Faithful Son of the Fatherland

The Chemist as Defender of His Fatherland.

The Chemist as Defender of His Fatherland: PROFESReports: SOR MARSTON TAYLOR BOGERT .................... 19 National Research Fellowships in the Natural SciRecent Contributions to the Theory of Protoplasmic ences of the National Research Council: DR. Ross Structure: PROFESSOR WILLIAM SEIFRIz ........................... 21 G. HARRISON ........................................... 36 Obituary: Spec...

Cloud SON: A New Member of the SON Family

Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi medicine and racial hygiene

Historians are all too familiar with the many episodes in the past that resemble the Nazi era of twentieth-century Germany. Such episodes were exquisitely summarized by Alessandro Manzoni, writing obstensibly of seventeeothcentury Italy: "From the inventions of the ignorant, educated men borrowed all that they could reconcile with their own ideas; from the inventions of the educated, the ignora...

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...

The ‘Irfan of the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali (a)’

All of the major branches of Islamic mysticism, ‘irfān, refer to Imam ‘Ali (‘a) as a major source for their teachings and practices. Hence, we begin with a review of how the mystics viewed Imam ‘Ali (‘a). After this we consider some controversies about the nature of ‘irfān and its relationship to Sufism, for the terms have been used in different ways. Then we turn to the sources on the basis of...