Dominik Schmidig (1936-2003)

Historical Trends in Executive Compensation 1936 - 2003

Soaring executive compensation during the past two decades has sparked an interest in CEO and other top management pay. We add a long-term perspective to this trend by constructing the first panel dataset to follow the compensation of top executives in large firms from 1936 to the present. The average real value of total compensation experienced three distinct phases: a sharp decline during Wor...

Thoughts on the Cosmological Principle Dominik

Wolfgang Kummer was a great teacher and mentor to me. Although Wolfgang never published any research on cosmology himself, he had a great interest in that field and supported me in my decision to get engaged with cosmological issues. Thus, I decided to describe current ideas and some of my own thoughts on one of the corner stones of modern cosmology — the cosmological principle. This principle ...

Dev097394 1918..1936

Midbrain dopaminergic (mDA) neuron development has been an intense area of research during recent years. This is due in part to a growing interest in regenerative medicine and the hope that treatment for diseases affecting mDA neurons, such as Parkinson’s disease (PD), might be facilitated by a better understanding of how these neurons are specified, differentiated and maintained in vivo. This ...

Charles Nicolle (1866-1936).

Dept. of Medicine, TN Medical College & BYL Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai 400 008 C Nicolle was born in Rouen, France, to a practising physician. He received his medical education in Rouen and completed his graduation from the hospital in Paris. In 1893, he further studied in the Pasteur Institute of Paris, under the direction of Metchnikoff and Roux. In 1902, he was appointed the first director of...

Richard E. Shope, 1936