Carl Ritter: educador e geógrafo

ACORN-STORING BY THE CALIFORNIA WOODPECKER By WILLIAM E. RITTER

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...

The University of Toledo Ritter Astrophysical Research

1. PERSONNEL During the report period, Pierini left to take up a position at the Max-Planck-Inst. für Extraterrestrische Physik ~Garching, Germany!. Lerothodi Leeuw joined the Center as a postdoctoral research associate working with Witt. Miroshnichenko was promoted to Research Assistant Professor. K. Bjorkman was promoted to Professor and was on sabbatical leave during academic year 2002–2003....

Manuel Frondel , Nolan Ritter , and Christoph

This article demonstrates that the large feed-in tariffs currently guaranteed for solar electricity in Germany constitute a subsidization regime that, if extended to 2020, threatens to reach a level comparable to that of German hard coal production, a notoriously outstanding example of misguided political intervention. Yet, as a consequence of the coexistence of the German Renewable Energy Sour...

Intervention of phenonium ion in Ritter reactions.

The transformation of phenylethyl chloride to 3,4-dihydroisoquinolines is shown to proceed via phenonium ion. The evidence comes from a study of dideuterated analogue 4, and the monomethylated and dimethylated compounds 2 and 3.