‘Doctor of the Church’: Gerhard Ebeling

Doctor Albert Cook and the early days of the church missionary society's medical mission to Uganda.

ON 1 October 1896, there disembarked at Mombasa a party of twelve Church Missionary Society missionaries bound for Uganda. One of the nine men was Dr. A. R. Cook and one of the three women a Miss K. Timpson, a qualified nurse who had trained at Guy's Hospital. They planned to march to Uganda via the northern route, through British territory, and their caravan leader was the veteran Dr. Baxter o...

The Electronic Music of Roberto Gerhard

Roberto Gerhard was a pioneer of electronic music in England creating over twenty substantial concert, theatre and radio works from as early as 1954. However, for various political, cultural and personal reasons Gerhard’s electronic music has not been published or widely disseminated. Gerhard’s electronic music is one of the richest repositories for understanding the development of the composer...

Speaker: Gerhard Grunder, Germany

Depression after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is common (up to 40%) and increases risk of cardiac morbidity and mortality in the first year by more than two fold. However, current scarcity of data on etiopathogenesis of post-CABG depression hampers development of prevention or treatment strategies of post-CABG depression. “Vascular Depression” hypothesis posits that cerebrovascul...

and Gerhard Nygaard

In dealing with a large-scale system, one usually does not have adequate knowledge of the plant parameters and interactions among subsystems. The decentralized adaptive technique, designed independently for local subsystems and using locally available signals for feedback propose, is an appropriate strategy to be employed. In the context of decentralized adaptive control, a number of results ha...

Gerhard Ertl - Nobel Lecture