Francis Lacassin (1931-2008)

Francis Barr

influenza programme chief, reported an increase in the number of cluster cases reported recently, with the biggest being a family of five cases. There have been seven cluster cases in Vietnam, all within single families, most recently in the northern province of Haiphong. No relative has been proved to have passed the disease to another in these cases but, Horby said, " the onset dates could be...

Francis Wolenski

Op-brhe130268 1931..1932

We have known about the strong association between AS and the HLA-B*27 (B*27) gene for the past 40 years; however, the mechanism with which only some allomorphs of the HLA-B27 molecule, as well as some other HLA class I molecules, are involved in the occurrence of SpAs is still unclear [1]. In this issue of Rheumatology, Cauli et al. [2] present data that may aid our understanding of this mecha...

Observations concerning Gödel’s 1931

This article demonstrates the invalidity of Theorem VI in Gödel’s 1931, showing that propositions (15) and (16), derived from the definition 8.1, in its proof, are false in PA. Introduction. Developed as a consequence of the crisis of the foundation of mathematics due to the discovery of the antinomies, Hilbert’s formalism planned as criterions of adequacy for the axiomatic systems, the achieve...

Horace Judson (1931–2011)

Scientists, I once heard, have an easier time of it than composers and artists. In a ‘‘new’’ field, such as molecular biology, anything that happened more than three weeks ago is ancient history (as Sidney Brenner once said). We bold scientific searchers, like born agains, rise each morning to fashion a new world, with our own discoveries in the form of facts, lots of them (check out the length...