Charles S. Lieber 13th February 1931–1st March 2009

Charles Saul Lieber, a tribute (13 February 1931 to 1 March 2009).

Hepatologists, gastroenterologists and alcohol researchers throughout the world were deeply saddened to learn of the death of Dr Charles Saul Lieber on 1 March 2009. Dr Lieber died at his home in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, at the age of 78. Charles Lieber was the father of modern alcohol research: he was a pioneer and giant in the field starting to investigate the effects of alcohol on the liver as ...

Cheese-related listeriosis outbreak, Portugal, March 2009 to February 2012.

In Portugal, listeriosis has been notifiable since April 2014, but there is no active surveillance programme for the disease. A retrospective study involving 25 national hospitals led to the detection of an outbreak that occurred between March 2009 and February 2012. The amount of time between the start of the outbreak and its detection was 16 months. Of the 30 cases of listeriosis reported, 27...

Lieber Herr Bernays ! , Lieber

1. Gödel, Bernays, and Hilbert. The correspondence between Paul Bernays and Kurt Gödel is one of the most extensive in the two volumes of Gödel’s collected works devoted to his letters of (primarily) scientific, philosophical and historical interest. It ranges from 1930 to 1975 and deals with a rich body of logical and philosophical issues, including the incompleteness theorems, finitism, const...

NCBI News, February 2009

In an effort to make the full potential of the NCBI Web services and underlying databases more available to users, the NCBI has begun a long-term project to improve the relevance and usefulness of search results. This effort is called the Discovery Initiative. A primary goal of the Discovery Initiative is to promote the discovery of previously hidden relationships in the large amount of pre-cal...

2009 APS March Meeting