Earnest Albert Hooton 1887-1954

The Importance of ‘Being Earnest’

Reference to properties is normally achieved by the use of nominalizations of predicative expressions. The article examines the relation between different kinds of such nominalizations: while traditionally, the terms ‘wisdom’ and ‘the property of being wise’ were thought to be coreferential, there are certain contexts in which they do not seem to be interchangeable salva veritate. Based on this...

“ The Importance of Being ( Asymptotically ) Earnest ”

Over the past decades, adaptive estimation of an unknown regression function has received much attention. What adaptivitymeans in practice is thatwe are able to find a singleprocedure that performs (essentially) optimally in aminimax sense for a wide range of smoothness assumptions simultaneously, even when the degree of smoothness is unknown. The desire to go beyond estimation and have honest ...

Victor Jollos ( 1887 - 1941 )

Victor Jollos studied fruit flies and microorganisms in Europe and the US, and he introduced the concept of Dauermodifikationen in the early 1900s. The concept of Dauermodifikationen refers to environmentally-induced traits that are heritable for only a limited number of generations. Some scientists interpreted the results of Jollos's work on Paramecium [4] and Drosophila [5] as evidence for cy...

Albert Fry

The Pasteur Institute (1887- )

L'Institut Pasteur (The Pasteur Institute) is a non-profit private research institution founded by Louis Pasteur on 4 June 1887 in Paris, France. The Institute's research focuses on the study of infectious diseases, micro-organisms, viruses, and vaccines. As of 2014, ten scientists have received Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine for the research they have done at the Pasteur Institute. Con...