Centennial weather – 1967

Centennial Perspective

The publications by Peter B. Dews of a series of five articles entitled “Studies on Behavior”, beginning in 1955 and ending in 1959, were contributions of extraordinary significance in laying a foundation for the emergence of the discipline of behavioral pharmacology. The series of articles were rigorous in their approach, dramatic in terms of the results, and provocative in their implications....

Centennial, but still current.

In the centennial anniversary of the discovery of the etiologic agent of Chagas disease (Carlos Chagas discovered the disease, vector and etiologic agent all at once!), the subject is not only current, but the acute disease stills occurs. The vector-transmitted disease is already under control in Brazil, but the congenital and transfusional forms, and those by non-usual transmission, are still ...

Centennial Section Prolog

Recent fourth-generation (4G) wireless cellular systems hold the promise of hitherto unachievable data rates for their users, which would improve the already available services, while facilitating entirely new services. For example, 3-D holographic (http: //www.holografika.com/) communication with several remote partners may revolutionize our everyday life at home, at work, simply everywhere. H...

Leonard Colebrook, 1883-1967.

Special Issue—Scripps Centennial

dinoflagellates, which he sampled with a bottle of his design, closed by a messenger sent down the wire. The bottle was suspended from the end of the wire, so only a single sample could be obtained on each cast. The next sample bottle associated with Scripps was developed by Winfred E. Allen, a student of Kofoid’s and an assistant professor at Scripps from 1919–1943 (Figure 2). Allen gathered a...