Early Science at Harvard

Irwin Freedberg: the early years at Harvard.

In 1959 Irwin Freedberg, after four years at Harvard Medical School and three years of residency at Beth Israel Hospital, arrived at Massachusetts General Hospital to begin his residency in dermatology. I, by chance, arrived at the same time, having attended the same medical school, interned at the old Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and served as a medical officer in the field artillery during th...

Focus: Illuminating Science the Last 375 Years Women in Science at Harvard

nor immediate. Radcliffe College was not founded until 1879, 243 years into Harvard’s existence; it was was established as the “Harvard Annex” where women could be educated by Harvard faculty. Women were not allowed to attend Harvard classes with men until 1943. This separation of genders continued until 1977, when Harvard and Radcliffe signed a formal agreement to merge the two institutions, b...

Internship at Harvard University

Environmental interactions at Harvard.

Bioinformatics testing approaches for protein allergenicity, involving amino acid sequence comparisons, have evolved appreciably over the last several years to increased sophistication and performance. EVALLER, the web server presented in this article is based on our recently published ‘Detection based on Filtered Length-adjusted Allergen Peptides’ (DFLAP) algorithm, which affords in silico det...

Optical SETI At Harvard-Smithsonian

A high-intensity pulsed laser, teamed with a moderate sized transmitting telescope, forms an efficient interstellar beacon. To a distant observer in the direction of its slender beam, such a laser transmitter, built with “Earth 2000” technology only, would appear (during its brief pulse) a thousand times brighter than our sun in broadband visible light; even at ranges of 1000 light years a sing...