FLOODS DURING JANUARY, 1921

Keith Dalziel: 24 August 1921 - 7 January 1994.

Floods and Drowning Incidents by Floods

Floods as natural disasters can cause severe even fatal damages to many communities such as loss of lives and properties every year. The aim of this study is to present the risks of floods for the human life and the basic characteristics of the citizens who lose their lives as a result of floods. For this study, online archives related to flood events have been examined via search engines, “www...

Dr. Nasser Maleki (January 25, 1953 – January 6, 2012)

Seymour Benzer 1921–2007

It is now common knowledge that both “Nature” and “Nurture” determine animal behavior. But even as late as the 1970s, the concept that genes have anything to do with behavior was not universally accepted. In the face of such skepticism, Seymour Benzer, working tirelessly at Caltech, refused to join the philosophical debate and, in the way so familiar to those who knew him, shrugged his shoulder...

The Dentists' Act, 1921

new profession by the possible student. The professional status of the Dentist, which was to have been made secure by the Act, was so affected by the unprofessional conduct, such as advertising and canvassing, of the uneducated and unregistered, that few could be found to enter the profession, and so what the Act set out to secure for the protection of the public, it failed to obtain, in that i...