Ernest Rutherford his genius shaped our modern world

Rutherford and the Science of His Day

It is a great honour and privilege to present the Rutherford Memorial Lecture here; and doing so has provided me with many opportunities to revive memories and to re-examine the whole range of Rutherford’s monumental contributions to science, a subject that is evergreen and an endless source of interest, enlightenment and inspiration. This has given me much pleasure and gratification. As my tit...

Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

From today’s perspective, a mathematical technique that lacks rigor or leads to paradoxes is a contradiction in terms. It must be expelled from mathematics, lest it discredit the profession, sow chaos, and put a large stain on the shining surface of eternal truth. This is precisely what the leading mathematicians of the most learned Catholic order, the Jesuits, said about the “method of indivis...

Ernest William Hey Groves and His Contributions to Orthopaedic Surgery

Ernest William Hey Groves was the son of an English civil engineer and was born in India on 20th June 1872. At the age of three, when his father retired, the family settled in Bristol. He inherited an aptitude for mechanics and took a B.Sc. in engineering. In London, while pursuing his science course, he saw an advertisement for a scholarship at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, which include...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Homer, His Art and His World [Review]