George W. Weinstein, MD (1935-2007)

The 2007 George W. Beadle Medal. Robert K. Herman.

George W. Bush Executive Order 13455, June 2007

On 20 January 2001, Republican George W. Bush [6] was sworn in as the forty-third president of the United States, replacing Democrat William J. Clinton. During his eight years in office, Bush issued many executive orders, often altering previous policy. By signing Order 13435 on 22 June 2007, he changed how stem cell research would be performed in America. The Bush administration was influenced...

Prof Ismet Ceric, MD, PhD (1935-2017)

Professor Ismet Ceric, MD, PhD, was one of the last representatives of the recognizable Sarajevo Neuropsychiatry School in the former Yugoslav territory, which was founded by Professor Nedo Zec (1899-1971) in 1946/47 with professors Dimitrije Dimitrijevic (1900-1989), Josip Horvat (1911-1964), Salih Ridjanovic, Slobodan Loga (1936-), Dusan Kecmanovic (1940-2014) and others. He was born 1935 in ...

Karen Spärck Jones (1935-2007)

AI. Although she died on 4 April 2007, she worked up until a week before her death, and her major and most lasting contributions will almost certainly be her original PhD thesis and the inverse document frequency (idf) measure of the relevance of terms. 1 The latter is the notion that a document is relevant not only because key terms are frequent in it but because those terms are infrequent in ...

The training of George K. Kambara, MD.

George K. Kambara has been a leader in ophthalmic education and practice on the West Coast. His choice of ophthalmology arose in part because of his experience running an eye, ear, nose, and throat clinic while interned as a Japanese American during World War II. His training took him from San Francisco, to the Tule Lake Relocation Center, to the Memphis Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, to t...