Gustav Metzger: Remember Nature

Abstract Metzger

Die Berliner Erklärung hat Wissenschaftlicher und Institutionen aufgefordert, Open Access-Publikationsmodelle zu entwickeln. Bislang fehlt es aber an allgemein akzeptierten Standards für die rechtliche Umsetzung von Open Access-Projekten. Wegen der internationalen Verbreitung werden von den Initiativen vielfach die Creative Commons-Lizenzen verwendet. Diese sind jedoch nicht spezifisch auf wiss...

Gustav Mie: the person.

About 25 years ago, when I became acquainted with the name Gustav Mie, I was unable to find an entry for him in such major encyclopedias as the Britannica or even in several listings of famous scientists [T. I. Williams, A Biographical Sketch of Scientists (Wiley, New York, 1967); J. Turkevich and L. Turkevich, Prominent Scientists of Continental Europe (Elsevier, New York, 1968)]. This puzzled...

Symphony # 9 by Gustav Mahler

The recording of Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony you are going to hear today was made during performance in Vienna on January 16, 1938, almost exactly thirty years ago. Bruno Walter conducted the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The recording was published on 78 rpm disks and thus filled 20 sides. Numerous rather intricate procedures of splicing were used by Carl Volkers in his attempt to provide ...

Gustav Jacob Born (1851-1900)

Gustav Jacob Born was an experimental embryologist whose original work with amphibians [5] served as the platform for his wax-plate method [6] of embryo modeling, heteroblastic (different tissues) and xenoplastic (similar species) transplantation methods, environmental influences on sex ratio studies, and proposed function of the corpus luteum [7]. He was born 22 April 1851 in Kempen, Prussia, ...

Gustav Feichtinger celebrates his 70th birthday