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Enrico Drioli and His Life Time Love Affair with Membrane Science

Dedicated to Professor Zhende Wu on His Seventieth Birthday

Suppose that (Φ,Mn) is a smooth (Z2)-action on a closed smooth n-dimensional manifold such that all Stiefel-Whitney classes of the tangent bundle to each connected component of the fixed point set F vanish in positive dimension. This paper shows that if dimMn > 2k dimF and each pdimensional part F p possesses the linear independence property, then (Φ,Mn) bounds equivariantly, and in particular,...

Semmelweis: his Life and Work

Wildberger became a renowned local figure and received an honorary medical doctorate from Jena and many foreign honours. In later life he moved his institute to Forchheim, where he had the assistance of his medically-qualified son before the latter emigrated to America. His writings on the proper training of orthopaedic surgeons, with their insistence on early specialist education in methods an...

Sherrington. His life and thought

Of twentieth-century physiologists, probably only Pavlov has been subjected to as much historical attention as Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952). In addition to a large number of articles and obituaries, Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, Ragnar Granit, and Judith Swazey have written monographs on Sherrington, and E. G. T. Liddell's Discovery of the reflexes (1960) devoted a great deal of space ...

Boerhaave and his Time

, are given in English transliteration. Mr. Ebied's industry (400 periodicals were consulted together with all major sources, Festschriften, congress proceedings, etc.) and the generosity of the Weilcome Trust have given medieval historians an indispensable reference work. In 1968 the tercentenary of Herman Boerhaave's birth was commemorated at Leyden with an International Symposium. This has n...