Daniel Panzac (1933-2012)

Obituary: Professor Fereydoun Malekzadeh (1933-2012)

We were greatly saddened to hear the news of Professor Fereydoun Malekzadeh's death at age of 79 in September 9, 2012. Professor Malekzadeh was a distinguished and highly respected Iranian Microbiologist and a member of the editorial board of the Iranian Biomedical Journal since October 1997. He was born in 1933 in city of Tabriz in Province of Azarbaijan, Iran. After graduated from high school...

No 1155 July 2012 The German Transfer Problem , 1920 - 1933 : A Sovereign Debt Perspective

The severity of the Great Depression in Germany has sometimes been blamed on reparations in simplistic fashion. Alternative interpretations relied on American capital exports, the demise of the Gold Standard, or on malfunctions of the domestic economy, such as excessive wage increases during the 1920s. This paper argues for a more subtle link between Germany's slump and these policies. I explai...

Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012): Pioneer in the Interdisciplinary Science of Coupled Social-Ecological Systems

Early exploration of environmental problems often cast them in terms of the inescapable tragedy of the commons. The ‘‘tragedy’’ refers to the subtle challenge associated with a fundamental disconnect between what is good for the individual and what is good for the group. The tragedy is a sad irony: in trying to serve their own self-interests, individuals end up hurting themselves—and the public...

Canynge Hall 1933-1969

ust over thirty-five years ago the newly formed Univer-Department of Preventive Medicine was opened at anynge Hall, a former hotel (Plate V), by the then 'hister of Health, Sir Hilton Young. He described the ?Ccasion as the celebration of a marriage of the City Bristol with the fair nymph of knowledge, and Dr. anley Badock, in proposing the vote of thanks, hoped at it would be a lasting and hap...

Michael Heidelberger, 1933