Egon Schwelb (1899-1979)

Aaron Douglas (1899–1979). Noah's Ark, 1927

Aaron Douglas, a native of Kansas, studied art in Nebraska before going to Paris and finally settling in New York City, where he became part of the flourishing art scene of the 1920s and 1930s known as the Harlem Renaissance. Douglas drew inspiration from this powerful cultural movement that encompassed all fields of art and advocated celebration of African cultural identity and heritage (1). D...

Fritz Heider and Egon Brunswik

During their common time in Austria (and Germany), Fritz Heider and Egon Brunswik knew each other quite well, meeting for professional interchange of their ideas and thoughts, which they mutually highly respected (compare the late autobiography by Heider, 1983). They both worked on problems of how the human being copes with his environment; later on (in the early 50s), they both were regarded a...

John F. Fulton (1899-1960)

A Midsummer Reminiscence In June of 1957 word came to me in Zurich that Dr. Fulton was gravely ill. He had recently arrived in London to celebrate the Harvey Tercen-tenary and was to go on from there to Oxford to receive an honorary degree. He had rallied from critical illnesses before, but this time it seemed that the end had come. I boarded a plane for London. The muffled roar of the all-but-...

The Inebriates' Acts, 1879—1899

Edward Charles Dodds (1899-1973)

Edward Charles Dodds [3] researched the function and effects of natural and artificial hormones [4] on the endocrine system in England during the twentieth century. Though he first worked with hormones [4] such as insulin, Dodds focused on the effects of estrogen [5] in the body and how to replicate those effects with artificial substances. In 1938, along with chemist Robert Robinson, Dodds syn...