Peter Henrik Dam and Edward Adelbert Doisy

Taxonomic corrections to species of Rhyparochromidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) described by Carl Peter Thunberg.

Types of Rhyparochromidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea) species described by Carl Peter Thunberg, deposited in the Museum of Evolution (formerly Zoologiska Institut), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, were reexamined and the taxonomic and nomenclatural problems that existed among those species discussed and resolved as required. Lectotypes are designated for Cimex caffer Thunberg, 178...

Panas Henrik

Thermodynamic Properties of Ultra High Temperature Ceramics (UHTCs) Michael W. Finnis1,, T. Davey1*, A.I. Duff 1,2, T.A. Mellan 1 1Imperial College London, Thomas Young Centre, Dept. of Materials and Dept. of Physics, London, UK 2Hartree Centre, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Scientific Computing Department, Warrington, UK *Present address: Department of Finemechanics, Fracture and Reliability Rese...

Edward.

The Life and Unusual Ideas of Adelbert Ames, Jr

This paper is a summary of the life and major achievements of Adelbert Ames, Jr., an American ophthalmologist and perceptual psychologist, who had initially wanted to be a visual artist. He is most widely remembered today as the inventor of the Ames Demonstrations in Perception, the most famous of which consists of a distorted room in which people seem to shrink as they walk from one corner to ...

Carl Woese

Not long after Carl Woese died, I received a message from Robin Gutell asking if I would contribute an article to this issue of RNA Biology. While my admiration for Carl's contributions to biology knows no bounds, I did not know him well personally. For that reason I advised Robin to strike my name off the list of contributors and replace it with that of someone who is better qualified than I a...