Florestan Fernandes 1920-1995

Ana Fernandes Krishna B

In this paper, we investigate incentives other than altruism that developed countries have in improving technologies speciÞc to developing countries. We develop a simple model of international trade between two regions, in which all individuals have similar preferences over an inferior good and a luxury good. The poor region has a comparative advantage in the production of the inferior good, an...

Crustacean zooplankton in Lake Constance from 1920 to 1995 : response to eutrophication and re-oligotrophication

During the first three quarters of this century, the trophic state ofLake Constance changed from oligotrophic to meso-/eutrophic conditions. The response of crustaceans to the eutrophication process is studied by comparing biomasses of crustacean zooplankton from recent years, i.e. from 1979-1995, with data from the early 1920s (AUERBACH et a1. 1924, 1926) and the 1950s (MUCKLE & MUCKLEROTTENGA...

Homer F. Swift, 1920

François Jacob (1920–2013)

“Plus que jamais, la recherche me paraissait s’identifier à la nature humaine. En exprimer l’appétit, le désir de vivre. C’était bien le meilleur moyen trouvé par l’homme de braver le chaos de l’univers. De dominer la mort.” (More than ever, scientific research seemed to me to be intrinsic to human nature. It expressed the hunger, the desire to live. It has, in fact, been the best means found b...

Francois Jacob (1920-2013)

François Jacob studied bacteria and bacteriophages at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, in the second half of the twentieth century. In 1965, Jacob won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [3] with André M. Lwoff and Jacques L. Monod for their work on the genetic control of enzyme synthesis. Jacob studied how genes [4] control and regulate metabolic enzymes in the bacterium Escherichi...