Dr. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S.

Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882)

During the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of evolutionary embryology [4], especially through his comparative embryological approach to uncovering ancestral relationships between groups. As developmental biologist and historian Brian Hall [5] has observed, the field of evolutionary embryology [4] in the ...

On the exoneration of Dr. William H. Stewart: debunking an urban legend

BACKGROUND It is one of the most infamous quotes in the history of biomedicine: "It is time to close the book on infectious diseases, and declare the war against pestilence won." Long attributed to the United States Surgeon General, Dr. William H. Stewart (1965-1969), the statement is frequently used as a foil by scientific and lay authors to underscore the ever-increasing problems of antibioti...

Elected FRS 1976

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A new scheme is proposed which will permit electron spin resonance pulse techniques to be used to realize a quantum computer with a 100 qbits, or more. The computation is performed on effective pure states which correspond to off-diagonal blocks of the density matrix. Described is a scheme which very efficiently performs the preparation stage and which permits " pseudo-projective measurement " ...

Description of the FRS domain

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