“George Herbert: His Place in English Church History.”

George Herbert Mead and social reform: his work and writings.

George McDonald Church (1954- )

George McDonald Church studied DNA from living and from extinct species in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Church helped to develop and refine techniques with which to describe the complete sequence of all the DNA nucleotides in an organism's genome [4], techniques such as multiplex sequencing, polony sequencing, and nanopore sequencing. Church also contributed to the Hu...

Herbert Herbert: his corneal pits and scleral slits.

PURPOSE To evaluate the life and professional work of the English ophthalmologist Herbert Herbert (1865-1942). DESIGN Historical study. METHODS The main sources for this investigation are Herbert's approximately 65 published papers and 3 monographs. Other sources are contemporary publications by other ophthalmologists and secondary historical reviews of this period. Written communications w...

Josef Korous and His Place in History of Mathematics

Famous mathematician and university teacher prof. RNDr. Josef Korous, DrSc. (7. 2. 1906 – 23. 8. 1981) is well-known in mathematical community mainly by his scientific work in the theory of orthogonal polynomials. He contributed to Czech and Slovak mathematics a lot of also as professor in higher education at universities and colleges, as supervisor of research work of his followers – mathemati...

QnAs with Alta Charo and George Church.

When the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine released a long-awaited report on human genome editing in February 2017, it was met with the media attention that befits a signal moment in science policy. Among a raft of measured recommendations, the report notes that heritable modifications to human DNA could be allowed in the future under strict regulatory oversight ...